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8 PARTII Pasadena Hears W.R.A. Director Pio Pico Work of Restoration Shows Progress PICO. Sept. 29. Restoration Saturday, September 30.

m4 Los angel es Cimcs 1 i. mmmmnmmmmmtmmmmmtmammamitmmmmt mm nut ilMinnfMniin 'S 1 Ir" it 1 I v. rtt vv A 4 K' i JS Purple Heart Party Honors Cantor, III Edgar Bergen pinch-hit for Eddie Cantor in the role of master of ceremonies at a two-hour entertainment for 150 wounded Army, Navy and marine servicemen in Patriotic Hall last night during the first half of the two-day Purple Heart Party. Cantor, who was too ill to appear, was awarded a citation for his efforts in entertaining wounded servicemen on the "Purple Heart Circuit" of military hospitals throughout the country. Miss Nora Martin accepted the citation for him from Harry Cooney, Past Commander of Los Angeles Chapter No.

2 of the Military Order of the Purple Heart. Before the entertainment presented by Bergen. Miss Martin, All Jarvis, Roy Benson and other MH I 4 tu Times photo ON SPEAKERS' PLATFORM Left to right, Dr. Robert A. Millikan of California Institute of Technology, Mrs.

Maynard Force Thayer, chairman of Pasadena chapter of American Principles and Fair Play, and Dillon S. Myer, War Relocation Authority director who defended agencies' policies at meeting sponsored by Fair Play group. Alhambra Bond work is progressing on the old; Pio Pico mansion, 2718 Whittier which, when completed, will make the historic home of the last Governor of California under Mexican rule a replica of the mansion as it stood in the days of the dons. Work of restoring the home is being done by the State and is under supervision of Frank L. Gutierrez and Mrs: Dolores Al-varado Connors, hostess of the mansion and also its historian.

Started in 1909 First attempts at restoration were started1 in 1909 by the Pico Historical Society, but it was not until the State took over that it was found possible to bring it to a successful completion. Walls of the building are be ing reinforced with iron tie rods, doors and windows being straightened and floors repaired. Some of the old adobe bricks have become loosened and are being secured with cement. They are generally well preserved, according to Gutierrez, and very few have been cracked. Damaged by Flood Originally the mansion" had 22 rooms, but 16 were swept away in the flood of 1867.

At present there are 12 rooms and the building now fronts the east instead of west as originally. When the mansion was built remains a question which Mrs Connors doubts if anyone can answer, but she sets the date somewhere between 1835 and 1840. She is a grandniece of Don Pico's wife and authority on the family's history. She and her daughter Henriette, who teaches in Pico, live on the mansion site. Amendment Supported County grand jurors yesterday adopted a resolution favoring passage of County Charter Amendment 1 to raise the Board of Supervisors' salaries from $5000 to $7500 a year.

I "LI i 1 J'' 1 I inmimi mi HAPPY Mai. Joe Foss Is shown at Sonta Barbara home i with wife and daughter Cheryl June. Daughter was born while marine ace was on second tour of duty in Pacifc. FUNDS TOTALING $7732 FOUND IN ESCONDIDO TRAILER SAN DIEGO, Sept. 29.

Currency totaling $7732 was found in an Escondido auto trailer by Chief Deputy Public Administrator C. P. Hebert while he was exam-ing the estate of Mrs. Mary L. Freeman, formerly of Indianapolis, lnd.f he disclosed today.

Mrs. "Freeman, who had lived in the trailer for the last year, died recently and left no will. Hebert found the money in three tea cans: The woman leaves a Clyde W. Freeman a serviceman in the Pacific, and her estranged of San Antonio, Death Claims Pomona Pioneer POMONA. Sept.

29. The death of Mrs. Elizabeth Weber, 83, of 385 W. Holt of a heart attack last night marked the passing of another Pomona Valley pioneer. The widow of John Weber, pioneer ice merchant, she had resided in the same house for the last 49 years.

She had been a daily reader of The Times for more than 56 years. A member of Pomona Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, since 1911, she was known throughout the valley for her works of charityi City Clerk Resigns AVALON. Sept. 29. Mrs.

Edith L. Mac-Kay. has resigned as City Clerk, an office she held for the last 11 years. House to Close ALHAMBRA. Sept.

29 More than three years of continuous service to War Bond buyers will end Monday with- the closing of this city's Victory House. Clair V. Ward, chairman of the War Finance Committee, said Victory House is to be closed because sales in the last few months have been almost nil, however, it will be open during major War Bond drives. voiced appreciation for the work of Mrs. Daisy M.

Sherwood, Victory House manager, and her staff which included Mrs. Jim White, Mrs. Louis Kropf, Mrs. Edna Beyer and Mrs. Hazel Hopping.

Auto Market Outlook Told by Officials i "With full employment, a iound tax policy and unrestricted production of automobiles, the automobile industry might find a market for nearly passenger car? a year while the shortage of automobiles created by the war is being made up." This forecast was made last night at the annual press dinner given by the General Motors Corp. at the Biltmore. Company officials attending included Don ald Still, regional manager of public relations; Felix Bruner, public relations press section Detroit, and Wr-f. Davidson, cen tral office executive. About 100 representatives of the press and radio and G.M.

divisional executives of the Los Angeles area attended. "What will the immediate postwar car be like?" was answered with the opinion that "the first cars to be produced will be better car3 than the 1912 models but will not incorporate major changes that would retard initial production and result in Protracted unemployment." Higher Prices? The answer given to the question of "How much higher will automobile prices be after the war?" was, "Frankly, we do not know." Basic labor costs have increased more than 15 per cent. Also stated was that "no sharp decline in used car prices is probable and certainly not immediately after new car production is resumed. While the.corporation plans "a number of new plants." including manufacturing and assembly, it "has no present plans for building complete airplanes after the war. It does expect to continue the production of engines and airplane parts and ac cessories." Defend Policies PASADENA, Sept.

29. "We saw ghosts here on the Pacific Coast and when we're afraid we begin to hate," Dillon S. Myer, director of the War Relo cation Authority, declared to night in describing the South land's first reaction to the Japa nese-Americans at'the outset of war at a meeting sponsored by the Committee on American Principles and Fair Play. "But facts have dispelled fear and ignorance," Myer told the some 300 persons who crowded all available standing room in the Pasadena Public Library au ditorium. "Public acceptance has proved to be one of our easiest problems in relocating the Japanese.

The old story of the hate mongers: "Wait till the boys come back' simply is not founded on fact. The boys who already have come home tell stories of valor and of pride not of hate." Presents Itter Only one "protester" appeared to put forth the views of Pasadena's "ban the Japs" group-that was George L. kelley, whose supporters the previous night had gone on record as favoring a six-months-after-the-war "moratorium" on the return of any Japanese to California. Kelley politely presented the speaker with his now familiar "letter to the school board" which implores Gen. Bonesteel to alter his stand which allowed Esther Takei, 19-year-old Nisei, to return from Colorado to enroll at Pasadena Junior College.

Myer stated, however, that a changing attitude on the part of the public will make the return of Japanese to all sections of the country "an easier job from here on." He admitted the desirability of "scattering" any minority group, instead of their numbers colonizing any one section such as the Iis Angeles area. Already 32.000 Japanese-Americans have been relocated "from California to Boston." As for "coddling" the Japanese in the relocation centers, Myer declared such charges untrue. He praised the Army for its action in permitting Nisei to prove their valor in such units as the "100th Battalion" in Italy. Ir. Millikan Speaks The speaker was introduced by Dr.

Robert A. Millikan, California Institute of Technology executive board chairman and member of the Fair Play group. Millikan prefaced the talk with an outline of the organization's purpose chiefly stated to be aimed at' preserving the integrity of the Bill of Rights rather than "coddling the Japanese." Millikan quoted Dr. Robert G. Sproul, another of the group's committeemen, denouncing those persons of 'honest hys- teria or dishonest demagoguery" who have attempted to arouse racial hatreds in the present controversy.

1 He added that the Fair Tlay group holds with the policy of 'dispersed relocation." at the same time the "right to return" to any section of the country must be upheld. Mrs. Maynard Force Thaver. chairman of the organization's I Pasadena chapter, presided. College Publication Scores 'Racial Issue' The fact that a "racial issue" should be raised by opposition to Esther Takei's enrollment in Pasadena Junior College "con stitutes a dismal commentary on the political enlightenment of some California citizens." the Junior College Chronicle de clared editorially yesterday.

Carl Palmberg, student editor of the publication and himself a veteran of World War II, stated that if the Nisei "or anv other minority are denied their constitutional rights democracy will become a mockery and our form of government a cruel farce." Garvey Carnival Opens GARVEY, 29 With proceeds to benefit the Garvey Welfare Bureau, the fourth annual carnival sponsored by Garvey Council of Parents and Teachers opened here tonight. EX-COMMANDER PRESENTS $1000 BOND TO LEGION INGLEWOOD, Sept. 20. A $1000 War Savings Bond was presented Inglewood Post 188, American Legion, tonight by Past Commander Safety First for use in the Post World War II Veterans' Rehabilitation Fund. It was accepted on behalf of the Post by Comdr.

Spargur II. Frowein. First won the bond recently in a spirited War Loan contest among employees of the Northrop Aircraft Corp. at Hawthorne and this was a "Northrop Night" meeting at the Post's temporary meeting place in the Elks' Temple. The program was put on by Northrop employees under the direction -of John B.

Clark, director of Northrop personnel activities, as master of ceremonies. radio and screen actors, the wounded men from the Navy's Norco, Arrowhead ana ixng Beach Hospitals and the Army'3 Rirmineham Hospital and Redis tribution Center at Santa Monica met Brig. Gen. A. E.

Easter-brook of the Santa Ana Air Base, Rear-Adm. Ralston S. Holmes and Capt. J. P.

Wilbern. of the Marine Corps. Earlier in the evening Navy veterans were guests of Los Angeles Elks Lodge No. 99 at dinner. The secoryf day of the Purple Heart Party will open today with lunch at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. Jimmy Gleason. 807 X. Alpine Way, Beverly Hills. Asbury Wants to Buy New Terminal Site Authority to purchase a new freight terminal site for $45,000 at Alameda St.

and Firestone Blvd. was sought yesterday by. the Asbury Transportation Co. from the State Railroad Com-, mission. The company said it present terminal at Vernon is so congested that expansion is necessary.

The nine-acre site is owned by the California Trust Co. plu 205 federal la Jn aJs Marine Ace Sees Daughter First Time SANTA BARBARA, Sept. 29. "She's quite a girl," remarked Maj. Joe Foss, marine ace, when he first glimpsed his 3-month-old daughter Cheryl June for the first time, and from her coo she seemed to say "You're quite a guy yourself." Foss made his first appearance with his daughter when he arrived here two days ago from the Southwest Tacific by air on short leave because, of a recurrence of an old attack of malaria.

He said he was. feeling well now and expected to report to marine headquarters in San Diego within a day or two for assignment. Southland Men Win Awards Southland members of the armed forces have won mili- tary decorations announced! yesterdav as follows: Silver Star Maj. harleo Howe. Ventura: Capt.

heRny B. Morgan. Colton (also Distinguished Flying Cross. Air Medal and three Oak leaf Clusters.) Distinguished Flving Cross: 2nd 1.1. tewis S.

Feter', 2K W. 30th Staff-Sfrt. Richard Billinchnrst. Santa Ana: Staff-Sgt. Charley y.

Brock, Culver City: Staff-Set. John V. ftallarrto, Ijomita; Staff-Set. Wesley K. Wagoner, long Beach: 1st M.

Hubert M. nitto. Chats- worth also Air Medal:) 1st J.t. Marshall Samms, Newport Rpach Air Medal: Lt. Jark P.

Stelnhren. ner. Van Nuvs; Capt. Klwin Jackson, Glendale; Sgt. Bradley S.

Davis, Ixng Beach: 2nd I.t. Mike Hartnnian, .3738 Siskiyou Staff- Sgt. Kdward F. QueTillion, 368 E. 5.5th St.

Gold Star (equivalent to second Air Medaln Robert Garlel, aviation! machinist's mate 2nd class, Long Beach. Third Oak Iaf Cluster to Air Medal: 1st I.t. Frank K. Tarasco, 1.523 N. Alvarado 1st I.t.

Robert G. Benefiel, 731 X. St. Andrews Place. James Boice wood Tost 188, American Le-giort.

James Boice, the other car rier, is Vice-Commander of Ingle wood Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars. He obtained his medical discharge May 2, last, after nine years in. the Army. Two Inglewood Mail Carriers Named to High Vete a Posts INGLEWOOD. Sept.

2t). at Washington, D.C., with a rat-Postmaster Thomas E. T-rulovejing of gunner's mate first class, point with pride to two car-j He Is Vice-Commander of Ingle- Fv. 1 Paul Droeger riers, both honorably discharged veterans of the present war. who re vice-commanders of local veterans' organizations.

One Is Paul I. Draeger, who erved nine years in the Navy nd received his medical discharge ecently while stationed accessory room street floor!.