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A' IN THREE PARTS 36 PAGES Part LOCAL NEWS 16 Paget TIMES OFFICE 202 West First Strtet REMEMBER THIS Don't call living standards high when you mean soft. LXI TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 28, 1942. CITY NEWS EDITORIAL Market Unti afaon Iks Sugar ssmd PUNT FORMATION AND ROBERT NOBLE SPRAWLS iNJ WAY Former Oil Official Dies i William W. Orcutt Known as Dean of Geologists Passes in His 73rd Year Sales Begin Next Tuesday Merchants Report No Serious Run Prior to Midnight Deadline If iff, i fj William W. Orcutt, former vice-president of the Union Oil Co.

of California and for years prominent in civic af fti IT) I I I I I I fairs here, died last night at Thousands of Los Angeles housewives yesterday bought the last five-pound sack of sugar they'll buy in a long, long time. The blackout went on at midnight. Until 12:01 a.m. next Tuesday they will be unable to buy any sugar. After that, for weeks at least, they will get only half a Glendale Sanitarium.

He was With BILL HENRY When I came dippering home from the west, front some months ago with my story about the soldiers in the Maginot Line knitting sweaters for the folks back home I was, it is now quite clear, only. vaguely forecasting the changes are taking place in life. WOMEN' They're 'way ahead of us in Britain, of course, because they've been up to their necks in war for going on three years. British, women, who really were as browbeaten and unemancipated as the American women like to pretend that they were, are now running everything. They're in war work to such an extent that there's a current gag about the male sales clerk in a London firm who asked for 48 'hours' leave "because ftiy wife's com 73 Funeral arrangements will be announced later by Cunningham O'Connor Mortuary.

pound per person in their family. Orcutt, who lived at 23555 Jus IN SAFETY Mareda Sargent, who reached here after fleeing Rangoon bombs. tice Canoga Park, had been USKRS TO KKGISTER Commercial and industrial ill for three months. He retired from the vice-presidency of Un ion Oil in December, 1038. after users of sugar will register at 33 high schools today and tomorrow more than 40 years of service and obtain certificates permitting with that company.

them to purchase sugar imme Rangoon Girl Refugee Here diately. But the housewife won't regis ing up from the army camp at ter until next Aveek Monday, DEAX OP GEOLOGISTS Known in the oil industry as the "dean of petroleum geologists," he became associated with the company in 1898 and was a director of the firm until his death. The town of Orcutt was named in his honor. Aldershot" Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs dayand won't be able to buy even a spoonful before then. Trip Two-thirds Around World Ends as She Arrives in Southland Born in Dodge County, Minne mmmm 4 i sota, Orcutt attended school in Santa Faula and from 1S91 to 1895, Her father is somewhere in In attended Stanford University where he played football while Herbert Hoover managed the dia after a journey by foot over the mountains from fallen Ran BEST FOOT FORWARD Mickey Cohen, who resented Robert Noble's remarks about Gen.

MacArrhur, shows how he put his best foot forward in Noble's anatomy. BOOTED Robert Noble, who, when he leaned over to get drink of water, got something else from Mickey Cohen after argument in Hall of Justice detention tank. Tim photos team. FINDS LA BREA FOSSILS High school principals have some 2,000,000 forms for bakers, confectioners, restaurants, soft-drink manufacturers and other commercial users, as well as for retailers and wholesalers. TEACHERS OX DUTY Teachers in most of these schools will be on duty from a.m.

to 8 p.m. today and tomorrow to handle the registration and answer the myriad questions. The government is slashing sugar consumption SO per cent' He was a member of the University Club, the Los Angeles Youths Take This Fellow Thought CHAXGES I'm not going to pretend to tell you, about the emancipation of British women if you want to know all about It ask Anna Neagle, the lovely British film star who Is just back from completing a film called "They Flew Alone" over on the other Anna says the British women love their freedom and It's going to be pretty tough for Old School Tie crowd to realize that things not only aren't going to be the came at the office after the war they aren't going to be the same at home, either. By the way, Anna has one of those British women's "war issue" suits, rationed to save cloth. DIFFERENT At flip railroad 6tation in Britain uniformed women porters stagger under bulky handbags, load and un Country Club, Los Angeles goon, her mother and younger brother are in Bombay and 16-year-old Mareda Sargent reached Los Angeles yesterday after a journey two-thirds of the way around the world from battle-torn Burma.

The daughter of a Seventh-Day Adventist missionary who has spent most of his life in Burma, Mareda arrived here to make Athletic Club, Seismological So ciety, American Society of Civil Noble Had Kick Coming School Posts Scrap May Be Traded for Sand Material to Wipe Out Incendiary Bombs to Be Available at Schools her home with an aunt, Miss Nel restaurants. Industrial con- in Comment About MacArthur in Detention Tank Nets Former Pension Leader Punt in Pants Engineers, the Southern California Academy of Sciences, Sons of the Revolution, and was an honorary member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Orcutt made the first geological maps of Coalinga. Lompoc and Santa Maria oil fields and did lie Vwnslow of Marmion Winners of Safety Contest Given Trophies During Special Week Way, and to attend school. SAGE OBSERVATION'S sumers are being cut per cent.

The commercial users will register at the following high schools: Banning, Bell, Belmont, Would you swap your salvage Youths took high positions raik- Eorsey, Eagle schools throughout Los Aneelesi Rock Fairfax, Polytechnic, much of the field geological work for Union Oil. He was credited able scrap material around the yesterdav as the second dav of ranklin, Fremont. Gardena. Gar- field, Hamilton, Hollywood, Hunt Boys' Week, especially designat Her observations about the battle between British and Japanese propaganda in Burma sounded sage for a 16-year-old. She saw a great deal of the natives and their leaders through her father's mission and his visitors.

"I think the Japanese propa with making the discovery of fossils in the world-famed La Brea pits. Surviving him are his widow, Mrs. Mary Logan Orcutt; a daughter, Mrs. J. Nadguire of New York; a son, John Logan Orcutt house for 50 pounds of clean white sand suitable for dousing incendiary bombs? Of course you would and you'll have the opportunity beginning Sunday and for the following six days.

ganda was more effective be ed as "Boys' Day Schools," was observed. Yesterday also was "Boys' Day in Safety" and winners of safety awards sponsored by Los Angeles metropolitan newspapers and the Police Department were presented with handsome tropfiies. The perpetual trophv present ington Park, Jefferson, Jordan, Lincoln, Los Angeles, Manual Arts, Marshall, Narlxmne, Roosevelt, San Fernando, San Pedro, South Gate, Torrance, University, Van Nuys, Venice. Verdugo Hills, Washington and Wilson. During the retail freeze against housewives, sales of honey, syrup and other substitutes are expected to boom.

load mail and heavy luggage, a woman's voice comes from the public address system announcing the trains and women punch your tickets at the gate. It's nothing to see uniformed girl dispatch riders roaring through town on motorcycles at CO miles an hour. Men do much of the housework and most of the shopping, and Ed Murrow tells me that he is expecting any day to find a batch of uniformed girls at a bar drinking a toast to some handsome young civilian youth drinking it out of one of his dancing pumps! HERE, TOO Ah, well, a lot of cause they promised the natives1 of Canoga rark, and four grand everything they wanted and their sens. radio broadcasts sounded very, That's "Sand for Salvage Week," as proclaimed yesterday by the Mayor as chairman cf iiii'iKiiv iiiid rei'Miii, i no uisn only told the pcopb to the City Civilian Defense Coun S'S Anns Neagle Enas when there was cil. ed by the metropolitan newspapers to the senior high school on.

Sometimes radios in native villages would be blaring British Perilous Voyage whose driving student received fewest traffic citations during the Robert Noble's sharp tongue backfired against him yesterday, starting a row in the detention tank on the ninth floor of the Hall of Justice that resulted in his receiving a healthy kick on the lower portion of his back. Noble and his side-kick, Ellis Jones, both of whom have been indicted by the Federal grand jury for seditious conspiracy, were in the tank with Mickey Cohen, 28, serving a six-mcnth sentence for hook-making, when the conversation centered upon Gen. Douglas MacArthur. According to Cohen's Noble said MacArthur should be in jail instead of him. "That's a heliuva way to- talk about the hero of our country," said Cohen.

Then, Cohen related, Noble walked over to him and said: "Oh, you're one of those Jews, huh?" When Noble turned and started toward the fountain, Cchen signaled. "punt formation" and booted the, for, mer pension-plan leader in the fundament. and Japanese propaganda side ble flying against the wall and shattered his glasses. Cohen was waiting to be taken to the Federal Building for questioning on the ownership of a gun found in his bookmak-ing establishment when he was arrested. The numbers on the gun had been filed off.

Federal Charges Against Noble Given Precedence Prosecution of criminal conspiracy proceedings against Robert Noble and Ellis Jones in Superior Court were ordered off calendar yesterday by Judge Edward R. Brand to give Federal authorities a free hand in prosecuting them on sedition charges. Noble, former pension-plan leader, and Jones, outspoken isolationist, are accused of feloniously conspiring to libel Gen. Douglas MacArthur jn a pamphlet accusing him of running out on his troops at Ba-taan. The county grand jury voted the accusation.

When Federal officers complete their case against pair, they will still face prosecution on the conspiracy Large quantities of sand will be dumped at each of the city's 230 elementary schools next Saturday and Sunday. Householders who wish 50 pounds of by side. "The Karenz tribe (in South last year went to Canoga Park. Don Miller, student body president, received the trophv in ern Burma) seemed more sympa our American girls are getting a taste of that same sort of emancipation. Not only are American nurses writing a behalf of the school from Frank thetic to the British than the Burmese people," the girl re Peterson, deputy Mayor.

A second trophy went to Da called. XO SERIOUS RUX There was no serious run on groceries yesterday, however. Most shoppers apparently had laid in an adequate supply at least days ahead. These will go next week, not to high schools, but to elementary schools to register. There they must disclose the amount of sugar they have on hand in excess of two pounds a person.

They will receive war ration books unless their supply is already more than six pounds a person. If so, they must wait until the government specifically rations more to them. vid Wilson of Manual Arts High deathless page in history it seems to me that they do more and get less credit for it than MONTH OF BOMBINGS Following 11 exciting days and nights on a troopship in an Atlantic convoy with 3000 young R.A.F. recruits as their companions, Anna Neagle, motion-picture star, and her producer-director, Herbert Wilcox, arrived in Los Angeles yesterday and reported back for film duties at R.K.O.-Radio studio. "I have never seen such high morale since the outbreak of the war," said Miss Neagle in reference to the 3000 young men who were landed in a Canadian port School, winner in the county-wide essay, contest on the sub Mareda underwent a solid any group of people in the whole ject of "Traffic Safety and Its war effort but in other lines of month of bombing before she left Rangoon Jan.

2(5, she said. Sometimes there would be several Relation to Our National De sand to take home for possible emergency use may do so provided they leave as much scrap material from their homes as possible. The program is twofold in purpose: to provide sand "for householders who might otherwise have to make long trips for it, and to feed as much scrap metal as possible into the smelting furnaces of the nation's steelmakers. Proceeds from the salvage sale will be used to buy equipment for civilian defense volunteer services. fense." service work the girls are pitching in.

The U.S.O., which does an awful lot of good work with very little ballyhoo, has just The third award went to Paul raids in a day and on moonlight nights as well. They had shallow trenches dug near their home Mizukami, Japanese American student at Manual Arts, for the shipped 13 capable young ladies oil to places like the Canal Zone to begin their training duties. best poster in that contest. It was presented to Don Bittleston, and when the raid signal sounded everyone leaped for cover and pulled palm branches over them president of the Manual Arts stu- yes, and farther than that to work seven days a week trying to add a homey touch to the Mothers' Aid for camouflage. Impact of the blow sent N' Turn to Page 2.

Colin nn .1 Hut with all of these raids, the; LAJlftWGllGr JUIIIi clubhouses. Staggered Hour Plan ANNIVERSARY And, say sneaking of changes I'm wondering if anything will tweak Joining in. the staggering of closest can they experienced was a bomb which dropped a block away. "Mother and father both worked in the hospitals and father helped operate an ambulance during the raids," the girl said. Mareda left Rangoon on a Branch Open To the occasional wall of an uncomfortable infant and the soothing words of its mother and the attendants, the Mothers Educational Center Association yes-terday opened a branch at the the memory of a tall, slender, quiet chap who is prowling around San Diego today.

He's probably too busy at his job of familiarizing himself with the working hours afTecting the courts and jail routine, Dist. Atty. John F. Dockweiler yesterday directed that all employees of his office work between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.

First Congregational Church. big Consolidated B-21 bomber to waste time on the past, is Turn to P.igp 2, Column 2 The prime purpose of the new Charles A. Lindberch. He's working for a colonel's salary. branch is to decentralize the organization's child examination program, thus reducing tire wear $3500 a year, though Henry Single Steel Helmet Sent Each Air-Raid Warden Post and time for those who other wise would have had to take their children to the head office to draw-straws If anything hap pens." If Los Angeles is bombed, they are going to be drawing straws at 1170 S.

Hill St. Dr. Maud Wilde, managing director ot the Center Association for 27 years, and Mrs. J. W.

Carter, chairman, presided over in-auguration of the branch at the church, Sixth and Hoover Sts. "And I have been advised by in approximately 3000 air-raid Dean Iandis (head of the O.C.D.) warden posts to see who gets to that the. government only In tends tov.issue helmets on the wear the one steel helmet ra tioncd to them. That was the somewhat lauelv basis of 20 for each 1000 popula tlon," said Mayor Bowron. Someone figured that would Ford would doubtless have offered him considerably more to help turn out those big bombers.

And. if Sllm's memory is short, he'll only recollect.that it was Just one year ago today that he resigned his colonel's commission in the Air Corps. MEMORIES Far more likely it is that Lindbergh vill remember farther back 'way back to this date in 1927. Gosh how time flies! Just 13 years ago today Slim Lindbergh folded his long boyish body into the tiny, blind, compartment-like body of a Ryan monoplane and took it on its very first flight the plane that a few weeks later was to catapult him to fame. If ho thinks of it, the field is right there, Claude Ryan is still building planes near by, Don Hall, the designer, Is working right there in Consolidated Air- able picture of the defense material situation painted to both the A fl give Los Angeles about 30,000 City Defense Council and the helmets.

Some time ago. the City Coun City Council yesterday. City authorities admitted that cil appropriated $50,000 for the up to date they had received from purchase of 20,000 helmets avail able locally, but the money was the national Office of Civilian Defense in Washington a shipment allowed to revert back to the Crusade fo Canonize Junipero Serra Backed Northern California and eastern members of the Third Order of St. Francis yesterday pledged their aid In the crusade for early canonization of Fray' Junipero Serra. Rev.

Brendan Mitchell. O.F.M., spiritual director of St. Joseph's Confraternity in Los Angeles, explained the steps toward saint hood in an address to the convo cation at the Rosslyn. treasury when it appeared that of but 1 3330 helmets to be divided among approximately the Federal government would supply enough with reasonable 000 volunteer war workers. "One of the helmets was sent alacrity.

'But now most these are to each of the airraid warden posts," explained Councilman J. Win Austin. "There are about gone," reported Councilman Nop rls Nelson. "The county got -craft why, it could be quite a' 10 men at each of the more than 000 and even Seattle grabbed ir it happened to occur to anybody! PROUD OWNERS Paul Mizukami, Japanese-American left to right, ore shown with various trophies presented student; Don Bittleston, Don Miller and Doye Wilson, them for their work on behalf of safety campaign. Tlmtt phot 3000 posts, so I guess they'll have! 'some.".