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THE WEATHER to limes United Statu Weather Bureau forecast for Los Angeles and vicinity issued last Mostly cloudy with occasional show-1 trga today; partly, cloudy tomorrow; little "change in temperatures. Highest temperature yesterday, 70; lowest, 59. PART fl-LOCAL NEWS I TIMES OFFICE 202 West First Street los Angeles 53, Calif. i MAdison 2345 CC VOL LXIV WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 31, 1945 CITY NEWS-EDITORIAL-SOCIETY WB Special Session Urged 6 Provide Money to Help Child Care Centers with Assembly Group Asks Action in i'f i BILL HENRY elinquency War I s1 WASHINGTON. You prob- ft if nStT i if NV if requested to call an immediate special session of the Leg r- i fbly think that a fellow loses touch with Hollywood almost entirely back here.

A cynic I might ask, "la that bad?" But nobody need say it, because it islature to provide funds for continuation of child care cen Isn true. ters throughout the State as the first move to combat an HOLLYWOOD We have a sort of a trickle of Hollywoodians increasing wave of juvenile I I 3 lit? liirHf Ji3iJ cruising through here all the delinquency. i time. Some of them, momentari- 1 -fc' The request was made in a mo ly stage-struck, show up, as Spencer Tracy and Fay Bainter have recently, in shows at the WMdWlitf MMf iiO'f J1 1 WW tion adopted by the Assembly Interim Committee on Crime National. Ruth Hussey is com- Prevention at the opening ses ONE WAY TO FIND OUT Pvt.

Ed Martin and Bob Army corporal, take a mechanical aptitude test to determine jobs for which they are fitted. This is only one of the new services offered veterans at the U.S. Employment Service here. ins here next week in "State of r. A sion of a three-day meeting in the Union" with Ralph Bel- the State Building.

lamy. Then others sprint in and out for other reasons not a few Witnesses told the committee, of them are still wearing uni- headed by Assemblyman Lome D. Middough of Long Beach, i forms. Ex-Mrs. Rudy Vallee, Bettejane Greer, appeared brief- that juvenile delinquency has in ly on a local stage show this week, and last week one of the creased more than 500 per cent I 't more charming "Oklahoma" Special Division, U.S.E.S., Finds Veterans Jobs Mass screening on a stream in the last four years and that a continued increase is expected alumnae, Pamela Britton, came to town.

So we do get to see an occasional far-flung emissary vV for the next three to five years. Fen Lor 1 irom tne promised Land. Cause of Increase Cited Conditions created by the war f- PUZZLED We all pounced on FAMILY REUNION Maj. Gen. Cortlandt Parker, left, with son, Cpl.

George Parker of 38th Division, and Mrs. Parker, talk things over after S.S. Uruguay docks at Los Angeles Harbor. Cpl. Parker is home after 22 months' service in Pacific war theater.

were cited by Harold Slane, re -Miss Britton to ask if she lined and expanded basis for could explain how come a girl cently resigned member of the California Youth Authority, as from Milwaukee who was discharged veterans seeking signed up in New York should causing the present and expected civilian jobs is now the order be taken all the way to Hol future increase. Lana Turner Has of the day at the U.S. Employ lywood to portray a waitress "When the Youth Authority ment Service veterans division was created in 1941 we had 1100 Bataan Avengers Given Welcome at Harbor jwith a Brooklyn accent, opposite Frank Sinatra. She didn't with the current rapid increase juveniles in our care," Slane told thl committee. "Last Oct.

1, the in separation from the armed New Heart Throb know why but she likes Southern California anyway and thinks that her new picture number had increased to 5721 forces. That rate of increase probably Recently reorganized and will continue for from three to Lana Turner, who showed Hoi "A Letter for vie" might be pretty good. She said her grandmother in Milwaukee, who five years before it levels off. staffed entirely by veterans, their service division is set up He cited the present rate of 125 marriages and 160 divorce to cope with the ever-increas had hoped she would be a Shakespearean actress, saw the lywood there was more to a sweater than knit two, purl two, last night was reported well into a new romance, with her previ suit3 filed daily in, Los Angeles Ing flow of former fighting men Sinatra picture and was so over- and women in the local area Bringing the vanguard of the famed "Cyclone" or "Avenger" 38th Division, which reconquered Bataan, the transport Uruguay, formerly the Panama-Pacific liner California, yesterday arrived at the Los Angeles Port of Embarkation with 4530 troops aboard. Meeting the liner at the harbor entrance was the official County as evidence of the extent of the break-up of family ties.

whelmed by the lack of meat ous one with Turhan Bey fast through scientific methods. To See Job Through on Frankie's frame that all Legislation Proposed unraveling. she could say was. "My, I'd like to get hold of that boy and Questioned by members of tor. Western Defense Command, who greeted his son, Cpl.

George Parker, home after 22 months overseas. The contingent consisted of the division's 149th Regiment, Headquarters and Headquarters Battery of Artillery, the 38th Signal Company, 39th Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop and the Antitank Company of the 152nd Infantry Regiment. Later Arrivals Seventeen thousand other men of the division will arrive this week aboard five vessels. One of them is the S.S. Young America, with 1456 men of th Tlmei photoa APPLICANT Lt.

Mary S. Manning, former flight nurse, after two years overseas, has interview ot U.S.E.S., veterans, division, first step to a civilian position. "The average veteran can be placed In suitable employment Indication that Miss Turner was forsaking the man from the the committee on recommenda feed him a few good home- without much difficulty" said cooked tions for changes in the California divorce laws which might help to ease the situation. Slane Walter Christian, field super minarets for a Romeo from the redwoods came last night when greeter boat, the S.S. Snafu EXPERIENCE Most of the visor of the three Los Angeles Maru, from which Maj.

Gen Executive of Selznick Pictures disclosed not that the laws fail to pro Hollywood people in the serv Frederick A. Irving, division too reluctantly that Rory Cal vide adequate protection for commander, broadcast a wel U.S.E.S. "but if he needs special attention we're here to give it to him now all the way through." those most entitled to it the houn, the 6-foot 3-inch discovery, is squiring her to a come. In charge of the contin Store Dies children," and advocated legisla gent was Brig. Gen.

William ice come and go like other people in the Army and JNavy, saying nothing. Nice to hear, out of a clear sky, somebody say a good word for Charlie FarrelL who decided that he premiere tonight. If there Is no job on file for Spence, who accompanied it a veteran in a particular classi division, and the Frederick Funs- homeward across the Pacific. Lillian Gish Files Rent Suit Lillian Gish, recently back to the scene of her early day screen triumphs after many years on the New' York stage, is of the opinion that she has been paying After Speech Calhoun, a native of San Jose and a former lumberjack, plays Jim Corbett in a new film and, tion which would require couples contemplating marriage to file a bond guaranteeing support of any children of the union. Also on the Snafu Maru was ought to have a share in the Maj.

Gen. Cortlandt commanding general, Southern Sec- While waiting for an elevator ton, with 2239 men. The latter ship is due at 5:30 p.m.; the Young America's time of arrival is not yet known. Other ships due todav include war, left hi3 Palm Springs as Hollywood pointed out, probably could take care of himself fication, he is sent directly to a veterans employment representative who has at his disposal a list of every available job in the entire office. First, second and third employment choices In opening the hearing, As Racquet Club in the hands of any emergency.

Miss Turner semblyman Middough declared that "students of penology pre a tew minutes after making a plea to employees for enthusiastic support of the Victory Mrs. and pushed off into the Pacific. Some of the people from the carrier Hornet go the Army hospital ship Charles Stafford with 900 Datients. and Spelling Bee is remembered as the "cause d'affaire" of a Hollywood battle about a year ago when her ex- dict we are about to experience the S.S. Lenownee, with 530 out of their way to say what a $525 a month too much rent Loan, Benjamin Kirschner, 61, treasurer and a director of the greatest crime wave in the history of this country." The actress yesterday filed troops.

These contingents are not 38th Division elements. husband, Stephen Crane, and Turhan Bey grappled with each other at a Beverly Hills house Brooks, clothing concern, col Winner Named Aid Need Stressed Commenting on the need for Among Aveneer Division mn lapsed and died, presumably of swell job Charlie did. He was young enough to understand the pilots, and old enough to be a sort of a father-confessor for them and managed, in the course of a-pretty rugged tour are checked, related skills are investigated and compared with existing job orders and as a result about six of every eight applicants are referred through this process. Flight Xnrse Seeks Work Among those who appeared at the division yesterday seeking to be placed in civilian employment were former Lt. Mary a heart attack, in the 644 continued and increased State aid for child care centers, which party.

To add to the complication, it also was reported last night that Miss Turner, recently seen danc Spelling bee contestants in a Broadway store yesterday. city-wide junior high school con aboard the Uruguay were Sgt. Michael A. Foxhoven, who eagerly awaited a sight of his wife and his 2-year-old son, the latter born since he went overseas, of 15303 S. Chariera St.

are operated tor children of working mothers, most of them A native of Russia, he came test, sponsored by the Victory of duty off Japan, to make a big contribution to the success of one of the better naval air to this country in his youth Chest, ended their competition wives of, servicemen forced into ing with Calhoun at a night club, had danced with Crane Sunday night at a Sunset Strip yesterday when Emily Albany, industry by the necessity of sup and joined Brooks here in 1927, units. 13, of Joseph LeConte Junior He was a member of the Masons, plementing their allotments from their husbands, he said: Other Angelenos Returning Other Los Aneeles men inrlud. B'nai B'rith and numerous civic PROOF Of course, in the last analysis a fellow need never get and charitable organizations. He S. Manning, of 80o W.

Dryden Glendale, three years in the service as a flight nurse and who spent two years overseas; ex-Cpi. Bob D. Albin, 1346 W. 30th who fought in France, out of touch with ttouywooa leaves his widow, Edna, of 761 Masselin a son, V. Monroe Kirschner, and two daughters, as long as there are theaters back here showing And, if you live right and are Germany, Belgium and Luxem bourg before being taken pris Mrs.

Alfred Lewis and Miss Sei ma Kirschner. ed Cpl. Carl F. Goodman, 1247 S. Gage Tech.

5th Grade Mar-celo J. Javier, 1186 Victoria Pfc. Alex W. 164 Echandia Pfc. Sidney Tre-peck, 2521 Grandville Sgt.

Eliseo F. Arranga, 3229 Mont-clair Tech. 5th Grade Manuel T. Garcia, 1631 Pennsylvania Ave. and Staff Sgt.

Abraham Hernandez of 226 N. Indiana St. rewarded by the Fates with a oner, by the Germans and who Funeral arrangements were lot of luck, you may stumble was liberated bv the Russians last April, and Flight Officer being made at Groman's Mortuary, with the services scheduled tentatively for tomorrow. High School was declared the all-city champion. More than 30,000 students In 31 junior highs were screened out in the spelling bee series which began on Sept.

29. Certificates of merit were presented to the school winners by Preston Hotchkis, Victory Chest campaign chairman. Second place went to Rita Chapman of Louis Pasteur Junior High; third to Ronald Muller, Horace Mann; fourth to Melvin Stowsky, Hoi-lenbeck. At noon today, Victory Chest leaders and workers will meet at luncheon in the Biltmore Bowl to report on the progress of the appeal for $8,042,373. C.

Bumpass, of 3220 Arvia "If we are to keep our youths out of the electric chair we must begin with the high chair." Mrs. Harvey Dye, radio chairman of the California Congress of Parent-Teacher Associations, declared that some of the current radio programs especially designed to attract the interest of children create emotional disturbances and thus contribute to juvenile delinquency. Committee Members She read a number of letters from mothers of young children who held this opinion. Other members of the com-j Turn to Page 2, Column 2 Wells Fargo Truck Stolen Theft of a truck loaded with $2000 worth of merchandise from a Wells Fargo Co. warehouse at 306 Azusa St.

during the night was reported yesterday a short time after some of its cargo was found abandoned in the 1100 block of E. 14th St The recovered property was picked up by Officers M. D. Splane and D. N.

Muzik of the Newton Street division. The truck is still missing. who will receive his discharge tomorrow. "I want to get into public life somewhere," said Miss Man Navy Academy Plan Indorsed ning. Albin said he didn't know what he is fitted for and was trying to find out, and Bumpass, an airplane plant welder before entering the service, said he Official indorsement of the pro posal to establish a U.S.

naval into a theater someday and see a good whodunit like "Mildred Pierce," which, incidentally, is as unprepossessing a name as you're likely to think of. Sometimes you're really lucky, as in this case, and choose the picture simply because you think Joan Crawford is a pretty swell gal and, behold, you find that she's doing very well in a very good picture and, besides, there's Herman Brix, the old football and Olympic track star, turning in a terrific performance as Joan's husband maybe changing his name to Bruce Bennett did the trick for him. TRIUMPH Funny thing about that picture, which is a thriller and a tremendous success in its own right, is that the chief com- Gish Lillian wants to "get into sales work, Love said that all will be sat academy on the Pacific Coast was voted yesterday by the Board of Supervisors 3t the in suit for $11,025 against her land isfactorily placed as a result of lords, Dr. Hartley Dewey, physi the work of the reorganized stigation of Supervisor Roger Jessup. cian, and his wife, Mrs.

Louise veterans division. Dewey, from whom Miss Gish 'Southern California would be 1 -I i I Bookie Data Found on Ice Keeping bets on ice was literally true yesterday when Sheriff's vice squad officers, under Inspector Norris G. Stensland, raided a liquor store at 1422 Firestone Blvd. and found evidence of bookmaking in the icebox. Arrested oh a charge of book-making was Harry T.

Rush, 52, of 8606 Prince St He was later released on a writ of habeas corpus returnable tomorrow in Department 44. Officers stated that, after searching the store, one' inquisitive deputy opened the large cooler in the establishment and discovered two cigar boxes containing approximately $300, in cash as well as betting markers and scratch sheets. Woman's Death an ideal location for an institution of this kind because of the leased her present home, 10050 Cielo Drive, Beverly Hills, last March 1. splendid all-year climate conditions which prevail here," Jes-sup's resolution asserted. Baffles Jurors A Coroner's jury yesterday For seven months, Miss Gish complains, she paid $700 a month was unable to determine wheth Copies, of the measure will be rent without knowing the O.PA.

ceiling on the premises was $175 sent to California Senators and regret that the star should er the death last Oct. 20 of Mrs. Lucille Cardenale, 31, address Congressmen with a request to have chosen what tney seemea month. Accordingly, the ac to think was a particularly un give full support to the academy tress demands three times the proposal. $3675 she contends she has been ft undetermined, was homicidal or accidental, but recommended that Sheriff's deputies apprehend Joseph Fewer, also known as Joe Walch, for questioning.

overcharged, as provided by price Alan LeMay, Actor, control laws. The suit was filed in Superior Court. The body of the auburn-haired Scalded in Blast woman was found oh the Ridge Alan LeMay, motion picture Route 19 miles north of Castaic, her head crushed and, accord actor, was taken to Hollywood Hospital yesterday for treat ing to investigating officers, she had been in a truck driven by Walch shortly before. ment for first and second degree sympathetic role, for her reappearance after too long an absence from the screen. They all think she's terrific in the part but the fact that she chose- a straight dramatic role seems to bother the boys.

It doesn't bother the ladies, though. They turn out by the thousands to see this tragedy of a woman who let her life be wrecked by making sacrifices for a daughter who doesn't deserve such kindness. The lady customers sit there and sympathize and sob and shudder and think the picture is wonderful Joan's part is sympathetic enough for the ladies. I guess my weakness is," one grizzled critic confessed, "that I've never been a mother." Zone Variance burns on the head, right arm and back, due to being scalded by a water heater that exploded Monday night at his Bel-Air home. LeMay, who is under contract to Warners, was attempt Reception to Open City's Art Week A reception, at which Mayor and Mrs.

Bowron will be hosts, along with Harold W. Lester Donahue, Mrs. Grant B. Cooper, Pierpont Davis and Paul Lauritz of the Art Commission, will open the first municipally sponsored Art Week tomorrow night in the Greek Theater; Griffith Park. For an 11-day exhibit, Women Painters of the West will furnish hostesses, with Mrs.

Madah Paulsen as chairman. Nelson to Speak at'Conference Donald M. Nelson, former War Production Board chairman, will speak on management's views of full employment problems Saturday at the Los Angeles campus of the University of California. Representatives of business and industry are scheduled to attend the all-day conference, which Is sponsored by the South California Management Council. Fees Increased Fees charged by the County Regional Planning Commission for a zone variance application ing to repair the heater when the accident occurred.

He will be in the hospital for about two weeks, but, it is said, will suffer no permanent injury. The ix-nfi i 9 -Miilia t-femtlHiiaWiirfMnii yesterday were increased from $10 to $25 by the Board of Supervisors on recommendation of head burns were adjacent to the BEST AMONG 30,000 Preston Hotchkis, Victory Chest campaign chairman, presenting Emily Albany with certificate of merit. She became all-city champion in spelling bee among junior high school students. More than 30,000 boys and girls participated. Har Bill Henry Monday Guough Friday, KNX, 5:55 right ear.

County Manager Al Campion..

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