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NOVEMBER 11. 1942. PRT II. 8 WEDNESDAY MORNING. RED RYDER AND LITTLE TO HELP WELCOME SANTA War Plant Asks Court to Halt 1-.

Union 'Pirating' of Workers Curb Also Sought on Labor Board Agents' Asserted Efforts to Get Confidential Information Children Will See Red Ryder Sunday 'Times' Comic Strip Hero Will Help Welcome Santa Saturday Gangs Victim Tells Stabbing Death Trial Witness Testifies Concerning Knifing and Beating I In a case" unusual in union liti gation, a local defense plant yes' other vital war machines and that because of the trouble with the union and board agents the How he was stabbed and then terday called on the United States District Court to stop Red Ryder, the Sunday Times cpurt is asked to go into. the sit comics cowboy hero, will appear beaten to the ground by a gang uation: A.F.L. union agents from "pirat ing" its workers and to deter Na person to assist Santa Claus of young party raiders was de "To the end that the rights of in opening Downtown Toyland at tlonal Labor Relations Board scribed by Joe Manfred! late yes-terday when he was called as a complainant and the defendants may be determined and declared ceremonies at Victory House. 10:30 a.m. Saturday.

witness in Superior Judge agents from procuring "conflden tial" Information about the com pany's business. and the continued use of the tactics heretofore employed by Charles W. Frlcke's court, where America's fighting cowboy, per. sonified by Reed Hadley who 22 defendants are on trial the murder of Jose Diaz, 22, last Aug. 2.

portrays. Red Ryder over the ra Attorney Russell Parsons, for Monarch Pattern filed the suit against the board, particularly two of its the defendants and each of them will damage plaintiff's business beyond repair, and will result In injuring the war effort without dio, will admonish the thousands The youthful defendants also of youngsters under high-school age to keep up their fighting were indicted for assault with a field examiners, Edward.M. Eng advantage to the defendants or spirit and continue their help in deadly weapon as the result of a lish and Roy S. Marsh, and any of them." i gathering salvage, buying stamps WW i ifflu i Sana tv win nmw it IK 1 against the A.F.L. Pattern Mak In seeking relief from demands knife attack on Manfredi ana Cruz Reves.

both euests at a and bonds and other activities. of labor board agents, the com Little Beaver, Red Ryder's pany told the court that "failure birthday party at the home of Amelio Delgadillo on a Monte- young Indian companion, will to meet these demands will lead ers' Association, naming particularly its business agent, William F. Jebe. COM PAN 8 CHARGES According to the complaint, also be present in the person of bcllo Township ranch. to an extended hearing and con They ran after me," Mantrecn ommy Cook.

"Downtown Los Angeles of testified, relating how he was trapped when he came to a Jebe demanded that the com troversy involving constant har-rassment of complainant with demands for' subpenas and will bring about an interruption of ficially opens its many Toylands pany sign a contract with his un in various stores at this Victory fence. House ceremony with Red Ry "Who ran after you?" asked complainant's work." Dep. Dist. Atty. John Barnes.

"WpII thpre wer Henrv Lev- der," Ray w. Smith, general man. ager of the sponsoring Down UNION CONTENTION ion and threatened if this were not complied with to take its workers away "one by one," get them Jobs in other defense plants and put this defense plant out of business. Some time ago Jebe's union vas, Manuel Delgado and Ysmael town Business Men's Association, announced yesterday. "Every HERO OF YOUNGSTERS Red Ryder, Sunday Times com-- ic strip hero, and Little Beaver, his Indian companion, are shown with group of their young admirers who will help them premiere Toyland and welcome Santa Claus at Victory House Saturday.

Ryder is Reed Hadley and Little Beaver is Tommy Cook. Parra," the witness said. youngster in Southern California During his testimony he iden The company asserts that it is made a charge to the board that the company was refusing to bargain wfith it, claiming to be the legal collective bargaining agent of the workers. tified 10 of the youths as having been nresent at the fatal melee. is welcome to attend this free program, where Santa Claus will make his first appearance.

Come early. Stay late. Come often to Toyland." He also described how he heard screams and the crashing of having no trouble with its employees, wlware described as patriotic, loyal and diligent workers but that Jebe's unionizing campaign, as described in the Board's agents, Marsh and Eng lish, were investigating the glass windows during the raid in which several other persons were beaten and Diaz was injured Edna May Oliver's Funeral Services Set for Tomorrow Private Obsequies Planned for Veteran Actress; Lynn Starling, Friend, Will Read Favorite Poem charge and, according to the complaint, made demands on the com complaint, "will lead to friction and dissent ion and might cause an interruption in the produc pany to produce information the fatally. Trial of the case, whicn yes- terdav entered its fifth week tion of essential defense mate Rabbi to Speak "How Much Can America Depend on You?" Is the subject of an address to be given by Rabbi Ernest Trattner at 8:30 p.m. next Friday at Temple Emanuel, Beverly Hills.

rials." disclosure of which "is forbidden by contract, by statute and by public necessity" and which if divulged, it was asserted, would subject the company to before a jury, will be resumed tomorrow. Asst. Dist. Atty. Clyde Parsons said the company is Shoemaker Is cocounsel wun Private funeral services for engaged in making patterns for Barnes for the prosecution.

guns, airplanes, ships and many Supervisors Favor Antipoll Tax Bill Board's Stand Set Forth in Resolution Los Angeles County's Board of Supervisors yesterday went on record officially in favor of the Pepper-Geyer Anto-Poll-Tax Bill now in Congress. The action of the board was taken on a resolution presented by Supervisor John Anson Ford of Hollywood who declared that under present conditions American citizens are denied the right to vote in numerous States due to the poll tax restrictions. "We hold this a fundamental deterrent to the nation's war effort and to active citizenship. The extension of democracy and the battle against Fascism we hold inseparable." Missing Husband Called Legally Dead Otto DeHoog Not Seen for Years, Wife Asserts Missing for seven years, Otto DeHoog, oil company employee, yesterday was declared legally dead by Superior Judge Jess E. Stephens.

His wife, Mrs. Johanna DeHoog, testified her husband was last seen June 29, 1935, when he handed half his pay check to one of his 10 children, Horace, and said ha gas going to town to pay 6ome bills. He has not been seen since. Attorney Voltaire Perkins told Judge Stephens yesterday's ac-j tion was necessary to clear up certain estate matters. Edna May Oliver, veteran character actress who died Monday on her 59th birthday anniversary, will be conducted at Forest Lawn Memorial Park some time tomorrow, with cremation following the rites.

Miss Oliver, a native of Maiden, began her theatrical career Tale of Two Cities," "Romeo and Juliet," "Drums Along the Mohawk" and "Pride and Prejudice." Miss Oliver was married to D. W. Pratt In 1928 but divorced him five years later. She never remarried. Her only close living relative is an aunt, Mrs.

Hattie Cox of the Massachusetts town. Chief mourner at the funeral will be Miss Virginia Hammond of the New York stage, who was itA at the age of 17, when she joined a light opera company and later toured as pianist in a women's orchestra. Miss Oliver's closest friend. Lynn lot Among her many stage and rirtthT Starling, a friend, will read "The Prophet," a favorite poem by Kalil Gibran, at the services. screen triumpns were "Little oublte they're tor Women," "David Copperfleld," "A but admit toy c0eCtiQn- I 5 nev lion team vth n2 aitel ie ro blue streetfloor :h29.95Porv A eac ,11 I 1 i im V-Nsr MoffM-'KW rl 1 -fur Pf 7 0Ur wardrobe.

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