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1 2 OCTOBER 16, 1946 2 LOg Cim'Cg Worker Svgely if l-. y. 111,11 III 1 1 1 A 1 i To) i Move Made to Bar Pro-walkout Revolt in Another Film Union One of the most savage beatings of the current film strike, Issuance by tlie City Prosecutor of complaints against 203 strikers arrested Monday and a quick move to quell a pro-strike revolt in one of the nonstriking unions marked events yesterday in the jurisdictional war among rival A.F.L. Unions in the motion-picture industry. wm if mally notified the members that if they cross the strikers' picket lines they will be expelled from the local.

The international officers have formally notified them that if they do not cross the picket lines and continue keeping the union's contract with the employers they will be subjected to disciplinary ac Otherwise according to Police Chief Horrall, the day was peaceful at the studios in so far as lawlessness and violence were concerned- He said only legal number a of pickets were at the struck studios and film laboratories and they behaved in an orderly manner. Parsned in Auto The victim of the beating was David Arbuckle, 54, an employee of Technicolor, Motion Picture Corp. A police report stated tion. Martin said the members are acting "quite satisfactory" to the Nonveteran's Housing Project Eviction Asked Due to burst into the open today is the question of why the nonveteran editor of the leftist People's "World In Los Angeles and his wife have enjoyed accommodations In public housing projects which are restricted to ex-servicemen. Answer to this question, it was apparent, must come from the City Housing Authority.

To Demand Eviction1--Councilman L. E. Timberlake, chairman of the City Council's Public Health and Welfare Committee, which has jurisdiction over the matter, said last night he will present a resolution to the Council today 'calling for the Immediate eviction of Sidney Burke, the leftist editor, and his wife from the Channel Heights Housing Project in San Pedro. "This matter came before my committee last Thursday," Tim-berlake said last night, at that time, the City Housing Authority submitted a report saying this situation was due. to a clerical error.

I refused to accept this explanation." The Councilman went on to say that the "Burke incident" first came up several days ago when the couple was living in Rodger Young Village, a quonset hut settlement in Griffith Park exclusively supposedly for veterans. When their presence there was discovered, he continued, the Burkes were moved to the Channel Heights project where, ironically enough, accommodations are far better than at Rodger Young Village. Director Out of City With City Housing Authority Director Howard Holtzendorff out of the city, the authority's report on the matter was presented to his committee by Holt-zendorff's assistant, Roy Patterson, Timberlake reported. "Another thing I'm going to try to have made he continued, "is All municipal funds given to the City Housing Authority are allocated through the City Council, but. what authority does the have over this organization?" -I -MTU 5K local officers and predicted that DECREE Charlotte Sutton, right in court -yester- day cs John Sutton, actor, won a decree arwulUna mor Hage With her Is Miss Charlotte Mono Barrett dauch-; ter by the husband who Mrs.

Sutton divorced iri 1929. First Husband Helps Actor Witi Annulment Times photo SUSPECT, VICTIM AND GUN-Left to right, Leon Guthrie, cowboy orchestra-, leader; Philip Lewis, on table, assertedly wounded by Guthrie in a shooting gallery, and Officer John Bresinghom with rifle Guthrie assertedly used. Guthrie is. held in jail. they will "win.

the right not to cross a picket line." Four Charges Made The strikers arrested at Columbia Studio Monday were arraigned before Judge Kenneth A. White in Municipal Court yesterday on one complaint, accusing each defendant of four charges: failure to obey a Superior Court order restraining pick, eting, blocking studio entrances, failure to disperse at orders of officers and disturbing the peace. After arraignment the strikers were ordered to return to court Oct. 22 to enter pleas to the charges, then released on bail ranging from $25 to $50 each. Aided by his wife's first husband's surprise, testimony, John Sutton.

38-vear-old screen actor, yesterday won a decree annulling Slaying Charged to Man Getting his marriage to Mrs. cnanowe Sutton, 47, society matron. Sutton was granted the decree by. Superior Judge Dudley entine shortly after Mrs. button first husband.

Dr. Arnev Graham 'I ttT 1 I Biddle, New York plastic sur LIT! in AUTO Also arraigned before Judge suit for separate maintenance but withdrew this petition whea Sutton gave her a $25,000 setts ment Under terms of this tctr tlement it also was agreed that no question would be raised eta-cerning validity of her second marriage, to Hosmer J. Barrett, Memphis (Tenn.) broker, who established a $1,000,000 trust fund for their daughter CarloUe Maria, now 19, when he and Mrs, Sutton were divorced in 1823. Immediately after the annul" ment was granted, Sutton admitted that he and Mrs. Bobbe Fid-ler, former wife of Jimmy Fid Holly wood gossip radio announcer, -will be wed Sutton was represented by Attys.

Jerry Giesler and "James J. McCarthy and Mrs. Sutton by Atty. S. S.

Hahn: The Buttons were married in 1933. White were 26 other strikers arrested Friday at the same studio- and charged with three offenses, parading without a Kibitzer Calls Shots Wrong and Is Shot Leon Guthrie, 30, cowboy orchestra leader from Sacramento, yesterday was in jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after assertedly wounding a man kibitzing on his prowess in a Main St. shooting gallery. The victim, Philip Lewis, 40, of 234 S. Fremont is in General Hospital with a pellet wound in the abdomen.

According to police, Lewis was commenting on Guthrie's marksmanship at the moving targets In the shooting gallery at 509 Main St, -when Guthrie turned the weapon on him. Xewis was treated first at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital. mit, failure to disperse and dis geon, testified he never naa received legal notice of the Mexican divorce awarded her 20 years ago." It was the first time he had seen her, said Dr. Biddle, since they parted in 1926. Biddle, who now has pending a divorce action, of his own against Mrs.

Sutton, admitted he came here from New York at Sutton's request. Mrs. Sutton had filed a cross turbing the peace. They also will return for pleas Oct, 22. Laboratories Operating Despite the joining of the Guard Doubled as Mrs.

Peete Nears Execution Precautions to prevent possible escape or suicide attempts by Mrs. Louise Peete, condemned murderess, while being transported from Tehachapi to San Quentin for execution, were redoubled yesterday by the Sheriff's office. Mrs. Peete, confined to the Tehachapi State Institution for Women while her legal attempts to escape the gas chamber were made, is to die. Nov.

for the murder in 1D44 of Mrs. Margaret Logan, When is removed to San Quentin Oct. 30, she. will be guarded by three deputies, instead of the customary two, Sgt. B.

N. Parrick, head of the Sheriffs prisoner transportation division, disclosed yesterday. Two will be male deputies, Parrick said. The Sheriff's office reported, it had been advised Mrs. Peete has been acting strangely since her last efforts to evade execution failed.

that as he left his trailer home, 5675 Washington he was pursued by four men in a blue sedan. They rammed his car into a stop, sprang out with cries of "Get him!" and, hauling him out, knocked him down and kicked him viciously. Then they fled. He made his way back toward his home to be met by Mrs. Arbuckle who took him to.

Culver City Community Hospital. There he was reported to have seven broken ribs, multiple contusions and possibly other iin-juries. Ordered to Keep Working The nonstriking International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees declared a state of emergency existing in its Local f83, film technicians, whose 2000 members on Monday moved over to the strike side by voting to observe the strikers' picket lines'. International President Richard F. Walsh of the alliance sent word that'eharges of conspiring to violate alliance orders requiring them to, continue at work have been preferred against the local's President Russell Mc-Knight, Secretary-Treasurer Norval Crutcher and Business Agent John R.

Martin. Walsh and the alliance executive council have sent a trial hearing officer, whose name was not known here, to hold a hearing in the Hollywood Roosevelt tomorrow at 10 a.m. Charges against the three are to be presented by Roy M. Brewer, international representative of the union. If sustained, the alliance then will take over the local and deal with the offenders.

Brewer called a special meeting of Local 683 members' for Hollywood Legion Stadium at. 8 p.m. today at which he is to lay the situation before them. But Local 683's officers issued a bulletin to members' urging them not to "attend the meeting, stating that Brewer has no right to call such a gathering. The local's officers have for- strike by the laboratory technicians of Local 683, Paramount Studio reported its in Nervous rage caused by the misinterpretation of a chance question led- Wilford P.

Harris, 24, to shoot and kill Cluster M. Blacketer, 32, seriously wound Blacketer's war veteran brother and endanger the latter's wife and two young children in Pasadena late Monday night. The shooting occurred less than an hour after the Blacketers had volunteered to drive Harris to Pasadena frbm an El Sereno district ber parlon They had been introduced earlier in the evening by Mrs. -Esther Alger, sister th Blaeketer brothers who lives at 3631 Monterey Road, El Sereno. Wife Driving Car At the wheel of the sedan was Mrs.

Sybil Blacketer, 20, wife of the slain man's brother, Harvey Blacketer, 24-year-old Medical operation. Metro-Goldwyn-May-er, whose. laboratory, was closed, resumed operatic" 7 on. a reduced scale. So also.

Cd some of the DIVORCE JUDGE DECLINES ORDER FOR DOG VISITS other' studios "Where laboratory work is done. 1 Studios, however, where there are no laboratories, were hard hit inasmuch as all commercial Accused Killer of Babies Suicide Corps veteran disabled after three years of combat service in maintained in a racing stable at Santa, Anita. "He was gone all the time, and when I objected he said the horses came first," she declared, when questioned by her attorney, Albert E. Isenterg. Although the divorce was granted under the name of Barr Amonda, the wife said her husband had made a legal name change a month ago in Pasadena Superior Court, and that he had dropped "Amonda" and is now simply M.

Barr. Europe. Sitting next to her was her husband. Her brother-in-law, Cluster, was on the far right side of the driver's seat. Harris was In the rear seat, where the laboratories doing work for them were closed by the strike of alliance men.

Two small laboratories were left open on condition that they would not handle films for any of the struck stur dios. Carey Mc Williams, distinguished in certain liberal circles, has invited some 300 film folk and others to a meeting at the home of Screen Writer Robert Rosson tonight to "reactivate" a so-called citizens' committee that appeared in the cios. ing days of the seven month jurisdictional strike of last year. It was regarded as a prostriker movement by nonstrikers. In a divorce, custody is a term that relates to children not dogs.

Superior Judge Carl A. Stutsman reminded Mrs. Shirley Lorraine Barr Amonda of this yesterday when he granted her a divorce from James M. Barr Anaoiada, manufacturer of bits and spurs. The judge approved a property settlement agreement which gave the wife "possession" not custody of Allspice, a boxer dog.

However, the court refused to grant the husband "reasonable rights of visitation." "I'm in the habit of granting such right in cases involving children but I won't do it for dogs," Judge Stutsman said. In her divorce testimony Mrs. Barr Amonda said most of the family quarrels. were over her husband's six horses which he C. of C.

Will Cut Cake on 58th Birthday This Is the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce's 58th birthday. It was just that long ago that, on motion of the late Gen. Harri-. son Gray Otis, a group of Los Angeles businessmen established what has become one of the world's most renowned civic promotional organizations. The birthday will be observed tomorrow when President James E.

Shelton slices and a birthday cake to Chamber of Commerce directors at a noon meeting. Shelton declared yesterday that it was a far cry from the sunshine-and-oranges sales talk of early days to a typical Chamber of Commerce announcement of today that, during the period from Jan. 1 to Oct. 1, 1946, more than $100,000,000 has been invested in industrial plants in the Los Angeles area. two children, David, 4, and Marilyn, 2, were asleep.

Immediately after Cluster had Navy Display 5 REDWOOD ClTY, Oct. 15. (JP) Vorhes James Newton, 2i, on trial for the murder of his two small daughters and, the attempted slayipg of his wife, hanged himself in jail today. Shortly after his txdy was found in the jail shower a note which was found in his cell read: "Bless me, father. I confess before you and God that I have sinned." Sheriff James J.

McGrath said that the note apparently was meant for a priest who visited Newton over the week-end. Newton had been charged with beating to death his two casually asked Harris where he worked or what his job was, Harvey saw a suspicious move out of the corner of his eye and shouted, "What goes on Mrs. Blacketer said in relating the harrowing episode yesterday. Jet Disabled; Pilot Jumps Bailing out of a disabled P-80, 1st Lt Charles R. Scott, 25, of the 71st (jet) Fighter Squadron, March'Field, yesterday parachuted 2000 feet to the base of Box Springs Mountain, the field public relations officer announced.

Scott was hospitalized at the base with minor injuries. His wife lives in Coachella and his parents in Sweetwater, Tex. The pilot was on a routine training flight when he was forced to abandon the Shooting Star. There was no indication as to what caused him to leave the fighter. A.F.L.

ACTS There were three or four shots fired during the fierce scuffle that TO END ROWS Continued from First Page followed, as Harvey Blacketer grabbed Harris' gun wrist and wrestled him out of the car as his wife sought to shield the sleeping small daughters, Barbara Anne, 23 months, and Caroline Lee, 7 that wage increases should be hitched to increases In production, which should be brought "Next thing I she said. months Their bodies were found in a canyon south of San Francisco pn' June 25. Their mother was found daze near by. about through co-operation of industry and A.F.L. unions.

"Cluster was slumped in the front Harvey was grabbing To carry out the latter the A.F.L. objective adopted call for the development of union- nis snouider and saying he hurt and the man Harris was sprawled in the street, threatening to kill us if we touched him Blacketer. despite his wound. management co-operation plans with joint responsibility for im Missile I hat Chases Target Illustrated on Pag 3. Part I CHINCOTEAGUE (Va.) Oct.

15. (JP) The Bat, a radar-direct ed glider bomb which stalks itJ prey and which is hailed as the forerunner of the weapons of' the future, was unwrapped by the Navy in a two-day demonstration yesterday and today off the North Carolina capes. The first guided missile to be issued to the fleet, the Bat is dropped by a fighter or patrol bomber plane, then glides more than 10 miles to Its target, with a 1000-pound bomb tucked in it belly. Radar, carried In the nose, automatically tracks a turning and twisting enemy ship and corrects aiming and wind errors. Tested successfully against Jap combatant and merchant shipping during the closinj months of the the Bat has never before been put on public display.

Squadrons of four-engine patrol bombers are training at this- ordnance test center to launch the stubby-winged roboti as part, of the Navy's program -to teach all fleet aircraft personnel how to handle its newest electronic weapon. Stricken Boy Thought to Be Paralysis Victim Believed to have been stricken with infantile paralysis, Keith Kirkwood, 14, of 337 Sumner Avalon, was taken from Santa Catalina Island to Los Angeles Harbor by the Coast Guard cutter Yankton yesterday, then removed to General Hospital. Arthritic Drive Starts NEW YORK, Oct. 15. (P) -The newly formed National Arthritic Research Foundation last night opened its national campaign for $2,500,000 for a program of coordinated study, of the causes, treatment and prevention of arthritis and related rheumatic diseases.

then told his wife to stay in the back seat with the children, as he started to drive desperately toward the Pasadena Cit.v Jlmor. Official Quoted on Threats to U.S. Freedoms CINCINNATI, Oct 15. (JP) William K. Jackson, president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, today said ''infected thinking" is the principal threat to free enterprise in America and attributed the following statement to an unidentified nonelective government official: "Having once captured the government and shelved the Supreme Court, we would nationalize as many industries as we could chew.

We would do it peacably if possible, but otherwise if necessary." Declaring the quotation sounded like a paragraph from "It Can't Happen Here' Sinclair Lewis' novel on. an Imagined American Fascism, the Boston attorney added in an address at a Chamber of Commerce forum: "Atcually, it is a statement by a high government official not an elected official, of course but nevertheless a man who took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States." gency Hospital. His brother was proving production and reducing wastes that unnecessarily increase costs together with the development of records to show workers' production achievements. The convention also adopted a resolution which called for the education of all A.F.L., workers through mass meetings designed to find ways to combat Communism. aeaa on tneir arrival.

KGER Owner Found Dead in Washington WASHINGTON, Oct. 15. Coroner A. Magruder MacDon-ald said a man identified as C. Merwin Dobyns of Long Beach, was found dead tonight in the Roosevelt Hotel and he will perform an autopsy tomorrow.

Members of the homicide squad said it appeared death was due to natural causes. They said the man was found, fully clothed, iri the bathtub of his room shortly after, he arrived at the hotel. Dead Maa Owned KGER, Headed Oil C. Merwin Dobyns of Xong Beach, identified as the man found dead a Washington (D.CD hotel room last night, was the o.w-ner of Radio Station KGER tin Lon each and founded the Consolidated Broadcasting Corp. there in 1926.

He also organized and was the head of several oil-producing companies in Long Beach. X. Vnr Yin Collision Kills Boy on Bicycle An 11-year-old bicycle rider was killed and his companion injured in a collision with an automobile at Fountain Ave. and Wilton Place yesterday, according to police. Richard Sturgls of 1204 N.

Mariposa Ave; was killed, Lawrence Honig, 14, of 1215 N. Edge-mont riding tandem, sustained! a possible brain1 concussion and was taken to Hollywood Receiving Hospital. The driver of Edward Cope-lotto, 23, of 401 W. 40th was not held. Driving his car in, front of.

a Pacific Electric train at 108th St. and Wlllowbrook Mel-vin Kelly, ,35, of 1708 E. 103rd Place, was Injured last night according to Kfelly died en route to a hospital The motormaivL. C. Schull of 3f42 Eucalyptus Long Beach, told police, the" warning signal was -working.

The deaths bring traffic fatalities in the county since the first of the year to 700. wmmmm 4 Suspect's Leg Broken Harris, held, on investigation of murder charges, is in the prison ward of General Hospital, suffering from a compound leg fracture which police believe to have been caused by an accidental bullet wound suffered during the melee. Although investigators found that he has. an Plflltlll A' Driver, 18, Gets Jail Sentence Expressing regret that he could estranged wife living In Pasa not- permanently cancel the dena, he had torn the Blacketers only that he was going to "stay with a friend." His addrpss given as 1438 Hazelwood '4- nigniana rant. Harvey Blacketer.

who with driver's license of Ralph Hop, 18, Municipal Judge Leroy Dawson yesterday sentenced the youth to serve 60 days in the County-Jail on his guilty plea to 12 traffic violations, The youth, who resides at 1861 Rosecrans admitted he violated the law. 12 timesr within a few minutes after leaving his home. Judge Daw his family lives in an emergency No- Progrcsi in Hotel WASHINGTON, Oct lo. Clj'de Mills, Federal conciliator seekine setilpmpnt Washinc- PAY CONTROLS CALLED DEAD Continued from First Page war veterans nousing project at 415 Garfield South Pasadena, also is in General Hospital in serious condition. Cluster Blacketer's home was at 1023 S.

Orange Grove South operated a shoe store in X.ong ton's five-day-old hotel strike, ojcavii. associates said to WacHfw son suspended his license for the legal limit of 30 days. i-wuoy cannoi see wnere any progress has made." eral weeks ago on a business trio on these cases 10 days ago. It has been turning the cases back to the parties without acting on them on the grounds that partial no wiie Evelyn remained at their apartment at S00 Ocean Blvd. decontrol amounts to full decon ft 1 Jloangele0Cimc5 Tel.

IXV. Wei OcUbw It, 1H9. N. Bf Radio Men Plan Post in Legion XVArv XrTWiivLm Radio Center" Post of the Pittsburgh Dark in Strike PITTSBURGH, Oct. 15.

(IF) The first regular blackout in the steel capital's 22-day-old power strike today after a rifle American Legion will be organ 1 ized at 8 p.m. tomorrow with some 300 staff members of local and network stations in Hollywood invited to attend the ses 'Blind' Yacht Sails New York Harbor NEW YORK, Oct. 15. () A 100-foct yacht, equipped as a boating marine laboratory, ued the magic eye of radar today to sail "blind' for 15 miles through congested -New York Harbor to a safe anchorage in the Hudson River. The ship, the Wanderer, under charter to the Sperry Gyroscope was guided by its skipper, Capt William R.

Gris-wolci, from an enclosed compartment ftithin the vessel, A 12-inch improved radar screen enabled Griswold to skirt scores of ships, view the Statue of Liberty and dodge passing ferry boats and tugs. bullet wrecked a trans trol. Establishment of government machinery1! to resolve disputes without strikes. Some" board members were reported to feel that this is a bigger problem facing the country in the remaining task of reconversion than the curbing of wages. They hold the view that strikes would be more inflationary than a pay increase, The recommendations were understood to have been turned over'to Steeiman and the administration's other top experts to prepare the necessary executive orders to put the program into effect.

sion at the Hollywood Legion clubhouse. Can Officials Deny Antitrust Count SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 15. Seven officials of the American Can Co. and the Continental Can pleaded innocent in Federal Court here todav to charges of conspiracy to violate the Sherman Antitrust Act.

Federal Judge St. Sure set for hearing Nov. 12 motions by the defendants for inspection of documents in possession of the government and for a bill of particulars. former at a substation of the strike-bound Duquesne Light Co. The resulting reduction of electrical power also curtaifed trolley car operations to only a fraction of normal.

One hundred out of the city'3 1200 trolleys main method of transportation here were running. Fire Damages Town CHANDLER (Ariz.) Oct. 15. CP) Fire caused damage estimated unofficially at $300,000 early today In the heart of the business district here. CARRIER Dally and Sund i.so vx moaUx to fl eundT only, oca aontu: I 2REJGJl COCXTWS i1t Wttoui Tmotith It i Times photo WITNESSED TRAGEDY -Mrs.

Sybil Blacketer, with her two children David, 4, and Marilyn, 2, were in car when man they were taking home killed Mrs. Blacketer's brother-in-law and wounded her husband in gun fight..