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PART IV. SitKII Women Raid Wardens Prepare for Worst Beverly Hills Civilian Defense Corps Tunes UpDistaii Army for War Duty By Christy Fox A telephone rings. A call comes through the control board. In a split second the whole civilian volunteer army Is on the alert! Beneath the huge shade trees in Beverly Hills stretches a community that is alive to today's wartime problems one where both men and women are mobilized for immediate action. SUNDAY, JULY 26.

1942 St. James Park Enshrines Aura oiOldtime City By Alice Hicks Burr At -r fix)' 1 m- i vj, I 'W" ft i I sUA This is Civilian Defense. At th sound of the first alarm a machine of efficiency begins to function at double tim. And all the masculine smiles in the world would come to an abrupt stop at the sight of women heretofore completely untrained as they take their places at disaster posts. Did you think air-raid wardens were strictly masculine? No, indeed.

The feminine contingent has taken over the day watches in Beverly Hills and is prepared for night duty as well. None of the glamour of uniforms is theirs just Civilian Defense arm bands and a lot of hard work. Classes to learn about incendiary bombs, classes to learn the correct usage of fire boxes and classes to make them better prepared for emergency should the occasion come. Leader Named These feminine air-raid wardens are under the eye of Mrs. Edgar F.

Magnin, one of three women co-ordinators of the Beverly Hills women's division of Civilian Defense. Mrs. C. C. Craig supervises the work for transportation and Mrs.

Alfred F. Smith is in charge of canteen organization. As a board of three, these women control distaff war activities in Beverly Hills. More about air-raid wardens: The women have completed a thorough house-to-house canvass of Beverly Hills making notes as to the number of persons who will need special aid in case of disaster. For invalids and little children, transportation will be provided.

Long Hours Long hours of watching and patrolling also are part of the job. They even carry gas masks to be ready for any emergency. All these aides, of course, must be graduates in Red Cross first aid to apply. A new plan is being considered at the moment. It is called the "block mother" program, which will provide for one woman in each block to be responsible for the care of little children brought to a central location by wardens.

They also have sponsored a contest for Victory gardens, which has brought interest to adults and children, too. More than 400 women hav Turn tit Pag Column SUMMER FESTIVAL "Festival De Verano" is being planned Red Cross French Unit Will Open Larger Quarters dances. All proceeds from the benefit go to the U.S.O. Left to right are shown Mrs. Rodolfo Salazar, wife of the Mexican Consul; Mrs.

Manuel Maria Munoz wife of the Colombian Consul; Mrs. Arturo Domin-guez wife of the El Salvador Consul. These women are all very active workers. Timet photo by Latin-American residents of Los Angeles, aided by members of the Pan American League. It is to be Aug.

2 in the grounds of the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Noel Carson of 355 S. Rossmore a supper-dance featuring colorful native CHATTERBOX Marking another step forward for the Red Cross in it3 program of production, the new workroom of the French War Relief, the French Unit of the American Red Cross, will be opened formally tomorrow from 11 o'clock in the morning until 4 in the afternoon at 3050 Wilshire Blvd. The French group has been actively at work for the past two years and has found that its former orkroom was inadequate for the number of volunteers who wanted to sew and knit in the war effort of the United Nations.

This group has been working under the leadership of Mrs. Georges Fusenot, Mrs. E. Herbert Her-lihy and Mrs. George Marshall.

The Red Cross production program is one of constant expansion. The latest request received from the Army is the making of fatigue shirts for use in Army hospitals. The French unit will be responsible for several hundred of these as they move into their new, more spacious workrooms. Some 2500 guests have been invited to attend the formal opening. The regular work of the group will continue on Tuesday.

Facing St. James Park Is a little gray house built more than 50 years ago by the parents of Miss Bettie Creighton, who still lives there. The Telfair Creightons were not the first residents of St. James Park, however, for Capt. Charles J.

Ellis, founder of the Ellis Club, had erected his home on the comer of what is now 23rd St. and Scarff. There in the evenings he would sit on the south porch and watch lengthening shadows fall on his orange grove while contemplating, no doubt, the future subdivision of his 35 acres. By 1889 all those properties were sold except the half acre on which his house stood. This dwelling, neighboring the Creighton's, has been torn down.

Gone, too, is the Marlborough School once across 23rd facing Oak where in 1890 Mrs. George A. Caswell began her Los Angeles career teaching youth in the redecorated rooms of the former Marlborough Hotel. At the century's turn Col. and Mrs.

John Eldredge Stearns came from Idaho and built the Colonial architectural gem in which now reside their daughter Katharine, her husband, Thomas Dockweiler, and their -children, Julia and John. Hughes Family Lived Across Street Across from them lived Mrs. Margaret Hughes with her daughters, Josephine and Fanny, and a son, Walter Moore. Later the second St. James Park home built by the John Bralys occupied the lot adjoining them.

The Bralys' first St James residence still is standing at the opposite side of the park. This has been owned by the V. D. Woolwines and more recently by the late Mrs. Ell P.

Clark. One day a modest dwelling was added to the block directly opposite the Woolwine establishment. For a while great excitement and curiosity wept the neighborhood as the rumor went around that nobility was to live there. For once rumor was correct and that house was the first of three to be built In Southern California by Baroness Rosa von Zimmerman. In a short while, however, this first abode became too confining for the baroness, her paintings and works of art, so she built a mansion next door and connected it to the original structure by a bridge.

Later she built Castle Rosamond, east of the Huntington Hotel, where Count von Zeppelin and other notables were entertained. Fluttery Baroness Scarcely Known The ash-blond, fluttery baroness was scarcely known to St. James Park residents but her taste has been admired by hundreds who since, have visited her former home, now owned by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Workman Keller.

Although the time has passed, perhaps forever, when gold leaf painted ceilings, brocade or tapestry walls shall be in vogue, the exquisite colors and quality of those imported materials will live as long as the memory of the vanishing Old World. There were many changes made during the regime of the Charles Modinl Wood family, who lived there until 1918 following the 1905 purchase by Mrs. Wood's father, W. P. Perry.

A small but elaborate fountain room was added to the dinner guest's view. This marble did not withstand vibrations from certain notes of the pipe organ and would noisily crack on those occasions, which occurred often as the Woods had purchased that instrument for their musical enjoyment. Blue Pipes Lend Imposing Air The gold-etched, blue pipes still lend an imposing air to the landing where the broad flight divides and becomes a doubl staircase. Over the carved Italian mantelpiece in the front hall hangs a superb elk head, proving Mr. Keller to be as reliable with gun as with awl.

That latter fact, incidentally, solves the mystery of sounds borne on the still air near the park and Chester Tlace on Saturdays and Sundays. In the library are a desk, chair and table made by Don Mateo, so named long ago by his Mexican laborers, who thoroughly liked their Irish employer. That, however, Is a tale in itself. Next door to the Keller residence at one time or another I A Today Free French Relief Committee first garden party at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

Tyrone Power, 139 Saltair, Brentwood. Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Ben-ter, supper at their Palos Verdes home for Natalie Tatum and William Cooper Jr. Wedding of Arline Kanter and Stanley H.

Levitt at the Town House. Erma Johnson luncheon and shower for Jacqueline Logan-Jones, 71 Fremont Place. Sevy-Fianklin Troth Disclosed Mr. and Mrs. George E.

Franklin of 3175 Bentley Ave. are making announcement of the engagement of their daughter Betty Lois to Leo H. Sevy. Aug. 26 has been set as the date of the wedding which will take place in the Wayside Chapel in Westwood.

The bridegroom-elect is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo H. Sevy of this city. having returned from Europe on the Normandie's last trip, and on Dec.

7 found themselves in Honolulu! TIMELY Carolina Lokrantz wears first dress with a hobble skirt we have seen. It's black taffeta, and she tops off her costume with an immense black hat and a long lace veil very 1914! FULL SCHEDULE Mrs. Walter Candy Sr. has no time out these days. She's Gray Lady in the Red Cross.

She works at the AAV.V.S. recreational center and also takes over certain responsibilities at the Hollywood U.S.O. headquarters. Incidentally, daughter Peg has given up her position in the defense plant and will soon leave for Santa Fe, N.M. Thyllis Staley sews on her off day at the League for Crippled Children.

The rest of the week she's a nurse's aide at the Santa Monica Hospital Mrs. Arthur Bergh is no novice at war work either. If Webb has a straw man hanging up in her patio, and he's not a scarecrow either! As a matter of fact he's very beautiful, colorful and decorative, but a little verse printed on a card explains that when picking flowers or vegetables all one has to do Is pull a straw from his arm or leg with which to bind up the garden loot. NOTES Natalie Thompson, who has been having a wonderful time in Cleveland, joins her Army father at Ft. Worth, Tex.

Mrs. A. N. Kemp has just arrived from New York and has been staying with her son, daughter-in-law and grandson, Hale, Eleanor and Sandy Kemp, at Arrowhead Springs. Hale is another recruit to the Army who now bears the rank of lieutenant Leonard Ploeser is glad to report that the bachelor party he and five other young men hosted last Saturday night resulted in $150 being turned over to the Navy Relief Fund.

L. C. F. UNDAUNTED Dr. Anders Peterson is home after a successful fishing trip in the Jackson Hole country in Wyoming.

Pete, who had recovered from a broken leg acquired last March while skiing at Sun Valley, tried out water skiing on Hebgen Lake and says it beats snow skiing a mile. He's back on his ranch picking peaches and drying them for the long, hard winter ahead because, he says, he doesn't know how to make preserves. BRAVE HOSTESS Speaking of broken bones, we are reminded of Helen Monnette, who honored Helen Chambers with a shower the other after-noon, In spite of the fact that her leg was in a cast, which meant walking on crutches. But this didn't bother Helen in the least. "It's nothing at all," she said, "I've broken it before and I must keep going on account of my volunteer work." ON THE SrOT Two sisters who have been more places than one when the most excitement occurred are Mrs.

Del-bert Massey Minner (Barbara Slaudt) and Mrs. Chester Sos-noskl (Jane Slaudt.) These girls have the distinction of jJL SIlICl i or Twine- A NEW FASHION SIGN you glanced at her calendar you would find the days full of classes first aid, nutrition, motor mechanics and suchlike. But she also has a medal made from a captured German cannon, awarded only 10 women in the United States during the last war for outstanding work during the Liberty Loan drives. NOVELTY Torrey Stopping out thit fall will be thes saddlt siitchtd calf skint with th "Magic Sofa" ftaturu for walking comfort the wholt day through. Your choice of the season's latest colors.

WIISHIRE CENTIR BEVERLY HIUS 0 THE SHOE WITH THE MAGfrC SOLI J' The Woman's Shop siil vour in tf i drt with wtthort k'y V' ntcklin trimmtd bCj A iT w''t' 'oc Yo rnov 5JS Km 'n mjL I 4 Victory rd with grtcn 'IM ''8' Wilihir. Blvd. Vj dfc I 1 61 E. Confomio St. fc Qf SY.

6-6932 have lived the Howard Huntingtons, Kingsley Macombers and Eva CofTey, daughter of Maj. M. P. Russell, who built that house. Ofher Former Residents Named Across the way from them the Norman Sterrys were once domiciled and later the Henry McKees.

Behind this gray edifice and facing W. Adams are the William May Garlands, whose sons Marshall and Jack used to play in the park with the Mc-Kee lads, Donald and Stewart. Opposite the Garlands lives Mrs. A. C.

Bilicke, who erected the house in which she now dwells. She and others can remember a smaller abode, no longer standing, between her garage and Mrs. Margaret Hughes' house, where the Homer Laughllns lived until an imminent visit from President McKinley caused them to move. This larger home was one next to Mrs. J.

Ross Clark on W. Adams owned until then by Dr. and Mrs. Leslie Keeley. It has been torn down and the lot is the Automobile Club's pafking space.

Today in St. 'James Park there are very few who know that their neighborhood was named by George King and his wife. This couple presented the circular green and tree-planted space to the city In commemoration of their many visits to England. Woman of Fashion MRS. FELIX M'GINNIS, lunching beside the pool at Arrowhead Hot Springs, wore a casual summertime ensemble with a sheer batiste blouse threaded in black velvet ribbon to match the bands around the bottom of her multihued dirndl skirt.

Leather-thonged sandals with three-inch wooden soles were so smart. She tied tiny black velvet bows in her red-gold hair to complete the picture. I. I REMEMBER OUR SIZES 16 to 20 -38 to 32 -Half Sitts 16)4 to 26K 3 1 0 WUSHIRI lOUtlVARD I A I WISTMOMIANO RODIO ORIVI AT IANTA MONICA IOUIIVARD 0rg A(witti Invlltd Motor Intrant In Rr Open Evet In Lot Angtlet tit w. rvfwrM tr.

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