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The Weather PART II LOCAL NEWS TIMES OFFICE 202 West First Street Los Angetes 53, Calif. MAdison 2345 United States Weather Bureau Scattered high cloudiness today and tomorrow; cooler tomorrow. Highest tem-Jerature, 95; lowest, 68. Ec" SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1946 CITY NEWS -EDITORIAL-SOCIETY 1 VOL LXV sed Accu Las Vegas Jurist in Hotel Deal Damage Suit Meat Supply Fades Away 'Nothing Whatever Word From Almost Half of Retailers Action Charges Plot to Defraud with BILL HENRY Two Angelenos Charges that a Circuit 0 1)111) J-: Court judge of Las Vegas participated in a "conspiracy to defraud two Los Angeles investors in the operation of Row Hinders Nine Studios Unions' Jurisdictional Dispute Slows More Picture Production Continued refusal of members of three A.F.L. unions to work oh "hot" sets spread its creeping paralysis of picture production into all but one of the 10 major motion-picture studios yesterday.

One hundred balky employees, were ordered off the premises of nine 'studios as against 50 such employees in five studios the previous day when the union action began. Only the Hal Roach -studio was left unaffected as yet by the action which with members of the Carpenters' Union refusing to work on sets on which members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees had done work that the carpenters claimed i 4 esS f-f I ti PIP smmmm i sty? I I VV '( iiiiiiiip JmmL- 'I From the stockyards to the butcher shops, meat was near the vanishing point yesterday. Forty per cent of the meat markets in metropolitan Los Angeles were either closed or without any red meat, a spot survey by the Meat Dealers Association indicated. Philip R. Melnick, secretary-manager of the association, said that 1000 out of 2500 markets had no meat.

He saw no hope for improvement "because there are very little deliveries, if any, from packing houses to the retailers." Directors of the association will meet Monday or Tuesday and will probably call a mass meeting of all members to decide what can be done to meet the crisis. On the optimistic side, Pat Morley, purchasing agent for the city schools, informed parents that they need not worry about their children's lunches when schools reopen Monday. Plenty of Food "We have contracts with three companies which are furnishing some meats," he said. "We have lamb, sausages, cold luncheon meats and canned meats. We have lots of macaroni and thou should have been done by car El Rancho Vegas Hotel were made yesterday in a suit for $1,455,000 malicious prosecution damages filed in Superior Court here.

The complaint asserts that the. jurist, George E. -Marshall; was forgiven his gambling losses in a Las Vegas casino but was allowed to keep his winnings in furtherance, of the asserted conspiracy. Defendants In Suit The action was brought by Walter Guzzardi and his son, Joseph. R.

Guzzardi, and i3 directed against Wilbur Clark, Las Vegas gambling tycoon, and G. E. Kinsey, Southern California capitalist. The Guzzardis assert that last July 25 they purchased from Clark stock representing controlling interest in the hotel properties, which were at that time mortgaged for $636,215. The agreement, the complaint adds, provided that the hotel concern would lease its- gambling casino to Clark, who would pay the Guzzardis 10 per cent of his net profit as rental.

Conspiracy Alleged 0 But shortly after the trans action was completed, the Guzzardis say, Clark entered into a penters. Both are A.F,.L. unions but long have been warring over such jurisdictional matters. Joined by Others The carpenters were joined by members of the A.F.L. Painters' Union and of the International Times photo HOME TOWN HONOR Morilyn Buferd, new Miss America, receives "key to the tity" from Mayor Bowron.

Times LUCKY. AFTER ALL Mrs. Gladys Sutherland with James delivered yesterday Friday the 13th in courtyard of Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital. They're doing fine. Brotherhood of Electrical Work ers, both of whom are with the Miss America carpenters in Herbert K.

Sor-rell's Conference of Studio Unions, all members of Stork Overta Ices Auto ists which have jurisdictional "beefs" against the alliance. sands of pounds of cheese, along with plenty of eggs and bacon. Visits City Hall Instead of striking, the work "There is a shortage of fresh in Hospital Courtyard meats," Morley continued, "but Miss America visited the City ers are filing unfair labor practices charges against the'employ-ers but their action stops a con we have all kinds of food, and children will have balanced Maybe it's unlucky for some, but for James W. Sutherland, Hall yesterday. In other words, Miss Buferd, siderable amount of work with meals with proper nutrition." service station operator, his pretty red-haired wife Gladys and for James W.

Sutherland yesterday was the luckiest day of Ben W. Campton, president ofi 21-year-old Los Angeles girl who was recently crowned queen of Meat Packers, said that cat their lives. tie. receipts are extremely light at the stockyards, with both pro Early in the morning, Mrs. Sutherland, who had lost a baby all contestants at Atlantic City, paid a visit to Mayor Bowron.

Accompanying the young beauty Attorney Named ducers and feeders dissatisfied with price levels. He said the few packing plants remaining MAYOR VETOES HOME SIGN ORDINANCE Declaring that no ordinance passed in recent years had occasioned so many protests, Mayor Bowron yesterday notified the City Council that he had vetoed a measure passed by the Council recently which would have permitted erection of signs in residence districts advertising "the sale of products or comnSodities" raised on the premises. Designed as a measure which would have allowed residents, and particularly those in the San Fernando Valley, to announce the sale of poultry products vegetables and other products, produced on the premises, the ordinance immediately drew a storm of protest from other sections of the city which believed that commercialization of home areas would ensue. in the studios, it was stated' by producers. Protest to A.F.L.

The peril of the paralysis has been made the subject of a hotly worded protest that five major A.F.L. studio unions not in the disputes Sent to the A.F.L. executive board. They demanded: "That this dispute be settled without further embarrassment to the local labor movement and continued disruption of our industry, our work and our community." open are using reduced crews. contest winner were her father Ralph and a cousin, Evelyn Buferd of San Francisco.

to Police Board born prematurely, suggested to her husband at their home, 601 N. New Hampshire that they'd better start for Physicians Surgeons Hospital, Glendale, to pick up her reservation for a Miss Buferd told the Mayor Mayor Bowron yesterday announced the appointment of that while she liked Atlantic City, Los Angeles was always going to be home to her. County Polio Cases Rise to 932 for Year conspiracy to force them to dispose of the hotel interest at a great loss. In furtherance of the scheme, the Guzzardis charge, Clark filed a suit against them in Las Vegas for the appointment of a receiver for the hotel properties, knowing that such action would immediately cause the mortgage to become due. This Las Vegas suit was filed last Nov.

5 and immediately thereafter, says the complaint filed here, Judge Marshall appointed a receiver. Judge Marshall is described in the action as a close friend of Clark and a frequent visitor at Clark's casino. Further Oiarges "Marshall was frequently in Henry Duque, lawyer and civic leader, as a member of the Po Miss Buferd left Los Angeles lice Commission, subject to confirmation by the City Council. WASHINGTON. Nobody in his right mind ever expects to get much real information out of a celebrity's press conference but it is always fascinating to see how they avoid the fast curves tossed at them.

So, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery drew a full house. CONTRAST The contrast between Gen. Eisenhower arid Marshal Montgo'mery is pretty complete. Eisenhower is genial, relaxed. Montgomery is smallish, nervous, tense.

Ike wore battle dress with two small ribbons half a row. Montgomery was in full uniform, big, baggy pockets bulging with stuff, field marshal's insignia on hi3 shoulders outlined in bright red staff markings. He had eight full rows of ribbons. Eisenhower introduced him with an obvious friendliness and relish, Montgomery responded with what for him must have been a well-prepared offhandedness'. Eisenhower's voice was deep.

Montgomery's was high and thin. PREPARED Montgomery was well prepared for the inquisition. He had a quotation from Abraham Lincoln to Gen. Fight- ing Joe Hooker in which the" president recommended no mixing of politics with the military profession. Montgomery said, he approved.

Thus fortified he could fend off questions beautifully. If they concerned, In the faintest, the political field Montgomery referred to the Lincolnian "advice. If they had to do with the military campaign in Europe Montgomery waved his hand airily to Eisenhower with the suggestion that the supreme Allied commander was the one to make reply. His defense was bulletproof. INFORMATION Actually, of.

course, Montgomery merely, used this as a device to dodge anything he didn't want to answer. He answered anything he felt like answering. He denied stories that he didn't want women at press conferences or other gatherings. "I'm quite fond of the ladies," he insisted. He denied being angry about the book written by a New York editor who seems to be running a personal vendetta against him.

"I read it," he said, "but of course if I want to really read the history of this war, I read Gen. Ike's dispatches." He turned to Eisenhower. "Very good, too, Gen. Ike," he said. MILITARY He didn't dodge important military questions but it was funny to see how he fenced for time to think up an answer.

"The effect of the atomic bomb? Ah that's a good one," he said. His answer was that the atom bomb obviously will have an effect but what effect? That remains to be seen, he thinks. He doesn't believe it means the end of land fighting. He thinks armor tanks, big guns, etc. will still be used.

The general who best combines the various weapons is the one who wins. He was quite interesting on this point. What part had the Russians played? "Terrific!" he said. IMPRESSION After the conference was over, a Britisher who once was on Monty's staff regaled some of us with the stories of Monty's Spartan ideas. He says all the stories about the manner in which Monty insisted on his officers partki-" pating in frequent seven-mile cross-country runs are quite true.

"Ah, he sighed. "Monty would have military police along the course so if you wanted to take a short cut, you couldn't. He stationed the chaplain at the finish line to tak not nf the manner and by plane last night, bound for New York City. County health authorities yes terday disclosed that 932 cases uuque will nil the vacancy created by the resignation of of paralysis have been reported bed in the maternity ward. En route, Sutherland decided it was advisable to detour by way of the Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital.

It was in the courtyard of that institution that Dr. Sterling Pollock delivered Junior, a chubby a weighing 8 pounds 6 ounces. Later, an ambulance conveyed the mother and baby to the original destination, where both were reported by Dr. A. W.

Al-lum to be doing splendidly. E. N. Martin and makes the fifth since the start of the year as against only 91 for a similar Junior High Gets New Principal First new principal to head the school's staff in 25 years, Howard Benedict, a member of.the city's teaching forces since 1928, will be on hand to greet students and parents wrhen classes open Monday in the Le Conte Junior High School, 1316 N. Bronson Ave.

Benedict succeeds M. W. Chandler, who retired at the end of period in 1945. Thirty-one persons have suc cumbed to polio in the county debted to Clark," the complaint says. "He frequented the casino and was forgiven all his gambling losses but paid his win since Jan.

1, as against only four for the same period last nings." year. Following the appointment of At noon yesterday 224 polio patients were under treatment the receiver, the Guzzardis assert they 'petitioned for dismissal of at County Hospital. There were jthe last school year with the the suit, but Judge Marshall de Printing Group Honors Angeleno Allerton H. Jeffries, president of the Jeffries Banknote Co. of Los Angeles, yesterday was elected president of the open shop section of the Printing Industry of America at its Atlantic City (N.J.) convention.

Jeffries served as president of the Printing Industries Association of Los Angeles in 1943-44-'4a. layed his ruling for three months until, finally, Clark himself 17 new admissions and 24 discharges for the 24-hour period ending at noon. Cases in the city have dropped from a daily average of nine 10 I I Fishermen Set to End Strike in Three Cases Part relief from the 10-day strike of 1200 fishermen on 110 record of having developed Le Conte into one of the" outstanding college preparatory institutions in Los Angeles. "My ambition is to keep as good a school as Mr. Chandler," said Benedict yesterday, who last year was principal at the Lafayette Junior High School.

days ago to five at the present, reported Dr. George M. yhl, city health officer. Specialist Held as Surplus Fraud Suspect Arthur M. Heim, 34, who describes himself as a purchasing counsellor and procurement specialist, was jailed yesterday by investigators of Dist.

Atty. Howser's. office on complaints charging "him with the theft of $24,565 in ah alleged scheme to sell surplus sheet metal. Dep. Dist, Atty.

Richard Chapman said Heim, who resides at 345 Harbor Hills Housing Project, Lomita, approached Milton Berger, N. Broadway sheet metal shop owner, and Melvin Johnson, steel salesman, with. a plan whereby he said he was able to obtain 189 tons of the scarce sheet steel from" Camp Ono in San Bernardino. Berger and Johnson contacted other sheet metal workers, Chapman said, and obtained the money which was placed in a pool to purchase the materials. Investigators Jess Klein and purse seiners came yesterday dropped the action.

The Guzzardis charge that this suit was "frivolous and fraudulent" and was made only to cause them" the financial loss: This loss resulted when they forced to sell their stock to Joseph W. Drown, one of the holders of the mortgage, for $5000, when in reality it was worth $1,500,000 prior to the filing of the receivership ac--tion. The Guzzardis brought their suit through the local law firm of Zagon, Aaron Sandler. Small Business Leader to Speak DeWitt Emery, founder and Henry Duque president of the National Small Business Men's Association, will address the organization's regional "meeting next Tuesday noon at the Ambassador. His subject is "What's Ahead for Small Business?" when A.F.L.

and C.I.O. fishermen's unions declared three canneries fair in having posted prices on tuna and mackerel. As a result 25 purse seiners are expected to put to sea tomorrow. Prices posted are O.P.A. prices on tuna.

$50 for California mackerel a'nd $45 a ton for Spanish mackerel. Companies whose officials yesterday admitted posting these prices as demanded by the unions, are California Sea Food California Curing Packing and South Coast Fisheries, Inc. Executives of a fourth com-pany fisted by the Unions as fair, said they have deferred posting prices pending further consultation with their attorneys. Fifteen other companies remain idle. Library to Get Flag new member to be appointed to the five-place Police Commission in recent weeks.

The new appointee, lives at 160 S. Van Ness -Ave. A graduate of the University of California Law School, he has practiced locally since 1931. Prominent in Red Cross work, he was chairman of the Red Cross Disaster Committee at the outbreak of World War II and in 1942 became director of traffic and evacuation for the Ninth Regional Office of Civilian Defense, with jurisdiction over eight Western States. Members of' the Californian Parlor, Native Daughters of the Golden West, will present the Los Angeles Public Library with jacK ujueii, nowever, said a Postmasters Will Meet Here in '47 Los -testing ground for the helicopter air mail service and the; "flying postoffice," also will be the scene of the 1947 convention of the National Association of Postmasters.

Word of selection of Los Angeles as the 1947 convention site was received yesterday from Michael D. Fanning, Los. Angeles postmaster and director of the national organization, from the convention headquarters at Miami. complete check showed Heim's a Bear Flag during a meeting of the Historical Society of Southern California next Mon story of the stock pile of sheet metal at Camp Ono was base less. day night.

Jasperites to Picnic Former residents of Jasper, will picnic in South Gate Park tomorrow. PARALYSIS BATTLE WON BY ACTOR DICKIE MOORE TIMES' RADIO PROGRAM WILL DOUBLE UP TODAY Caltech Needle Records Quake An earth quake of "moderately strong" Intensity was recorded by the seismograph at the California Institute of Technology at Pasadena yesterday at 11:09.12 a.m. Seismologist C. F. RIchter estimated the quake to be about 3000 miles distant from Pasadena, but was unable to immediately determine its direction.

Oliver Twist, grown up and a veteran, was free of the Fagin of paralysis yesterday. Dickie Moore, who brought Dickens urchin of London to life on the screen many years ago, stretched his legs at the Veterans Administration. General Hospital, Sawtelle, and talked confidently of the future, Discharged last March after two years in the Army, Dick (he's allergic to Dickie, now) served as a Stars and Stripes correspondent in the Pacific and writing has captured his fancy. "Barbara Stanwyck was up here to see me," he said. "She's swell.

We talked a lot and she was interested enough in my idea of writing to get me an assignment to do three magazine stories." Dick, who resides at 337 N. Mansfield Ave. with his parents, Mr, and Mrs. John R. Moore, contracted a virus disease affecting his nervous system two months after leaving the Army as a sergeant.

Doctors at the hospital figured he had picked it up in the, Marianas. The young actor's legs became useless. He reconciled himself to a wheel chair for life. But daily physical therapy treatments slowly brought back his nerves, his muscles and he walked again. "Yesterday was my birthday," smiled the kid with the wide-open brown eyes.

"Twenty-one. And the first legal paper I signed myself was authority for a sixth spinal tap! Ugh!" i position in which you finished. I often thought those crosscountry runs really typified Monty's view of life the runners typifying suffering humanity; the military police typifying the majesty of the law, and the chaplain checking up pn "MADISON 2345," The Times information program, goes on dduble duty today and will be heard at 5:30 p.m. over KFI. Currently heard on Tues- days at 8:00 p.m..

over the same station, "MADISON 2345." now comes to Southland radio audiences twice weekly. Producer James McCleery said the new program will follow the same style as the present Tuesday night broadcast. Because of the- late Saturday afternoon broadcast time and interest in the. com ing football season the new "MADISON 2345" program should tend to be somewhat of a sports information program. To have questions of fact answered on The Times-sponsored program, listeners need only step to their telephone during the program, dial "MADISON 2345" and give their question to a corps of operator-typists on duty.

Questions are relayed to a board of editorial experts, answered and then routed to Russ Stuart and Jack Latham for broadcast. Wife in Slaying Goes to Prison Convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to a term of five years to life in prison, Mrs. Elvira Rojo, 30, left the County Jail yesterday en route to Tehachapi Women's Prison, performance warranted well for your future!" Htai BUI Hnry Monday through Friday, KNX, 4:55 p.m. Times photo UP AND AROUND AGAIN Dickie Moore, the former child star, at Sawtelle, free of paralysis which struck him while in the service and which put him in a wheel chair;.