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IN TWO PARTS THE WEATHER TIi UnlUd States Wvcrthar Burau forecast for Loa AngUs and vicinity iud last alghtt Fair today and tomoirowt omawhat warmer. Hlght ttmpratur ytrday 63. lowt 41. PART II LOCAL NEWS TIMES OFFICE 202 Weit First Street Lot Angelei 53, Cal. VOL LXHI CC SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 29, 1 944 CITY NEWS EDITORIAL SOCIETY Services; List 30 Casualties Four Southland Sailors Named on Roll of Wounded Twenty-six Southland sol State Aide Cites Peace Job Aims 7 ft Private Production for Consumer Demand Is Answer, Says Cot.

Heron "We are committed to the belief that the products of private business, based on consumer demand, will form the best kind of postwar unemployment relief." Such was a part of the keynote speech yesterday of CoL Alexander R. Heron, director of the State Reconstruction and Re-employment Commission, as he presided at a post war conference attended by more than 200 persons at the City Hall. Council Skips Racing Vote Gilmore, Turf Club Head, Answers Rap by Manpower Aide Members of the City Council, split over the question of allowing winter racing at Hollywood Park, yesterday declined to vote on a resolution asking the California Horse Racing Board to rescind its permit to track. Amid widespread controversy over the advisability of allowing the track to reopen, Earl B. Gil-more, president of the Hollywood Turf Club, which operates the course, issued a statement upholding the advantages to the community of a 55-day winter racing season.

Proposal Condemned The statement came on the heels of an announcement from the War Manpower Commission condemning the proposal as detrimental to Southern California's war effort. In the City Council opponents of the proposal to bring racing back argued that gasoline would be "wasted" by persons driving to Inglewood, where the course j. Timw photo COMBAT TREND At meeting approving campaign to fight spread of Communism in film industry last night were: left to right, Som Wood, president of Hollywood Motion Picture Alliance, Capt. Clark Gable and Barbara Stanwyck, Film Alliance Approves Fight on Communism diers yesterday were re ported missing in action and four sailors from this area were listed as wounded, in an nouncements by the War and Navy departments. MISSING 2nd Lt.

Norbert A. Randara, Santa 2nd Lt. Roger D. Bnhla, Pasa dena. Staff-Sjrt.

Armand C. Burt, 2980 Ramona Blvd. 1st Lt. George W. Carvour, Burbank.

2nd Lt. John H. Cassidy, 3109 Livonia Ave. Sgt. Robert E.

Conliffe, 1629 S. Mansfield Ave. Sgt. Luther E. Lefever, Colton.

1st Lt Perlemon B. McAllister, 278 S. California Ventura. 2nd Lt. Leo B.

McGrath, Ox nard. 2nd Lt. Jrsse L. McMainn, 7675 Whitsett Ave. 'apt.

Paul S. Miller, 515 Lorraine Ave. Sgt. Fred C. Saaeedo, El Monte.

2nd Lt. Bernard J. Smolens, Glendale. 2nd Lt. Thomas Soso, Temple City.

Cpl. Joe C. Watson, Bakers- field. Sta ff-Sfft. Edgar J.

Weislogel, 175714 N. Vermont Ave. 2nd It. James J. Hannon, Pasadena.

Pfc. Jessie C. Hernandez, Vic- torville. Pvt. Walter Logan, Glendale.

Pfc. Ventura G. Macias, River side. 2nd Lt William G. Tarsons, Oxnard.

Pfc. Lloyd E.Feele, Torrance. Sgt Frank IL Perrin Jr, Ar- tesia.fjfcff's.'YT Technician 5th Grade Frank Romero, 11172 Massachusetts West Los Angeles. Sgt Adolphns J. Von Dette, 2026 Claudina St.

Pfc Wilbur E. Wiederholt Ventura. WOUNDED Fireman 1st Clasa Gerald K. 2209 W. Ave.

Shipfitter 2nd Class Isaac Cordova, Pasadena. Pharmacist's Mate 3rd Class Salvador A. Espejo, Indio. Chief Pharmacist's Mate Man-rice W. Smith, 5617 S.

Springhill Place. Yes, He Has No Bananas (or $1000) Don't start singing that old ditty, "Yes, We Have No Bananas," around W. B. Coppedge. It's a particularly painful sub ject for him at the moment He not only has no bananas, it develops, but also he doesn't have the $1000 he invested in an alleged bunko scheme in which he was to be shipped five carloads of the fruit from Mexico.

Coppedge, of 1151 E. Elmwood Burbank, told his tale to Det. Sgt. L. B.

Ruppers who said other Angelenos may have been victimized by William Maseek, who talked Coppedge into the deal. Maseek was last believed to be in Chihuahua, Mex. Authorities said they will try to extradite Maseek. Stricken Mother Seeks Word of Missing Son Charles Motley, 16, discharged Coast Guard seaman and recently employed at the Los Angeles Shipbuilding Drydock or anyone knowing where he is, is asked to contact Mrs. Russel 3erf at 1626 N.

Serrano as his mother is ill in Forest-burg, S.D. and wants to see him. An active campaign against the" infiltration Communist groups in the motion-picture in dustry was approved last night at a meeting of members of the Hollywood Motion Ticture Alliance held at the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. More than ,200 leaders of the industry, including producers, jsentatives, attended the meeting at which bam ood, producer, president of the alliance, presided. Howard Emmett Rogers, screen writer, traced the Communist movement in the United States during the last 16 years and quoted from the writings of several former members of the Communist party.

"The bulk of the said, "from the top executive down to the laborers, stand loyal to the American concept of life. However, in the last several years there has been a strong infiltration of Communists in the motion-picture industry." James McGuinness, producer and executive of the with BILL HENRY WASHINGTON. Yep we got spring here. The tree-lined itreets are very green. Flowers ere blooming everywhere.

We have had a couple of very eticky days already. Anxious citizens are looking over their seersucker suits. Others are looking at timetables! SPRING A couple of Navy guys were seen strolling down Pennsylvania Ave. in their tans the other day. The steamship line which used to run an open-faced sightseeing boat down the Potomac to Mt Vernon has made application for fuel.

It has hopes of starting up again this summer. If so, an amuse-tnent park also down river Which was closed last summer for the first time in 75 years, is threatening to open again. They're lining up the Water Gate outdoor concert schedule. HEAT With the approach of Bummer the mad dog problem is coming up again. Poundmaster Frank Marks testified the other day that Washington has more dogs per capita than any other city of its size in the nation.

It certainly has more mad dogs than any similar city. Since the first of the year 40 persons in this district, 56 in near-by Montgomery County and 92 in Fairfax County have been bitten by rabid animals, which include dogs, cats, cows, rabbits, sheep and pigs. I tell you, we live a dangerous life back here. PROSPECTS Veteran Washington correspondents are looking forward to the summer with the usual dread. This time there will be some variety, because the political conventions, but most of the correspondents regard deah fcy trampling on the trains or at the conventions as only slightly preferable to dying of the heat here in the capital.

There is some talk that F.D.R. might go traveling this summer fcnt, even if that should be the case, he would not take the correspondents along. It looks like the usual soggy summer. INTEREST If you are among those sitting on the edge of your chair waiting for first news of. the invasion, you.

are in the minority if the statistical experts are to be believed. These sharp-pencil individuals, who get their dope by telephoning to your home and asking if you are listening to the radio, say that the usual spring slump in listening is taking place now, Invasion talk or no invasion talk. They say people probably are keenly interested in the invasion but they certainly aren't Bitting up nights with their radios on awaiting the first flash. SOCIETY Just why this ateaming season of the year should be chosen.for a new outburst of debate over Washington social life, I don't know. Arguments rage, at the moment, over two different types of parties.

The politicians are denouncing lavish displays recently staged by such friends of the proletariat as the Soviet Embassy and Marshall Field, who are believed to hold the recent wartime record for wholesale dispensing of free liquor and eats. But there is another type under scrutiny. WELFARE It seems that the government bureaus, which have just about reached the saturation point In female help, are involved in a new form of 8ocial life which brings loud and plaintive cries from wives of the executives. It appears that the government girls, suffering from a lack of excitement, attend parties one after another which are also, and invariably, attended by the male executives the only males available. There is no debate on this point It does happen.

The argument involves the origin of same. RESPOXSIBILITY The husbands, who return home at a late hour in a state of semicol-lapse, tell their wives that the parties are organized by the government girls in their office an'd that they have to attend or the girls will quit or transfer to another department. The girls say the parties are arranged by executives with wolfish tendencies and they only attend in order to hold their jobs. Ah what one must endure when one works for one's country! Har Bill Hanry, Monday through Friday, XNX. 5:55 p.m.

"We consider the best long-range planning is to look ahead for a sustained economy," declared Heron. "It must be based on needed work, which will pro vide a high standard of living. We are not concentrating primarily on a program of public construction to cure all of our postwar ills." A development of the conference was a. request on the part of several of those present that a local office of the State Reconstruction and Re-employment Commission be established to act as a clearinghouse for postwar information. Col.

Heron took the request under advisement The conference was called by Mayor Bowron to correlate postwar planning efforts throughout this area. Urges Co-ordination A $35,489,000 postwar program approved by the Los Angeles Regional Planning Commission and now being reviewed by the County Manager before formal consideration by the Board of Supervisors embraces such items as $13,970,000 for freeways, for public buildings, for bridges and $2,168,000 for highways, John Anson: Ford, chairman of the Board of Supervisors, told the evening session, at which he presided jointly with Col. Herron and Mayor Bowron. Col. Herron said he hoped that public and private construction programs could be co-ordinated.

He warned that uhless. they were the combined a i might create chaos in the construction field. Charles W. Eliot, director of the Haynes Foundation, urged planners to consider how financing of postwar public construction could he handled locallv through tax collections and bond ing power, rather than through calls for State or Federal aid. Other Speaker Other speakers included Tres-ton Hotchkis, president of the State Chamber of Commerce; Al-den G.

Roach, president of the Consolidated Steel. who talked on shipbuilding problems; M. Bradford Trenham, California Taxpayers' Association; Neil Petree, president of Barker Bros, and member of the Citizens Advisory Committee on Public Works; W. J. Bassett, secretary of the Central Labor Council; Leroy D.

Owen, business executive and member of the committee for economic development; Ray W. Smith, secretary of Downtown Business Men's Association; Philip Connelly, representing the C.I.O.; E. S. McKittrick. president of the Southern California Chamber of the Associated General Contractors; Robert E.

Gross, president of Lockheed Aircraft A. L. Weil, director of the California Oil Gas Associa tion; N. R. Crawford, Dow Chem ical F.

M. Head, Goodrich Rubber Standish Mitchell, Automobile Club of Southern California. Fetes Close School Week Public schools and civic groups of Los Angeles last night com pleted their observance of the 2oth annual Public Schools Week with open house pro grams, speeches, exhibits ana concerts. The Scottish Rite Cathedral Chorus gave a concert of specially selected songs at the Rose- land Chapter, Southland Ma sonic Temple, in honor of public school students who are study ing today for victory and peace tomorrow. School programs ranged from a nower show at John Burroughs Junior High School to glee club and orchestra con-certs at Le Conte Junior High School and a "Back to School" theme at South Gate High School, winner of the recent all-city paper drive.

McGroarty to Speak An all-day picnic reunion of the Pennsylvania Slate Society will be held today at Sycamore Grove, lt was announced yester day by Martin Geibel, president. John Steven McGroarty, Times writer, will be one of the Husky Male Polls Goodly Vote Timet phot VISITOR Mrs. Lawrence H. Smith, national president, American Legion Auxiliary, here on tour of country. Legion Auxiliary Head Sees Better Veteran Care Servicemen in World War II will reap the benefits of the mis takes made in dealing with vet erans of the first World War, giv ing the new fighting soldiers, sailors and marines the advantages of years of dealing with veterans' problems.

This was the prediction yesterday of s. Lawrence H. Smith, National President of the American Legion Auxiliary and wife of the Racine U.S. Representative, in an interview at the Biltmore. "There won't be any apple peddlers among the veterans of World War II," she said.

Passage of bills now pending in Congress, insuring returning servicemen a haven after victory, will protect all veterans in a manner unforeseen in 1918, she declared. i Mrs. Smith is on a nation-wide tour to analyze public sentiment described as "nothing is too good for our fighting men. Two Suffer Burns in Chemical Blast" Two workers in the Shell chemical plant at Torrance were hospitalized yesterday after an explosion of unknown origin in the experimental laboratory. Suf fering minor burns, according to Plant Superintendent E.

F. Bo-dine, were Mrs. Lillian Greer, 25, of Torrance, and Robert Walker, 26, chemical engineer, of Her-mosa Beach. They were taken to Good Samaritan Hospital. HERE'S FRIDAY'S BEST FISH STORY: HUSBAND UNHOOKED It could only have hap-' pened on Friday! With his mother, Mrs.

Yanka Fish, as his corroborating witness, Fred F. Fish divorced his wife, Mrs. Ella Fish, now of New York, yesterday in the court of Superior judge Goodwin J. Knight Court Clerk AV. R.

Fisher administered the oath to Fish and his mother. Atty. Sidney Fischgrund reported that the New York firm of Fishbach Fishbach had sent a waiver to Mrs. Fish's -right to contest. Fish told of coming home and finding an empty apartment.

"She was gone and so was the furniture. It was months before I could locate her or the furniture," he declared. "Holy said the judge. "I guess that's no fish story. Decree granted.

I don't see why we couldn't have arranged for Judge John A. H. Sturgeon of Mon-' rovia to be here this monv ing." is located. But Councilman Lloyd Davies pointed by comparison to the at tendance at Gardena's poker par lors. Supposed "ill effects" of hundreds of night clubs and bars on absenteeism among war workers was brought up by Councilman Charles A.

Allen. "Twenty thousand persons drove to a baseball game in the city last week," said Councilman Earl Gay. "Is it any worse to drive to a horse race?" Recks Hearing Councilman win Austin, who originated the antii-acing agitation in the Council last Thursday, suggested that public hearings be held on the matter, When all of the Councilmanic views had been aired, it was decided not to vote on the resolu tion seeking to cancel the track's permit, but to refer the question to the Council's State, County and Federal Affairs Committee for further investigation. Meanwhile Robert Young, act ing deputydirector of the War Manpower Commission, praised Councilmanic opposition to re opening of the track and announced that as a matter of policy the W.M.C. will fight the recurrence of racing during wartime.

"A careful survey of our labor market situation," said Young, "has disclosed that we have a sizable shortage of workers, that gigantic military construc tion projects are being started, that, in short, our labor situation is critical. Fears New Problems "Operation of the track would bring us new problems of absenteeism, transportation and housing. We must not add to these already serious problems. Opening of this track will be an obstacle to full-scale production." Gilmore defended opening of the season by pointing out that plans were undertaken with consent of the Army. "A great deal of thought has Turn to Page 3, Column 3 Tima photo oppears at left, entered the Philharmonic Will Retain Wallerisfein Alfred Wallenstein, musical dU rector and conductor of the Los Angeles Thilharmonic Orches tra, will remain at that post for the next two years, it was announced yesterday by Harvey S.

Mudd, president of the South- em uaiuornia faympnony Assoy ciation. At the association's annual meeting Mudd was unarumously( re-elected president for the 10th; consecutive year and Mrs. Lei- land Atherton Irish "was simi-i larly re-elected for her 10th season as executive vice-president and secretary. John S. Edwards was reappointed associate manager.

New Members Newly elected members of the executive committee are Dr. Charles Strub and Robert J. Bernard, while George Harger, Mrs. Edward C. Harwood, Fred erick B.

Kellam, Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid and Walter Wan-ger were added to the board of trustees. The other members of that board are: Dr. Samuel M.

Alter, Edward Arnold, Leigh McMaster Battson, Harry J. Bauer, Robert Bernard. Remsen D. Bird, Mrs.iFred H. Bixby, Mayor Mrs.

Ernest A. Bryant, Curtis Wol- sey Cate, Harry Chandlen, Mrs. Norman Chandler, Mrs. Burdett H. Chapman, George Cukor, Louis Woodson Curtis, David R.

Faries, Mrs. Cecil Frankel, Mrs. Richard Fudger, Don E.Gilman, Mrs. Robert D. Harnelt, Mrs.

Joseph Hixson, Mrs. -William F. Howard, Mrs. Ada T. Huntzing-er, Mrs.

Leiland Athertotn Irish, Atwater Kent, Mrs. Ida Kover-man, Mrs. Oscar LawSpr, Mrs. Sol Lesser, Mrs. Joseph fL.

Levy, Ralph B. Lloyd, Mrs. Joseph P. Loeb. Mrs.

Paxtoa Lytle, George R. Martin, Dn. Willsie Martin. Mrs. Stanley McCorm- i icjc, Mrs.

Franklin Mcintosh, Malcolm McNaghten, Ben R. Meyer, Mrs. Robert A'. Millikan, Dr. Lloyd Mills, Harvey- S.

Mudd, Mrs. Elwood Munger, Mrs. Roy E. Naftzaer, Gurney E. Newlin, Mrs.

John Crombie Niven, Mrs. Morgan Padelford, James R. Page, NeiUPetree, Miss Mary Pike, Mrs. L.ucy Quirk, Mrs. Edward G.

Robinson, w. s. Rosecrans, A. B. Ruddock, E.

F. Turn to Page 3, Column 3 ceremonies. Mrs. Scanlon's ma-tron of honor was Mrs. Richard Hughes of Huntington Park, wife of an Air Forces lieutenant recently decorated overseas.

J. H. Wadsworth, Calship chief of public relations, was master of The Lincoln Victory was named for the, capital of the State of Nebraska. It was launched 61 dajys after the keel was laid, as the) 13th Victory ship in a program fof more than 80, told of several attacks made on the organization. by various groups in Hollywood during the last few months.

"The alliance has been the victim of a smear campaign and has been accused of being anti-Semitic," McGuinness said. He explained that the principle of the alliance was to uphold the American way of life on the screen rands among the employees of the industry, McGuinness denied that'the organization was anti-Semitic and pointed out that the most active opponents of Communism in the United States were members of the Jewish race. Capt. Clark Gable, who recently returned from overseas duty, spoke briefly and said that he was happy upon returning home to hear that an active campaign had been started against Communist groups in the motion-picture industry. Other speakers Included Lela Rogers, producer and mother of Screen Star Ginger Rogers; Benjamin Martinez, head of the Studio, Plasterers' Union, and Capt John Lee Mahin, former writer and now in the Army.

Beauty Contest nounced last Monday, Nixon needled Lynn Cohne, editor of Wampus, the campus humor magazine, into backing him as an entry in the beauty battle. In the fragrant studio of a Hollywood make-up artist Carl donned blond cutis, powder, lipstick, a pearl necklace and a wistful, clinging-vine look. His picture, thus transformed, was submitted to the editors of The "Trojan and printed with 19 other better-qualified contestants. Nixon, whose usual manly face in S.C. Campus Tommy Trojan whirled on his' pedestal yesterday while the University of Southern California campus discussed the case of Sylvia Jones.

Sylvia (nee Carl Nixon, 20, husky and male) copped a goodly portion of the 1000 votes cast by students to pick six of 20 contestants as "campus queens" in a contest sponsored by El Rodeo, S.C.'s yearbook. WThen the contest was an TRANSFORMATION Carl I I Victory Ship Launched Here Honors Capital of Nebraska Another fast new Victory ship, the S. Lincoln Victory, slid down the ways at Calship yards early "yesterday, the 349th wartime vessel produced by the big Terminal Island yard. The ship was christened by Mrs. Jerry Scanlon, wife of the dean of San Francisco ship news men, now regional public rela tions officer on the Pacific Coast for the U.S.

Maritime Commis sion. Scanlon, too, attended the transformed photo of himself tat right in S.C. campus beauty contest as mysterious Sylvia Jones and gained a large percentage of the student vote..

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