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Part I TUESDAY, JAN. 30, 1 945 LOS 3ngClCS CllttCS Supreme Court Gives Review to Howser Says W.R.A. Balked 11 '1 4 ii i 1 Jap Land Suit Harry Bridges 'I i I Art -r If- 9 PLEADS INNOCENT Francis Van Wie. -center. Dleaded innocent to two bigamy com.

plaints in San Francisco yesterday in presence of women who said they were wives No. 1 1 ond 12. Left to right. Judge Leo Cunningham, Van Wie, Mary Josephine Van Wie and Evelyn Brown Van Wie. mn 'DING DONG DADDY' FREE ON BAIL IN BIGAMY CASE RA PR AVriSPO -Ian.

"2f) lfrr the first time this mominff )chubhv, 5a.vearld Fran-'and! f-uf cm an Vie, who admittedly married ii. witmrn in ms jj, "fireflm girl, told Judge Charges that a War Relocation Authority attorney in Arizona "coached" a Japanese witness into refusing to answer questions at a deposition hearing into an alien land-law suit were made yesterday by Dist. Atty. Howser, who said the attitude of W.R.A. officials openly hindered efforts of his office to return millions of dollars of illegally held land to returning war veterans.

The alleged coaching, Howser declared, occurred last Friday when Dep. Dist. Attys. Adolph Alexander and H. Leslie Wilriey sought to take a statement from Hideo Suyenaga, former Los Angeles resident, who assertedly allowed an alien, Yukkhi Yama-guehi, to use his name in purchasing a $40,000 county agricultural tract and received as payment "a red necktie and Would Return Tract Howser is seeking to return the four and one-half acre tract, located near the intersection of 212nd St.

and Hawthorne Blvd. in the Walteria district, to the State through an escheatment petition. It is his charge that Suyenaga was merely a "dummy" for the actual owner, Ya- maguchi. who, under the 1020: alien land law, is ineligible i own such property. vur investigators went to me; internment camp at Poston in August with Army per-, mission to question Suyenaga hut discovered upon their arrival that Suyenaga was absent from the camp on a Howser declared yesterday.

Coached In Silence "At the end of the 30 days we tried again but discovered Suvenaga's 'leave' had been ex- at questions and his men haled him into the courtroom of Su perior Judge Henry C. Kelly. After hours of questioning in lAtter -which was insi Kelly 30 days "We'r Howser said Suyenaga solent and defiant," Judge ordered him to jail for for contempt of court. 're going back to Yuma before the 30 days is tip," How ser said, "and try and get the statement from Suyenaga." Mattoon Explains Dep. Atty.

Mattoon, in alien land the State learned the War Relocation Authority naa ap- peaieo 10 Auy. uen. ivenny ssev- GUARDED Bobe, lion cub. given haven by Bertram E. Morse, humane officer.

i Owner Jailed for Beating Lion Twisting a lion cub's tail and beating it with a chain to make it perform for a group of curi for "contentment," roamed his old hunting grounds tonight after being freed on $1000 bail at his arraignment on triple; bigamr charges. of the city's ladies, however, had cause to worry, or anticipate, with the marrying P) Wirephoto ATTENDS SERVICE Vice-President Truman steps down "from 'Army plane at Kansas City a few minutes before he attended funeral there for Thomas J. Pendergast. streetcar conductor at large for the arraignment. because he promised Municipal "My streetcar was too slow," Judge Leo Cunningham he'she explained.

"When Francis WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. U.R) The Supreme Court today agreed to review a petition brought by Hrry Bridges, West Coast C.I.O. labor leader accused of Communist affiliation, -to escape deportation to his native Australia as an undesirable alien. Attorney General Biddle or dered Bridges deported in May, 1942, on a finding that he was a member of the Communist party and that the party believed in overthrowing the United States government by force and violence.

Bridges denied membership. Bridges Case History Bridges, president of the Longshoremen's Union, appealed to the -high 'court after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied his-petitibn for a writ of habeas corpus. The Supreme Court denied a motion of the Communist Political Association" (formerly the Communist party) to intervene. The association wished to present evidence objecting to Bid-die's finding that the party subscribed to overthrowing the government. Bridges charged that the conclusion to deport him was reached through "flagrant abuses of due process of law" based on testimony of witnesses who were "the dregs of the water front.

The law on which the deporta tion order was based applies only to immigrants and not to citizens. A U.S. citizen can belong to the Communist party legally. Bridges filed an appli cation for citizenship several years ago but allowed it to lapse. He since has filed another.

Attv. Gen. Robert W. Kenny of California recently asked the government to cancel the deportation order on grounds that Bridges has shown his loyalty bv helping to keep labor on the job during the war. Two Witness' Rule Upheld The court upheld the so-called "two witness'' rule governing perjury, cases in a unanimous decision reversing the conviction of Lee F.

Weiler, Brewerytowrt (N.J.) garageman. Weiler contended he had been convicted of perjury on the uncorroborated testimony of only one witness during the trial in which he was acquitted of charges of violating O.P.A. regulations. In other cases the court: Refused to reconsider its Jan. 8 decision that a Texas law requiring paid labor organizers 1o register with the State is unconstitutional, Ruled unanimously that the National Labor Relations Board may direct its orders not only against employers but against their successors and assigns.

Ruled that the $5000 Federal gift tax exemption does not apply to gifts made to trusts set up for minor children. Ruled 8-1 that the Interstate Commerce Commission has au- permit use of their freight cars by a water carrier which makes voyages in foreign waters. Cargo Plane Spans Ocean on Schedule NEW YORK. Jan. 29.

(U.R) Col. Eugene F. Gillespie, A.T.C. com manding officer of the LaGuardia Field station, announced today that a "nnnrrlae C1." 1 nnnr'if or! nn. BERNARD BARUCH would curb his penchant for fast courtships and whirlwind honeymoons in order to appear Saturday for trial.

Financier Aid Him Meantime, two of the community's outstanding attorneys. ous nystanoers yesteraay len for 30 mor riavs We a 10-day jail sentence for John! finally caught up with him Jan. W. Yeager, 4Ryear-old railroad 13 at the camp. When Alexan- fireman of Pacoiroa.

to luestion him, Scott Rowley, camp attor- 1 eager pjeaded guilty to the npy advsed SuvenaKa lwt t0 cruelty charge before Municipal tailt anfi insisted that he have Judge Louis W. Kaufman. The an interpreter even though 8-month-old African lion speaks perfect Eng-taken to the Anne Street Animal, ijsn." Following this, Howser It was midnight, long past Suyenaga just laughed backed by a Van Wie defense jit his accumulation of wives, but syndicate which includes mil-j he never intended to harm any-lionaire financier Loui3 Lurie.j one," the judge said. aMU1 mm 4, I 'ivS i i prepared arguments to back his plea of not guilty of the charges filed by Myrtle, Mary Josephine and Evelyn wives No. 9, 11 and 12.

respectively Lurie asserted that he and his associates "by no manner or means "are condoning bigamy." "I guess we got into this thing at first purely from a sense of humor," the financier said Attj1. Jake Ehrlich, hired by the Lurie group, said he believed they had come to Van Wie's defense "because they probably believe that any man brave enough to marry 12 women should have some help." Fearless Francis lost his poise turn At the office "jVGen. Everett W. charge of prosecuti A law violations, ii A Building, it was lea At the office of ecuting in if GLORIA SWANSON BRIDE OF HER FIFTH HUSBAND shed a few tears when Mary Jaiphine and Evelyn, the lat- whom hp crh? cuimingham that he had always been kind and gentle. Asked if they objected to his release on bail, they replied: Us all right with us, judge.

If you can trust him, we can, too." Myrtle, who filed the third higamv charge, arrived too late was on those cars they were on time." Even Judge Cunningham felt called upon to say kind words about the defendant. Pidn't Intend Harm rVTa M3.f hat. Viofm norniic While James Toner, chief de fense lawyer, talked the situation over with his gum-chewing client. Ehrlich told reporters that Van Wie was "just ah unfortunate old man who was looking for something he could never find." Van Wie, sitting for a while in the prisoner's dock where his dejected attitude aroused the sympathy of Mary Josephine and Evelyn, said his conductor-ing had been done for the Market Street Railway Co. and that it was thus incorrect to term him the "Ding Dong Daddy of the Line" because the Market lines go by numbers, not.

letters. linked with the much-married Peggy Hopkins Joyce, worked -hard to make Gloria change her mind;" -Gloria's a 1 i husbands, chronologically: Wallace Beery, Herbert Somborn and the Marquis de la Falaise. New Swanson Mate Former Broker Here William M. Davey, who was married yesterday in New York to Gloria Swanson, star of the silent screen, was formerly, an investment broker here. He resided here several years ago and at one time was married to Alyce Mills Davey, screen actress.

They were divorced in February'. 1937. Bill Wants Unpaid 142 Levy Canceled Jan. 29. (JP), Af bill to forgive the remaining unpaid portion of taxes on 1942 income was introduced in the Seriate today by Sen, Revercomb (R.) But from Knutson (R.) came the guess that the House wouldn't take favorable action.

"We desperately heed money," said Knutson, ranking Republican Member, of the House Ways and Means which doos the spadework on the tax "and this Congress hardly would be justified in overruling the previous Congress." eral months ago to continue or postpone alien land law violation prosecutions. "The Attorney General out," Mattoon said, "that such actions are not primarily i i 1 v. Wtrphot Grew Defends Paper Exports WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. U.R) Acting Secretary of Stat Joseph C.

Grew today defended the government's allocation of 5000 tons of newsprint to Franc on the ground that the paper is necessary to maintain a meang of public communication within that country. The total represents a threa months' supply for France, said, with the 1667-tons-a-montb, rate representing only six-tenths of 1 per cent of the 269,000 tons of newsprint available to Amer ican newspapers each month. Grew, said war conditions made it impossible to ship newsprint rom Scandinavia and would remain so until Swedish safe-conduct traffic is resumed. France therefore could not obtain the paper from any' other source. Grew said.

Earlier, Reps. Lyle H. Boren (D) and Clarence J. Brown (R,) asked the State Department to ask Russia why France must import newsprint from the States when "the world's greatest glut: of pulp" is in Russia, Finland and Sweden. Letter -Rocks Labor Peers Chloto Tribune Pres Servire LONDON, Jan.

29. Britain'! Labor peers were shaken today by the publication of a letter from former Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, in which he revealed he had a very low opin-ion of Laborites who tumble over each other in their eagerness to collect titles and honors from the crown. MacDonald's views were contained in a letter dted May 27, 1931, to John secretary of the Boilermakers and Iron and Steel Shipbuilders Society. Hill, who died recently at the age of 82, had rejected MacDonald's offer to recommend him for the title of Commander of the British Empire. The letter, marked "very private confidential," appeared in Ihe Glasgow Socialist newspaper Forward.

It stated: "I'm sure you won't misunderstand when. I say your refusal of the honor, does my heart good. I wish to heaven that was the splr-it of all our people." The House of Lords 'lists 72 peers designated as Laborites. Copyright. IMS.

th Chli Tribur A.F.L Named Bargain Agent for Concern Here By a Times Staff Correspondent 29.Th National Labor Relations Board today certified the A.F.L. International Association of Machinists as collective bargaining agent for, all production and maintenance employees of tha Interstate Aircraft Engineering Los Angeles. Th agency said an election, held with the company's consent showed 281 of the 408 votes were for the A.F.L. unit and 127 for the C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers. pended by the union, an action that automatically barred him from participating in radio broadcasts.

Contending that the union had no right to force him to contribute to a political campaign, De Mille carried his fight to court. Last week Superior Judge Emmet Wilson upheld the union's right to levy the assessment and to suspend union members who refused to pay it. Studio officials said- last night that Barrymore will continue to replace De Mille "until permanent arrangements are made." Trumait Pays Final Tribute to Pendergast KANSAS CITY (Mo.) Jan. 29. Harry S.

Truman, Vice-f President of the' United States, jpRew to Kansas' City today in an Army; plane to attend the Requiem High, Mass for Thomas J. jendergastj: the man who gave jhim-h-is political start, and heard described as a man Stf noble heart. Truman, who went to the U.S. 11 years ago the blessings of Pendergast, arrived Just In time to join 2000 other tensons at the service. Heraced behind a police es Bcortto' the Visitation Church as itie.

pallbearers prepared to lift -the- bronze- casket from the hearsel Truman left the church a mo-- merit before the end of -the service i for 'a-brief visit, with his flying to Philadel-v phia- this, afternoon. fc "I-think it was a fine service," he the tnonsignor said: was true. was my friend and I was tfsgr: McDonald In flhe -funeral sermon pictured Pen- (fer east; who once bossed a po- empire extending through out Missouri, as a man of noble i-liearti IBoliyid Consul iGenerdl Here 'I On his first visit to the United States and on his first assign S-inent in hi country's Consular Service, 'Marfo Araoz, newiy ap-pointed' Consul General on the ipaeific 'Coast' for arrived gift-Eos; -Angeles last night via fan-American Airways. -gw'iXfy duty will pe han-dling affairs of Bolivian students your -West Araos: said, padding with a smile, ''of which am the newest." This was said Cbecause he does not speak. English "so good" and the fact that Sbe has; never been here before.

Formerly a businessman in Bolivia, Araoz' will make his j-lieadquarters in San Francisco. He was met at the Lockheed Air SiTerminat 'by Walter Monte-Smegro, Bolivian Consul in' Los JURY FINDS state oi war ueiwwn me uimcu States and Japan, but are merely the duty of law enforcement officers under the land law passed in 1913 and amended by later Legislatures." Mattoon said prosecutions der contract by American Air.didn-t wan.1 10 Pla-V and resented 1 4 vn inline 4 yi tips had maHo tho firot nnn.i'is Jiid.Mfi umunns vnc t.v ston remilarlv scheduled rarpoint of nipping his hand BROTHER NAMED AS AMBASSADOR AVASHINGTOX. Jan. 29. Herman B.

Baruch, brother of Bernard M. Baruch, today was nominated to be Ambassador to Portugal, succeeding Ambassador R. Henry Norweb, just transferred to Panama. Other diplomatic appointments forwarded by the White House to the Senate: Wallace S. Murray, Director of the Office of Near Eastern and African Affairs, to he Ambassador to Iran.

Eli E. Palmer, in the foreign service at the Australian Embassy, to be Minister to Afghanistan. Cliurches Advised on Peace Politics LONDON', Jan. 29. (JP)RL Rev.

Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop Designate of Canterbury, said today "it won't do" for the church to sit at the peace In an interview with the Unit ed-States Army newspaper, Stars and Stripes," Dr. Fisher said: "What church would you have? All the spiritual leaders of the world? Then you would have two peace, conferences, one for statesmen and one for churchmen. No, making the peace is a political job, a job for statesmen. Inevitably it will involve compromise and conniving at compromise in a sinful world." Refrigerators Output Widened" WASHINGTON', Jan. 29.

(JP) Four additional manufacturers have been authorized to make domestic ice refrigerators in the first quarter of 1945. The new W.P.B. authorizations announced today include: Craftbilt Cabinets, Burbank, 2000, and Modern Refrigerator Works, Glendale, 1500. In addition, the agency revised upward the first quarter quotas of 10' other companies from an aggregate of. 22,174 units to This brings to 75,000 the number of ice refrigerators authorized for the first quarter to meet military: and essential civilian requirements.

JOE JEFFERS Jeffers declared he would ap- iPeal the Verdict and he and King were placed under $1000 bond, The jury deliberated for 6 hours and 55 minutes before re turning the verdict which Jef fers said earlier would mean he was "called'' to go to jail. What ever the jury decided he. said would be the "decision of of the Kingdom Temple sect he heads. "Say we are crazy," Jeffers shouted in his closing argument, "but'don't say we stole a car. Joe Jeffers is not on trial.

It is the government of the United States, that is on trial." "Amen." declared his blond wife, whom he married in December and who accompanied the party on their pilgrimage to Miami last year to "found a new Jerusalem." John W. Yeager bedtime for little lions, when, ar resting officers J. L. Cosper and J. F.

McGrath said, they observed Yeager cuffing the cub about while it Jay in the back seat of the tamer's automonne parKea at Seventh St. and Gladys Ave. The sleepy feline, which Yea ger calls hiaDe apparently After warning Yeager to be kind to his pet, the police, drove away only to return and find him assert-edly beating "Babe" with a short chain. Henderson Completes Western Front Survey New York Times LONDON, Jan. 29.

Leon Henderson, Americas first Price Administrator, who has been making a survey of economic conditions and possibilities in France and other liberated areas of the western front, has completed his mission and now is in London. Henderson said it will take him at least a week or 10 days to prepare the report which ie expects to submit to President Roosevelt on his return to Wash-ington next month. Copyright, 1945. New York Times Nomination Confirmed WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.

U.R) The Senate today confirmed the nomination, of H. Struve Hensel of this city to be Assistant Secretary of Navy. f- Chicago Trib'in Prus Srvl NEW YORK, Jan. 29. Gloria Swanson took time out from the play, "A Goose for the Gander," today to take her fifth husband.

He is William M. Davy. 55 years of age, from California, who himself has had two previous mates. She gave.her age as 45. Gloria Swanson The ceremony, supposedly secret, was performed by Acting Recorder Mervin Herzfeld in Union City (N.J.) City.Hall.

As those things will, it leaked out five minutes later. The gorgeous Gloria of another screen generation has been appearing at the" Playhouse Theater in "The She and Davey, friends have been clubby for some time and the marriage came as no great surprise, even though Miss Swanson had once vowed never to marry again. That was in 1934, after her divorce from Michael Farmer, the dashing Irish sportsman, who was her fourth husband. Friends said that once Juvenile Bureau Aide of Howser Resigns Harold A. Slane, for the past year special counsel of Dist Atty.

Howser's Juvenile Protection Bureau, submitted his resignation yesterday. In a letter to Howser, Slane said he was resuming his full time employment with the California Youth Authority Wednesday. Howser said the position would probably not be filled. 1 A I a itfrnr proceeding as speedily as pos sible, but that in certain cases, principally those where Japanese-Americans in military service are involved, they have been postponed. He emphasized that those Japanese aliens being prosecuted are receiving every legal consideration.

Ruins Searched as 16 Hurt in Blaze HAMMOND (Ind.) Jan. 29. (IP) At least 16 persons were injured in an explosion and fire which swept the Phil Smidt Son Restaurant tonight. No bodies were found two hours after the blast, but policemen and firemen kept searching the ruins for any additional casualties. Hammond Fire Department officials estimated that building damages would amount to about $150,000.

"There is no way of telling how many persons may be buried in these Capt. Sandor Singer of the Hammond police said. "We'll just have to keep digging to find Police said they believed the explosion originated in the heater part of an oil tank. tion disclosed that the flyers are: Air Pilot George W. Hunt of San Francisco, who would like to stop off and marry Miss Bea Hicks of Bristol, and take her on to California for their honeymoon.

The round trip is 7008 miles. And Lt. (jg) Robert Renard. who lives in St. Louis.

The round trip is 2742 miles. And AMM 3rd Class Kenneth Rutz of St. Paul. His round trip i3 3900 miles. flight from Prestwick, Scotland, to LaGuardia Field, a distance of 3315 miles, in 16 hours 57 minutes.

Capt. Jesse Stallings, Birmingham, pilot, said the last few miles were flown on three engines after mechanical difficulty developed. Italians Accused of Aiding Japs CHUNGKING, Jan. 29. IP) A Chinese Central News dispatch published here today charged that some Italian aviators are flying for the Japanese air force.

The dispatch said a crew of Italians was found aboard a Japanese plane which made a forced landing recently in Western Chekiang and has been taken prisoner. 'Contact Caravan' Tours Hollywood "Contact Caravan," the Air Transport Command show comprising 30 enlisted men performers, wound up a series of engagements in this area yesterday with a Hollywood tour that took them to two of the major studios. The Caravan, presenting on its tour a program of variety entertainment, is based at the Carib-bean Port of Aerial Embarkation. Jewish Fund Goal Set NEW YORK, Jan. 29.

(IP) An estimated $35,300,000 will be required in 1945 for refugee rescue, and resettlement work by the United Palestine Appeal and its agencies, the Palestine Foundation Fund and the Jewish National Fund, it was stated In a resolution adopted here yesterday by the, annual conference for Palestine. 3 GUILTY OF AUTO THEFT DE MILLE OFF THE AIR; BARRYMORE TAKES PLACE For the first time in 10 years, work" bill on the November bal-Cecil B. De Mille was absent lot." Subsequently he was sus- Crashed Flyers' $6.39 Fares to Cost Bus Line 13,000 Miles MIAMI. June .29. (U.R) A Fed- r-w-al court lurv tonight found if- Joseph avis Jeffers.

$fbrmer Los "Angeles evangelist, r'Uilty on two Indictments theft of a automobile from his fcj who shouted, prayed inJ sang" through his final argu-Sinent-bf -the trial he conducted Vtor and two followers, was found'guilty of violating the firiotof-vehicle theft law and of eonspiring with Sam King and gClinton Hummel to1 violate ie; law.1-- Hummel' was found Suilty- r-conspiracy, and Kihg not guilty of the conspiracy charge: Federal -Judge John W. Holland will pronounce sentence Saturday. from his radio shttw last night, an absence resulting from his refusal to contribute $1 as a "political assessment" by the A.F.L. American Federation of Radio Artists. Replacing De Mille on the broadcast was Lionel Barrymore, who, in opening the show, said he was there, "in the absence of my good friend, Cecil B.

De Mille." TJe Mille's fight with the union began-when he refused to contribute $1 to the union's fund to campaign against Proposition No. 12, the so-called "right to MIAMI (Fla.) Jan. 29. (U.R) A bus driver who required three flyers to pay their fare to Miami after their plane crashed near the overseas highway let his company in for about 13,000 miles of free transportation. T.

B. Osteeri, traffic manager for Florida Motot. Lines, today said that to make amends the company will refund the $2.13 fares the flyers paid and give them free furlough tickets to their homes. Then the Miami Jv'aval Air Sta.