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PARTI 7 Gibraltar Dam SHIRLEY TEMPLE BUSY ON WORLD PHONE TOUR Plan Renewed by SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1 943 "Calls from Beverly Hill seem awful tame now," she laughed. On her latest "junket" she talked with Japan's counterpart of herself, Hideko Takamine. Through an interpreter they talked of the baby and the new look. "Fun," enthused Shirley. Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, March 26 City Water Superintendent Pinkham today was authorized by the City Council World Crisis Impact Visioned at San Diego SAN DIEGO, March 26 A warning that San Diego may again be plunged into congestion problems similar to those of World War II was voiced today by Ewart W.

Goodwin, president of the Chamber of Commerce. The city must be prepared for the possibility of revival of Selective Service, or of inauguration of universal military training, he said. Either of these de to readvertise for bids to raise "4 Gibraltar Dam on the Santa Shirley Temple Is making a trip around the world by telephone. Already she has talked with newspaper editors in six foreign capitals and plans to complete the "tour" in a few days. Delighted citizens of Helsinki, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Paris, Mexico City and Tokyo have chatted with the onetime child film star, now Mrs.

John Agar. It was all the idea, of Henry Gris, foreign editor of the United Press bureau in Los Angeles. Gris was flooded with requests for interviews from abroad after the birth of Shirley's baby, Linda Susan, last Jan. 30. "Paris expressed the first interest," he said.

"From there on it looked like a good story. So Shirley agreed to go around the world by phone." Shirley declared she is having the time of her life. Ynez River, which impounds the municipality's main water supply. 1 Bids a year ago failed to come within limits of finances available for the work. Head of Store Group in Cancer Drive Named Arthur Bishop, public relations director of the May has been appointed for the Department Store Organizations to direct the April drive of the Los Angeles branch of the American Cancer Society, it was announced yesterday.

The month has been designated by President Truman as Cancer Control Month and Bishop will take charge of the industry's fight against the disease. At the same time Pinkham was velopments, in addition to in authorized to seek bids to drill slant wells into the mountains bordering the city and to locate creased military aircraft orders arising from the present tense sites for six more perpendicular world situation, "will bring increased demands on our water wells inside the city and adver tise for bids for drilling them. supplies and other public facilities." Study Ordered Goodwin disclosed that he has State Grant Expected The Council already has pub J. jJil- L'V ,1 i I 4 1 NOTICE lic approval of a $600,000 bond issue which will be added to a asked the chamber's water committee to begin an immediate study of the wisdom of "double-barreling" the San Diego aqueduct line, to double the capacity $310,000 grant which is expected to come from the State within a week or 10 days. A previous announcement of a plan to double water rates as a means of Seeburg Exhibition Colonial Room, Ambassador Hotel Will be open to the public.

March 31st, 12 noon to 10 p.m., and Sat. and April, 1, 2, 3 and 4, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. These new hour of inspection take the place of the time stated in our ad of Friday, Mar. 26.

Minfhorna Music Co. saving more of the critically short supply wras deferred for Times photo Mothers Milk Plea Issued An urgent appeal to nursing mothers to aid in replenishing the supply of the Mothers Milk Bureau, now dangerously low, was issued, yesterday by the California Babies Hospital, a Community Chest agency. According to Miss Ruth E. Mitchell, director of the bureau, day-to-day demands have reduced the supply to 100 ounces. At least 3000 ounces are needed, she said.

Nurs5r mothers with an over-supply oi' milk for their own babies are asked to call Miss another week to study the rate GOLDEN HARVEST Ruth Gring gathers daffodils in one of the many hillside fields of the Redondo Beach area. structure. now of Colorado River water here. "The outline of just what magnitude this new world crisis will reach, and of its full impact on San Diego as a military training and aircraft production center, has not yet become clear," he said. 'But there seems little doubt San Diego again will be one of the first communities Late today city officials re PA.

2177 2920 W. PtCO ST. ceived word the Senate at Sacramento completed final passage of a bill to aid Santa Barbara in its search for water. The measure makes valid an amendment Emergency Aid Service Hailed Daffodil Fields Reach Easter Season Peak to the Construction and Employment Act, paving the way for its application for $310,000 to drill Mitchell at the hospital, PRospect more wells. Tlii Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation Dividend On Preferred Stock At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation held on March 25, 1948, the regular divW dend in the amount of twenty-five cents ($.25) per share was declared en its pre-' ferred stock, payable June 1, 1948, to stockholders of record at close of business on May 10, 1948.

D. C. McGREW, Seerefary Chamber Aide Resigns BANNING, March 26 The resignation of Dr. Earl R. Rice, secretary of the Banning Cham Times photo WELCOME HOME Steven Jess Noriega, 3, enthusiastically hugs patient Butch, back again in his El Monte home after having been lost for more than three months.

LONG-LOST DOG'S RETURN ANSWERS BOY'S PRAYERS Humane Aides 4011, Station 88. Arrangements will be made for doctor's tests and examinations and instruction on drawing off the extra supplies. The hospital is at 1401 Grand Ave. REDONDO BEACH, March 26 Their giant blooms as yellow as butter and almost as valuable, the crop of daffodil fields here is being harvested for the final ber of Commerce, has been ac PACOIMA, March 26 Located at an intersection considered one of the most dangerous in the San Fernando Valley, services of the new highway emergency aid station at Osborne St. and San Fernando Road have cepted by the chamber's board of directors.

Take 75 Dogs Easter trade. EL MONTE, March 26 Easter of III Woman deliriously, and Barbara Jean, 6, and mother had had their turn, Steven Jess went quietly to 13 the time for miracles and little Steven Jess Noriega, 3, his room. He knelt by the side knows he has seen one happen. 2tv of his bed. He said, "Thank You, God." 7 Never will he doubt what prayer can do.

Not since Butch came SANTA BARBARA, March 26 The Humane Society kennels were filled to capacity and officers appealed today to residents to house an overflow of dogs. Cause of the congestion at the home. pound was an influx of 7o dogs, Growers plant with this prize market of the year in mind. Botantically a narcissus, the Giant Perfection daffodil has a relatively long harvest season. They have become an important crop among the flower growers here as the bulbs are particularly adapted to cultivation on sandy hillsides overlooking the ocean.

Much of the flower crop is shipped by air to eastern markets. Typical output this season Is the harvest on the Paul H. Lambert ranch, where an average one-day cutting is above 10,000 blooms. All distribution from the Lambert Ranch is through wholesale markets. all owned by Mrs.

Nora Steven Jess hasn't missed a Sunday going to the Church of the Nativity to pray for Butch's return since' the pup Thompson, known to her neigh bors as "the dog woman." Found unconscious in her two- got lost in mid-December. And room home, Mrs. Thompson was each night as he said his even Dumps Listed for Cleanup PACOIMA, March 26 Dump areas today were listed as the chief target of a current cleanup campaign here under the direction of the Pacoima Chamber of Commerce. Especially unsightly conditions in the neighborhood of removed to a hospital and Hu mane Officer Fred Pelkey and his assistants had the busiest day of the year removing the 75 pedigreed dogs, all cocker spaniels, housed in a variety of ing prayers he asked again for Butch to come home. Glad to be Home Then Steven Jess looked out the front door and there sat his dog.

Butch was bigger and looked like he had been well fed but it was unmistakably Butch and Butch was unmistakably glad to crates and cages the small home. In addition to the 75 dogs there were 6 goats and a flock 1 of chickens on the premises. see Steven Jess. After Butch had been hugged and Steven Jess had been licked ivirriirdi Times Photo Ben Merkow been hailed by residents and motorists with almost daily calls for assistance, Ben Merkow, di Hitchhiker, 3, Ends Long Trip BLYTHE, March 26 Three year-old Kelley Bardwell of Blythe, one of California's youngest hitchhikers, babbled to his parents today about his 170-mile trip to Phoenix, Ariz. Kelley yielded to the call of spring and the open road and crawled on a Greyhound bus here.

He crawled off at Phoenix. Everybody on the bus thought he was traveling with somebody else. But he ran afoul of the law in Phoenix where juvenile officers found him in the bus depot. Now he's reunited with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Merle Bardwell, who had reported him missing. Riding Trail Route Debated SAN BERNARDINO, March 26 Representatives of several San Bernardino Valley riding clubs met with the County Planning Commission in the Supervisorial chambers of the Courthouse today to further discuss the proposed county link in the State hiking and riding trail. No final action was taken. Several sections of the trail, ultimately to extend from the Mexican border north to the Oregon State line, are now under construction. Part of San Bernardino County's link in the trail is tentatively located on the northern slopes of the mountains while many riding enthusiasts favor a route along the south slopes.

La Mesa Auto Death First in Three Years LA MESA, March 26 This city today recorded its first traffic death in more than three years. Dr. Edna Rhinehart, 65, a retired dentist, wa3 struck by an auto while crossing the street, and was knocked or carried 87 feet, police reported. The driver, Glen P. Napierskie, 24, of San Diego, told officers he had been blinded by headlights of autos.

He was cited on a "charge of violating a pedestrian's right of way in a crosswalk. La Mesa's, last traffic fatality was in February, 1945. rector of the station, has reported. Only a few of the patients treated at the first aid station have injuries resulting from traffic accidents. Many others come to the station for first aid needed as the result of other mishaps in near-by homes.

The Osborne St. station is one of four in this area, the others being at Val Verde, Castaic and Bouquet Canyon. They are sponsored by the Red Cross, which trains volunteer personnel and provides equipment. Times photo fry" Victor Marrone hi. Kansan Purchases Laurel Oanyon Blvd.

and Paxton Manager Accused in Liquor Theft Santa Maria Times SANTA MARIA, March 26 (IP) VENTURA, March 26 Twice. Michael Roy Moore, 39, manager of a liquor store called Ventura Sale of the Santa Maria Daily Times to Stanley H. Stauffer of Topeka, who will become editor and publisher April 1, was announced today. Purchase price was not disclosed. police to investigate thefts of liquor from the establishment.

RUSH MARKS FALL IN PRICE OF HAIRCUTS SANTA BARBARA, March 26 Tom Dunnigan, proprietor of a nonunion 75-c haircut barbershop, opened his place at 9 a.m. and closed it at 9:05 today because of the rush of customers who have resented the union price of $1.25. Dunnigan had only two barbers in the six-chair shop and explained that he closed the doors when they had all they could handle. Monday, he said, he will open with six barbers and the doors will remain open. This was only a test opening, he said.

St. are expected to be corrected as a part of the campaign, Victor Marrone, newly elected president, of the Chamber of Commerce, said. As the first step, formal protest is being filed with the city of Los Angeles by the chamber. Florn Anderson is chairman of the cleanup committee. Marrone reported that a membership campaign had resulted in extensive increase in They came and investigated.

Today, Moore was charged Robert K. and Stanworth C. Hancock, copublishers who bought the Times in 1938 from with grand theft, two counts, after police said they traced the disappearance of approximately $3,675 in choice liquors from the E. L. Peterson, made the announcement.

Stauffer is a for company warehouse to the man mer associate editor of the Topeka State Journal and son of Oscar S. Stauffer, president of ager himself. Preliminary hearing was set for April 2 in Ventura Justice Court. Moore was jailed pending posting of $3000 Burbank Lists 'Parade' Staff BURBANK, March 26 Lloyd Sprague, president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce and general chairman of the fourth annual "Burbank on Parade" observance, has announced names of committee chairmen to direct activities for the event May 14 to 16 celebrating the city's 61st birthday. Junior Chamber members and groups they will head include Brad Atwood and Roland Bro-derson, publicity and entertainment; LeMarr Lundstrom and Glenn Crawford, parade; George Tardon, booths; Harry Bane, whisker-growing contest; Orrin Wickersham, Miss Burbank and Southland beauty contests: Jim Melton, Augie Pelton, Dan Mcln-tyre and John Eberle, dances; Ralph Walroth, hobbies, and Warren Ryan, police and guards.

Stauffer Publications, Inc. bau. because they feel well-dressed. They know correctness of 1 $fyle plus fine patterns make them took distinctive tn ony place where well-dressed men gather Suits, 75.GQ ts CQ.QQ Spsrt E3.D0, OS.CD in 30.00 Men's Suits and Sportswear, Second Floor, Hitt Street Building Hope for Future Held With Youth SAN DIEGO, March 26 OP) America's "only hope for thr Divers Recover Navy Flier's Body SAN DIEGO, March 26 Navy divers today recovered the body of a Navy, flier whose one-seater scout seaplane sank in San Diego Bay. The pilot was attempting a cross-wind landing near the Naval Air Station when a wing struck the water, according to llth Naval District headquarters.

His identity was withheld pending notification of relatives. future," in the opinion of Dr John O. Moseley, president of the University of Nevada, is that the youth can have a pas CAPITOI. RECORDS. INC.

Notica of Adjustment oi (a) Conversion Price ot $2.60 Cumulative Convertible Preferred Stock (b) Warrant Price oi Common Stock Purchase Warrants On December 19. 1946. Capitol Records. Inc. sold 20.000 shares of its authorized but unissued common stock, par value 25 cents a share.

The proceeds to the company -were 270.000.00. By reason of this sale: (a) the conversion price, taking the $2.60 cumulative convertible preferred at 50.00 a of the S2.60 Cumulative Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $50.00 a share, was adjusted aa ot December 19, 1946 from 25.00 to $24.47 a share ot common utock for the period ending on April 1, 1951, and from $30.00 to $29.23 a share of common stock for the period beginning on April 2, 1951 and ending on April 1, 1956, and (b) the warrant price of the Capitol Records, Inc. Common Stock Purchase Warrants was adjusted as of December 19. 1946. from $20.00 to $19.70 a share of Capitol Records.

Ino. common stock. On November 15. 1947, Capitol Records, Tne. aold 1400.000.00 face amount of convert sion for democracy." Principal speaker at the an 1 nual San Diego Chamber of Com merce membership meeting, he added: "We conquered totalitarianism on the battlefields abroad and now it is our duty to conquer totalitarianism at home." SUSPECT IN SMASHING OF 47 METERS SEIZED TOWNSHIP COURT MOVED 54 MILES TO HEAR WITNESS LANCASTER, March 26 Judge William D.

Keller, whose Justice Court represents Los Angeles County's largest township, Antelope Township's 1100 square miles, today moved his court a distance that extended beyond the borders of even that oversize area. He took his complete court staff 54 miles from this city to Birmingham Hospital, Van Nuys, to hear the testimony of a complaining witness in a case involving assault with a deadly weapon charges. 1 Court convened at the bedside of Percy J. Dillon, allegedly struck by an oil lantern in the hands of another man in a dispute that arose over the sum of $3. Physicians said Dillon's condition would not permit him going to court.

ible subordinated notes due November 10, 1948. The proceeds to the company was $400,000.00. The note are convertible Into 134 shares ot common stock for each $1,000.00 face amount and they contain a provision for adjustment of the conversion rate nnder certain circumstances. By reason of this, sale: (a) the conversion price, taking the $2.60 cumulative convertible preferred at 850.00 a Technical Representatives Wanted Electro Medical Organization established over 30 yrs. rated AAA-1 is enlarging its field representation and will rain 6 add'l young men for Los Angeles and vicinity.

Knowledge of elec-ricity desirable. Sales experience and high calibre personality required. Min. 2 yrs. college education.

Salary, commission and car allowance. Write fully, giving age, background, experience, past earnings. BOX G-214-NA, TIMES i share, of the 52.60 Cumulative convertible Preferred St par value $50.00 a share. was adjusted as of November 15. 1947 from 824.47 to S23.58 a share of common stock lor the period ending on April 1.

1951, and from 829.23 to $26.82 a share of common stock for I the period beginning on April 2. 1951 and en din it on Ariril 1. 1956. and lb) the warrant ore or en age was set at more than $5 a meter. Chief Heebing discounted the theory that robbery was the motive since the money boxes apparently were not tampered with.

On Landin's person at the time of his arrest was an lS-ineh long iron bar. At his arraignment today in Police Court, Landin pleaded not guilty. Judge H. A. Decker set 9 a.m.

April 22 for a jury trial. Landin was returned to his cell in lieu of $1000 baiL SAN FERNANDO, March 26 Mario Landin, 36. of 10716 Ralston St, was in jail today on a charge of suspicion of defacing public iproperty after 47 parking meters here were smashed last night Police Chief Walter Heebing said Landin was arrested after his officers witnessed the smashing of three of the meters on a downtown street. A police count later showed that 47 of the more than. 200 meters were broken and rendered inoperative.

Dam price of the Capitol Records, Inc. Common Stock Purchase Warranti was adjusted as of November 15. 1947 from $19.70 to $18.34 a share ot Capitol Records, Inc. Common Stock, CAPITOL RECORDS, INO. By Glenn E.

Wallichi President William H. Fowler Treasurer los Rnsslss, TMnKy 1011, Stsre Hours 0:30 ta.

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