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LOCAL NEWS EDITORIALS OPINIONS PART 3 VOL. LXXV Timet Classified Advertising Number, MAdison 9-4411 SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 24, 1956 CC Times Office: 202 West First Street, Lot Angeles 53, Calif. MAdison 5-2345 KlEHPtZ3 sfi I I I if i I I 1 Site Chosen for Customs 7X7 Building New $38,000,000 Structure Will Be Near Civic Center The new $38,000,000 Fed ft vfp 'A -yx V. --f iA I i I I III 1 eral Customs House and Office Building will be built -iff v' LIU iiw m-iimmi iin- nmnr --W'J'' i n''i fi Ti mm i wAvtimuki i I rrii mm- -V'' HAPPY ARRIVAL Santo Clous is surrounded by children following his arrival at downtown department store toyland. He Nvill be around every day, and nights, too, starting 3 to take Christmas orders from a legion of his young admirers.

Time phot for new $30,800,000 Federal Customs House. Th approval by General Services Administration yester CUSTOMS HOUSE SITE This site bounded by the Santa Ana Freeway, Main and Los Angeles. Sts. and proposed extension of Temple St. has been selected Mailman Wins Support in Extradition Fight Hearing Postponed in Case Involving Charges of Kidnaping His Two Daughters building completion date.

Santa Arrives at Downtown Store Toylands reward out for AUTO 5HOW nied in divorce pro Sympathetic feeling was running high in Orange County yesterday over A 33-year-old mailman, who, em-' broiled in a legal tangle over custody of hi3 two young faces possible ex- on a site just east of the present Federal Building, the General Services Administration in Washington announced yesterday. site chosen for the long-sought structure will be bounded. by the Santa Ana Freeway, Main and Los Angeles and the proposed extension of Temple St. Rep. Gordon McDonough (R) Los Angeles, who introduced the first bill- for the customs house arid pressed for its approval, said the was apparently chosen for easy access to the freeway system.

Authorized Last July Building of the new customs house for Los Angeles was authorized by the House Public Works Committee last July 19 under the Lease Purchase Act. This law, authored by Sen. Kuchel (R) is modeled after a Cali fornia statute, which allows private enterprise to erect the building and then provides for its acquisition by the government on a long-term installment plan. Rep. McDonough said that he has been informed by the GSA that plans' and specifications for the new building will soon be ready.

The approval calls, for its completion by August, 1960. Present plans call for an eight-story building providing 868,000 square feet of floor space which would be (allocated among the Treasury Department and the Army and Navy. In addition to customs and tax coJrts, other agencies which would have space in the building include the U.S. Geological Survey, Bureaus of Land Management and Indian Affairs, Departments of State and Labor, F'ederal Mediation and Conciliation Service, General Accounting Office. Food and Drug Ad ministration, Social Security and Old Age Survivors' Insurance Bureau and Interstate Commerce Commission.

Choirs Plan Program Combined adult choirs of All Saints' Episcopal Church Santa Monica Blvd at Cam den Drive, Beverly Hills, tomorrow will present excerpts from Mendelssohn's "Hymn of Praise. A $5000 reward was offered yesterday by the Los Angeles Motor Car Dealers Association for information leading to the conviction of vandals who damaged more than 40 automobiles on display at the 34th Los Angeles International Auto Show at the Pan-Pacific Auditorium. The damaged vehicles, slashed last Thursday, will remain on the show floor until police and insurance investigations have been completed, Clarence J. Dixon, show chairman, said. The show, which ends Sunday, is enjoying its most successful run in history, he added.

Aradition to Minnesota on (charges of kidnaping. The defendant in the. complicated case is L. V. Van Orden'of 11552 Portia Circle, garden Grove.

In addition to being a Post Office emplovee, he is commander of the fcar-den' Grove chapter of AM- Vets. Legal bickering over his -daughters' custody was cli-j Jnaxed Wednesday when, i whife delivering mail, Van i Ordeirwas arrested on a Gov-. rnof 'a warrant obtained by Minnesota authorities for his extradition to SL Paul to face kidnaping charges. Alma Whitaker, Retired Times Columnist, Dies day set August, I960, as VANDALS MOURNED Alma Whitaker, who had been Times writer many years, dies. 1 Widely Read Newspaperwoman for 30 Years Succumbs at Age of 75 Alma Whitaker, 75, who for more than 30 years was a columnist and feature writer for The Times, died in her sleep yesterday at her home, 1028-C Linden ivept uaughters The charges grew out of the fact that, when he brought his daughters, Sheila -10, and Barbara, 6, to visit iim last July and August as he had done for the last several with approval of Minnesota courts, Van Orden decided that the home being maintained for them in Min- nesota by their mother, now Mrs.

Dolores Satterlee, is an unfit one. So, instead of returning the girls to Minnesota by Sept. 1, Van Oroen kept them here 'He subsequently appeared before Superior Judge Ray-. xnond. Thompson in Santa Ana seeking guardianship of the girls.

His petition was de Time phol Kosloff, Actor and Dancer, Dies at 74 Theodore Kosloff, 74, danr er and screen actor, 9o60 Sunland Sunland, died Thursday, in the Good Samaritan Hospital. Funeral services, with Pierce Bros. Hollywood Mor tuary in charge, will be conducted at 1 p.m. Monday in the Protection of the Holy Virgin Russian Orthodox Church, 150 Alexandria Ave. Interment will take place in Valhalla Memorial Park.

Born in Russia Mr. Kosloff was born in Moscow, Russia, and came to the United States in 1912. He became celebrated as a dancer and cut a dashing figure in motion pictures. Later ha concentrated on operating a dance studio and presented ballets in the Hollywood Bowl and elsewhere. The mortuary record in dicated he left one survivor, Alexis Kosloff of New York.

'Prowler in My Kitchen He Says and Sure Enough- "There's a prowler in my kitchen," Patrick O'Brien whispered over his telephone to Burbank police yesterday morning. Four officers raced to O'Brien's apartment at 154-B Pass Burbank, and burst into the kitchen. There was a prowler in there all right a little kitten that had wandered in through an open door, jumped into a wastebasket, and was scratch, ing and scrambling around trying to get out. these may be refined out of gasoline by a process already developed. Chappellet announced at a recent Southland smog con ference at the Ambassador that he feels the investigation of changes in fuel will not be helpful.

But the APCD'g research director, Dr. Leslie A. Cham. bers, replied then that he thought it was a little prema. ture that experiments in fuels should be terminated.

Chappellet said his opin. ion was based on research done by and for the WOGA and the American Petroleum Institute. Comic Dictionary PROCRASTINATION Th proof that alt thing com to him wh waits, including an Invitation to his Irt friend's1 wedding. Coejrirht IM), bt tui Bur Dip Alttlldlldll Land for Cattle Allen Tv BelrAir and the, syndicate of Hollywood figure and Los Angeles businessmen he heads have acquired some 1,500,000 acres of Australian wasteland for the development of a cattle-raising and meat-packing development, it was announced yesterday in Brisbane. William A Gunn, president of.

the United Graziers Association, said that the property was purchased by the Chase Syndicate of Los Angeles from the Western Australia government at 4 shillings an acre. He estimated the cost of developing the project at pounds Australian (about Rice Project Chase and his associates last July another enormous Australian undertaking to grow rice in Northern Australia, a $50,000,000 agricultural and resettlement project. At that time, among his associates were listed several TV and film personalities and a number of Los Angeles financial leaders. Chase," according to his daughter, is expected home from Australia this morning. i 'CM '1 -15 i ik-i with shoppers.

This photo Santa Claus was engulfed in a. tidal wave of small fry yesterday on his arrival in downtown department store toylands.1 The jolly old gentleman's bag was bulging with a rec ord supply of gifts, he an-nounced through the Downtown Business Men's Association. Choosing the school holi day following Thanksgiving for his arrival so as to greet as many of his school-age friends as possible, Santa im mediately taking or ders for" Christmas with a hearty "Ho, ho, ho!" Extended Stay He'll make the department store toylands his headquarters every day until Christmas Eve. He'll be there nights, too, beginning Dec. 3 when downtown stores start staying open until 9 p.m.

nightly. Despite shipment of the largest supply of gifts to. downtown Los Angeles in his tory, the DBMA urged early Christmas shopping to avoid disappointments. Las Posadas to Begin Monday Opening of Las Posadas, a festival representing Mary and Joseph seeking shelter on their way to Bethlehem, is scheduled for Monday evening in Olvera Street. ru holiday and teamed' to- oether shows crowds ceedings four years ago Minnesota, custody definitely had been granted to the mother.

At the time, Judge Thompson suggested but did not specifically order-that Van Orden return girls to Minnesota. Suggestion Van Orden declined to do so, claiming among other rea sons that' the girls had ex pressed a preference, to remain with him. After his arrest Wednesday, -Van Orden gained his freedom within a few hours on $500 bail under a writ of habeas Corpus obtained by Deputy County Public Defender Eugene Langhauser. The writ was- returnable in Santa Ana Superior Court at 9 a.m. yesterday.

but Langhauser was granted a contin uance until Dec. 14. The Deputy Public Defender had asked that the matter he puti off until after Christmas but Judge Kenneth Morrison set the Dec. 14 date on information from Minnesota authorities that officers from that State would be in this vicinity tin that date and, if Van Orden is to be extradited, such a time wnuld be more convenient for them. Judge Morrison, however, assured Van Orden and Langhauser that this information would have no influence on his decision concerning the extradition.

He allowed Van Orden to remain at liberty under the $500 bail. If 'j The combination of 0 school Christmas shopping season riiii --rrTr v. Glendale. I Alma Whitaker, as she had been known to Times readers, In private life was Mrs. Jerome B.

Reynolds. She re tired from The Times in 1944 and in recent years had been in ill-health. However, she still found time to' write an occasional hit of pungent comment for the editorial page of this newspaper or to express her always positive views in a letter, to the editor. Work Syndicated A writer of barbed wit who delighted in sticking pins into the pompous and pre tentious, she was one of the most widely read newspaper women of her era. or many years tier Times columns were syndicated across the nation.

She was born In London but grew up in South Africa, where her father was medi cal officer to Cecil Rhodes. She remembered the great Rhodes as a man who held her on his knee and read "Br'er, Rabbit" to her. When 12 she sold her first story. "The Autobiography of a Fly," in an essay compe tition. Her father, Dr.

otton Fullford, died a year later in a smallpox epidemic. At Many Schools She said that in her early years she attended 32 schools in nine countries and gradu ated from none. She was a professional writer by the age of 17, working for British newspapers and magazines. After her marriage to Har old mtaker she and hpr husband left England for California In 1908 because of his health. In Los Aneeles with an Infant son, Colin, and an ailing husband.

She sought Gasoline Group Disputes Refining Smog Claim I "ran Hm 'v-t Up 41. Hl i't i II mm The Western Oil and Gas Association announced yes-j terday it does not agree with the Air Pollution Control District that changes in oil refining processes may improve the smog picture. "On the basis of all reliable scientific evidence and opinion we have seen to date, we do not believe that the smog-forming characteristics of automobile exhaust can be significantly changed by modifying gasoline composition or manufacturing processes," said Felix vice-president and general manager of woga: "It's what happens in the motor that makes automo bile exhaust form smog not what happens in the refinery," he declared. Smith Griswold, ATCD di rector, said earlier this week that a four-year APCD research project has found in dication that a small group of hydrocarbons is the CHRISTMAS SHOPPERS the traditional start of th employment to help support the family. She was about to take a job, as a cook to a Pasadena family when the late Harry Carr, then sports editor of The Times, agreed to give her a rhanre to write.

Carr sent her to cover a prize fight and her first story Turn Fag Column 1 yesterday to fill downtown area of pedestrians "scrambling" ot 7th St. and Brnodwoy. TIum phot smoz ormart and that.