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2 WltS Cimgg Blast Wrecks Republican Leader Raps Apartment; Three Hurt Parly Chiefs t. (.: fc Gas Explosion Also Damages Garage and Cars in Culver City A Culver City duplex was CYR President Urges More Attention to Winning Elections BY ROBERT BLANCHARD John Busterud of San Francisco, president of tha -i demolished and three per fT" 1 I (: I i I ISS ISiaSSMSliiaasMSaa California Young Republicans, yesterday accused Cali SHE DIDNT SPOT STORK Actress Merry Anders, 21, tells court she didn't realize she was an'expect-ant mother when she waived alimony prior to divorce. Timet photo Actress Expecting Baby unit opartment in Culver and collapsed the roof. DUPLEX DEMOLISHED Fire Capt. Ralph Wilson inspects damage of gas explosion that demolished two- Disputes Property Pact Merry Anders Says She Didn't Know She Was Pregnant at Time of Settlement HIS $75,000 CHECK WAS JEST With GENE SHERMAN fornia Republican leaders of not paying enough attention to the matter of elections.

And unless stronger leadership is provided, he said, the Republican Party in California will be operating at a serious disadvantage in 1956. Pointing to the recent string of Democratic victories in the State, Busterud "I 'am deeply concerned over recent trends in offyear elections in California. Credits Democrats "This trend must be reversed no later than this year if the Republican Party wishes to be successful ia this State. State Republican leaders should 'devote greater attention to this very serious problem than they evidently have done in the past. "Improved Statewide opera tion of the Democratic Party has been largely responsible for their successes.

"It is obvious that the only way to revitalize our party in the face of this strengthened position is to provida better organization and Statewide assistance on a local level. We must likewise be certain to run the best quali fied candidates that be found. Knight et Head "Without this right kind of leadership in 1956, Republicans in California will be op- erating at a serious disadvantage." Although Busterud mentioned no nafnes, Gov. Knight is the titular head of the Re- publican Party in California supported, by National Com-1 mitteeman A. Ronald Button of Los Angeles, National Com- mitteewoman Marjorie Benedict of Berkeley, Assemblyman Thomas W.

Caldecott of Berkeley, chairman of the. State Central Committee, and Howard Ahmanson of Los Angeles, vice-chairman of tha State Central Committee. Honduras Gets Loan WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 The World Bank today announced a $4,200,000 loan to Honduras to set up a highway 10 YEARS AGO, BUT NOT TODAY NEW YORK, Dec. 22 (lP)-Merriment and jesting" prevailed 10 years ago Christmas Day when Albert B.

Zink, a Philadelphia lawyer, made out a $75,000 check to his wife and dated it Dec. 25, 1955. But Mrs. Zink didn't think it was a joke at all, Zink, now 50, told Manhattan Supreme Court today. She saved the check and now she wants to cash it.

Zink, who didn't have anything like $75,000 10 years ago but has done better since, asked the court to restrain his wife from cashing the check when it becomes good. He said, she is suing him for separate maintenance A hearing on Zink's request for the restfaining order was set for Jan. 3. Strict No-Liquor Ban Urged at Coliseum Game the court'to award her reason able alimony, in addition to hospital and medical expenses attendant on the birth. "I expect my baby about Feb.

14," she said. "I'm hoping for a little Valentine girl." Willing to Pay Support Stephens, with Max E. Gil- more as his counsel, said he is. willing to pay medical costs and child support but he averred that the property set tlement agreement was valid Judge Hanson awarded her $100 a week pending trial of her divorce suit in addition to medical and hospital ex penses. Under the agreement, the husband had promised to pay the $2000 in installments, $300 down and $100 a month He also was to pay a previ ously contracted medical bill of $285.

The pair were married here last March 25 and separated July 12. HOUSE A sign, bearing out Chief Parker's promise of hospital ity, stares the visitor in the face as he enters the booking office at the Central Jail. It reads: MERRY CHRIST MAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR. Rigid enforcement of laws prohibiting drinking at the Los Angeles Coliseum was urged yesterday by Supervisor Kenneth Hahn. He emphasized that the Mu nicipal Code bans liquor inside the Coliseum regardless of whether the liquor is in side or outside the patron.

The supervisor called spe- sons were injured, one cntl cally. by a gas explosion at 6:40 a.m. yesterday. The blast ripped out walls and collapsed the ipof of the two-unit stucco apartment at 10156-10158 Farragut Drive blew in the windows of an adiaeent house, wrecked next-door garage, tipped over one parked car and buried two others under debris. Most seriously iniured was Mrs.

Gladys Marsh, 19, of 10156 Farragut Drive. strucK down by the 'collapsing ceil ing, she receivecrmuiupie iace fractures including a broken jaw, a possible skull fracture and severe lacerations. Hurled to Curb Mrs. Marsh's husband Gor don, 19, a milling machine op erator, had smeuea gas ana rnnn next door to investiEate. He was standing on the porch of the adjoining apartment when thA mast came ana was hiirlori arrnsa the sidewalk to the curb.

Debris plowed into his back but ne received oniy minor cuts and bruises. The ocpupant of the apart ment at 10158 Farragut nrivo James Bouldin. 58. a Mptro-Ooldwvn-Maver special officer, received a fracture of the right ankle. All three victims were taken to Santa" Monica Hospital Mrs.

Marsh's conaiuon was iisicu icaL Flung From Bed The exolosion shattered the windows an adjacent house at 4204 Revere Place. Mrs. Rvplvn Siolvn. 32. sleeping in a bedroom that was nearest to the duplex, was nung ironr her bed by the torce ot ine blast but'was not injured.

The entire front wall of the duplex was ripped loose. Bits of wood and plaster were nrniprtpfi as far as luu teei intrt the street. Bouldin's car was toppled over. A palm tree was severed and smasnea into one of the Marshes' two rired ears. Rrilintered tim bers and siding showered the other.

Th earaee of the Revere Place house collapsed on a parked car. Ttnuldin was nulled from the wreckage by Officers Charles Sarlo and Ross Walter, nrsi officers on the scene. He said he had awakened about 6 a.m. and noticed a "strong odor of gas." He got and checked all the outlets in his side of the duplex but could find no leaK. A few moments before the evnlosion.

Marsh, who had just come hone from his night job, also noticed the smeii oi eas and knocked Bouldin's door to warn the other man. He had just left Bouldin's livine room and Bteoped to the front porch when the eas exploded. Bouldin was stand ing in the center ot tne room. "All of a sudden the floor came up and the ceiling came down, he said later, ana tne next thing I knew I was down and beams were falling on me. Hit by Beams A spokesman for the South em California Gas Co.

said re pair crews reached the wrecked house soon after the explosion and shut off main valves to prevent further dan ger. It was believed ine gas may have collected under the building, but an investigation was being made to determine the exact cause of the blast The eas company spokes man said it was the first acci dent of its kind in thafarea for 15 years. DROOPE'RTS WRECK ADORNS TRAFFIC COURT A wrecked automobile, with the sign "Droopert Drove It," has been placed at the entrance of. the Municipal Traffic Court Building for the Christmas-New Year holiday season, the Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce announced yesterday. The figure of Droopert represents a careless, reckless, thoughtless or drunken driver and is presented as a horrible example of what drivers should not be.

A. WEATHER maintenance organization and to finance new road construe- tion. Only 20 miles of Hon! duras' 1600 miles of roads are now paved. mm City. Blast ripped out walls Three persons were injured.

Time photo cial attention of officers to the expected sell-out game be tween the Rams and Browns Monday and the need for the no-liquor law enforcement at that time. Sheriff's deputies police the inside of the Coliseum while the Los Angeles De partment has jurisdiction outside the walls. of only three-fourths 'of a mile at noon, after which the fog began to thicken again. The dense fog pushed relative humidity to the maximum 100 at 5 a.m. Lowest reading for the day was 83 at 3 p.m.

Temperatures climbed from 50 deg. at 7:17 a.m. to only 58 by 3:17 p.m. The Air Pollution Control District said Smog Green conditions would prevail today. Light rain was reported yesterday at San Luis Obispo, Fresno and BakersfielcJ.

i CITCIDE She was tiny and bent and wrinkled and gray and old. Maybe in her 80s, who knows? She was old all over except in her eyes. Her eyes were young and sparkled of youth and interest in people. SHE IS enormously wealthy and you would know her name immediately. Possibly not her own, but her family's name.

And we are not about to read it here because we do not want to dismipt her life. She lives alone and spends her time thinking up things to do for people. Unsuspecting people. You never read about it or hear about it because she doesn't want you to k'now, particularly. She doesn't particularly care if the people she does things for know who did them.

VERY OFTEN this Is not the case. Very often people sit around thinking up things to do for people and how they can get credit for it in the public prints. There is ing wrong with this, really. It just makes the little lady we are talking about unique. Something else makes her She does not like to ager to write out an annual check tocharity and send it along in the mail.

She likes to write the checks and hand them to people. Not that she distrusts the mail or her business manager. She just likes to do it herself. ONCE SHE was In a pretty sporty cafe in town having dinner. And she got to talking to the proprietor who, at that moment, was collecting money for a boys' home.

She got so interested she took a hat and went around to all the patrons and collected their loose change for the cause. It amounted to To which she added $1000. The proprietor never saw her before or since. She got into her big black limousine one day this week and asked her chauffeur to drive her downtown as 6he was seeking some advice. It was a pleasant ride under arches of Christmas decorations along the boulevards.

Enchanted children wide- at the displays. And widehearted with expecta tion. Carols and chimes and organ music spilling from the store fronts. HER QUESTION was a simple one, in a way. And in Court Orders Atlanta Links Desegregated ATLANTA, Dec.

22 U.S. District Court Judge Boyd Sloan today ordered the city of Atlanta to immediately allow Negroes use of municipally owned golf courses. order followed a U.S. Supreme Court decision Nov. 7 overturning rulings by the 'District Court and.

U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals! The lower courts had held that Negroes could use the golf courses on a segregated basis. Actress Merry Anders, '21, did not realize 6he was an ex pectant mother when she waived alimony Sept. 1 preparatory to divorcing John Stephens, 26, television pro ducer, she said yesterday. She was in the dburtroom of Superior Judge Clarence M.

Hanson seeking to set aside terms of a property settlement agreement sne naa signea, under which she accepted $2000 as her share of community property. Had to Quit Her Job Miss "Anders filays the role of a schoolgirl in Janis Paige's television series and she said her present condition has made it necessary for her to terminate her employment. Her salary has been $400 weekly, she said. Through Attyv Alfred 5 Gainsley the blond actress estimated her living expenses at $435 a month and she asked JAIL OPEN Continued from First Page 206 officers will be assigned to the metropolitan area alone. "We expect anything but a quiet evening today," said Set.

Frank S. Hoover of the police booking office. Parker said Venice win have 45 officers cruising; San Fernando Valley, 60, and the Harbor area, 20. "The jail facilities at present are the best in the history of Los Angeles," said Hoover. "We are prepared to process as many drunks and drunk drivers as are turned over to us.

"The beds are hard, but clean. The food is simDle, but nourishing. The company one is iorcea 10 iteep is iiui aiwaa the best, but it may be said that our hospitality has never been so good," Parker said the last 10 days of 1954 saw 495 drunk drivers and 3560 drunks lodged in jail for the holidays. "we expect more tnis year, he said. Robert AHsodo.

37. booking officer at Central Jail, ex-nlained that modern eauirj- ment now has reduced the booking time, and as many as eight drunks can be booked at one time. Rapid Handling "We're prepared to handle them as fast as they come in," he said. Hoover stated that although the drunk driver and drunk spend their Christmas in'jail, they can expect to have the traditional turkey and trim mings. "It's cheaner than beef or pork," said Hoover.

"That's why." Drunk drivers and drunk pedestrians will find no favor on the city streets during the holiday season, said Parker. "They will be the involuntary guests of our establishment. If it happens to you, just remember you asked for it." Missouri Bank Robbed FISK, Dec. 22 Wt Two shabbily dressed bandits forced, three employees into a vault and fled today with about $35,000 from tha Bank of Fisk. another way, not so simple.

"I want to do something for someone," she said in a small, hesitant voice. "And I would like you to suggest someone." Well, now, whom do you suggest? Of the hundreds of thousands of people whose Christmas may not be so bright, whom do you suggest? Has she tried one of the charitable organizations" for suggestions? No, Bhe wishes to take care of it all "You see," she said, "I enjoy helping people. Oh, I have so much fun doing it, too. One time I went to a veterans' hospital and I took a cake and some cookies and some candy and a check for $3000. They were all such nice boys." AND NOW it was almost Christmas and she wanted to find someone she could help: Sometimes is not easy, you People take you for a crackpot, giving money away.

Oh, they take it. But you do not want them to think you're a crackpot, do you? And you want to be sure you are really helping someone, really doing some good. And you don't want to get tied up in a lot of red tape, either. It's simply Christmas and you want to make one, Christmas cheerier, that's all If you make even one little Christmas cheerier, that is nice, isn't it? Yes, ma'am, it is. "NOW, don't you breathe a word of this," she said.

No now." Yes, ma'am. And she went away with very little advice. How do you advise a lady how.to give away her money? She slowly got into her black limousine, her chauffeur at her arm. And she drove off determined to find what she was seeking. A happier Christmas for someone else.

And thereby for herself. Youth-Center Party Fetes 700-Children The Salvation Army's Red Shield Youth Center staged its sixth annual Christmas festival last night and more than 700 children turned out for merrymaking. After a buffet dinner at which members of the Jun ior League, of Los Angeles servea as nostessea. me youngsters were treated to a circus show in the vouth center gymnasium at 1532 utn bt. The show, brought in by Joe Haroer.

member of the VOUth center's aHvlsnrv rnm. miuee, included live elephants, ponies, trained dogs, and Christ mas carols. Then Santa Claus made his aoDearance and nassed out gifts and candy to the young sters. The affair was put on for children of. the center and any others who wanted to at- iena.

mm -m fKKmmmm A 1 if i 1 1 ivt i Continued from First Page pulled into the dock at 1 p.m., five hours late. The Liberian flag freighter Arion, due at 9 p.m. Wednesday, docked 12 hours later. Other ships were delayed for shorter periods. Workbound motorists groped through the fog at 5 to 10 m.p.h.

and headlights were kept burning long after sunrise. Numerous minor traf fic accidents were reported. Visibility at the Civic Cen ter was one-eighth of a mile at 5 a.m. and reached a high Br'; HAPPY EVENT Children ottending the Red Shield Youth Csnter's onnuol Christmas party watch with happy fascination as Clown Dave Twomey warms up juggling ocr. More than 700 children attended party.

Timet hot THEY'RE WELCOME Sgt. Fronk S. Hoover stands behind welcome mot ot Central Jail, awaiting "guests" who art picked up for drunk driving over the holiday. TlniM ptasw 'A.