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An aim LOCAL NEWS EDITORIALS OPINIONS PART 3 Times Office: 202 West First Street, Los Angeles 53, Colif. MAdison 5-2345 VOL. LXXV Timet Classified Advertising Number, MAdison 9-4411 CC FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 24, 1956 SOS ml i ryfv BY THE WAY with BILL HENRY fell i i I I Hope Held for Ending Taxi Strike Union Calls Parley to Discuss Plan to Arbitrate Dispute I I i umm minim iniiMii ifwin'-mi inn' aiiiiiiiimWinWffliiWiaftipiitiKin SKID ROW ARTIST Willy Stahl, onetime Hollywood musical director ond artist, sits among paintings he has turned out since he walked off San Diego's Skid Row into a rescue mission two weeks ago. nis paintings nave Deen nanea Dy emits. UP Wlrepbota CRITICS ASTONISHED BRUSH FIRE Firemen bottle to subdue brush fire in Laurel Canyon that men-aced a dozen homes and burned two acres.

It was second fire in two days in area. Willy Stahl Emerges Row With 30 Paintings 'War and Peace' Hailed as New Movie Giant Three developments yes terday pointed to a possible early settlement of the 24 day strike against the Yel low Cab Co. by 1600 mem. bers of Cab Drivers Local 640 of the Teamsters Union. Officials of the local an nounced a union membership meeting for next Monday morning in Shrine Auditorium to discuss asking the company to accept arbitration of the wage issue deadlock and any otner unresoivea issues.

Audit of Books Also up for discussion will be the audit of the company's books just completed by the Los Angeles Joint Council of Teamsters with the company's co-oneration. It is the company conten tion that a disclosure of the audit figures will convince drivers the company cannot afford demands for a $12 daily wage minimum or 50 of daily receipts without a boost in present cab fares. It has offered drivers a $10.25 daily guarantee or 50 of weekly receipts. If arbitration should be ac cepted both by the union and by the company, the way would be paved for an immediate return to work by drivers. Mediator Plans Federal Mediator John Pfau provided the second de velopment by announcing ne will talk to the parties sep arately over the week end in the belief some agreement can be reached for a resump tion of joint meetings.

The parties have not met jointly in nearly two weeKs. Meanwhile, two officials of the American Legion Nation al Convention Corp. 1956, the host organization for the Legion's convention here SeDt 3-6. announced the Legion's transportation com mittee plans to operate a free shuttle bus service for all convention registrants in case Turn to Page 2, Column 7 COUNCIL SETS REGISTER TO VOTE WEEK The City Council yesterday, unanimously adopted i resolution designating Sept. 3-13 as Register to Vote Week, and urging all citizens to register so they may exercise their right to franchise at the Nov.

6 election. The resolution, submitted by Council President John S. Gibson emphasized that Sept. 13 is the deadline for registering for the general election. Tolstoy's Epic Novel Shown at Film Premiere With Notables in Attendance BY EDWIN SCHALLERT Running three hours and 28 minutes, "War and Peace" Composer From Skid By a Times Correspondent i SAN DIEGO, Aug.

23 Art authorities here today stared astonishment at the 30 paintings created witnin a few days by a suddenly so bered Skid Kow wanderer and learned the artist is Willy Stahl. Stahl is the onetime-noted New York and Hollywood composer and musician who allowed the enormity of trag edy to drown his success 1949. That was the year his wife died of cancer. Less than a week later his daughter was killed in an automobile accident. Willy Stahl began to drink I ly shaded portrayal.

She is sure of a triumph. Though the other parts are exceedingly well acted tney must remain in the shadow. Henry Fonda's could have been near greatness, but it misses because he seems like an anu character in nis De- havior on the battlefields. He is actually the symbolic figure of peaceful thinking in the story, and represents the heroine's lasting romance. Mel Ferrer as the Prince Bolonsky evidenced fine style Turn to Page 3, Column 1 Pension Plan to Start Soon for Extras Members of the Screen Extras Guild will become a part of the motion-picture in dustry pension plan faept.

under terms of a newly rati fied agreement with the As sociation of Motion Picture Producers and the Alliance of Television Film Producers, the SEG membership was notified yesterday. Contributions to the pension plan will be 48 cents from the producers and 32 cents from the extras for each straight time day worked. Meanwhile, new wage rates called for by the contract will become effective Sunday and will be retroactive to last Jan. 2. KIVCL wnere UIC 'X '7; arrived at the Hollywood Paramount Theater last night as a picture of mammoth proportions and spectacular SAN FRANCISCO The centennial national convention of the Republican Party slid happily into history on a sea of pricked soap bubbles vainly blown up by Harold Stassen and the left-wingers who tried to make use of him to somehow deprive the party of Dick Nixon's services.

POPULAR The facts of the case are, and always were, that the people who are the heart and soul and sinews of the Republican Party have always wanted Nixon to continue as President Eisenhower's right-hand man. The opposition to Nixon began and grew among the Democrats who, after coasting happily along for a generation with little vigorous opposition, were startled and, in truth, badly hurt by the effective campaigning of the Vice-President. The muttering against him started when he unmasked Alger Hiss and rose to a crescendo when Nixon's vigorous and successful campaigning in the West in 1954 pretty well held the Republican Congressional edge. It was in the East, which was not Nixon's campaigning area, that the control of Congress was lost by the Republicans. CAMPAIGNER Nixon's numerous efforts, all over the country, to assist local candidates has built for him not only a record as a fine campaigner but also has filled for him a great reservoir of goodwill among Republicans.

There has never been any doubt among knowledgeable people that Nixon was the real choice of the 1 i a workers, from whom most of the delegates are chosen. The thing that always fascinates me in dealing with the left-wing, egghead type of political amateur is the manner in which they can delude themselves by blandly ignoring the facts of life. So, anyone with any knowledge whatever of Dwight D. Eisenhower should have been aware that Nixon was his choice for Vice-President again this time. If Eisenhower had been dissatisfied he could and would have chucked Nixon overboard months ago.

But people simply refused to believe the obvious fact that the President, while favoring Nixon, was not going to come right out and say so until he himself had been nominated. He did everything short of that to show that his choice was clearly Nixon, but he eggheads refused to believe the plain facts. DELUSIONS Having successfully launched Harold Stassen on his Don Quixote campaign, the left-wingers among the reporters and pundits then proceeded to interview each other and come up with this remarkable thesis that the President didn't really want Nixon, and that even Na-t i a 1 Chairman Leonard Hall had misunderstood the President. The President, they reasoned, really wanted somebody else and the purpose of speeding up his arrival in San Francisco was to make that plain. He was coming here, they explained in print and on the air, in order to interview prospective Vice-Presidential candidates and give them the green light to go right ahead.

The delegates, they admitted, were pretty unanimously for Nixon but the intima tion was that the delegates were the deluded stooges of what they called the "Hall-Nixon machine." HOPES DASHED You should have seen the look on the faces of some of them listening to the President's news conference on Wednesday when somebody finally asked him the direct question: "Did you come out here with the intention of interviewing prospective candidates for the Vice-Presidency?" and the President's answer was "Certainly not." The whole theory had blown up right in their faces. Another idea they have cherished and circulated, by whisper, likewise was punctured. Thi3 was their rumor that the President really never intended to run for a second term and was coming out to San Francisco to withdraw from the race. The President surely is a disappointment to these peculiar people. Times photo Laurel Canyon Homes Periled by Brush Fire The second brush fire in as many days yesterday threatened a dozen or more homes in Laurel Canyon a quarter mile north of Hollywood Blvd.

Prompt action by residents of the canyon who manned garden hoses and by the Fire Department confined the blaze to two acres of tinder-dry brush and slight damage to one house. Asst. Chief Forest W. Moore, who directed the fire-fighting operations, said the blaze apparently started from a cigarette thrown from a passing car. One House Singed The flames raced through the dry brush and trees and singed the home of Mrs.

Dorothy Gonzales at 8169 Gould Ave. The damage was estimated at about $300 by Moore. Miss Ruth Harvey, televi sion publicist of 8175 Gould said she was roused by neighbors and looked out the window to see the flames racing up the steep hill toward her home. "I was panicked," Miss Harvey said, "I started gath ering things from the house and carrying them to the car. Two Fliers Presumed Lost at Sea Two crewmen of a war sur plus B-26 bomber that disap peared Wednesday on a flight from Iceland to Scotland were presumed lost yesterday, air- sea rescue units reported.

The plane is believed to have crashed in the North Atlantic shortly after take-off from Iceland. The crewmen were Pilot Stanley layior Grav. 27. of 1169 Pacific Tnrv ic 4Q Fleet way. Burbank air- i 'nlanp fprrvirnr firm i Woman Slain in Rooming House Mrs.

Gerry Gregg, 24, of 526 6th was stabbed to death early vesterdav in a I rooming house at 906 San Pedro St Thomas Wade 18, of 817 26ra was arrested on suspicion of mur-i der after witnesses said thevi saw him fleeing the scene' with a knife. i David Rose Rearranges Songs for Bowl Concert Within one year he had lost all he had worked for during his lifetime. Sells His Home He sold his $150,000 home in Beverlv Hills and his an nual income plummeted. He disappeared. In 1953 Willy showed up in Los Angeles again.

The sensitive artist who had played with the Russian Symphony Orchestra, the New York Symphony Orchestra and had come to Hollywood in 1934 to establish himself as a com poser for films told of hitch hikine across the United States, an aimless drifter In Wyoming he had Waltz" and "Holiday for Strings." Alo on the program will be many songs written by Jerome Kern for his famous musical shows. These will include "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, "Long Ago and Far Away," "Waltz in Springtime," "Can I Forget You," "The Song Is You," 'All the Things You Are," 'Look for the Silver Lining," "Who," "Bill," "01' Man Riv er" and "Make Believe." Other songs by other composers will be "One Night of Love, Italian Street bong. "This Is My Beloved," "This Nearly Was Mine "It Ain't Necessarily So," "Wanting You," "Trolley Song," "But tons and Bows, Love Is a Many Splendored Thing" and the "Nina, Pmta and Santa Maria." Leopold Stokowski will conduct the orchestra in a symphonic concert Tuesday night. One of the principal numbers will be Gustav Hoist's suite, "The Planets" (Opus 32). David Rose, noted conductor, yesterday made new orchestral arran gements of three of his own songs to be played by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at tomorrow's Pop concert in Hollywood Bowl.

Lois Hunt, attractive soprano who will be on the bill with Earl Wrightson, baritone, and the Roger Wagner Chorale, assisted Rose in spe cial numbers. The three compositions which Rose wrote and which he orchestrated are "Or- pheus on Vacation, "Our scenic effects. I There was tremendous ex citement over its advent and gala introductions of such visiting celebrities as the Italian producer, Dino de Lau- rentiis, with his wife, Silvana Mangano, and the even more publicized Alexandra Tolstoy, daughter of Count Leo Tolstoy, who write the original voluminous novel. Claudette Colbert intro duced the author's daughter from the stage, as well as De Laurentiis and Director King Vidor. Alexandra Tolstoy addressed the assemblage, emphasizing that the film de picts the older Russia her father knew so well.

Great War Epic King Vidor, who dates his main rise as a director from the time he made "The Big Parade about World War is recognized as again having a major opportunity to offer a great war epic in "War and Peace." He has succeeded in all larger issues in creating a very fine production far too long for comfort it must be admitted, but notable and compelling in practically all primary respects. Showing the film with an intermission would probably offset the is sue of its length. The exceedingly complex story revolves mostly around the fate of a young Russian, Natasha Rostov, played by Audrey Hepburn, who is a revelation of almost un-imagined beauty in her fine-l LOSES LEFT LEG wrapped- his artist's fingert around the handles of pick and shovels to work as a laborer on a reservoir project. In Saranac, N.Y., Stahl had washed dishes in the hotel where he and his wife had spent their honeymoon. Drops From Sight The slender, dark-haired man reappeared here Aug.

5, 1953, with hopes of resuming his once-spectacular career. But he dropped out of sight once more. Until two weeks ago. Then the 60-year-old Stahl, once again feeling the necessity to Turn to Page 2, Column 1 Kuchel to Set Off River Job Sen. Kuchel, who fought for the project in the Senate will touch off a charge of dynamite tomorrow to start construction of the Casitas Dam on the $27,669,000 Ventura River Project.

The dam will impound 000 acre-feet of water. It is part of a project consisting of Casitas Reservoir, a diversion dam on the Ventura River and a conduit system consist ing of 33 miles of pipelines, seven pumping plants and six balancing reservoirs. Named as Participants Rep. Charles M. Teague of Ojai, President George M.

Purvis of the Ventura Kiver Municipal Water District Board, and Leland Bennett, engineer-manager of the district, will take part in ceremonies tomorrow. Sen. Kuchel, a member of the Senate Public Works and Insular and Interior Affairs Committees, introduced the Ventura Project measure which was enacted last March. It is to be completed in 1958. Bonelli's car was found in a Phoenix garage on Tues day.

It had been there nearly a week. Comic Dictionary GOLF A wonderful sport in which you can be a pedestrian without beinf run ver. Copyright. IMS. kr BMt Trolley Drags Woman 4 Blocks and She Lives All-Points Bulletin to Arrest Bonelli Received Sheriff's officers here yes-find Bonelli at the latter'g terday received an all-points i Kingman (Ariz.) ranch fol-bulletin from San Diego lowing arl Arizona Supreme County Sheriff Bert Strand I Court order that the onetime seeking the arrest of William liquor official be arrested and G.

Bonelli. missing formerijaiied pending outcome of his California liquor official. year-long fight to avoid ex-Strand has notified to California. A 68, a lk edlstruck at American Ave. and Dri ve San Die g0.

and a 1 nMJ Ar UU-H mharA tho Idl was making a right turn New YorkCitv Los Angeles, it was not until; L. emnlovpd bv moving Metropolitan Coach Lines electric streetcar in Lorn? Beach vesterdav morn mtr. was knocked beneath it and clung desperately to thesengers saw her clinging to forward wheel truck while I the bottom and shouted to it paused at American Broadway mai waning the motorman, Lnester u. beocner, oi iiwo na si. Lebcher, a veteran of 10 years' operation on the Long Beach-to-Los Angeles run.

told police he did not see Mrs. Griffin struck. I Witnesses said she was out ot the crosswalk and going being dragged four blocks. Mrs. Elizabeth Griffin, of 449 Seaside lost her left foot as she fell before the streetcar and, at Seaside Hospital, doctors were forced to amputate her left leg at the hip.

iney said sne also sunered Sheriff's offices he holds a conspiracy warrant against Bonelli with bail set at Bonelli, 61, may be traveling with his wife, the San Diego bulletin pointed out. She is 60. "If arrested, we will imme-' diately start extradition pro-! ceedings," read the bulletin. A similar notice already) 1 T1 1 was issuea Dy ouenn rrannj Porter of Mohave County in, Arizona when he failed to' severe internal and head in--east across American Ave. juries as well as a crushed when she stepped into the pelvis.

Ipath of the electric street- Although Mrs. Griffin was, car. WORKING ON PROGRAM David Rose, conductor, and Lois Hunt, soprano, work on arrangements of his own songs they will present at Bowl tomorrow night..