The Los Angeles Times du lieu suivant : Los Angeles, California • 2

2 Prt i-TKS, JXM 12. 1 9 5 Itggr.gtlri Cisug Ik Maot Uur Caang hlms: Slain Collecting. $50 Debt Pari W-TKS, JXNi. 22. 1 5 5 Zti ZisraS Ik (Entire City Pays' De Mille Tribute Industry and Civic Leaders Join i in Calling Him Great Praise for the creative genius of Cecil De Milje expressions of deep sadness at his passing came yesteri 1 Attempting day from friends, associates ana leaders in aJ waJcs cl me.

to Get Back jFilm Maker Knew Death iWas Near SAD VISIT Cecilio of 13 grandchildren, pays Calvin Boughdadly, one visit to De Mille home. Timet pwt Loved, Feared, Hated but Always Respected De Mille Was Probably Best Known Movie Producer-Director in World BT PHILIP K. SCIIEUER, UNHAPPY, ENDING Former child star Carl (Alfalfa) Switzer, shown by arrow, with Other members of the "Our. Gang" movie comedies, was shot to death last night in a Dennis Park. home.

Member of the famed "Our Gang" series shown in this 1935 phefo ore, from left seated. Harold Switzer, Alfalfa, SpankyAcFar-land, Darla Hood, Billie (Buckwheat). Thomas and, standing, Tommy McFar-land. This photo of the gang was mode while they were on an appearance tour. Cecil B.

De Mille wasiMan," in a Vine St. barri on probably the best-knowniDec 29, 1913. A third part- producer-director in ejner was Jesse L. Lasky, who world. His passing, in a Hoi- died just one year ago.

Out lywood already saddened by of this association, by amal-manv deaths in the past'gamation with Adolph Zu- TOE with GENE SHERMAN Every Sunday since Jan. 4, 1951, a television show-called "You Asked for It" has been on the air, selling the same brand of peanut butter. In such a mercurial business, this is an impressive record. It is the only show that has continued on the air for year, deals the most crush ing blow yet to the industry and the film capital he helped build. A pioneer who became a giant in a very real as well as mythological sense, he was loved, feared, hated but always respected.

His death' by hours the honoring of Sam uel Goldwyn, Mr. De Mille's partner at the outset of production, with the Milestone Award of the Screen Pro ducers Guild at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Tuesday evening. The pair launched their first picture, "The Squaw De Mille Died as He Wished Busy to End Cecil B. De Mille was fully aware he did not have long to live. His family expected his death.

Yet he never slowed his pace. He remained acuve to his last hour. The past week from his sick bed he worked on what was to be his next picture-r! On My Honor' a story about Boy Scouts. He held daily conferences shaping tip plans for the new film conferences con ducted by him in the bed room of hjs Los Feliz area mansion, where he died early yesterday. Dad didn want to be sick.

He didn't want to be an invalid. He wanted to live or die," the director's son Richard, 36, told 'newsman. He was the sort ot man who refused to slow down. He wanted to work right up to the last minute. "So that's the way he did it" Earlier Heart Attack The director's youngest son, an SC psychologist, told how his father never stopped working after his first heart attack in Egypt four years ago while filming "Ihe Ten Commandments." "He refused to curtail his activity again last June when he had a severe attack after testifying before the Congressional Labor and Educa tion Committee hearing held in Los Angeles, he said.

"Instead of easing his work load, he embarked on a nationwide tour on Denan of 'The which was directed by Anthony Quinn but supervised by my father. "The trip was very hard on him. He felt quite tired ever since. "But he never stopped not until his heart gave out this morning." Nixon Lauds Leadership WASHINGTON. Jan.

21 (UPI) Vice-President Nixon said today that with the death of movie producer Cecil B. De Mille "the world loses one of the truly great showmen of all Nixon, a fellow Californi- an, said he was among those fortunate enough to know De Mille as a personal friend. He said De Mille "will long be remembered for his nnntriKntin 4n well as for his generous par ticipation in civic, religious and philanthropic endeavors eight years with the same sponsor and it surely is one of the few shows that has run that length of time without interruption. The obvious conclusion has to be that it found the right combination. TFT.FVTKTfW HAS fww-imo en mnrh a nnrf nf.

it- lives, along with the complaints it inspires, I thought It might be worth while to know what that combination is. After talking with Cran Chamberlin, who READ, BELIEVED BIBLE Times Motion-Picture Editor kor, now 86. grew Famous Players-Lasky and eventual-. ly Paramount Except for eight years away as an independent pro ducer for RKO-Pathe and MGM. Mr.

De Mille remained rooted at Paramount whose tradition he had been a lead er in molding. His brother, the late William C. de Mille, was also a writerlirector there. It was somehow typical of Cecil, who always big, that be officially changed the small to the upper-case in De Mule, His stock company, as it Please Turn to Pg.JS, Col. 1 created theirs.

Many of them came from the Bible. He's the only producer who should do Biblical pictures'. He didn just read the Bible. he studied it and believed what he read. His "King of Kings," made 29 years ago, is still playing in odd corners of the world; his "The Ten Commandments" will be playing for the next 50 years.

He employed four secre taries, two at home and two at the studio. He would sit up until 3 a.m. making notes in longhand on letters he wanted answered. He dic tated the aftern6on of the night he died. iiT.

r. i. we were graieiui ne bui- Samuel Goldwyn, last.tj the -De MUle-Goldwyn-L; ky 'triumvirate which maS the first full-length movie' years ago, said he was grief-stricken to express 3 that i3 in his heart "For over 50 years v'j were the closest of friend said Goldwyn, "and ther never was a dearer, Unit friend than CeciL I True Giant ft "Cecil De Mille was rf only a great gentleman ail a warm, wonderful humi being but one of the true "grants of the motion -picture industry. In all the histor of motion pictures, no oai brought entertainment Cj more people over the world than he did. "Cecil never for a mo: ent forgot that the purpe'-s of our medium is to entr tain and to bring to thi greatest number of peopJt possible the joy and pleas ure that motion pictures caa create.

"He was a man who wa3 completely dedicated to craft and the contributions which he made to tion pictures will live long after all of us and assure him a towering place in tion-picture history, World Poorer "The world is poorer to day because Cecil B. De Mille is gone." Other comments: Spyros P. presi dent of 20th Century-Fox "The whole, world of enter tainment has lost one ef its most colorful and Important ipersonages in the passing of Lecu B. De Mille. Jie was a master showman, one of the real creative geniuses of Hollywood, and by his accomplishments leaves his name branded In large letters on the tables of film history.

The many great spectacles he created will live on to glorify his nama and fame. The whole motion-picture industry will mourn his loss." Great Contributor Buddy Adler, executive producer of 20th Century-Fox "No one has contributed more conspicuously' to the field of entertainment than Cecil B. De Mille. The, pictures he has made are a monument to his career and are milestorTfes ihat mark the growth and progress of that motion picture industry. Hollywood has never nor is it ever likely to sec, another like him." Y.

Frank Freeman, vice president of Paramount "I feel that I have lost one of my closest and dearesjj friends. The motiop-pictur industry has lost a man wha can never be replaced. Pfes hires he made during thf last 50 years made an imjl pact on the world that canj not be matched. He can nevij er be replaced in the hearts; and. affections of people fit Paramount, where he waj not only a business associate but a close friend of all.

cannot find words to ad qtiately express my feci ings." 2 Walt Disney "I had th utmost respect and admiraj tion for Mr, De Mille and iq his passing the motion-picture industry has suffered adi irreparable loss." Sol C. Siegel, vice-pred Please Turn to Pg, 14, LURE OF MONO TO BE TOLD I ON SUNDAY Every year more than 5 500,000 people, many oft them from the Los An- geles area, spend theipH vacations in Mono Coul ty and reporter Ray He-; bert will tell why in Sun: day's Times. His description of thfji region's hunting, flshinf: and 6kiing attraction and its historical pointfj of Interest will be pub-I; lished as the 12th article In a series about Southernmost Counties. For a colorful and formative report on onflj of California's most pop' ular tourist areas, read the Mono County itory- in Sunday's Times. His Money Carl D.

Switzer, ho won fame and fortune as banjo-eyed Alfalfa of "Our comedies, was fatal- i ly shot last nij-ht trying to 1 'collect a $50 debt in a San Fernando Valley home. The spike-haired, freckle- faced former kid comic was Valley detectives said Switzer was shot in the sto mach as he argued over the $o0 with M. S. Stiltz. 38, at' the latter's home.

10400 Co- lumbus Ave. in Dennis Park. Films Now on TV Switzer thrilled a genera tion of youngsters in the mid- 1930s when he starred in the Hal Roach comedy series. The films, reissued on tele vision now as "The Little Rascals, won him an un-i seen new horde of admiring young fans. But the TV success put no money in Switzer pocket and his latter-day efforts were confined to small picture parts and hit-or-missi jobs such as a hunting guide and bartending.

Detectives said Switzer went to Stiltz home last night with a friend, Jack Piott 37, of 14619 Dickens Canoga Park. Debt Denied Stiltz denied he owed Switzer any money, police said, and in the heat of argument the former child star allegedly hit Stiltz on head with an ornamental electric clock dial. Dets. Louis Bell and Er nest Johnston said the following then occurred: Stiltz got a 38-cahber re volver in his bedroom. Swit zer, followed him and they struggled for the: gun.

The gun hred harmlessly, ana Switzer disarmed Stiltz. Stiltz then pushed Switzer into a closet and recovered the gun. Switzer left the closet and went back to the waiting Piott, a studio still photographer. "He's trying to kill me," Switzer told Piott The actor then took a spring-blade knife from a pocket Shot Fired in Door Stiltz appeared in the doorway and fired a shot, the bullet entering Switzer's stomach, according to the detectives. Switzer died en route to Valley Emergency Hospital.

Stiltz was treated at the same hospital. Jater lor a badly cut right eye. Stiltz told police Switzer borrowed a hunting dog from him and then lost it. When the dog was returned, Switzer paid the finder a $50 reward. It was this $50 Switzer demanded but which Stiltz felt was not his obli gation, police said.

Police said witnesses to Please Torn to Pg. 13, Cot 1 Times Auto Editor Francisco handle the instal lations, oh new cars. "This, of course," he said "seems to indicate a sketchy thinking about the problem but I can assure you we have enough interest in the smog problem to have brought one company, General Motors, to sign a contract for purchase or license to build one type of muffler which will control smog." Burkhaiter, who attended the Society of Automotive Engineers convention in De troit with two other Council members, Ed Roybal and Pat McGee, questioned automo bile industry leaders at the Detroit sessions. Not National Problem Industry leaders did make clear to the Los Angeles delegation that they do not consider smog a national problem, but one reserved al most wholly to Los Angeles. They also pointed out that smog devices would be at tached to new cars only as a De Mille Liked Hard Work, Scorned Ease I SLAIN -Actor Carl (Alfalfa) Switzer, shot to death in row over debt.

SUSPECT was booked of actor Carl M. S. Stiltz in slaying D. Switzer. Times photo BY HEDDA HOPPER Cecil B.

De Mille, the greatest creator and showman of our industry, has gone to his reward. Even as I write this, it's difficult to believe I'll never again hear his cheery voice over the phone or see the twinkle in his eye when I said some thing outrageous. He would have been 78 in August and should have had by all standards another 10 or 20 years. He had his first heart attack while making "The Ten Commandments" and was told to take it easy. He was a man who never knew what the word easy meant.

No one ever loved his job as Cecil did. He never paid a million or a half million dollars for story; he and his writers started the, show with the late Wayne Steffner, I'd say a three-word explanation of its success would be variety, imagination." was head writer for CBS radio and Wayne was head of the sales department," Chamberlin said. "Television had just come in and I was getting rest less in radio. I didn't know it at the time, but so was Wayne. We both quit about the same time.

"Whjje driving home to Brentwood the day I left I heard someone on the car radio make a big thing about a request for a reconj. The idea hit me that a good television show would be one that showed what people wanted to see. Wayne and I got together and in a couple of months we sold the Idea to the sponsor without even a pilot. "WE WANTED TO OPEN with a smash and tried to think of something people always wanted to look atfWe opened the first show with a shot of $1 million In Then we had a couple of actors show how those brutal movie saloon fights were staged without hurting anyone. We wound with a nostalgic segment on Jackie Coogan.

at the start we didn't have any written requests and had to manufacture our own. But people began writing in. Now, during the winter and fall we get from 2,500 to 3,000 letters a month from people who want to see on television something that's caught their fancy, or they've heard about. "We have camera crews here, in New York, Paris, London, Chicago, Florida and Texas. When we send a crew overseas we plan the schedule carefully and come up with a minimum of three features a week.

We started covering Europe In 1956 and were the first to bring a Russian feature to American television. "We couldnl do it without a fine esprit de corps among our staff and without the co-operation of. everyone who helps outs on projects. Once Bill Webb had a Navy carrier task force change course 90 deg. so the sun wouldn't reflect in the camera.

It took us five years of contact and correspondence with Scotland Yard before we could do a feature there. "KIDS ACE A GREAT source of Ideas. They're so uninhibited and they approach things with pure, natural curiositvi One nskprl us. "What (a a We set ferednopain.Hepracucallythe entertainment field, as died in his sleep. He always looked at all Please Turn to Pg.

15, Col. 1 Auto Industry Rapped in Council Smog Report BY BILL DREDGE, The automobile industry was accused of "sketchy thinking" in a report by Councilman Everett" Burk- halter before the City Coun cil yesterday. He summarized his find' ings during his visit to. Detroit last week in an eight- page document which traced the automobile industry's ac tivity in development of smog-control devices. "There are a large number of- prominent people in the auto industry who still feel that this is largely a local problem," he said.

"They do not believe that smog prob lems will invade other cities if something is not done about automobiles in the im mediate future. California Cart Only "It is my conviction that they do not now Intend to in-' stall smog control devices on all cars built but that they do Intend to have car distribu it out to show him and came up with a classic. We got a lot of requests from classes as a. group. The family appeal is important to us.

"I've always been concerned with unusual materialthe offbeat A lot of the criticism of television stems from a colossal lack of imagination and fear that pervades the business, the fear of trying any- thing new. "We think we're using television the way that the medium should be isr to take people places and show them interesting things and let them meet Interesting people without being deadly and heavy. And how better to learn what they want to see than by asking them?" MOURNS FRIIND Y. Frank Freeman, head of Paramount studios, pauses for statement as he leaves the De Mille home at 2000 Dfl' Mille Dr. with his son.

tors in Los Angeles and San Please Turn to Vg. 8, Col. 1.