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LOCAL NEWS EDITORIALS OPINIONS PART 2 VOL. LXIX CC TUESDAY MORNING MARCH 14, 1950 Times Office: 202 Wesf First Street, Los Angeles 53, Calif. MAdison 2345 License Radio Renewal Fight BY THE with BILL HENRY FCC Hearing Here 1 i i mmsn v- i mmmmms vice for movies metered to television set over telephone lines. From left are Cecil B. De Mille, McDonald and Mack Sennett examining Phonevision attachment, -Times photn METERED PROGRAMS Hollywood film makers heard plan to meet television threat when E.

F. McDonald, president of Zenith Radio explained Phonevisibn de- Plan to Meet Television Threat Offered Film Men RETIRED MINISTER, ILL, LOSES WALLET WITH HIS LAST $125 His retirement got off to an unhappy start here yester-. day for an ill minister from Seattle. The Rev. Mark Freeman, 70, reported to police the loss of his wallet containing his worldly wealth $125.

clergyman, visiting his daughter, Mrs. Margaret Barker of 5759 Clemson was forced into retirement a month ago by ill health. He came here last week for a visit. Yesterday he boarded a bus and rode to Crenshaw and Jefferson Blvds. On his return home he missed his wallet.

He retraced his route but couldn't find it. "I hope it may be Said "his daughter. "It's all the money Dad has in the world." Radio Manufacturer Here Discusses Device to Bring Movies Into Home by Phone Service Film makers yesterday heard strong words in plain lan guage about television's threat to the motion-picture industry and were offered a "living-room box-office" idea called Phonevision as a possible solution. Goes Into State Office to Find Jobs Opens Here Los Angeles will be the State headquarters of the newly created government agency facing the problem of finding jobs for California's 460,000 unemployed workers. H.

R. Harnish, chief of the Division of Development and Stabilization of the Department of Employment, so reported yesterday as he opened an office in the Department of Employment Building at 525 Flower St. Assistant Chosen "Population trends being what they it is logical that we should work out of this location," said Harnish. Harnish announced the appointment of WalteY Christian, Jong employment service expert with the Department of Employment and former manager of the department's Los Angeles industrial office at 11th and Flower as his assist ant, in charge of the area from Santa Barbara County" to the Mexican boundary. Two other assistants will be named, one to be chairman of the coastal area from San Luis Obispo County to the northern State boundary and another to head the San Joaquin-Sacramento Valley area; Harnish said that the division will operate with a staff of about 14, which will be formed from workers of the Employment Department.

Has Long Experience The division chief tackles his new assignment with 14 years of government experience, in addition to an extensive executive career in private industry, behind him. He, has served in the department as administrative coordinator for Southern California and as area manager for Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, his most recent Earlier, he was executive officer for Southern California of the Office of Production Management and State manpower director for Southern California. "We In California are confronted with a labor force that is expanding even more rapidly than our fast-growing economy," Harnish said. "The basic solution to our problem consists of promoting avenues of expansion for the great industries we already havei and of encouraging the develop-' ment of new California industry by every means possible." The Division of Development Turn to Page 3, Column 5 1 Scout-O-Rama Signs 40 of Council Units 4. CHIEF H.

R. Harnish, who heads new State agency to reduce unemployment. Time photo More Candidates File for Office in Primary Race Candidates who filed yester day for offices to be voted on at the direct primary election June 6 include the following: Congressman, 14th District, Robert T. LeFevre, broker, 2505 registered Republican, filed both Republican and Democratic. Congressman, 18th' District, Raymond C.

Parker, 330 Ocean Long Beach, registered Democratic, filed by Democratic Party. 1 Congressman, 19th District, Chet Holifield, 'member of Con gress, 433 Monteoelio, regis tered Democratic, filed both publican and Democratic. Attorney General, Marshall AbJ bott, attorney, 669 Westmoreland registered Democratic, filed both Republican and Democratic. Superior Court, Office 17, Joseph M. Maltby, Superior Court 3065 2nd Long Beach.

Superior Court, Office 8, Ingall W. Bull, Superior Court Judge, 358 Van Ness Ave. Supervisor, 3rd District, John Anson Ford, County Supervisor, 1976 Normandie Ave. Fatal Knifing Jails Man One man is dead from stab bing -and another is in jail for murder following a dispute over dancing with their wives at a cafe at 905 Wilmington. J.

C. 30, of S44. Stock port Drive, San Pedro, died in Harbor General Hospital yesterday from knife wounds. Held on the murder charge in San Pedro Jail is Nathaniel H. Williams, 29, a swamper, of 4106 Main St.Los Angeles.

Lucius T. Brown, 29, truck driver, 215 56th Los Angeles, is being held fr investigation. VISIBILITY RECORD; TODAY'S 'FORECAST Following are the forecast 1 of visibility for Los Angeles Civic Center today and" yesterday's range of visibility, as compiled by the U.S. Weather Bureau-Forecast Sunrise to 8 a.m. 8 a.m.

to sundown Very good Yesterday's Range 8 a.m 40 miles 9 a.m. 15 miles 10 a.m 12 mjles 11 a.m.'... ..15 miles Noon 20 miles 1, and 2 p.m ..25 miles 3 and 4 p.m. .30 miles is titled "Strengthen Liberty WASHINGTON If, in the wake of the Hiss case and all the charges by Sen. McCarthy, the dignified and austere Department of State now appears more anxious to please, you must say that this "open door" policy toward the press began before the current furor.

OPEN DOOR Some months back Secretary Dean Acheson and Undersecretary Webb launched this "new look" in State Department public relations. Doors that had been locked and bolted suddenly began to open to the reporters, the "no comment" boys began to pass along the real low-down on sundry situations. Returning Ambassadors gave complete briefing to the reporters. State Department "thinkers" began to hold sessions at which they told what the problems were and what solutions were being considered. All students in the Foreign Service Institute ere being put over the jumps in a public relations course, explaining the facts of journalistic life and the benefits to be obtained from good press relations.

All of this was to convince State Department personnel that the chiefs are anxious to keep th American people informed on foreign policy. INSPIRATION When you consider that as far back as anybody can remember, the policy of the State Department has been to hush things up and keep them hushed, this is quite a step forward. Credit for making 1 me decision goes to the two top men, Acheson and Webb, who recognized this necessity. And with all due credit to them for making it, there is just a suspicion that the test run given this policy had a good deal to do with its adoption. This trial run was carried off pretty triumphantly under the direction of the only sort of chap who could do it a man with a good knowledge of the news business as well as thorough acquaintance with the intricacies of the Department.

Such men aren't to be found on every street corner-but the State Department found one. EXPERIENCE The fellow who pushed the job through, and is still a special assistant to theUndersecretary.is one whose face is known to more people than his name, in all probability. hen the armies under Gen. MacArthur began their long drive back through the-islands to Japan, there was a familiar scene enacted on-almost every island a picture of the general himself wading ashore. In every such picture two other figures seemed to loom up one was a big man who bore a slight resemblance to Hermann Goering that was Bill Dunn, who was a radio reporter.

The other was a grim-looking chap with a rifle in his hands that was Larry Lehrbas, then a colonel and MacArthur's personal aide. That's the chap Lehrbas who pushed through the test run of the new policy in the State Department. CAREER Probably if anyone started to write of a storybook newspaperman, he'd take the Lehrbas career as a good model. Lehrbas went from mid-college into journalism, time out to learn to fly in World War back to newspapering, then to the Orient just in time to be captured by Chinese bandits in 1923, escape, then arrange the release of the American captives and get a big news beat. Then he got into Movietone when it was first starting and had quite a career as news director.

Then back to newspapering and covering the State Department, naval conferences and so on. He got Pulitzer prize mention when he was in Warsaw at the beginning of World War II and telephoned a description of the Nazi bombing. He got another big beat on the assassination of Rumania's Prime Minister. ACTIVITY When Pearl Har bor came along Lehrbas went back in the service and convoyed the first batch of reporters to Australia to meet Mac-Arthur, after first escaping the Java debacle. When MacArthur spotted him he promptly grabbed Lehrbas, put him on his staff, where he remained until he accompanied his chief on" the famous return to the Philippines.

Lehrbas no sooner shed his uniform than he was shanghaied to help get the Voice of America going and, after organizing the news-gathering end of that activity, he made a survey of the State Department's public relations problem and came up with his present job. Lehrbas is an icy believer in letting the public know the facts he seems to have convinced his bosses that, in the long run, that's better than forever trying to keep things a se- cret. Hrr Bill Hnry, Monday through Friday, EHJ, 8:55 p.m. That dollar on the bill, he said, would be split three ways one-quarter to the telephone company, a quarter to the television station and a half to the motion picture industry that supplies the pictures. Owners Willing to Pay was asked why.

television needs Phonevision. "Because," he answered, "those same surveys showed that more than 70 of television set owners said they would pay for better entertainment Better entertainment means good movies." McDonald does not believe television stations will be able to produce feature films from advertising revenue alone. And he believes 90 of entertainment on television will be films. Plans 90-Day Test McDonald is here to associate his idea with' the studios. He's already experimented for three years Chicago with Phone vision.

This fall, he plans a 90-day experiment with the approval of the FCC, which he doesn't have yet with Phonevision in the Chicago area. Owner of KMPC Accused of 'Slanting News Launched here yesterday was a grim legal battle involving the radio industry which is regarded as one of the most vital tests that industry ever faced. It is a Federal Communications Commission hearing on an application for a license renewal by George Richards, owner of three of the nation's most powerful radio stations, who is accused of instructing his news staffs to "slant" their broadcasts in accordance with his personal beliefs. KMPC Involved One of Richard's stations is KMPC, Los Angeles, a independent. The others are WJR, Detroit, and WGAR, Cleveland, O.

The latter two are affiliated with the Columbia' Broadcasting System. J. Frederick Johnson, examiner for the FCC, whose role is the equivalent of a trial judge with the FCC itself serving only as a subsequent "court of re view, opened the. hearing in the Assembly Room of the State Building. Sessions here are expected to last at least five weeks.

probably longer. hear ings are scheduled later in De-troit and Cleveland. It is the contention of his ac cusers principally former employees and James Roosevelt that Richards tampered editorially with newscasts from the. stations he controls. Political View The defense contends that Richards is being subjected to penalty by possible loss of his three stations because his private political views are in opposition to those of the Truman administration and because in private, has been an out spoken foe of Communism.

Richards, who has been ill for several years, is not attending the hearing. In an opening statement-after Examiner Johnson denied a defense motion to have the pro- ceedings registered on a tape recording Frederick W. Ford, chief counsel for the FCC, who will present the complaints against Richards to the commission, declared: "These proceedings will tend to prove that, beginning about 1940, Richards gave instructions to his employees regarding the content of news broadcasts and the manner in which they Were to be presented. Instructions to Staff Instructions Increased in detail, particularly at KMPC, to the point where he ordered news, distorted to substantiate his personal dislikes and even suggested voice inflections." After- asserting that Richards gave these instructions in per: son, over the telephone and xn brief notes, Ford charged: The facilities of these power ful stations were used in the in? terest of Mr. Richards, not in the interest of the public." As a result, Fdrd concluded, some of Richards employees resigned," others were dismissed.

In an opening statement. which he insisted was the first chance the defense has had' to go on record the case, Hugh Ful ton," chief counsel for the battery of attorneys representing Richards and his radio stations, declared: Issue Pointed Out "I submit that the issue in these proceedings is of fundamental rand basic importance to every American." Asserting repeatedly that Richards did not falsify his stations' news broadcasts or order deceit used therein, Fulton said that Richards faces revocation of his licenses because he pri Towi to Page 2, Column 1 divorce in Reno, Nev.v, April 28, 1949, she was not aware of the impending birth. Later, she adds. she notified her former husbanri, but he refused to accept the responsibility for support and denied paternity. Reginald Hammerstein, manager-producer for such of his brother's hits as "Oklahoma!" and "South Pacific," first, met his wife when she applied for a part in "Oklahoma!" according to her attorneys.

She didn't get the part, the lawyers said, but five days later, on June 2C, 1944, she became the producer's and is based on Scouting experi ence to more boys through better trained leaders. The Cub Scout show, "Out of a Story Booic," is a fantasy. Trojan Chest Fund Raised Students at the University of Southern California yesterday announced that they had raised $10,000 in one week for the Tro jan Chest which is used annually to send underprivileged children to summer camps. The drive was climaxed by selection of "Mister and Miss Tro-janality." The latter title was taken by Carol Kingsbaker of 326 Reeves Drive, Beverly Hills, and Stan Case, 114 Stonehaven Way, was named the top man. Harriet Briggs served as cochair-man of the drive with Bob The words and the offer came from Comdr.

E. F. McDonald who, as president of the Zenith Radio Corp. of Chicago, is one of the nation's leading makers of television sets. McDonald said jflatly that people who own television sets are staying out of motion picture the aters He cited surveys which showed that in television cen ters such as New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, movie theater box office receipts had dropped enormously and set owners said they were, seeing at least 2,5 fewer movies.

Sees Increased 'Tendency He added, "And this is only the beginning. Last were 3,800,000 television sets sold. This year, there will be more than 5,000,000 sold. You can't stand in the w.ay of progress. People are going to buy television.

They're going to stay in their living rooms and look at it. And then what happens to your box office and your indus try?" He stated the answer is simple. You move the box office into the living room. Phonevision is a small machine developed at the Zenith laboratories which unscrambles or ungarbles reception. It works in conjunction with the set owner's telephone.

Sent in Garbled Form Extraordinary entertainment, such as the best of Hollywood's film products, are sent from television stations in the garbled form, he explained. They wiggle and shimmy all Over the screen of television sets. So the set owner, wishing to see the picture being telecast, picks up his phone and asks the operator for phonevision. An impulse is sent over the telephone wires to the unscrambling gadg et. The screen immediately clears.

And the set owner is billed about $1 for his entertainment by his telephone company. That all there is to Phone vision but Comdr. McDonald sees it as a $1,000,000,000 source of entertainment revenue a year. 'IrL1 set in a California mining Some 40 of the units in the Los Angeles Area Council, 'Boy Scout3 of America, have, signed of participation in the coming Scout-O-Rama April 21 and 22 at Gilmore Stadium. Scout troops, Cub packs and Explorer units of the Scouting Council will participate, either in booth displays -or in the stage shows.

Booths will include demonstrations of Scouting skills, such as camping, hiking, first aid and Indian lore. Among the most unusual will be jbooths displaying Braille Scouting for blind youngsters and a Cub booth on imaginative silhouettes. One Air Scout unit will exhibit a Link trainer for blind flying instruction. Three stage shows are also on the program, eaeh depicting the work" of a single phase of town of 1850, on the day Cali- fornia is admitted to the Union as a State. -The Scout and Explorer show w.

SUES FOR SUPPORT Mrs. whose support she filed suit here to use in that experiment and see a cross-section reaction to the public's paying as it watches," he said. The industrialist added that not only movies would be scrambled but also major football games, fights and other sporting events. New Sports Revenues "The watcher would pay an admission just as if he went to the game. It gives colleges and sports arenas a new source of revenue and television the great est field it has ever had." Producer Cecil B.

De Mille introduced McDonald and warned leaders of the motion-picture industry that the thing that happened to legitimate theaters and vaudeville when the movies came might well now happen to movies. He said, "We must join hands with this new medium in some way if we are to survive. Maybe this is the way." there had been so much -publicity that Bing had decided to have it performed and "get it over with." "The first thing he asked for after he came out of the anesthetic was his mail," said Everett. "He'll probably go on to Chicago for a broadcast the end of this month as planned, and then to New York." Crosby is likely later to rest at his ranch at Elko, Nev it was learned. His condition was reported SURPRISE TO BROTHERS Birig Crosby Has -Appendix Operation DIVORCED WIFE SUES REGINALD HAMMERSTEIN Financial support for a daugh-j ter born to her five months ago was demanded yesterday by Mrs.

Mary Hammerstein, 40, in a suit filed in Superior Court -against her former husband, Reginald Hammerstein, 55, New York stage producer. The complaint asserts that Hammerstein, a brother of Oscar Hammerstein II, Broadway composer, has refused to acknowl edge paternity of the girl, Reg gie, oorn last Oct. 10. Mrs. petition avers that when sh obtained a Einsr Crosby sprung a sur prise when he went to St John's Hospital at Santa Monica yesterday for an appendectomy.

Neither Everett nor Larry Crosby, his brothers, who are closely associated in his enterprises, were notified in advance of Crooner Crosby's sudden decision to have surgery per formed. The operating physician was Dr. Arnold Stevens. Crosby had been dallying with the idea of an operation for some weeks, and one' of xhis brothers said ha believed that Mary Hammerstein holds 5-month-old daughter, Reggie, for against Stags Producer Reginald Hammerstein. Ttmti photo good after th operation.

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