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An PART 2 LOCAL NEWS EDITORIALS OPINIONS VOL. LXXIII WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 3, 1954 Timet Office: 202 West First Street, Los Angeles 53, Calif. MAdison 2345 ml BY THE WAY with BILL HENRY Best Not Secretary to Balk Dip, Labor Tells Contractors I I ft, si-, 1 I I ff fir 'f I f.y 'Xi I "SN I 1 Adjustments to Lead to Upswing, Parley Hears Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell said yesterday that the United States will be better off by "getting its economic adjustment over with fast, rather than adopting schemes to postpone it." In a speech prepared for the 35th annual convention of Associated General Contractors of America at the Statler and delivered by sound film because he was called to a Cabinet meeting in Washington Mitchell declared the present lull in economic activity "is a necessary readjustment that we could only postpone, not avoid." Sees Leveling Off "I want to tell you as emphatically us I can that we are not going from boom to bust." the Labor Secretary told 2000 contractors at the convention's second general session. "It cannot be denied," Mitchell continued, "that we are coming down from an artificially hich peak of economic activity created by war and inflation.

There may be a slight but not significant increase in unemployment in the next two months. Then, for another few months, we will rest at that level. "It is my view that we are better off getting it over with fa-t rather than adopting schemes to postpone it, which would themselves make the ad rmftrmir iVHfi Mil tt.t Hf" Mkt i jtoMmmmmymwv 4 i at Childrens Hospital gift and ontique shop. Shop volunteers assisting are, from left, Mrs. Leo Wilheim, HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mrs.

Albert (Kate) Cruncher, beloved "mother" of the Childrens Hospital, blows out 21 candles on cake honoring her on her 85th birthday U.S. Jury to 1Air Las Vegas Casino Case Contractor Charges He Was 'Imprisoned' for Gambling Debt Charges of a Los Angeles contractor that he was "imprisoned;" at El Rancho Vegas for 1,2 hours last August while the hotel forced his wife to bring $400 from Los Angeles to cover some checks for gambling debts at the Las Vegas hotel's casino will be aired by the Federal grand jury in Los Angeles today. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents will testify about their investigation of methods c.ed by Beldon R. Katleman, owner of the strip hotel in the Nevada city, in collecting gambling bills and other debts. Damage Suit Withdrawn John I).

Maher, contractor of 10830 Lindbrook Drive, filed a damage suit against Katleman in Las Vegas last but later withdrew it. He charged Katleman kept him "under armed guard," imprisoned in a room behind the hotel cashier's cage from about noon Aug. 6 until 12:30 a.m.. when he was released by Sheriff's Capt. Ralph Lamb.

Maher complained he was de tained by three special police who are deputized by the Las Vegas Sheriff's office. Shortly afterward the trio were dis charged and commissions of all 12 employed at El Rancho Ve- igas were revoked, but a day later all were back at work with commissions restored. Xo Action Taken Dist. Attv. Roger Foley (j Mrs.

J. Howard Lmdsey. Kate Crutcher Works as Usual on 85th Birthday Beloved 'Mother' of Childrens Hospital Does Volunteer Duty in Antique Shop Mrs. Albert (Kate) Crutcher blew out 21 candles on a cake yesterday to celebrate her 85th birthday. And then SPEAKER Earl Bunting, NAM director, opposes government props.

Tim photo Governmental Props Opposed by NAM Chief American businessmen prefer to face the country's current economic readjustment rather than put up with any more governmental props, Earl Bunting, managing director of the Na tional Association of Manufacturers, said here yesterday. In an interview before his speech at Town Hall in the Biltmore, Bunting called for a re-examination of the props under the national economy. He listed these as tariffs on imports from other countries, rigid farm support policies and government in labor -management relations. Difference on Tariffs ''There is a wide difference among businessmen about what should he done on tariffs," the Washington (DC.) NAM repre sentative said. It should not be overlooked that we already have the low- tatriffs any country on ments.

Farm support must be shifted to the flexible system favored bv President Eisen- CARACAS There is a strange, conglomerate atmosphere to this town a mixture of ultramodern architecture and superhighways with the dreamy donkey cart and duenna days that followed the swashbuckling era when the sea approaches to the north were known as the Spanish Main. NEW OLD WORLD this is a lusty community, loaded with fresh spending money most of it American. You could call this the Texas of the Caribbean. It's bigger than Texas, believe it or not! Sink a hole in the ground and you're likely to strike oil or gold or as U.S. Steel did an entire mountain of iron.

Plunge into the offshore Caribbean and you come up with tasty shrimp or succulent turtle or even a handful of pearls. All this the Spaniards suspected after Christopher Columbus sailed off the coast In 1498. The conquistadores landed here to seek the fabled El Dorado but they came and conquered, were run off the reservation by Caracas-born hero Simon Bolivar, and it remained for a lot of sweaty, grimy Americans to find the fabulous riches which are now being plowed back in the form of-skyscrapers, highways and public works. MODERN ISTIC This city knocks your eye out when you first see it. Venezuela is a mountainous country, yet tropical.

There's something Hawaiian about its appearance. As you skirt the coast of the Caribbean by plane, Venezuela rises abruptly from the sea and Caracas, the capital city, lies inland a dozen miles or so from its port of La Guaira. They were connected until recently by a wriggly, tortuous mountain road that would scare the daylights out of a self-respecting Rocky Mountain goat but now there is a magnificent divided high-gear highway of which any country could be proud. It is as complete a change, in a few years, as that from the old dirt road across the Te-hachapi to the modern Ridge Route. DEVELOPMENT he old town of Caracas, once a tiled, plastered adaptation of old Spain, is being swiftly engulfed by modernization.

They're completing, a pair of twin 28-story skyscrapers on either side of a magnificent new boulevard through town. They have barracks here that look like the finest Hollywood apartment houses ami a new hotel, the $8,000,000 Tame-naco, which doesn't have to take a bow to anything you ever saw anywhere. Auto-pistas, the new motor speedways, lead in every direction and it is the proud boast of Venezuela's government that under President Col. Marcos Perez Jiminez a quarter billion dollars in public works have been completed in the last calendar year. DEVELOPMENT The money for all of this, or most of it, conies from the fabulous riches being pried from bosom by development companies, many of them American, which have Investments in the neighborhood of here and nre pouring more In.

and taking more out. every month. Oil In old stuff here. Nobody known the oMcnt of the vast pools lying beneath the surface but 1.750,000 barrel a day are bring produced here and more wells are being dug Ml the time. The biggest thing of rocciil date is the beginning of Iron ore shipment from the vast iron mountain discovered In Southern Venezuela.

The steel companies, In their haste to tap this vast rache of valuable mineral, Imported SKi.ooo.itno worth of materials Into Venezuela during the first half of m.Vl. Including entire railroads, docks, rnd heaven only know what. First shipment of the ore were delivered nt the enormous new Fairies plant, of C.S. Steel near Philadelphia within the past few weeks. The present Venezuelan gov rrnmeni.

anxious to make tin Impression on the citizenry, lifis gone In ff development of the mnst portacular type. The elevated pl.iz;t with It twin astride Ho-livar Ave. I a showy and Imaginative a anything you have ever seen In your life ii page I'ltrht mtt of those futuristic design you dream bout lillt never expect to -ee. Down In Venezuela they tlon'l hnp to dream It's here. Llmn to Bill Hanry Monday through frlday, KHJ, liSS p.m.

Las ega took the case to in the last 10 years through Clark County grand jury last -the Reciprocal Trade Agree- Lumber From Stranded Ship Starts Scramble Lumber-hungry San Pedro small-boat owners turned salvagers by the dozen yesterday when the British lumber freighter SS Darfield was freed from the rocks 100 yards otf Palos Verdes. They scrambled for an es timated tons of lumber which slid into the sea, despite the frowns of toast Guards- men and the threats muttered by Customs Service men. The lumber was lost when the ship was pulled free by a big derrick barge operating five winches. The ship struck the rocks last Sunday noon in a dense fog. 48 Boats in Scramble Coast Guardsmen reported that at one time 48 small craft were scrambling for the lumber, which they said ranged in from 2xts to timbers larg er than 12x12s.

The Coast Guard reported to customs, but a customs agent said his service was helpless to do anything at the time. "All of that lumber," he said, bonded lumber from Can- ana, iho ship was only putting In to San Tedro to refuel. Any lumber picked up is duti able." Vessel Pulled Free Dutiable or not, the small craft went ahead with their scramble for the lumber, peting with a water taxi service hired to salvage the lumber for the ship's owners, the Pau la Maritime o. of London. The 216-foot Navy tug, the Gear, stood by while the freighter was being freed from the rocks, and towed it to the Todd Shipyards in Los Angeles Harbor.

National Orange Show Prize List Totals $36,125 Cash prize totaling S.in.i:;, will be awarded to exhibitors ind competitors In the an nual National Orange Show in San licrnardino. March through April I. the show man- igement announced yesterday. Total awards for fruit ex hibits In which growers will display their best citrus will amount to Awards for feature exhibits entered by com munities will total $12,000. Prizes also will be awarded In the show's All California Art Kxhlbit.

cltrtN packing contest. flower exhibits, 4-11 Clubs' exhibit and photographic justment sharper, more painful and more protracted when it does occur. Forecasts Upswing 'Then, to complete my forecast, before long I would hope and expect to see the beginning of an upward climb that even tually would see employment growing, incomes increasing and America safely and soundly moving toward a new prosperity and new records of security and living standards for our people." Noting that'lfot gives promise of being the second best construction year in history. with about of new work, Mitchell told contractors: 'These statistics do not offer anv comfort to tnose wno at tempt to convince us we are in the midst of a recession." More I'JS. Spending Quoting government statis- fh t.nhiir l'lf om.

ployee In the construction in-itu-try in furnishing statistics, developing standards for apprenticeship, promoting Industrial sufcty programs and administering the Pavis-Rncon Act providing for predetermination of prevailing minimum wage rate on government construction protects. He faid the department working out Improvement in the enforcement of the wage, determination program which Turn tn Tage 20. Column Mrs. Temple Ashbrook, LA. Transit Seeks More Metro Curbs Los Angeles Transit Lines yesterday asked the City Board of Public Utilities and Transportation to restrict some local passenger operations of Metropolitan Coach Lines if the latter is granted permission to convert rail to bus lines.

It asked that Metro be barred from transporting passengers from one downtown area to another downtown area in territory served by LATL. Such agreements on passenger-carrying operations already are in effect and LATL asked that they be extended to new routes planned by Metro in cop. solidating its Sunset and Wil-shire Rlvds. lines and Glendale with Olympic Blvd. and Venice lines.

The city board has been conducting a series of hearings on Metro's application to change its Hollywood and Glendale lines from street car to motor coach service. I vv. 1 Time phnro Jensen Guards Doubled After Saws Are Found Richard John Jensen, 20, was placed under doubled guards in County Jail and in Superior Judge Charles W. Fricke's court yesterday after two saw blades were found in a jail washroom. The discovery was made before Jensen was taken to court.

where selection began of a jury for his trial on charges of attempted murder, robbery and kidnaping of a Marine hitch hiker. Sgt. Marion L. Piper, 21. last Oct.

3. Deputv Sheriffs said the hack saw blades were discovered aft- rr the jail grapevine told of Jensen boasting that he would pscape. Heath Pciiiilty Pep. Dist. Atty.

Joseph Carr in his questioning of prospec tive jurors indicated he would seek the death penalty on the kidnaping charge. A spectator in court was Mrs. K. J. Williams of San Marino, hose son Billy.

15. was slain bv Jensen in 1039 in a sense less crime for which Jensen i spent several years in State institutions. Jensen was 11 at the time of that slaying. Since his arrest tor the attack on Piper, Jensen has confessed, Authorities said, the shooting to death of Roger 16. of Malibu in Ventura Countv last Se pt.

ok yu. nower. miming aeueo. anu: thpre wiU he jn. thereby eliminate the ppcnfltng this vear for ties" which have riled up agn-erime irnportnnt tvpes'of con-cultural surpluses.

Amotion which will almost off- Punting urged a return to the, s(1, cxported lerlines in Indus-States of many powers now c-nM nuH(ting and military con-ercised by the National Labor Relations Donrd. j' Thpn wil, substantial Labor Contribution 'gain, he said, in construction "American labor," he con-with respect to utilities, stores, tinned, "can make a churches, recreational tial contribution if it delivers if'icili'ies and roads. He pre-increased productivity in re-'hcte! office and warehouse turn for the highest possible building would advance wage. Let lalor forget the fool-1 hU yenr. ishnes of class warfare." Work of Department' Government, according to the mrMl reViewed functions NAM director, should keep outi rfnrmp(.

hv went to work as usual. Because yesterday was Tuesday, and every Tuesday, rain or shine, the beloved "mother" cf the Childrens Hospital reports for volunteer duty at the hospital's gift and antique shop at 1 116 Vermont Ave. (owned in Purple In honor of her birthday, however, Mrs. Crutcher went to work yesterday handsomely gowned in purple and wearing a pert purple hat and a wide smile. She was given a small im piomptu birthday party by oth er volunteer workers in tne shop Mrs.

Temple W. Ashbrook. chairman of the project; Mrs. Leo Wilheim and Mrs. J.

Howard Lindsey. There were two cakes. But there was a shortage of candles just 21. "All right." said Mrs. Crutch or.

"I'll he 21. Hut don't think 1 mind being 85. I'm proud of it." The candles were placed on a white cake surrounded by pan sies. And Mrs. Crutcher with scarcely a huff or a puff blew them all out at once.

And grinned broadly. Addition Going I'p Around the corner at Childrens Hospital workmen were busy building an addition to the 61-year-old Institution. Mrs. Crutcher founded the hospital and is president emeritus. "Have you seen my baby? she asked.

"How it's growing! I'm so proud of my Mrs. Crutcher was one of the founders of the shop 35 years i'go and has been one of its o.st faithful volunteer work ers. It nets as an outlet for the hospital's salvage department. "We started it up on Maple Ave. with Mrs.

Hudd J-ranker) fild fis chairman." she remem brred. Then she turned brisklv to the other volunteers. "Knonch of this party," she said. "Where' my apron? Let's get to work." Bennett Ccrf to Speak on Styles in Humor Pennett Ccrf, publisher, humorist and columnist, will speak on "Chancing Style In American Humor" Itcforp a dinner meeting of the Friend of Occidental College at the I'nl-xerslty Club tomorrow at Vl." p.m. on 'Jinh Century-Fox atuillo piopcrty In West Lou Angclr.

"If the oil pool extend under tlic golf course and playground ami If there ate going to be oth er wells In the district, the liv hloh.iWv will have to Itoie Its fall but no criminal action resulted. U.S. Atty. Laughlin Waters said the investigation swung to Lo Angeles because of the telephone call 8ertedly made from Las Vegas to Mrs. Maher here.

Asst. U.S. Atty. Manlcy J. Boiler will present evidence in the Maher rase to the Federal jury here.

of normal relations between t'in''UT illlll l-HlMOV'l s. F.vcn if there is a strike." he concluded, 'it cle.ir tne air. F.unting. who was NAM president in l'MT and it board chairman in 111, told Town Hall member he favor a per centage decrease In personal Income taxes rather than pro- pos.d increne personal ex emption. Such tax nit, be predicted, would provide the c.ipit.d to finance l-'o'i- ri-e in Ameri ca imiiistnu capacity in another 'JO vcn ffr' Defense Department Will Honor Junior Chamber The l' Ancele .1 lorlplaee at the anniversary ban- of the Junior Chamber at Chamber of Commerce wa titied yesterday that It will re celte the Department of De fene Metitoilou Award ccr- tilhate.

President Robert vanities, social, city and military City May Have to Drill Oil Wells, Hjelte Asserts m. Friday at the Statler. Chairman Martin Plummer aid more than 500 ctvic. busi- leader have conlirmed reser vation to the annual event at which new officer will be installed, a lix-al award of merit will bo ghfil to a loading Southern California civic leader and the coveted Durwatd Howe award will be presented to a Junior Chamber leader. Comic Dictionary DITCH Tlic only thing that' li'iiKiliennl I))- brlnn rut at both end.

enfilti, lM. bf RtisMik announced. The award, highest given bv (he department t' a ci titan organization, will bo given through the junior h.unhrr. whiih onsorcd lit Gift Lift'. final year, the collection of gifts cnt to Korean armed force.

Gen. Dean to Oftlcliilf Mai. Gen. William Dean. Ko- o.iti Wiir liein, will preetil the to the Junior Chamber for Southern Californi.i' effort in tieclopitn the Christmas not, iic pi osr.iin through the it ition.

The ceremony will take The rlty eventually may have to drill oil-well under ll.tneho Coif Course and Cheviot Hills I l.ivground "to protect It own Intel est (Jcorge II telle, gen-e'al manager of the City Herie-at and Patk Department. s.ilil VcsteldaV. BRAVE LITTLE GIRL Not whimper come, from cowrogoou 11 -year-old PeMv Lynn of 10811 S' P'oodwoy, o. ooil uKmce ottcnJcnti bmd up 4 inch gosh in her orm, fudeted when she wo knocked from b'Cvcie bv truck of 110th S' ond Grond Ave Man with themcjer of waM is t'e truck driver, Robert E. Bowley Wnmon with hand ot Poisv bock unidentified neighbor The little token ta the Georgia Street Hospital, loter released (be core of her grandmother.

The tatenient was made wells to piexent other' er he inched a report that oil firm taking oil which belong ha been struck on test welljto it," Hjelte nUl..