Los Angeles Evening Citizen News from Hollywood, California • 11

pi Shoppers May jCafes Growl 'Hoard' April Others Grin at fL lVwqq7 i Ration Thursday March 25 1943 Section Two Pago 11 v-- Given Missing Father's Medal WASHINGTON March 23 OPA muilbaR bmuRht many expressions today that meat rationing was hot so tough as expected but it also brought groans particularly from steak and chop house operators who foresaw the fnd of their specialties By mail telegram and telephone reactions poured in on rationing officials shortly after the point values of meat effective were announced Wording of the comments was inot available immediately but WASHINGTON Mareh 23 panned Roods ration stamps became valid today but housewives are expected to hold them for another week because of stronR hints from OPA that their value will be increased next month Future plans were kept secret but top officials who refused to be quoted by name implied' that some reduction in the point values of many types of processed fruits and vegetables could be expected effective' April 1 April coupons -were made valid WASHINGTON March 23 A 16-year-old hoy Kenneth 'Walker Jr of Glendale Calif re- ceiVed from President Roosevelt today a Congressional Medal of Honor awarded his father who has missing in action since 5 when be led a bombing attack on -'V Japanese shipping at Rabaul New Britain Brigadier General Walker a native of CerrillosNM was cited for- "conspicuous and "personal vaior and intrepidity -at an extreme hazard to life The rltatlon accompanying the on' Marrh 23 to help -persons who OPA officials summarized them come to the end of the monthjthis way: 1 with insufficient March stamps to "Restaurants especially the meet essential needs or with odd fancy steak and chop houses numbers of March points that seemed tobe making most of the won't stretch NEW TABLE EXPECTED A new table of fruit and vegetable point values is expected to be ties and qualities Of meats 'that made public over the week end Between this and the meat cheese and fat and oil point values which become- effective next Monday will not be -practicable under rationing and of course thdy are worried consumers rkd RATION Four members of the Community Service Panel of Hollywood Ratiofi but a surprising number householders will get a new idea CRUSADER FOR BETTER Brpr Dahlberg president Board No 19 shown with Cecyl Nelson home service expert of the Southern California Command from last September to of wartime eating with their No 2 point values were not aa bad aa of the Celotex Corp who launched a crusade' here today to provide homes for the ill-housed of the nation is shown with Mrs Dahlberg: An advocate of comfortable inexpensive machine-made houses he concerned with building homes for the wealthy can take care of themselves" he said 7 Million Dwellings Yearly Declared Need After War Gas Co at the public ration cooking school the board is sponsoring at'1641 Jvar Ave each Wednesday Left to right are Mrs Smurro Blessed Sacrament Church repre- sentative Mrs Hazel Anderson Selma AveP-TA and Mrs Genevieve Thomas Lbs Fe thought "that nowt hey should be P-T-A I Mrs Nicholas Christina Grant School liz P-TA able to get their fair share" A West Coast chain store operator observed that "if the customers obtain meat for their tickets hard feelings are bound to i Others took the more optimistic! view however predicting that rationing would tend to equalize distribution and do away with the now common practice for housewives to storm meat counters early in the morning to make their purchases before supplies are exhausted In connection with the scant ie prediction that rationing wilfWpgtio relief to Los meat shortage was made today by local trade representatives as the meat supply steadily diminished Officials of the Department of SF in Buying Panic on Soap SAN FRANCISCO March 24 Soap stocks in stores open during the late afternoon and evening were completely bought up tonight as the rumor that soap had been frozen by the OPA swept Current Events Tomorrow Native Son of the Golden West 12:15 pm 136 Broadway Speaker Anthony Ra cine on "War Manpower Stabilization in Southern Hollywood Woman's Republican Meeting 2 pm Hollywood Hotel Speakers' Leo Anderson "The Southern ration books While it may be profitable to' hold April canned goods stamps for a week officials reminded that the March stamps must be spent by midnight of next Wednesday or they will become worthless The March stamps ate the blue A and stamps The April issue is the blue and stamps The red meat fat oil cheese stamps will be on a weekly basis with only the fed A stamps good for the week beginning Monday The' expected reduction in point values for canned goods likely will be of particular benefit to purchasers of canned fruits and larger size cans of both fruits and vegetables In some few instances point values may he increased OTHER CHANGES COMING Thd adjustment was described mirill nwu California Republican Program" and Mrs Van de Water on "Challenging Trends? A postwar home-construction program of one million houses annually was outlined here toddy by Hrqr Dahlberg New York and ChU-ago industrialist aa the an- Agriculture reported that the Gov- January Walker repeatedly accompanied his units deep Into enemy-held territory nnd develop- ed from personal experience under romhat conditions a efficient technique for bombing when opposed by enemy fighter airplanes and hy anti-aircraft fire" Leading a daylight attack en Jqn 5 which scored direct hits on nine enemy vessels Walker encountered "extremely heavy antiaircraft fire and determined opposition by enemy and his plane was disabled and forced down Also present at the medal award ceremony were Lieut -Gen George Kenney commanding Allied air forces in the Southwest Pacific Maj Gen George Stratemeyer Chief of the Army Air Staff Maj Gen Muir Fairchild Brig Gen James Drain and Representative Hinshaw of California in whose -district the lad lives General Walker joined the Ainy as a flying cadet in the last war and received a commission as second lieutenant in November 1918 Immediately prior to his assignment to duty with the air forces in Australia Walker served in Washington with the Operations Division of the War Department General Staff Corporations have 21 plants in the United States Canada and Great Britain Along with his crusadJ for better living conditions Dahlberg is crusading for 'a revision of building codes Many communities he charged are still building homes on 5u-year-nld codes The industrialist aqd Mrs Dahl meat supplies noticeably' large buying of dried beans took place jemment was proceeding with its by officials as the normal type of'? householder looked Jp theirmcat-oontrol program ahd adding ik a iuiimimI fiauf waaimtaa Hnciafinl 4 a i I several new measures designed to berg plan to acquire a home here Tha tVahtecxnectcd 'from or canned and dried because they have "fallen in love van ue cxpccicu irom hiii coupons to provide the main dish stamp out black markets stabilize through the city The report was completely unfounded It was the biggest panic on buying of any commodity that ever hit San Francisco the Chronicle said The buying panic spread not only here but in Oakland and throughout the East Bay cities Long lines formed before grocery stores and drug stores People came away with arms children's wagons and shopping bags heavily loaded with soap As stores sold out of the only commodity being bought they closed their doors and in some cases even had to post "W21 billion clerks in front to persuade would-be customers that they had no more soap In Washington the Office of Price Administration said that soap had not been frozen and there was no plan to ration it on Edith Worker Aleksander Angeles Wilmington fell from a of a- ship the Consolidated Value of In 1942 is with Southern California" for their meals prices and increase production Announcement of the new point! "The local meat supply is now value yesterday brought spirited at its lowest" commented Thomas Fatally Hurt Kliniski 61 of Los suffered fatal injuries at last night when he ladder inside the hull under construction at Steel Corp yards tiihe to time As was to be expected officials said many point values were set so high that people would not buy Now after nearly a month actual hu1n localities Walsh managing director of the noint ran ha art get her with a heavy demand for' the Associated Meat Jobbers of me points can tie ad- rhpeM Mnyretrni throughout Southern California the country predicted that their Greater demands for Tow-point supplies would be exhausted evea! value meats which undoubtedly will accompany the new rationing program may result in some spoil came from stores which reported ib'tnre begins practically no sales of Fe0Ple Free Lunch' Plan Studied City school officials today haw manufactured products estimated to be about goods However many people had a pessimistic attitude to age of higher-value cuts White executive secretary of the Southern California Retail Gro- ward the new system As a former president of the National Res under consideration acceptance of considerable stocks left over from the Government's new "free lunch" pre-rationing days and probably subsidy plan in order to keep wailed until the end of the month school cafeterias In operation to see just what items they need The Government plan is spon- most for their March stamps sored by the Dept of Agriculture as an nutlet for surplus commodities Schools are reimbursed from aCh mea servetl WldflW Sltmimhc maybe a couple of days a week to school childrep Wf lOOW OUCCUVYIDS or tnV( pancakes waffles maca- Harold Patterson Southern 'ronl and noodle for dinner" California area supervisor of the Emilie Hentsehel widow Virgil Wilson a Columbus Ohio Food Distribution Authority Julius Ernest I lent schel form- butcher however thinks the aver- been in conference with employe of Universal Studios age family should get along nicely officials According to Patterson the rank of general on its ration and adds "We're taurant Assn A A Me Vit tie put it at Denver- meatloaf 1 okay at but when people go out they want steaks or chops The restaurants' will serve meat as long as ran then they will have to close Assn said A IVIQrQQrillG AGOm tbeyUll dQIC I OOGV Today's the day set by Samuel Leask Jr regional OPA director for lifting the ban on oleomargarines sales within Southern California Leask said resumption of mar- swT to the returning two chief wants: a Job and a comfortable place to live It will take at least 10 years at the rate of 1000000 houses a year to re-house the two-thirds of the nation now improperly housed Dahlberg estimated "Surveys show that two-thirds of the nation live in inadequate orj Improper he said don't have sufficient light heat air or proper ventilation and plumbing I "The home building Industry is the most backward in the world It's never realized that this is a machine age It still builds' homes by hand labor" PIONEER IN' MELD Dahlberg president of the Celotex Corp and chairman of the board of directors of Certain-teen Corp pioneered the field of machine-made houses of houses constructed of material other than lumber Formerly in the lumber business he started In 1921 to manufacture of the waste products of sugar cane His boards!" out of which thousands of houses and aeveral government dormitories in Washington have been constructed are by-products of the sugar cane industry Many of the houses he said were constructed in 36 man hours While admitting that the cost of postwar construction will depend on the cost of living the industrialist estimated that a modern well vent dated well insulated comfortable 4' or 5 room home could he built for $1500 to $2500 Dahlberg suggested that the government would "have to start the hall either hy outright grants of the cost of the first houses or by "some form of loan" AGAINST STANDARDIZATION A foe of mass standardization of houses Dahlberg said that while houses of his material were built in the arrhi-tectual possibilities were "wide open" A stocky forceful Scandinavian Dahlberg came to the United 1 ACTRESS ACTING LIKE FILM STAR? MY NO! When Kathryn Grayson screen actress returning from New York stepped from her private Pullman drawing room her sister France: Raeburn and brother Michae Bartlett accused her of "acting like a movie star" because she wore dark glasses "But when they got a good close look at me and saw the spots they said Miss Grayson yesterday She had developed measles en route ncic-garine sales was ordered because ras Film Roily for February 9 pounds Retail stores he stated may sell up to 35 per cent of present olcomargine stocks NANCY'S IS OPEN Friday and Saturday 'til Meat cheese and edible oils remain frozen until rationing of these commodities starts on Mon' day She sui-vived by two sons War Effort Due Paul Hentsehel and William A helps keep cafeterias The new plan said Patterson makes it possible for the Azusa! Hentsehel 11 grandchildren and elementary school cafeterias tocight great grandchildren Funer-open April 1 after closing a weck'al services will be held at 2 pm ago because of food scarcities Saturday at Flward Bros Colonial Mortuary with burial in Forest been here at 10757 Screen actors producers and the Hollywood Victory Committee will fin COURT ORDER SAID which 2000 players will pledge a BU minimum of six weeks time to the DEFIED BY HUSBAND war effort yearly at a meeting today at 5 at Victory Committee headquarters Present will be Frank Freeman president of thg Assn- of Motion Picture Producers: James Cagney head of the Screen Actors Defying a Superior Court order Lester 62 a carpenter faces a jail sentence for assertedly to "mojest torment embarrass'1 his 70-year-old City College Teachers Receive Commissions Two Los Angeles City College professors have received commis- uij sions as first lieutenants in the neiu Lawn Memorial Park Mrs Hentsehel had for 24 years and resided Ventura Blvd As a Good Neighbor restraining Parks possible continuing and wife Mrs Madge Parks who is seeking a divorce This was disclosed today through an affidavit filed by the wife's attorney Bernard Weinberg who secured an order citing Parks to sppear before Superior Judge William Baird on April 13 to shou cause why he should not be held solemn requiem high mass for of the soul of the late Kenneth Thomson chair-nce Ilinslcv Archbishop of man of the Victory Committee will be sung at St! and members of the talent com-Loren Cathedral at 9 am to- mittee Army Air Corps and have been ordered to report to Miami Fla They are Lawrence chairman of the Photography and jdrickson member of the Foreign morrow A the repose Sparks 'Cardinal Department of Westminster llen-i Vibiana's I shall cooperate with my air raid warden and neighborhood civilian defense officials GUILD 0M Sellar will paM net paraa re nlaMi 1 wntiaf Mawpkl ii aie Ikn Mltor with Auxiliary Bishop Joseph McGucken as celebrant FAMED BUSCH HOME TQ BE AUCTIONED 16 3 4 0 HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD The famous home of -the late in contempt of court Adolphus Busch brewer and six neres of its surrounding gardens ji a will he sold at five-day auction Lonoora MSCUer OT beginning April 6 it was disclosed Triplets Identified today Sale of the Pasadena property which overlooks the Arroyo Seen will be conducted by Identity of the landlord literally came to the rescue Mrs Charles Washburn and who of her family of six-mqpth-old triplets by offering his Hcrmosa Beach home for their rental has been disclosed lie is John Elliott USC Drama Grotip To Give 'Last Horizon1 oilman and political leader of thn beach town Mrs Washburn- and her husband a war worker had been unsuccessful in finding a house because landlords objected to the children and the family Qrf shepherd dog The Red Cross almost lost a con-: riljution to its drive for funds 'vhen one of the lends in the student benefit performance of "Lost came down with the lensles The show will go on however omorrow Saturday and Monday Touchstone Theater of Old Col- ge on the Liversity of Smthernp Edicts 'BeWllder' California campus for Ritchie a i Gregory understudy will substi-'SCrap Metal BlfpfljaSS lute for Barry Jones who became (tion in tape" 1 tangle between the Office of Price Mr uj a itmm Wmimmi Administration and the Berg tTfr noman Metals Corp is scheduled before Tells Attack Attempt Judge Ben Harrison next Monday on the application of Berg for a Suspect ed of haing attempted sHfoty injunction" against the to attack Mrs Celeste Krueger opa 15- of 1 20 Second St as she poncern contends that ntered her home after a visit to because 0f "red and multi-mighbors Otto ilson 32 who Rn contradictory orders id he uved at 01 Los Angeles an reRulations it was "utterly be-fi was held rn'jail today follow- Wildered' and unable to determine ng his Hrrest in the vicinity of business procedure ie Krueger home Ky -i a- ft" 's A-'- i rl -The woman said her scream as Ooerators Bea eft felt hands rlutching her throatf-J r' liirthy the would-be asifailant info 5111 toORieS rrCCO shp A Long Beach Municipal Court jurv hRS acquit led five persons of nldlllihnriuwl Rnrt hrirtD him fnr mis'dcmeanor gambling charges in-nd hc or-volt ing operation of games on the Questioning i Pike Iieach-front amusement zone The games had been licensed by Chief Horroll Given A hmiaM vet- Iscs til Uhot wkitv pink 41 WVWW? Xs 195 £han ce to Join Union i Qaakire raffled 1 yks red cuffs cf I' remit Whit auisd Mack 195 -j- the heach city as devices of skill but the District Attorney's office recently ruled them games of Poln Chier CB Horrall today cbancei and instructed municipal aPPSof blank to Join officials to bring the operators to the AFL pnlicemenV union but trtai it's unsigned andrso far as the chief knows "nobody else on the' MURDER CHARGED police force" has -signed one Arlen Chester Hodges 23 was either held in Venice Jail today on suv Opposition to the union report- picion of murder after a edly bi'ing organized hy AFL Or- jury yesterday said he was re-ganizer Morgan has been ex-j sponsible for the death March 2f pressed by the Chief and by Mayor of-Mrs Martha Endicotl 42 of 'Venire 'K W' A Stmt flree iv e' dhht in.