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tw-t. THEY SING 'DON'T FENCE ME IN'. )y L0S ANGELES, CALIFORNIA uaillj item MONDAY. OCTOBIt 14.1746 Zj -Vf 1 1 wU 4. i I 1 r- I t' fw i rr OF POLICE, moro than 350 pickets circled tho mam gata at1 Columbia today in injunction.

Officers bsgsn moving thorn out of End, arrested moro than 150. 1 BETWEEN defiance (Story' on pago I). I LINES of a limiting oaao II 4 Actor says socialite wife Councilmeriin hot row over incinerator i A drive to force the city council to block construction of a city incinerator in the Uncpln- Heights district today foiled to produce decisive remilts but created a fancy political fi, More than 800 residents of the irea In 'council chamber, by 'an assembly-man and two former councilman, asking', that' construction' on' the project) 21 and St. be stopped. Assemblyman Thomas who said he was appearing Simply a and ex-councilman Meade McClanahan and- Roy Hampton told the Council the people of the neighborhood already are blighted by posaeasing the city JaU in their district the incinerator would further Construction work to the tune of $300,000 already has been 'undertaken on thd 3840,000 project by the Griffith contractors, H.

P. Cortelyou, head 'of the bureau of maintenance. and testified. 1 'f Cortelyou said. $60,000 already bad expended cm the site, but more than $200,000 involved in fabricating equipment, for the incinerator one of the series-scheduled to be placed In various parts of the city to.

disposq of combus-able The row, in which observers saw the culmination of an undercover tolitical drive against Councilman 'ohn R. Roden, in whoso district the incinerator lies, came to a head with both aides carefully prepared. McClanahan, who was unseated In a recall election by Roden, said, the Lincoln Heights area already has the Jail where rubbish in human form is taken, and wa don't want any more rubbish of any i v. Hampton suggested the project be moved to the, "Blue Diamond on East Washington Blvd aiid added that even though tho council had already 'spent money at the present site, that's its own fault. 1-J Proponents of continuing the Job consisted of a carefully marshalled array of officials, Including Cortelyou, Fire John H.

A1-derson, and Air Polutkm Control Officer H. E. Kunkel. Cortelyou said the -incinerator ncluded numerous new features such as mixtng, blending and ihredding the rubbish and. automatic stoking, which would make it definitely not a nuisance.

He. explained that this first of he series of Incinerators had been adjected for erection in Vernon, nit that Vernon had refused, am the' present sits was picked after careful consideration. Alderson said the city was choked with combustible rubbish ss never before with no proper means, of disposal, that a itkrt in construction of modem incinerators had to be mads somewhere, and that when the time cornea Ill work actively for Such a plant on the west aide, where I live. who like the other councilmen had voted for the Lincoln Heights site, aided with the praftstanta and moved that construction be blocked. Several other councilmen finally stuck their toes into water, saying they didnt want inceratolv in their districts, either and the council wound up by referring the proposal to its public works committee fqp further study.

FOUNDRYMEN S. W. WOOD, W. MALONEY i Plenty work for all for ths next 1. If 4 i- "el tv seen American foundries the birthplace of tho nation's products hsvs enough business to keep them gobig nt top production levels for at least two years' -( 4 Angeles machine Shops could not handle them.

As a consequence the entire operation casting and tooling went to nn eastern concern, coating the city valuable contracts. gave much of the credit tot balancing Industries Tibbet, who' made such action major point in his administration as president of the Los. Angeles' Chamber of Commerce in 1942. 1 Wo association president from 'Minneapolis, and. Maloney, secretary treasurer from Chicago, were guests of the AFA's Southern California chapter as part of their annual, national tour.

OPA in big home rackets crackdown SAN FRANCISCO, Oct The Regional Office of Price ministration today prepared to enforce federal' housing regulations in California, Oregon, Washington, 1 Arizona, Nevada and Northern Idaho under authority delegated to OPA by Wilson W. Wyatt, the national housing expeditor. The western regional office expected to have its hands full check-. up on black market building materials, maximum sale prices houses and preferential treatment for veterans. West Coast housing problems have been described by Wyatt as "the most extensive in the nation.

OPAs assignment as an enforcement arm of the veterans' emergency housing program is part of. a government coordination move to meet the housing and construction problem; Regional Director Beit G. Dunlway declared. program marks a definite step toward realistically carrying out the promises to the- veterans of homes at reasonable and legal prices" Dunlway said. It also provides a more accurate checkup on the activities of black marketeers in building materials and lumber, and will aid in their speedy conviction.

The enforcement drive, which begins officially tomorrow, i designated the sales control program. Dunlway said the regional office hopes to gain compliance on. a voluntary Basis, but is ready to carry on a hard-hitting program Dfreanctions against flagrant and wilful violators.1 A special staff of Investigators, many cf them veterans, will be used. The regional director said the skies control program will check, on compliance with maximum sales fi prices and rentals as determined by the Federal Housing Adminls-I tratlon, with veterans' preference, I with fulfillment of building, com- mitmenls, and with other pro- visions of the Veterans? Emergency Housing Act This morning they toured the yards of the Los Angels Steel Casting Go 2444 S. Alameda St aa guests of company president C.

B. Tibbets and W. D. Emmett, shop Emmett, president of thd local AFA chapter, is playing boat to tho national officials during their five-day stay here. After Inspecting the Los Angeles plant and hearing a report on new orders, production nnd shipments.

Wood said, ths situation here is typical of the national picture. -The present demand will keep American foundries working at capacity for the next two years, le aaid. Foundry activity, he pointed out, is a good barometer of all national production In that "every roduc begins at ths foundry' Dally Nun pbotaa. 'JOHN SUTTON He says she's a nagger- Whether Socialite Mrs. Char-factor In the past when he was "between pictures" out of the $35i monthly alimony She received for life from Barrett, her second husband.

Mrs. Sutton makes her home at 1206 8. Roxbury with her 14-year-old daughter, Charlotte Maria Barrett, issue of her mother's second marriage. The daughter is Ihe foi beneficiary of a million-dollar explained that if the Itself did not originate Returning! unions swell AFL ranks CHICAGO, Oct American Federation Labor laid out a welcome mat today for 600, 000 machinists who bolted the AFL a year ago and announced the re-affiliation of almost 20,000 raUway signalmen. President, William Green' an nounced the return of the Independent Brotherhood of Railway -Signalmen at the 63th AFL convention here.

The re-affillatlon of the signalmen will swell the AFL's ranks to a record membership of about 7,171,000. The signalmen left the AFL la 1928 in a Jurisdictional union dispute. The welcome handed the machinists was approved by a convention In a bid for their re-affillatlon. It was contained in a supplementary statement to ths executive councils report, -and said that negotiations for re-affiliation had been conducted "with some success. Ve urge the machinists to take steps to return so that they may clean their face Inside ths organ-Izaton.

We finally state wa need and this union in -our own family. The are brighter now for such -a reunion, the statement said. -The statement added, however, that Jurisdictional Issuea which prompted the withdrawal of the International Association of Machinists last November could be settled only after the machinists rejoin the AFL- In speech prepared for delivery, Edgar L. Warren, chief of the U. S.

Conciliation Service, told the AFL that "certainly during the next year the most Important decisions for the United 8tates will be made at the bargaining table. "There truly are the peace tables of ths home front, he Mid. 11s said that the conciliation service had no authority "to dictate terms of any settlement." Ths AFL has charged, however, that higher government agencies haro set' aside collective bargaining agreement reached with. the aid of the conciliation service. lotto Sutton spied her actor-husband, John Sutton, with a spyglass, became a moot point today as Sutton went to court seeking an annulment of their marriage.

Mrs. Sutton, 46, already is under attack from another marital corner. Her first husband, Dr. Amey G. Biddle physician and surgeon and member of the Philadelphia Main Line Biddles, has filed a divorce suit in New York on the only legal grounds in that state-adultery.

It's all-a rather Involved procedure. Mrs. Sutton divorced Dr. Biddle in Culiacan, Mexico, 20 years ago, and a short time later married Hosmer J. Barrett, Tennessee stockbroker and a millionaire.

She divorced Barrett in 1929. It is because of this marriage that Dr. Biddle charges his wife with adultery. Thus the courts must first determine of the Culiacan divorce. Actor 8uttov39, bases his plea for annulment on that same Mexican divorce.

He contends his wile was still Mrs. Biddle when he married her at Santa Ana April 23, 1933.. v. Mrs. Sutton Is flghtlhg the actor's annulment action.

But she Is willing to settle for separate maintenance. Both the actor and his wife have hurled charges of cruelty. )In. Sutton, says the actor. Is a "constant nagger, very suspicious and Jealous.

Once when he attended a Santa Monica beach party, his wife sat bn the Palisades with her eye glued to a spy-glass, he alleges. On her own behalf, Mrs. Sutton says she helped her British-born husband to climb the ladder of success In Hollywood. Sutton, now citizen, recently was released from the United States Navy. Mrs.

she supported the fortune belonging to her father's family. The divorce contest was called today by Superior Judge Dudley 8. Valentine, and is awaiting transfer to a trial court where Attorney S. 8. Hahn will tilt for Mrs.

Sutton and Attorney Jerry Giesler will do battle for the actor. Assessed property value in Calif; up Oct. Assessed value of 'alTprpperty iii California subject to local taxation Increased $559,631,493 while the total indebtedness of tbs states 58 counties decreased $3, during the past according to figures' released today by Stats Controller Thomas H. KucheL Kuchel aaid the total assessed value of $9,100,823,858 aa of Sept. 2, amounts to $983J7 per capita, which is an increase 401 $4.91 per cent over Uie valuations of 23 years sgow However, per capita valuations have declined from $1327.78 during this same period.

A-bomb gift to Britain again: denied i -1 Oct. The White House today reiterated its denial of a report that atomic bomba mads In this country have been sent to England for storage. The report was publicised twice by a Washington columnist and radio Eben Ayers, assistant White House press secretary, aaid today on the authority of President Truman, that no atomic bombs were out of the country with or without detonators. r. trThe only ones that wer hive been toutaide of this country were those used at the Bikini tests and those dropped on Japan," Ayres said.

Radio commentator Drew Pearson last night repeated his statement of a week ago that, atom bomba were sent from this country to northern England. UN STILL HUNTS FOR WAY TO OUTLAW A-BOMB LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y- Oct. search for a way to outlaw atomic bombs reached a new snd delicate stage' today in the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. The Commission's political committee actually ths commission's principal delegates working informally and privately called the first In a- new series of inertings to study safeguards, against ths manufacture of atomic arms.

Wood Sroduct the foundry at least the machines by which it waa manufactured did. The AFAs chief wss pleased to notice how Los Angeles had corrected a previously unbalanced situation where machine shops were inadequate, to- handle all typey of castings produced here. He cited the Instance where local foundries -could have produced castings for the San Francisco bridge but that Los Comoro loses' over Lux seizure U. 8. Marshal Robert Clark, who took over as skipper of the gambling ship Lux from Admiral Tony Cornero, will remain In control of the vessel temporarily, at least Federal Judge J.

F. T. O'Connor today overruled an appeal of Cor-nero's attorneys, who Insisted seizure of the ship by government officials was illegal Cornero, whoso real name la A. C. Stralla, charged that ths seizure was illegal that the government had gone overboard in filing forfeiture action, when only Congress could approve such action.

Marshal Clark took over the ship and put guards aboard after tho court order waa issued. Cornero, through his. attorneys; said ha would appeal to1 a higher court. rSICE CHIEF BACKS OPA VET HOME SAFEGUARDS WASHINGTON, Oct. Price Chief Paul Porter today pledged his agency to AMp veterans get the 2,700,000 homes being built for them at legal ceiling prices.

The OPA, he has launched a nationwide program to enforce requirements of the Veterans Emergency Housing Act that homes and apartments be sold or rented at maximum prices with veterans given priority as buyers or tenants. The act provides a 110,000 top ceiling for a single family home built under the program and $80-a-month -top rent for apartments. 1 Builders must offer veterans tho first chance to buy or rent durlnj construction and from SO to Cl i days thereafter. )' BUILDINO CONTRACTS LEAP IN CALIFORNIA Oct Construction contracts let-in California during the first eight months of this year were estimated today at a record-breaking $730, 000,000 by the State Recon struction and Reemployment ARREST ALLEGED SMUGGLER SHANGHAI, Oct today arrested a. Russian who allegedly headed a smuggling ring which recently sent $400,000 worth of cultured pearls into the United States by why of Manila..