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APRIL 30. 1936. PART I. 8 THE SOUTHLAND Compton Mayor and Editor Face Charges After New Fistic Battle Along El CAR DUMPING! Educated Birds Penguin Shortage Hits City Camino if" Real FLOOD PLANS APPROVED Orange County Pleased With Action of Rivers Congress at Washington CURB SOUGHT Burbank Council Considers Protest Over Flood of Worn-out Machines rl Ed-Ainsworth FIGHT OVER POLICE CHIEF REACHES ANOTHER CLIMAX West's Son-in-Law Floors City's Chief Executive at Meeting; Daughter Also Involved COMPTON, April 29. Compton's drama, "Who Who's the Chief of Police," today reached another anti-climax! Just before the city offices closed tonight four more complaints were issued two charging battery and two accusing the defendants of disturbing the peace.

Charles E. Eshelman, editor of the Compton Herald, and Mayor C. S. Smith are named in the complaints. SANTA ANA, April 29.

Orange BURBANK, April 29. Burbank's City Council today began investigating a charge by automobile dealers that this city has become a dumping ground for worn-out autcs from the East and Midwest, and is attempting to decide what to do about if 'county was cheered today by news that the National Rivers and Har-! bors Congress at Washington has approved two local projects for flood 1 control and development of Newport Harbor. I Telegrams announcing the action were received here from Supervisor i Smith, who is representing the u- it. An emergency ordinance raising the license fee from $25 to $200 and IF JUANA NEAL LEVY and Chatterbox will forgive me for cutting in. I want to realize lifelong ambition and write a chatter" column for once.

It's about the audience at the Stokowskl symphony concert: Thousands of necks turn as If they are on a crank whenever the whisper "There she is! There he is!" meaning movie stars. Some people know Is an orchestra in the house Joan Crawford's fluffy hair like a golden cloud beside the square-shaved neck of Franchot Tone increasing the bond for engaging in the business from $1000 to $2500 was requested in a petition signed by several lecal dealers. EXEMPTION PROVIDED The license Increase would not apply to dealers already in business at the time of its adoption. Dealers assert that such provisions have been made in Los Angeles and county at the congress. PROJECTS APPROVED The congress approved the flood control project which calls for a dam on the Santa Ana River and seven other locations.

It also approved a proposal for making maintenance of Newport Harbor a Federal responsibility. This cost is estimated at $15,000 to a year. Another proposal ap? proved provides for additional improvements costing $127,000. EARLY ACTION HINTED Smith's telegram stated: "It seems assured that an early appropriation" for the flood control project "would receive early consideration in the next Congress." In this connection he pointed out that Representative William Driver of Arkansas is chairman of both the projects committee of the River and Harbors Congress and of the Rivers and Harbors Flood Control Committee of the House of Representatives. Glendale ordinances and that, as Swallows picked a chandelier -on the Fullerton Junior -College campus to build a nest to house their young, showing that even birds recognize the cultural value of bringing up their young in an atmosphere of learning.

ARMED PAIR FACE INQUIRY One Man Token at Border Held on Suspicion in $5000 Store Theft it 1 (i it the Los Angeles law covers North Hollywood, Van Nuys and Eagle Reck, the only place caravan cars can be profitably marketed is Bur-bank. FLOOD OF OLD CARS As a result, they assert, the city has been flooded with badly worn automobiles from the East which are Who is the lady in the purple tent with a figure like a figure eight that has been kicked in the stomach 1 "That woman looks like a chimpanzee," says an icy female observer. "Maybe she is," responds her escort, after a look IP sold under local prices and impair the market here. Such sales, it John Barrymore barrymring down the aisle is closely trailed was asserted, also frequently are detrimental to customers. Mr.

and Mrs. Harold Derfelt The Council is expected to take Dy a vision in Biiuuiuci some lace. Gladys McGilliard of San Gabriel tells the poor little penguins the sad story. Because their maker, L. F.

Wilson, has used up all the properly shaped gourds he can find, the business of painting gourds into penguins is at a standstill. Times photo Gourd Painter Forced to Turn Down Orders Is it Elaine? Mystery final action at its next meeting. EPICS LOSE Parking Citation TrapsSuspect in Mail Theft ah tv, lartioc rmrmlnin about IN RECALL SAN DIEGO, April 29. Two men arrested at the border late last night are being held for San Francisco police. One is held on suspicion of absconding with $5000 in Safeway Store funds.

According to Detective Elmer Jan-sen, Roy Davis, 24 years of age, is really Leo Nichols and admitted to the officer he was an employee of Safeway Stores. John Paul Douglas, 27, arrested with Nichols, admitted he also was employed by a chain store in the northern city, according to Jansen. When arrested the two men had a total of $2368 in small bills and a loaded automatic pistol, police reported. the tiny gravel of the walks get- ting in their sandal-like evening shoes. Lots of shoes taken off when the lights go down for the OUTGROWTH OF FIGHT All of which is the outgrowth of another fistic encounter in the City Council Chamber last night.

It appears that Just as the Mayor was about ready to call the meeting to order, one Harold Derfelt. son-in-law of Police Chief A. E. West, stepped to the fore and wham-down with the executive. Derfelt's wife, 27-year-old daughter of the Chief, at the moment is reported to have done some scratching with the Mayor's face as a target.

Then, according to witnesses, Editor Eshelman rushed to the Mayor's assistance and more blows were exchanged. Mr. and Mrs. Derfelt later were taken in tow and spent the night in the City Jail. Today they swore to the complaints against the editor and the Mayor.

The arraignment will take place tomorrow in Judge Nelson Ward's court. WEST IN HOSPITAL Last night's fight marked. the latest development in the bitter feud which has approached white heat since the hand-to-hand encounter between West and Smith last Friday, a fight which put West in the hospital. The Mayor, according to reports, has refused to sign West's pay vouchers due since last January 23. He insists that there is a serious question as to whether West is the legal Chief.

At the Las Campanas Hospital attaches declare that Chief West's condition is considerably better, although orders of Dr. I. W. Lynn that no visitors may see his patient are in force. Both Derfelt and his wife were booked last night on suspicion of a felony until this morning, when charges of battery and disturbing the peace were substituted.

Then they were released. Monterey Park Group to Give PlayJTonight MONTEREY PARK, April 29. The Monterey Park Community Players will present Who's Here," a three-act farce, with Harold Cleveland in the leading; male role, ttt 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Monterey Park Community! Church Social Hall. The play is directed by Mrs.

Phillip A. Armen-j ta. I The feminine lead is Miss Naomi Camber, while Mrs. Phillip Amenta is presented in the character role. Others in the cast are Neita Chas-tain, Walt Grey, Donna Fanning, Pat Wells, Rita Kirsch, and Fred Haslock.

SAN GABRIEL, April 29. Sunny San Gabriel is clear out of penguins! They're not the real kind, although Sunny San Gabriel is also out of those. They are cleverly SAN BERNARDINO, April 29. Dr. Loren W.

Ayres, Second Ward Councilman, successfully defeated a recall movement against him today by a margin of 988 votes to 386 lor Stepen Fetchit lolls on two seats, like a collapsed sawdust doll. A jp9to rnmooser is on the pro Charles R. Gabbard. his opponent painted gourd creatures made by L. F.

Wilson. "I've had to turn down an order for 2000 of the silly birds because I've used up all the gourds in Southern California that look anything like a penguin," Wilson lamented today. "I don't know how many thousand I've already sold." Wilson has used more than ordinary gourds already this year in making nature novelties at his shop, a converted saloon on a corner near the mission. A vote of nearly 40 per cent, one of the heaviest in the city's his tory on a recall, was cast. The gram.

Stepen Fetchit grins, applauds with the jerky fervor of a black puppet My heart throb, Claudette Colbert comes in married now. Ah, well, 'tis better but here comes POND FALL TAKES LIFE movement against Ayers was launched by Epic forces as the first WhittierFolk Classified for I SAN DIEGO, April 29. Jess Lewis. 22 years of age, sought in Phoenix, as a suspect in th theft April 12 of a mail sack containing forty-seven government checks, was arrested here today by Motorcycle Officers Clarence Buck and Clarence Renner. Early today local police received a description of the suspect and the license number of the car he was reported driving, from Richard Jarvis, Department of Justice agent in Los Angeles.

The license number seemed familiar to Renner when he heard the police broadcast and checking back through his traffic book found he had given that car a ticket for parking earlier in the day. After finding the car gone he returned to his beat and a few minutes later Lewis drove by. step in what was reported to be an effort to take control of city govern Mayor C. S. Smith ment through the recall of various Founders' Day Myrna Loy Not bad, not bad! Maybe I'll go on living after all members of the City Council.

Drive Conducted SAN BERNARDINO, April 29. VP) Mrs. Louise Butler, 87 years of age, Los Angeles, found dead in a pond, drowned accidentally when the bank apparently crumpled beneath her, the Coroner's office decided today. The pond is on the ranch of her son. Sidney Smith, fifteen miles east of Barstow.

Justices' Salary Tangled in Death Trial Rehearing From China Won in Claremont WHITTIER, April 23. If an individual has lived in Whittier at least ten years, he is considered a pioneer; if twenty-five years, a founder and if forty years or more a native son, is the way the Founders' Day celebration committee today classified residents. The committee is completing plans for the forty-ninth anniversary celebration of the founding of the city of Whittier, which will be held May II, the actual founding date, according to J. G. Swain, president of the Founders' Day organization.

The gala celebration will be held in Central Park. All residents of Whittier more than forty years will be honored guests. CLAREMONT, April 29. Con MAIL THEFT SUSPECT HELD AT LONG BEACH ducting a political campaign across 5000 miles of the Pacific, Charles Stauffacher, Pomona College ex change scholar at Lingnan Univer LON6 BEACH, April 29. Mack Tate, 38 years of age, former employee of a railroad station at Fort Worth, was arrested here today on a charge of theft of mail four years ago.

Turn of Dial Foils Bandits SAN DIEGO, April 29. The bandits who last night bound and gagged the clerk and robbed the United Cigar store are not such good bandits after all, according to reports. It was believed the loss was $175, but upon checking this morning the manager found only $12.31 missing from the cash register and three dollars and a watch missing from the clerk. The safe was unlocked but the door shut and when the bandits turned the dial they barred their way to the $175. SANTA BARBARA, April 29.

Ruling on whether Dr. William J. Jacobs will be granted a new trial on charges of murdering Mrs. Lillian Newman in 1934 has become involved with salaries of Justices of the California Supreme Court. Dist-Atty.

Heckendorf pointed out this morning that only today and tomorrow remain for action. Under State law Justices must give their decision ninety days after the date of hearing cases or go without their next pay check. Interpreted strictly this would mean that Dr. Jacobs, now serving a life sentence in San Quentin, should have learned his fate by April 7. Erosion Perils PLAY DEBUT PREPARED BY MANHATTAN BEACH Crombie Allen A film fellah with a complexion like a burnt rubber shoe keeps going up and down the aisle, unconsciousoh, very unconscious of the hearts he is breaking.

Why don't they have bouncers Norma Shearer entrancing in green and gold floats down the aisle amid murmurs of ecstasy, both from the women and the men There's a dowager in black with a sort of stepping stone torso profile, front and back. I've always wondered if you couldn't jterve tea on one of the terraces Smart guy from Hollywood telling poor country cousin about everybody: "And there goes Greta he pants. Of course Greta hasn't reached Hollywood yet, but what the heck Billie Burke's daughter sports a white gardenia in her yellow hair The Times' Office Romance flits by, entwined "You know he wears a corset, don't you?" whispers a lady as Maestro Stokowskl bows and bows Outside, in the mist as the crowd pours out near midnight, a Mexican mother leans against a telephone pole, a tiny boy asleep on the ground with his head in her lap, a baby girl whimpering in the chill. A penciled sign on the telephone pole says: I have no husband." Dimes and quarters rain In her lap. Maybe it the beauty of Brahms County Income Medal Awarded Ss sj-' I UPLAND, April 29.

The annual Crombie Allen peace oratorical Placentia Stock Fair Open Today PLACENTIA, April 29. Placen-tia's future farmers 'will assemble livestock exhibits tomorrow for their first annual fair and for awards and judging. Sponsored by Valencia High School, the event will open at 2 p.m., with exhibits of poultry, rabbits, hogs "and cattle. Following Judging there will be a contest in grooming and showmanship. NEW FIRE STATION ASKED NORTH HOLLYWOOD, April 29.

Battalion Chief Seekins of the Los Angeles Fire Department has announced that he will ask funds to erect a new fire station here, with two additional men to serve on the crew. Charles Stauffacher MUSICIAN SENTENCED IN BOY. CASE SANTA ANA, April 29. Arthur Crowell, 32 years of age, Orange piano teacher and organist, wns sentenced to San Quentin for from one to fifteen years this afternoon by Superior Judge Allen after he had pleaded guilty to morals charges involving five boys. Crowell was the fourth Orange county man to be arrested in the last week on similar charges.

Frank Y. Barrows, 61, music teacher, will be tried in Superior Court Friday, having pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Alvin Koenig, 23, former Boy Scout field commissioner, has been arrested in New Jersey and is being brought here. William John Sutherland, 51, Orange High School teacher, already has been sentenced to San Quentin for from one to fifteen years. Covina Theater Group Elects COVINA, April 29.

Covina's Little Theater movement is under way today following a dinner held last night at the Tea Room of the Pasadena Community Theater. About fifty Covina residents attended the dinner, representing fifteen community organizations. Four officers were elected including Dr. Charles Samuels as president; Mrs. R.

W. Cleghorn, vice-president: Miss Elizabeth Elliot, secretary, and Stanley Shaver, treasurer. These officers will constitute a nominating committee for the selection of a governing board. Twelve Chases Phi Beta Kappas CLAREMONT, April 29. Twelve senior students of Pomona College today were elected to Phi Beta Kappa, local chapter of the national scholarship fraternity.

Those honored are Jack Cranmcr, Redlands; Lois Griffin, William Zcigler, Long Beach; Sarah Grid-ley, San Bernardino; Vera Hopkins, Clifford Lewis, Claremont; Muriel Hopwood, Honolulu; Frances Kanz-ler, Portland, Fannie King, Ofci; Virginia Parker, Pomona; Ruth Stanton, Chlno, and John Wilcox, Bakersfleld. Redlands Hears contest held by the Upland Rotary club was won by John Stanford, Chaffey high school senior, who spoke on "Preparedness and Peace." sity in Canton, China, today won over two rivals for the college student body presidency. Mr. Allen, former newspaper Opposed by Bob Spurgeon, Santa SANTA BARBARA, April 29. Santa Barbara county officials have been brought to realize that the erosion blamed on the stone breakwater which Uncle Sam built for the local harbor is a county as" well as city problem.

Charles Tomlinson, County Assessor, has informed them that concerted demand that their assessments on their beach property be reduced 25 to 75 per cent had been received from practically every beach property owner from Castle Point to the easterly county line at Rincon Peak. Some twenty miles of the finest pleasure beach property in California is affected. MANHATTAN BEACH, April 29. The annual Southern California tournament of one-act plays, sponsored by the Santa Ana Community Players, will have representation from this community for the first time at this year's three-day tour nament opening tomorrow night. The contest offering prepared by the Manhattan Community Players, is the one-act play "Storm," and is directed by Miss Vanita Sutton.

In the cast are Virginia DuBoise, who as Virginia Wightman, played at the Pasadena Community Playhouse; Dick Beynon and Jack West, Driver Cleared in Crash Which Took Two Lives LONG BEACH, April 29. After hearing testimony that Lewis G. Archibald cf Hollywood failed to make a boulevard stop, resulting in a crash with a truck which caused fatal Injuries to two of his passengers, Mrs. Willinn McClalre and Miss Alice De Wolf of Los Angeles, Jurors at an inquest today exonerated the truck driver, Lloyd Wiley of Compton. Neither Archibald nor his wife, both of whom were injured, were able to testify.

publisher, has established a fund, interest from which provides cash prizes and medals for the winners. Warren Richards was second and Miss Alta Matley was third, all of the student being Chaffey seniors. Ana, and Bill Wilson, San Bernardino, Stauffacher accepted a surprise nomination by cable from far-off China. In a unique election, Stauffacher won from his two rivals in a primary avalanche of ballots. Stauffacher is the son of Rev.

and Mrs. A. D. Stauffacher of Claremont. Virginia DuBois She Queen of Rodeo at Corona 6 1 I ft BOYS' CAMP PROPOSED AT REDONDO REDONDO BEACH.

April 29. The co-operation of all South Bay communities is being enlisted in a plan of the Co-ordinating Council to establish a large summer camp for underprivileged boys, in this area, it was made known today. H. E. Froude, chairman, has plans outlined in which more than 1000 boys could be cared for in two-week period relays at the camp.

A site on the Torrance dty beach, 1 5s RODAWAY RITES ARRANGED REDONDO BEACH. April 29. Arrangements for the funeral of Miss Lois Rodaway, 76 years of age and a pioneer of this area, are being made at the Glade L. White chapel. Miss Rcdnway died at her home at 803 Eight Court following a long illness.

i Hawaii Flight Reunion Held MARCH FIELD, April 29. (JP) Two heroes of the army air corps met again today for a few 'hours. Maj. Lester Maltland, the first to pilot an airplane from San Francisco to Honolulu, flew in here for a visit with his navigator on the epochal 1927 flight, Maj. A.

F. Hcgcnberger, who is stationed here. Maj. Maitland is ferrying a new attack plane from the' Inglewood factory to his home station. Barksdale Field, La.

Plane Rescue Victim Gains SAN DIEGO, April 29. UP Brought here by Coast Guard plane for hospitalization. R. E. Wood, 23 years of age, merchant seaman who was stricken ill while aboard the AUNT II ET BY ROBERT QUItLSN it.

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Jl, lu-13. REDLANDS, April 29. Redlands stood out for peace today. The first of three meetings was held at the Greek Theater of the University of Redlands where students presented a peace program. At a luncheon Dr.

W. C. Timmons of New England was the speaker. In the afternoon there was a conference at the university with Dr. Frank Toothaker, Los Angeles, as speaker.

The day closed with a mass meeting tonight. UPLAND COMPLETING SHADE TREE PLANTING UPLAND, April 20. Nearing completion Is a municipal tree planting program with 1800 shade trees having been set out along residential streets. The program is a W.P.A. project which began a year ago.

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"Folks didn't throw away anything in the old days. They always figured the girls mfght need it when they got married." Cofyrinht 1'JiC, Publisher Syndimie Miss Betty Garvey, 17-year-old Corona High School senior, will be crowned queen the American Legion RDdeo Saturday, on the city's golden Jubilee celebration program, which will open tomorrow. Mayor Hucklns will preside at coronation. Reveille unit, American Lejjlon Auxiliary, sponsored contest..