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Am 7n Two Parts 32 Paqes FAlt II LOCAL HriT I fAGM "The Weather rurual4. ir mU i nrnut rlMi MaNtiltn kanUM. Mlmniia MNiilaN tar iMMtlxl tll ftikM MHrt fait 10, rr MNMIMf LIII TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 14. 1934. CITY NEWS EDITORIAL SOCIETY irr in 1 1 i ni i Escapes Car Injury HEAVY SURF Jury to Decide If It's Skill or Chance The Lancer 1 JENSEN OUT AS AIDHEAD His Resignation Accepted Final Vacation Delayed for Relief Chief to Confer on Acting Successor Suiervisors Back Thomson for Temporary Post, but Official to Decide resignation of Earl E.

Jensen as county superintendent of chari If PS I cf' v- 1 icy. jvj COUNCIL CUT PLAN FOUGHT New Proposal Raises Storm Report Urging Amendment 'for Sine Members Meets Vigorous Opposition Endeavors to Clear Away Other Charter Measures Also Prove Futile With the prospect of an all-day session today In ordering numerous charter amendments upon the ballot of the special election September 27, the City Council yesterday attempted to clear away several measures, but met with failure. i First the Legislative Committee presented a report signed by Coun-cllmen Burns, Bralnard and Cunningham proposing a reduction in the number of Councllmen and I Jf -V- 'vU-V Itt I I. ft Judge Paonessa. left.

Randolph Kerr, Deputy City Prosecutor, right, and Lloyd Federmeyer, characterized as expert player, demonstrating marble-game machine in court. MARBLES ROLL IN COURT Game on Machine Questioned as Illegal Played for Judge and Jury by So-called Expert In an effort to convince a jury in Municipal Judge Paonessa's court that skill, and not affects the score In marble games, attorneys for James Martin, Spring-street cigar clerk on trial on charges of violating the gambling laws, yesterday Introduced as a witness Lloyd Felder-meyer, 23 years of age, whom they characterized as "an expert marble DROWNS TWO Thirty Rescued in Rip Tides Long Reach Swimmers Die Rattling Surging Waves; Roy Dead at Rig Rear Santa Rarbara Reach Takes Victim and Two Deaths Recorded Sunday Surging swells and occasional tide rips combing the broad sands at Long Beach and breaking Into foam- flecked surf yesterday claimed the lives of two men who braved the pounding breakers beyond their depth. Life guards at the time were busy saving other persons when the two fatalities occurred. Nearly thirty persons were rescued by the over- worked life guards at Long Beach yesterday, police reported. Another youth drowned at Big Bear Lake In the San Bernardino Mountains, and still another drowned at Santa Barbara.

Two other youths lost their lives while swimming in the mountain resort areas Sunday. SIX IN TWO DAYS Thus six drownings were charged up to vacation swimming in the last two days in Southern California. Edward Rueckhcln. 26 years of age of Bellflower, was drowned in the surf at Long-Beach when he became exhausted from a long battle with the breakers after swimming too far from shore. His companion, Gunther Bunalskl, 20, also of Bellflower, was rescued by Life Guard Clarence Ellis.

Rueckhelm body was not immediately recovered. Jack Gladwell, 33, of 112 Elm avenue, Alhambra, was caught in a rip tide about an nour later ana drowned when he became exhaust ed, attempting to fight his way oaca to ahore. A airl companion. Miss Violet O'Connell of 1842 South Sec ond street. Alhamura, saw ner friend drown.

BOY DROWNS IN LAKE David R. Ford. 10. son of Dr. Don ald Ford of Whittler, was the youth drowned at Big Bear Lake.

Swim ming in the lake, the youtn was seized by cramps and went down. wi hnriv was recovered some time later from about four feet of water. The first bathing fatality at tho Santa Barbara beaches in three years claimed the life of Floyd I Christman, 17, son of Jacob L. Christman of 606 West De La Guerra street, Santa Barbara, when he went down while trying to reach a raft anchored offshore. GIRL ATTEMPTS RESCUE Joan Hartley, an expert girl swimmer, dived after young Christ-man, but was unable to locate his body.

It was recovered a short time later by Life Guard Enos Dlas with a draenet. Efforts at resuscitation proved futile. Life Guards said they believe the hoy cuea or nearw attack, for no outcry was heard when he went down. Kenneth Harvey, of Corona, perished in Lake Arrowhead Sunday when he dived and was entangled in weeds of Cottage Grove Bay before the startled eyes of his parents, a sister and several friends. Merle Braley, 10, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Ray T. -Braley of Rialto, drowned Sunday when he slipped into a reservoir; on the Hamner ranch near Corona. M'Laughlin Funeral Today Funeral services will be conducted today at 2 p.m. from Pierce Brothers chapel for Henry Vincent McLaugh lin, who passed away at the Los An geles General Hospital August 8.

Interment will be in Inglewood. The family residence is at 853 North Gower street. McLaughlin was 49 years of age. born in Canada, and resided in Los Angeles for the past seventeen years, where he has been employed by the May Company. He leaves his widow.

Evaicna McLaughlin, and two daughters, Mrs. Beatrice Darlington and Mrs. Gladys Allen. AUNTHET BY ROBERT SCttLEf "If they come callin when they know it's time to fix dinner, they can entertain themselves or come back to the kitchen." CpyTltht. 1934.

Publishes 81 HARRY CARR OT TO My that th President lending Will Rogers to Ja pan But It Is at least plain that he regards the vUlt of our cowpuncher philosopher as an opportunity to send friendly hand across the sea to pour a little oil upon what will be troubled waters next year. THE DYNAMITE YEAR The year 1035 will be a critical period all over the world. The fate of the Saar will be de-decided between the French and Qermans by a plebiscite. The naval, treaty between Japan, England and the United States comes to an end. Japan's retirement from the league "of Nations becomes final; ahe Is required by the treaty to give back the mandated inlands in the Pacific and even now openly refuses The temporary "tutor- government established by Dr.

Sun Yat Sen the Kuomintang comes to an end leaving China without a government. Japan has a financial crisis that comes to a head In 1935 announced by the Minister of Finance. It Is unthinkable that the troubled conditions In Europe can continue In their present boiling state through another year. JAPAN ON THE Ql'OTA The next Congress can do a great deal for Japanese-American relations by repealing the Japanese Exclusion Act and putting Japan on the quota on the same basis as European nations. This is the greatest cause of bitterness between the two countries.

Japan feels that she has been wantonly Insulted because no more Japanese perhaps fewer, In fact would come in under a quota than under the legal exceptions of the Exclusion Act. The chief bar-to such repeal is the, attitude of the Chinese government In Informal conversations, the Chinese have made plain their attitude to our State Department. They will not Join Japan In demanding the repeal of Asiatic exclusionor take any other attitude that arrays them with the Japanese against the white races. On the other hand, they demand that all concessions made to the Japanese be also extended to the Chinese. SEA-GOING STARS Charlie Chaplin is leading the way from Hollywood to the sea having engaged space at the Santa Monica yacht harbor for a power cruiser.

Charles P. Lummls once wrote that we had California but nobody knew how to play it. But the original Indian Inhabitants and the modern movie stars both learned. The way to live in California is to have several small homes Instead of one big- one and a boat. Just as did the Indians, the movie stars trek to the desert and the mountains for the fish and the acorns and pinion nuts.

Perhaps the oldest trail in the Western Hemisphere Is a pathway, cut deep in the rock by the scuff of moccasins from the distant Dakotas to Mallbu where Indians brought pipe stone to trade for lip stick and rouge from the iron oxide mountains of Santa Catalina Island. MANDATE HEARING DELAYED Division Two, District Court of Appeal, yesterday continued for two weeks a hearing on the petition of Mrs. H. F. Graefe for a writ of mandate to compel the city of Lynwood to levy a tax for the purpose of providing moneys for a bond-redemption fund.

The petitioner recited that she holds four bonds, each of $500 denomination. POOR PA BY CLAUDECA1XAN "Ma thinks it's fortunate that my niece, Dolly, smokes so many cigarettes. Ma says wears so little in the way of clothes that she needs a good smoke screen." (Copyrlfhl. 1B3, JMNUhwi Brodleate) i mm Council districts from fifteen to nine. This met with vigorous opposition, Including that of Councilman Hdye, who last Friday proposed a reduction to seven, but increasing the term of office from two to four years Councilman Baumgartner attacked the measure, and declared that "special Interests and subversive Interests" are circulating a petition to reduce the Council to five mem bers elected at large.

Finally the report was wilthdrawn, to be pre sented again today. SALARY CUT URGED Councilman Tate then proposed a reduction In Councllmanlc salaries from MOO to $325 a month. After a long debate this resolution, which proposed that City Attorney Chese- bro prepare the measure, iauca oi adoption on a vote of 7 to 5. Tate voted against his own resolution, so that he may move reconsideration today and again present it. This resolution, also sponsored by Council President Davis, would increase the terms to four years.

Then Councilman Gay submitted a resolution calling for reductions in the salaries of the Mayor and City Attorney from $10,000 to $8000 a year. This resolution also failed of adoption on a vote of 6 to 6 and went to the Legislative Committee. OPINION ON POLL DATE An opinion from City Attorney Chesebro was read Indicating that the election should be called as of September 27. contended that the city has a right to file a demand with the Board of Education for a portion of the cost of the election, as it Is occasioned by a recall against three members of the board. A report of the Finance Committee was adopted fixing the compensation of election officers at $5 and the rent of polling places at $5.

PROMOTIONAL-LIST QUERY GIVEN REPLY A query by the Fire and Police Protective League on the Civil Serv ice Commissions attitude toward a charter amendment which would eliminate the clause allowing promotional eligible lists for city positions to be extended beyond two years was answered affirmatively birth commission in a resolution adopted yesterday. At present promotional lists may be extended to three and four years by the commission when Under the proposed amendment, which has been placed before the City Council for favorable action, the lists would automatically expire at the end of two years. Arguments In. favor, according to the league, are that it will give more firemen and policemen, chances for promotion. Martins Rites Will Be Today Funeral services for Thomas Martins, merchandise; manager and buyer for sevferal large eastern department stores before he retired and moved from Chicago to Los Angeles several years ago, will be conducted today at 10 a.m.

at St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church at West Washington Boulevard and Bronson avehue. Interment will be in Calvary Cemetery. Mr. Martins, who was 73 years of age, died Sunday after a short illness at his home, 1325 West Ninety-fourth street.

He leaves his widow, Mrs. Josephine Martins; a sister, Elizabeth Martins of Cincinnati, and a brother. James Martins of Rochester, N. Y. 7, shooter." Taking his stance before a marble game board in the courtroom, Feld- ermeyer told the jury he could "place the ball in any number se- Wait MECHANIC CALLED After a few practice shots, in which the little ball failed to do his bidding, Feldermeyer said the board was "out of kelter" and called In a mechanic.

Oil was applied to certain parts of the mechanism, after which the marble shooter did perform a few spectacular stunts. He missed several times, however, but explained he was "slightly off form. JURY TAKES CASE Following Feldermeyer's demonstration, the jury retired to deliberate on the question of whether marble games involve an element of gambling or are games of skill. Upon their verdict rests the fate of some 1500 marble games in the Los Angeles area. Deputy City Attorney Kerr, who conducted the prosecution, maintained that chance, not skill, governs the winning score, thereby making the operation of marble-game boards a violation of the gambling laws.

Stork Delays Film Making An entire Monogram fum production unit waited in idleness for two hours yesterday on account of the stork. Eddie Nugent, actor, and H. Wal lace Steck, landscape architect, are friends. Steck couldn't get his au tomobile started yesterday in his excitement of taking Mrs. Steck to the Good Samaritan Hospital.

He called upon Nugent to play the role of ambulance driver. Nugent was due at the Fathe studio at 9 a.m. But that waited He helped the Stecks welcome a girl, LIGHTS DISCONTINUED The City Council yesterday ordered that lighting service be discontinued in Belle Porte avenue between Lomlta Boulevard and Two Hundred and Fifty-fifth street, because assessment delinquencies exceed 25 per cent. Action was taken on recommendation of the Traffic ind Lighting Committee. ties, to be effective at the expiration of his two weeks' vacation August 28, was accepted late yesterday by the Board of Supervisors.

Immediately afterward a difference of opinion developed among members of the board as to who would act for Jensen during his vacation and pending his retirement from office. The dispute csme aner Supervisor MeDonouch had ore- untd a motion that Rex Thomson. chief assistant to Jensen, be ap pointed until the superintendent's resignation becomes effective and that Thomson then be nlaced at the head of the department under a permanent appointment. UP TO JENSEN Deputy County Counsel DeCoster Informed the board Jensen is sun superintendent of charities and as such has the right to choose or appoint the man to act In his place during his absence. Supervisor Ruin then made an amendment to McDonough's motion that Thomson serve until the end of Jensen's vacation with Jensen's consent, after which the board permanently ap point him or someone else.

Jensen took tne floor ana saia that if the board ordered him to select Thomson during his absence, he would observe tne oraer. URGES COMMISSION ADVICE 'Hnwvw." he said. "If left to my own judgment I would leave the matter to the advice of the County rhnritlrs Commission. I have no opposition to Mr. Thomson but I feel that his worn wouia dc more successful if he had the advice of the commission." Jensen then asked, and was granted permission to delay the start of his vacation a few days to give him an opportunity to confer with the newly appointee, commission vo who will act in his place during bis fthepnre.

He Is scheduled to meet with the commission today. COMMISSION MEMBERS The commission is composed of R. J. Bernard, Claremore, chairman; A. B.

Young, Pasadena; coi. james T. McDonald. I. Irving Lipsltch, Mrs.

Anne E. Leldendecker and Jack Alfred Woodward, all of Los Angeles. During the course of the meeting, the Supervisors received a telegram from Mrs. John Stearns Thayer, president of the Los Angeles County tinn of Women's Clubs, ask ing that Jensen's resignation be not Accepted A committee from the unemployed elm unneared asking that Thomson be appointed in the event Jensen's resignation was accepiea. FEW ATTEND HEARINGS ON NEW BUDGET Only Two Taxpayers Seen at Supervisors' Session to Receive Protests Only two persons appeared be fore the Board of Supervisors, one in the morning and one In the after noon, when public hearings were resumed yesterday on the 1934-1935 budget.

The hearings began Satur day and will end next Monday. At the morning session Willard O. Thorpe of 1525 South Manhattan street declared he has been a property owner in Los Angeles county thirty years; that conditions have become such that the income irora hi -nronertif has shrunk to pro portions that leave them hardly self-supporting. He asicea inai mere be no increase in budget expendi ture in order to Keep tne lax raw down. Thorpe, after looking around at the handful of people in the room, none there for the budget hearing, said: "I am surprised that more people are not here to protest any ln-rwnKPfl fxnenditures.

The sublect should be a very vital one to all taxpayers in the county." rmrinff the afternoon Mrs. Frank K. Lewis of 2534 Fourth avenue said that if she is required to pay a sign er rate or taxes tms year sne win be unable to hold her property. Allowances by Carriers Banned Rules for common carriers, as contained in a decision handed down yesterday by the State Railroad Commission in an Investigation un dertaken on its own motion, pro vide that carriers may not make any allowances to shippers or receivers of freight or to shippers' or receivers' agents. Should a carrier elect to offer more than one class of service, such as store-door-to-store-door service, the rates, therefore, must be separately stated, the decision reads Isobel Jewell, film actress, who yesterday crawled unhurt from her wrecked automobile after losing control of the machine while driving to get a doctor for her lU father.

ACTRESS UNHURT IN CAR CRASH Isobel Jewell, Driving for III Father's Doctor, Loses Control of Auto Isobel 'Jewell, motion picture actress, narrowly escaped Injuries early yesterday when she lost control of her automobile while driving in the 8200 block on Suaset Boulevard en route td get a physician for her father, who is 111 at the Jewell home at 1134 Miller Drive, Beverly Hills. The actress told Deputy Sheriffs Coulter and Fox, of the Fairfax sub station, she was driving at a nor mal rate of speed when the machine developed mechanical trouble, swerved from the boulevard, crashed over a curb and was wrecked in the front yard of a residence at 8278 Sunset Boulevard. She was badly shaken up, she said, but crawled uninjured from the wrecked machine. Miss Jewell, whose name has been linked, in romance with Lee Tracy, film actor, said her father was in a critical condition and she left her home about 6 a.m. to get a doctor.

Chambers to Discuss Reds at Luncheon Communism and klndxed movements will be discussed at a luncheon to be given jointlyby the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and the Junior Chamber of Commerce in the ballroom of the Blltmore Hotel, tomorrow at 12:15 p.m. Dr. Frederld P. Woellner, associate professor of education at the University, of California at Los Angeles, and an authority on the Communistic situation in this country, will be speaker of the day. "Social Engineering" will be the topic of his address.

Presiding over the gathering will be E. Richard West, national president of the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce and leader Of the Los Angeles group. The luncheon will be one of the first affairs tcbe given on' the program of the recently, formed board of the local. Junior Chamber of Commerce. Pay When Able i Plea Accepted Accepting his story that has been unable to get a job but will "pay when able," Municipal Judge Oda Faulconer yesterday continued the probation of Lawrence Jutroich, unemployed waiter, when he.

appeared before her to answer to a charge of violation of probation growing out of an original charge of failure to provide for two minor children. Jutroich was haled Into court by his estranged wife Anna, who he -had Sailed to provide. for Joseph, 12 years of -age, and Con- cettlna, 10, minor children. TUNNEL STAIRS REPAIRED Danger signs have been posted at the top'and bottom entrances to the North Broadway' tunnel stairway at California, street. Repairs are being made oifc -the iron structure.

such a loaf here, he said, is about 20 per cent. Because under the 7 cent minimum the retailer at present prices can make about 22 per cent, --he said, no necessity exists on the part of the retailer to in crease the price to consumer. When asked yesterday whether the retailers had increased the price, he replied: "They have not. That is, 'not to my knowledge." Some of the large bakeries said also that their retailers have not boosted the price, fL SOCIALISTS RAP IDEA OF SINCLAIR Former Party Denounces Candidate as Purveyor of Misleading Doctrine Upton Sinclair and his Epic plan were scored by the State executive committee of the Socialist party as raising false hopes of the people, in a statement Issued yesterday. To trust the Epic plan would be a major tragedy for the people," said the statement put out by th Socialists, the party that Sinclair was affiliated with for thirty years.

"It is the despair that follows hopes falsely raised by plans like 'Epiclsm' that makes the people ready to fol low a demagogue like Hitler, who promises to achieve by dictatorship what Mr. Sinclair promises wildly to do peacefully." The Socialist conception of a party united for straight Socialism Is the Socialist method, the statement said, and added: "Upon that method Upton Sinclair turned his back when he left the Socialist party and started hastily up the blind alley of Epiclsm." Building Line Protests Win Protests against proposed building lines in the Wilmington district were sustained by the City Council yesterday after a hearing, and the proceedings ordered abandoned on recommendation of the City Planning Committee. The proposals were for street between Eubank avenue and Frigate venue, street between LeCouv-reur avenue and Frigate avenue and street between Watson avenue and Frigate avenue. Old Resident Returns Here Planning to remain in Southern California a month, Frank J. Rice of Memphis, lieutenant in charge of the operations of Representative E.

H. Crump's organiza tion, arrived here yesterday and registered at the Biltmore. Rice was here almost forty years ago, living on a ranch owned by his family near San Gabriel. He said he will visit the old home while here. of his gasoline truck when he crashed Washington Boulevard and Alameda The accident occurred at Sunset Boulevard and Alexandria avenue.

Fry suffered a badly mangled light leg, a possible skull fracture and concussion. Surgeons said his leg mleht have to be amputated. Orville Howard. 8. of 1647 East Ninety-second street, who fell be neath a train while "flipping" cars Sunday, died early yesterday morn' ing at the Georgia-street Receiving Hospital, despite efforts oi Police Surgeon Spear to save his tlife.

Five, persons were injured early yesterday at Wllshlre and Crescent (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) FILM QUEEN HOME TODAY FROMEAST Mary Pichford, to Arrive This Morning, May Give Ideas on Reconciliation Mary Pickford's ideas about a reconciliation with Douglas Fairbanks, now on his way home from a long European sojourn, may be revealed when she arrives on the Santa Fe this morning from a business trip to New York and Chicago. In the East Miss Plckford declined to discuss the subject, however. She returns to Pickfair after an absence of several weeks. Fairbanks is scheduled to land In New York tomorrow with Joseph M. Schenck, president of Twentieth Century Pictures and head of United Artists, who has sought to bring about a reconciliation between the famous screen couple.

Fairbanks probably will fly to Denver to attend the funeral rites for his sister-in-law, Mrs. Margaret Fairbanks, 52 years of age, who died here Sunday after an operation. She was the widow of John Fairbanks, general manager of Douglas's affairs. -t Funeral services for Mrs. Fairbanks are scheduled for 3 p.m.

today from the family residence, 1725 Camino Palmero, with a requiem high mass in Denver, where she will be burled in the family plot beside her husband. Hhe Walter C. White Company of West Washington street is in charge. Robert Fairbanks, brother of Douglas, and other members of the family, will accompany the body to Denver. Artist Group Pick Painting as City Gift Selected from a group of paintings by members of the Women Painters of the West now on exhibition at Exposition Park, "Miguel of Olvera Street" will be presented to the city at the close of he exhibit, it was announced yesterday by K.

Ethel Hill, chairman. The painting selected is by Mar-Ion C. Raulston and was chosen by a vote of the membership of the women painters' organization. Second choice in the selection went to Bertha Amet's "Early Morning In Grandeur," and third to Florence P. Bloser for "Sycamores In November," while "Earth's Treasure Land," by Marie Kendall, was awarded fourth place.

"Haunt of the Humming Bird," by Louise Everett Nimmo. was fifth; "Easter Special," by Hazel Clark, sixth, and Evelyn Nunn Miller's "Winter Mantle" seventh. "MOTHER" LAYNE IMPROVES Mrs. M. E.

Layne, better known as "Mother" Layne, who has fed thousands of unemployed during the past three years at the Layne Foundation, 551 Towne avenue. Is showing steady improvement in her condition at the California Hospital, where she was operated on August 3. Meanwhile the foundation, which has been closed for renovation, will reopen tomorrow. TRUCK DRIVER LOSES LIFE Victim Crushed and Burned in Fire After Crash; Motorcyclist Injured, in Collision BREAD REBATE PLAN ENDS N.R.A. Requirements to Be Rigidly Enforced With Wholesale Minimum Fixed at 7 Cents Rigid enforcement In Los Angeles of the National Recovery Administration's prohibition against various and rebates on the part of some wholesalers to retailers went into eff ect yesterday.

The result is that the theoretical 7-cent wholesale price of a standard 'pound loaf is to be the actual wholesale minimum throughout the area. Crushed and Uurned in the cab into the side of a freight car at street and his truck caught fire yesterday, Albert Brewer, 29 years of age, of 11131 Burton avenue, Roscoe, died a few hours later at the Georgia-street Receiving Hospital. Radio Patrol Officers Johnson and Holmes arrived on the scene a moment after the crash and dragged Brewer from his blazing truck cab, rushing him to the hospital. But he had been so severely hurt and burned that death overtook him later. The fire was extinguished before it reached the gasoline tanks.

Another spectacular traffic crash yesterday all but cost the life of George Fry, 17, of 1430 North Ken-more avenue, when the motorcycle he was riding crashed into an automobile operated by Charles F. Sar-ver of 1422 North Sycamore avenue, according to police. Robert F. Callender, executive officer for the bakers regional code authority, said the 7-cent standard has been in effect some time but that secret discounts and other such arrangements had nullified It somewhat with the result that actually the figure stood at about 6.3 cents. The loaf Jn question has been retailing to the householder at 8 to 0 cents, Callender said.

He pointed out that this gave the re-taller a profit of about 30 wr cent. The normal profit margin on.