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ft F- 1.1 Vol. XLIIL MONDAY MORNING, DECKMtfrJR 17, 1923. ART II. 18 PAGES. JrJJt UJ-iii 1 iVjiN I Br tk rubral Cm Igoumern CaWfornla Interests.

Saved From Death by "Coast Guard Cutter ARGONAUTS OF ARCTIC SAVED RECORD MADE IN POLICE CLEAN-UP TWO FLYERS DIE I IN SKY TRAGEDY WHAT YEGG MEN TAKE SAFE AND OWNER Underworld Drive 286 to Jails Brings Thirty-three Booked Felony Charges on J- f-rvxtr yif Round-up Sounds If anting tl if ft ri in II 111 Eleven Families "Saved by Cutter Algonquin Marooned tarty on Verge of Starvation Effort to Save Japanese Steamer Fails First news of two of tho most unusual and thrilling rescues ever effected in the ice-bound Arctic was brought to Los Angeles Harbor yesterday by tho U.S.S. Algonquin, United States Coast Guard cutter, adding, another absorbing chapter to tho never-ending romance of the coast guard service in Alaskan waters. The Algonquin is here for winter station and complete overhaul after completing a 19.000-mile patrol cruise in seven months up under the Arctic Circle. She herself brought the news of her rescue of eleven gold miners and their families from Kotze-bue Sound, on tho North Alaska coast, after they had been marooned "by the Arctlo winter. News of their plight reached the Algonquin through the act of one of their number, in hiking 100 miles over the mountains to the nearest telegraph station.

NEAR STARVATION The stranded argonauts, near starvation when the Algonquin reached them, had to be transported eleven miles, in small boats to the Algonquin, the ice and reefs of Kotzebue Sound preventing tho craft from reaching them. The Algonquin reached Noirfc with the eleven families on October 28 and immediately headed south for winter quarters already having overstayed her season. But shortly after getting underway radio distress signals were picked up from the Japanese, steamer Shtnkoku Maru, reporting herself with a broken tall shaft and helpless in a storm in latitude 51 north, longitude 162 west. The Al gonquin reached her on November i Rescued Miners and Their Families Escape -starvation on Alaska shore, where they were marooned 135 miles north of the Arctic Circle. A sKi EXPENDITURE Tells of Plans To Expand Los Angeles Youth Accused of Taking Coat From Motorist A youth was arrested at Seventh street and Broadway yesterday by Detectives Allen and Graf who said they saw him take an overcoat from an automobile.

At Central Station the youth gave his name as J. J. Ilagan, 23 years of ago, and said he ia tho son of an ex-governor of Alabama. When searched ho had only thirty cents. Tho overcoat was said to belong to Charles Thompson of 741 South Broadway.

INDIAN ANS TO DANCE Former residents of Indiana and their friends are invited to the entertainment and dance of the Indiana State Society tomorrow evening at the Fraternal Brotherhood Hall, 845 South Figueroa street. HUGE PHONE Vice-president GrisWold $19,200,000 in of Saticoy Bandits Leave Victim Bound in Shack; I Refused Combination J. J. Griggs, proprietor of a pool hall at Saticoy, was kidnaped and his 400-pound safe, containing a small amount of cash, was etolen by flvo bandits early yesterday morning. Griggs was bound and gagged nnd left in an abandoned real estate oflice near Ventura and Reseda Boulevards.

After struggling for several hours he obtained his freedom, hailed a passing automobile and reported the robbery to the Hollywood Police Station. Griggs said he was ajone in the pool hallVjvhen the bandits entered, covered him and made him get into the car. Three of the highwaymen thefi lifted the safe into the automobile and drove toward Los Angeles. Saticoy, where the pool hall is located, is on the coast highway a few milea south of Santa Barbara. "They tried to get me to tell them the combination," Griggs "I refused and so they bound and gagged mo and left me in the abandoned shack." Three of the bandits appeared to be Americans and tho other two Mexicans, Griggs said.

lie gave the polico and Sheriff departments' a fair description of tho men. CONDITION OF MAYOR UNCHANGED Los Angeles Official is Reported Holding Own in Recovery From Relapse Mayor Cryer's condition early last night was reported at his home to bo virtually the same as the doy before, when physicians in attendance looked forward to a change for the better. The Mayor is believed to be gaining from the relapse he suffered Friday night, when fears for his life were expressed. It was said yesterday that the touch of pneumonia, which complicated matters Saturday, had not increased in severity. Ilis temperature was etill alarmingly high.

The Mayor has been confined to his bed for more than a week with an attack of intestinal influenza. President Workman of the City Council is scheduled to return to the City Hall today, and under the city charter, he will be acting Mayor during the illness of Mayor Cryer. A large number of ordinances have accumulated during tho Mayor's absence and await the signature of President Working as acting Mayor. President Workman has been attending the convention at New Orleans 'of the American Association of Port Authorities, as a representative of the City Council, of the Harbor Committee of which President Workman is chairman. The charter makes no provision for an acting Mayor in case the President of the Council is ill or absent from the city at the same time the Mayor is also ill or absent from Los Angeles.

So during Mayor Cryer's illness, there has been, under the law, no legal Mayor functioning at the City Hall. to Lrookdom In one of the greatest clean-up drives In the history of the Los Angeles Police Department, 286 persons were jailed Saturday night and early yesterday morning. The record number of arrests climaxed a night of intense activity by all branches fo the department working under orders of chief Voll-racr. The recently organized crime crusher detail led in the number of arrests with the vice squad following a close second. Thirty-three wero charged with felonies, of which ten were on charges of suspicion of robbery, flvo for burglary and.

eight for grand larceny. The Los. Angeles underworld waa thoroughly combed by officers and among those caught in the net are at least a score wanted in connection with numerous hold-ups and robberies within tho city, it is said. Many of thoso arrested were new arrivals in the city, so-called "snow birds" who had migrated to the Southland with the coming of winter. CRUSHERS ACTIVE Raids on rooming-houses and pool halls resulted in the arrest of nearly 100 men, among whom were several well-known polico characters, who were booked for vagrancy and Members of the crime crushers, working in plain clothes and mingling with the lato night crowds, were responsible for the greatest number of arrests.

Several were arrested and booked for investigation when they were found carrying concealed weapons. Those arrested on suspicion of robbery gave the names Tom Dickinsqn, Luther Kennedy, S. J. Brantly, Ed Walker, Lawrence Roth, Fred McBird, Jose Aguire, D. Sponiolo and R.

M. Blevino. Arrested on suspicion of burglary were William Smith, George Tom-ilson, Bert Aranda, M. Valequela, A. G.

Baca and Ray Valencia. -WARNING TO CROOKS The vice squad, led by Acting Captain Guy Plummer, booked forty-one for Wright Act violations, two for conducting disorderly houses and thirty-seven for gambling. The raids were inr various sections of the city. Included among those arrested on liquor charges was Ben South Olive street, said to be known as the "business men's bootlegger." Officers Bernsweig and Shubert, who made the arrest, say that Marble has been sought for weeks for illicit liquor peddling in downtown office buildings. He was booked on a charge of possession and sale of liquor and a five-gallon jar of whisky was confiscated.

"Los Angeles is keeping the crime element on the run," eaid Acting Captain Toomey, commanding" the Crime Crushers. "Crooks are finding that Los Angeles is not a safe place to come to, and will keep away from here when the news of the method in which they are being received (Continued on Page 2, Column 5) A. 11. Griswold, newly elected vice-president of the Southern California Telephone Company, who recently arrived in Los Angeles, stated yesterday that the announced construction program of the company for 1924 will mean the expenditure of 19,200,000. This amount, he declared, will be, spent on the Los Angeles exchange alone.

In addition to this expenditure, Griswold said there has been expended during 1923. $9,604,000 for buildings and equipment which will be brought hue the company's conbiru-ka. tiom programs have been huge in 4 i susrected WET SPOTS FOUND DRY Quartet of Raids Nets Little. Liquor and Trio of Arrests The Federal dry caravan traveled 100 miles of arid or semi-arid desert Saturday night and early Sunday morning. Though the prohibition "camels" visited a number of oases that have been found exceedingly moist in the days gone by, the wells were found practically dry when investigated by men under tho leadership of Divisional Prohibition Chief Hunt ana George Contreras, of tho District- Attorney's office.

Tho Plantation and the Green Mill cafes, with the Ship Cafe at Venice and Tommy Jacobs's Log Cabin Inn thrown in for good measure, refused to yield more than a few pints of liquor and three prisoners. The Ship, the first cafe to bo raided, yielded two prisoners with a small quuttity of liquor, it was said. Tommy Jacobs's supplied one asserted Volstead violator and less liquor. The Green Mill and the Plantation were absolute disappointments from a prohibition officer's viewpoint. FOOD FURNISHED The situation at Tommy Jacobs's took a humorous twist.

Tommy Jacobs, the manager, hopped on (Continued on Page 2, Column 6) By flying the glider Tech stu- dents and instructors have been enabled to check up on calculations made in the school's famous wind tunnel, and aj-e! developing important data for use by aviators. They believe that the development of tho glider will resuli in the invention of a lightweight airplane with a small motor that can fly by taking advantage of upward wind currents in hilly country and cover long distances with tho use of a minimum amount of power. In Morocco an aviator, without the use of any motor power other than the lift of upward flowing air currents, recently glided for eight hours abovo some hljfh hills before compelled to land. In Europe the- gliders have received much attention from experimenters and in this country they are beginning to receive consideration. LosApcjeles MMNeeds After the publication recently of editorial in n7iici The Times set forth its belief that the development of Los Angeles slwuld be made on more evenly balanced tines than has so far characterized it, a number of prom'mcnl citizens Were asked to ex- preiS amncr to fa I lueilon: "What Does Los Angeles M't NteJ A on" The replies wiu oe puuusnca aauy unaer mu heading nY HENRY M.

ROBINSON. President First National Bank The following may be included under the heading of "What Los Angeles Most Needs Now:" tl.) A development of a strong spirit of inter community cooperation, based upon the realisation that Los Angeles can develop into a metropolitan industrial, commercial and financial center only thrcugh tho fullest co-operation with contiguous districts which are producing the raw materials and consuming the finished products which Los Angeles is manufacturing or desires to manufacture. (2.) A corollary of the first item consisting of a further development of tho spirit of cooperation within this city in the solution of the important internal problems of Los Angeles as it enters its era of metropolitanism. (3.) Augmenting and enlarging traffic facilities for the handling of the growing commerce of this including therein the harbor, railways and highways. (4.) A balanced program of dc velopment enjoying the support of the community which can probably be best developed through an industrial survey similar to the survey of the harbor which has been undertaken by the Committee of Two Hundred.

(5.) For purposes of permitting already existing manufacturing concerns to expand to meet the demand for their products, some machinery is needed which will in duce the public to invest in the securities of such manufacturing 1 institutions on a basis of a reason able return on such investment. This is only possible at the present time in a very limited degree because of tho unusual returns on other forms of investment. (6.) Still larger community support of education and educational institutions from the primary schools to the colleges and universities, so us to provide the man power upon which to build the Los Angeles of the (7.) Greater community support of thoso items which make for the aesthetic enjoyment of life, including the arts, the development of a community-park program and chy planning. SENTENCE ON DEGNAN DUE TODAY Maximum of Twenty Years Can be Given on Count of Attempted Attach Sentence on Michael Leg nan, radium expert, ls. duo to be passed today' at :30 by Judge Conkling.

folowing liU conviction Saturday by a Jury which found him guilty of assault and attempted criminal attack upon Miss Eloiso Clement The assault charge carries with it a- maximum sentence of six months in -jail and a J50 fine, while the other sentence is from one to twenty years In th- pent-tentiary. Le Comple Davis, defense counsel, lias indicated his intention of giving oral notice of appeal. Degnan was committed to the County Jail by. Judg Conkling after the jury's verdict Saturday, but it is expected th.t efforts to gain his release ou ball will be made today. .1 1 A.

Claverie Army Reserve Aviators Are Killed in Fafl Santa Monica Crowd Sees iS'ose Dive to Earfli War Formation Spectactc Starts Death Flight Two air reserve aviators wer-lUlled yesterday nt Clover Field. Santa Monica, when their I'U'ne. in whii-li they were making a short practice flight, crashed from 400 feet up. The pair met th'ir death on tho eve of the twentieth anniversary of heavier-tjian-alr flight. William D.

Fowler, 2fi years of ago, of 2109 North Vine street, UHUienani in mi' ri'si'ni, an it. 28, motorcycle verCitv a reserve Harvey Lightfoot, policeman at Culv sergeant, of Dmiuesne street were the victims of tho accident. Fowlr died in the ambulance on tho wnv to Vctfrans Hospital a SuwtrUc, and Lightfoot us he was placed on tho operating table. Fowler had-had about 200 hours flying according to Lieut. C.

C. Moseloy, with no previous accidents, and waa regarded as a careful pilot. Lightfoot joined the reaerva corps only ten days jigo. Fowler had been flying since 1918. joining the Aviation during the World War.

CRASHES TO GROUND They wero flying an army Curtlsg plane powered with a 150 horse-power Wright motor and were making a banking turn north of Clover Field to make a landing. According to Lieut. Moseley's account of the craBh, their plane had insufficient speed, slipped and went into a spin. It crashed nose-ilrst to earth and was demolishod completely. The wreckage did not catch fire, however, and the two aviators were pulled out, still breathing, but unconscious.

The crash was in a field Just north of Clover Field, 400 feet from the road whk'h forms the north boundary of the air-reserve headquarters. It was mien by many reserve aviators, who had assombled at the field for practice in formation flying, and by the usual Sunday crowd ot civil ians FROGRAM CONTINUED The flying program was carried out despite the accident, five planes rising in- squadron formation a Mhort time after the wreckage was cleared up. T-Jeut. Moseley declared the accident was no fault of the plane. Thi.

ho said, had been inspected thoroughly before the flight was made and Was in flrst-clas condition. The accident was the second only since the air reserve was established on the Coasfe, The reserve has been singularly free from fatalities. Lieut. Fowler hold a commission In the Air Service during the World War. At the close of the war he joined tho Aviation Reserve Corps and had been flying frequently at Clover Feld.

He was employed at the Parmclce-Dohrmann company. He leaves a widow. Sergt. Ught foot was not married, according W) the records at Clover Field. Whittier Fund Seat Sale Goes Far Over Goal A hundred seats more.than Yictf necessary to mako up the endowment fund for Whittier Collegu have been sold fo- tho John Greenleaf Whittier Birthday Anniversary banquet at the Ambassador at 6 p.m., today, it waa announced yesterday.

Three 'hundred plates remained unsold on Friday, but the committee buckled down to work Saturday and not only reached; the goal but went $10,000 over. Gov. Richardson and Mrs. Richardson will be present, the committee was assured yesterday, completing the expected seating of the tcuest table, at which the others will be Speaker Merrlam, Senator Romlngcr, William G. McAdoo, Mrs.

J. E. Cowies, Mme. Schti-mann-Hcink, and Dr. Walter F.

Dexter, president of tho who will bo toastmaster. All the other college presidents in Southern California will be present also. Creation and Its Pilot Walter 7i KUl a 1111V tLiruui IX 14-1 1 A tA v. v. A i Ii-.

a KnnM it.fl November 7 the hawser parted twice under the tremendous strain of the freighter, finally disabling the towing machinery and towing rail of the Algonquin so seriously that she was forced to cast off and radio for assista-ance. SHIP TOTAL LOSS A week later the tug Numaeon-na reached the, scene from Seattle, but after fighting the storm for twelve days and night, the 1600-horse-power tug was herself forced to cast off the helpless vessel. That night the Shinkoku Maru was driven ashore on Montague Island, a total loss. During her record cruise the Algonquin operated from the northern end of Alaska, south to Bristol Bay and westward to Attu, the very tip of the Aleutian Islands chain, and the westernmost contiguous possession of the United States. In addition to the two abovo instances, the Algonquin last summer rescued nearly a score of stranded and helpless craft of the Alaskan fishing fleet.

She is in command of Lieutenant-Commander E. A. Coffin, a veteran officer of the coast guard in Alaska, and carries a crew of sixty men. LONE BANDIT ROBS RESTAURANT CASHIER A lone bandit early yesterday morning entered the Club Cafe at .600 West fNin'th street and. forced C.

W. Ray, the cashier, to turn over the contents of the cash register, amounting to $100. No one was in the restaurant excepting Ray when the bandit entered. Tho bandit appeared to be an American of medium height and weight, Ray said. He wore no coat.

Kf ft against the gale for St. Paul, Alas- The storm increased and on MOTORLESS PLANE SUCCESS Creation of Students is Expected to Revolutionize Modern Methods of Aviation Experiments that are hoped wilt eventually bring about the practical development of the "air flivver" and that have already allowed the experimenters to check up important data are being conducted at Ross Field, the army balloon school, at Arcadia, by professors and students of California Institute of Technology, in the flying of a mo-torless glider built by two "Tech" students and piloted by a former flying Instructor in government aviation schools. JUDGE URGES AID TO LAW. Untied States Jurist Declares People Can Enact New Rulings if They Desire Changes V. S.

Dtet. Judge Bledsoe-stood in the pulpit of the First Methodist Church yesterday afternoon and told 3000 men and women that Jaw enforcement was the one real issue in the present "blue laws' controver j. fiervice durinff the year 1924. past years, the 1924 program is the largest in the history of the organization," he said. "Plans are under, to mfke a net gain in telephones in 1924 of 60,000.

"This means we will be serving considerably in excess of 250,000 telephones by the end of next year. Our program is unprecedented when it is considered that the station gain for 1924 covers approximately as many telephones aa waa served by' either company Just previous to Ihe consolidation of 1917, "Tho announced construction progTam of $14,000,000 for 1923 has been considerably exceeded, and I flnd," said Griswold, "that the organize fion has done next to the impossible in its efforts to meet the requirements of the fastest growing city In the United States, New York City not excepted. "Our plans have been made and are being executed along tho linej necessary to meet the requirements of a great metropolitan city which Los Angeles, in fact, has now become." Details of the program show that $7,689,000 is the amount to be spent for additional central office equipment; $4,378,000 for cables and lines; $1,854,000 for new buildings, and $5,205,000 for miscellaneous work and materials. WINS SONG CONTEST Dr. Ralph Power of Los Angeles won the first prize in the an? nual Alpha Kappa Psi fraternity song contest, according to announcement from the Indianapolis headquarters.

Dr. Power, who is a former editor of the fraternity's magazine, participated With entries from over fifty chapters t'o write an original song especially adapted to the fraternity. if Wih: ni and Ruth Hiatt, Educational, and Clara Bow, Schulberg. Before choosing the -list the Wampas consulted wltth casting directors, producers and directors, and secured about sixty candidates. The baby Btars in other years are all said to have achieved fame, some in a greater measure than others.

To be chosen as a baby star is said to be a much sought after honor and one that goes a long way toward securing recognition from producers. I I 1 1 BEVY OF BABY STARS OP FILMLAND Awarded Wampas' Much Coveted Honors Air Flivver Flights Promise Sky Marvel vim Some of the most successful flights ever made were conducted yesterday. The glider, towed at the end of a steel line behind an automobile, is carried to a height of 200 feet, whore the lino is dropped, and then glides to earth. The pilot manages his craft by simple airplane controls, and can handle turning and banking and landing with apparent ease. Walter Claverie, who took up flying at North Island in 1912, and who during the war wae a civilian flying instructor, is pilot- of the Tal, as the new glider is called.

The Diane was built by Louis Kiesling and Gerard Vulteo, Tech students, under direction of Prof. A. A. Merrill, head of the department of aeronautics and aerodynamics at the California Institute of Technology. The letters of the name, Tal, stand for Tech Aero Laboratory.

Mr. Claverie did all the metal work. The Tal is forty feet fiom tip to tip of wing, twenty feet from rront to ruaaer ana nas a wins depth of four and one-half foet. Empty, it weighs 270 pounds. It is well built and though gliding at twenty miles an hour, could do 115 under motor power and still stand up under the strain.

Tho makers declare the glider could be transformed into an airplane with the addition of a five-horsepower motor. Unnatural History THE HERON Hey, there! the Heron! The Herons plumage is in constant danger from the female vote. So ho is raid to be experimenting with safety pin-feathers. Such a divice ought to help cheer up the Blue Heron. The Heron lives at the top of a long pair of legs.

This makes him good at Heron Hounds. Brush.ng aside the hundred and one trimmings and trivialities injected into the agitation by both eldes in the Judge Bledsoe told his audience that laws could be changed but not disregarded. "Thia ho said, quoting the Attorney General of the United States, "will endure on the rock of law enforcement or it will perish in the quicksands of lawlessness." The speaker made it plain that lie held respect and support of the law to be the very foundation i titone of civilization and patriotism and had but little interest tho lesser questions that led to the present "blue laws" "discussion. "I do not know whether we have blue laws here or not but 1 do know that no law can be so blue that it ought- to make any one of us see red," he said in the early portions of his address. The civilization and social institutions of today are the result of an endless conflict between thoso who wanted to do what they pleased and do it when they wanted and the courageous and far-seeing souls who saw the wisdom of limiting themselves and others for the general peace and general welfare.

Judge Bledsoe declared. URGES UNDERSTANDING continued, using another quotation, "is reason without passion." A "mutual limiting and limitation? to be determined by those who will governed by the law, ia the solution of the present problem. Judge Bledsoe IConfinned on Pae? 2. Column 5) GREETINGS TO 1924: The Lord bless thee and keep thee. The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee.

Tho Lord lift up hia countenance upon thee, and iTe thee peace. Numbers 3 nnfttfe. vt, tv-x. TT 4f TT Group of Screen Juveniles Left to right: Clara Bow, Blanche Mahaffey, Elinor Fair, Gloria Grey, Carmelita Geragbty, Margaret Morris, Juianne Johnston, Dorothy Mackaill, Hazel Keener, Marian Nixon, Lucille Rlcksen, Alberta Vaughn and Ruth Hiatt. -New Air A HE baby stars of 1924 In filmland were selected yes terday by the Wampas at the United Studioa.

It is an annual custom of the Wampas, or the Western Motion Picture Advertisers, to pick thirteen film actresses on whom to place the wreath of "future fame." Much press agent oratory preceded the decisions. The lucky girls, who ulna viil go to San' Francisco in a specially decorated coach for the annual Wampas ball and frolic, are Blanche Mahaffey of Roach Productions; Carmelita Geraghty, Juianne Johnstone, Fairbanks Productions; Margaret Morris, Universal; Dorothy Mackaill; Alberta Vaughan, Robertson-Cole; Hase Keener, H. Brown Productions; Marlon Nixon, Fax; Lucille Kick-sen, Ince; Gloria Grey, Bmory Johnson Productions; Elinor I'alre ,1.