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California Interests Drama LOS ANGELES SIT THE The VOL. XL. WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 19, 1921. -PART II: 14 PAGES. Officers Pilot Giants of Air in Unusual Adventure.

Big gas bags readytor the lake Left right Capt. Edgar Sorensen Noon and 19-35. pt. H. Grey Scene at Ross Field and Balloon Crews at Start of Unique Flight.

ORPHANS WILL BE GUESTS. "Times" Arranges for Children to See Circus Monday; Los Angeles Railway to Furnish Cars. "Talk about the days of real sport," snickered Skinnay last night, as the boys were getting ready for bed, "I guess there's some class to goin' to the circus in a special car and seein' the eleyfunts and rhinocrehorses for nothin' "Aw. gulped Freckles, "but there ain't no fun in pipe dreamIn'. "No pipe dream about it.

We're goin' to do It," retorted Skinnay. "Whaddaya mean?" Freckles Inquired, sitting up and taking notice. "Just what I been tellin' Skinnay added. "We're all gonna be to Solls-Floto'8 big circus next Monday afternoon." "Tou're good all right," retorted Freckles. "You been eatin' mince pie again.

Tou got Little Nemo beat a mile when it comes to dreamin'." ain't stringin' yuh," said "You serlously. must been talkin' to Lady a Bountiful," put In Freckles, as he untied his shoe. "Who's goin' to put up, all 'Ain't the money?" take no money," answered Skinnay, "The Times goin' anis fixed it so all the orphans In town can go to the circus Monday afternoon and the Los Angeles Rallway Is goln' to furnish special cars to take us there and SAWTELLE STARTS IN ANEW. The original 5awtelle Board of Trustees which passed out of existonce when Sawtolle was annexed to Los Angeles three years ago and which sprang back into being yosterday after the town had been severed from this city, met in its frat official session last night and appointed W. A.

Abbott to All the one vacancy on that body. Mr. Ahbott was also chosen as president of the board. Harry Miller WAS named as temporary Fire Chief and J. B.

Nerrill as Assistant Fire Chiot. W. F. Bryce Was chosen temporary- City Recorder. These persona assumed duties following the meeting! POPULATION 1 By the City Federal Directors- (1031) SUIT TO TEST ANTI-JAP LAW.

'Action Hitting Land Leasing Measure Filed Here. Complaint Says State Statute Violates Constitution. Owner Seeks to Rent Tract to Nipponese Farmer. The constitutionality of California's anti-Japanese land leasing law is attacked in suit illed yesterday In the United Staton District Court here. The complaint charges the 'aw violates the Federal Constituon and is in conflict with treatios between this country and Inpan.

The Porterfeld, complaint A Jand wan on ner. by and W. L. Mazino, A Japanese. Mr.

Porterauld states he owns eighty acres of land Los Angeles county, which he desires to lease for five years to Mazino. An injunction la asked restraining State Atts. Webb and Dist -Atty Woolwing from enforcing the State law. The complaint was referred to U. District Judge Bledsoe, who stated the matter will be given an early hearing.

It W95 explained that gurations Involving the of State (nactments re heard before two United States district judges and one member of the Circult Court of Appeal. HEARING NEXT MONTH. It was stated that V. S. Circuit Judge Ros4.

District Judge Trippet and U. District Judge Bledsoe will hear the case as soon AN It be arranged. A early It November la expected to AT Judge Ross will be in San Franclero until the 24th and Judge Bledsoe is echoduled to hear several cares in Fresno this month Mr. Porter feld in his complaint states the Japanese Rood farmAr and of producing tables and fruit on the tract. Japanese Is termed It desirable tenant for the land and the complaint states that it it pore not for the State law the lease would be made at once.

LAW ASSAILED The complaint Incorporates in full the State law passed at general elections in November, 1320, and aSBerta the law Is in direct violation of the Constitution of the United States and involves the interpretation of commercial treaties cristing beta eon Japan and this country. The complaint asserts that all questions related to the enforcement of the law are to be brought before the court In this case to present multiplicity of which it da stated are planned by several intercats in this part of the State. The complaint asserts the State law violates Section 1977 of the re(Continued on 61xth Page.) PLAN FOR SHIP LINE TO ENGLAND Britisher Aserts Project is Being Considered for Fruit Steamers Here. have under merlous considoration proposal to put Into operation a line of fast steamships. completely equipped with refrigeration for conveying fruits from Callfornia to England," said Sir Archibald Williamson, M.P., of London who with Lady Williamson is takIng "a complote rest, the first in eighteen years," at the Ambassador.

Sir Archibald recently resigned the position of Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the War OfAca. "Such a line of steamera must be fast and it is largely a question of whether sumcient du luxe passenger business call be ereated between this coast and England by way of the Panama Canal Juetity the undertaking," ho continued. "HowIt is sure travel 1s forecast for the future and we feel favorably toward the proposal. this connection I am impelled to point out your statesmen must realize that commerce 18 primarily A business of barter, A matter of exchange, and that a onesided commerce can nesor build up foreign trade. read in your newspapers go much about exporta, exports, but it you Invoke tariffs which preclude the probability of Imports your trado la bound to suffer.

All the world prede today in conAdence and I hope that a he. element of confidence and a spirit of reciprocity in the matter of trade will enter into your future activities and legislation. The world 18 ready to go ahead, better than ever ho fore, but the one great lackthat of confidence. "As a matter fact. confdence will do much to discount 89 0 cheap producer of today, for confidence 14 the one element which 34 Ill raise the value of the German mark.

When the salue of the mark is rained, men who are now gettin 500 marks a meek will be loath hate their wages reduced and perhaps within two years the tables may be turned and Germany may And herself no longer a cheap producer." Eir Archibald in a member of the Arm of Balfour- Guthrie Compar, which is agent of the Harrison steamship lines. GIRL IS DROWNED. Nellie Ramos, age 15 seare, schoolgirl, fell In the resorvolr at Chatsworth" according and has to drowned on report terday to Coroner Nance. Tho girt was on her way home from school and had stopped with other children, when she slipped and fell into the water. The body was taken to the morgue of W.

G. Noble, San Fernando. MULLEN BLUETT QUALITY IN MEN'S WEAR SINCE 1883 Prepare For A Rainy Day Putting off the purchase of the inevitable raincoat and extra umbrella is to court annoyance and discomfort when the next rain comes. Better take the time today to come in and see the lightweight waterproof raincoats of both domestic and imported materials we are displaying. An extra brella for the office-an allweather cloth hat- -wool socks for ankle protectionand many other wetweather needs will suggest themselves.

BROADWAY at SIXTH ARMY BALLOONS IN TEST FLIGHT. Three Huge Gas Bags Start on Long Night Contest. Crews Instructed to Go as Fari and as High as Possible. May Drift Out Over Sea or Uninhabited Region. Somewhore in the dark heavens over Southern California three huge United States Army balloons.

carrying ten officers from the Rosa Balloon School, wore skimming last night through Space on struction Aights for the training of the most unusual adventure over attempted by government balloon forces in the West The enormous gas bags arose from the Arcadia Field at 6 p.m. Though the test night is not officially termed derby or balloon race, the members of the three crewa entered the baskets and took off In a competitive spirit, each determined to outdistance his competitore, intimating that It is to be a balloon race, nevertheless. The nights were designated as instructiona flights for the training of officers in operating free balloons Left to right W.D. Wheeler, 1st, Lout, TE Sullivan (pilot) 1st. Lieut J.F R.well, and Opt, L.7.

Miller, crew of balloon 55-17 Two of the baskets carry crens 0 four men, Including pilots. The third basket went aloft nith tu men, Including 8 pilot. Each crew W38 sent aloft with instructions to remain in the air As long ag por sible, but landing must be made by 4 p.m. today. TWO COURSES OPEN.

The problem that confronts the ten balloon officers is to make the greatest distance from the post possible, combined with the maximum altitude attainable, land as near the post a8 possible, after reaching a maximum altitude. It the balloons reach an elevation where strong air current will carry the bags an excoedingly great distance the flighty probably will be made at this altitude. The number miles traversed will add to the contestants' score of points. Again, the pilots And It Bible to cover any great distance. they wIll gain points in their scores by remaining aloft as long as posalble within the allotted time and by landing as near the starting point as possible.

Before going aloft, the three pilots were informed of the weather conditions that prevailed in the various air strata to an altitude of with 16,000 a feet. chart They showing were these air equipped con- A ditions. This chart WAS prepared at the meteorological station at Ross Field by trained men. It la known the "wind-aloft report," and is compiled each morning and afternoon at the school. The "wind-aloft report" Informed the pilots of the altitudes In feet and the direction and velocity of the wind in miles per 500 hour feet for every to elevation of 250 to up 15,000 feet.

This report compiled by triangulation with a pilot balloon. twenty-four Inches in diamwhich is released, after which angles are read by an Instrument known as the theodolite. By means of this report the pilots are able to choose almost any courde by rigIng to the necessary altitude. CREWS WELL EQUIPPED. Realizing the balloons may carry them into uncharted air channels, poseibly into uninhabited mountain or out to sea, the balloonists equipped themselves for all emergencies that might arise.

Ample heavy clothing to protect them from the cold of high altitudes tions for several days were carried, In addition to the scores of various recording Instruments for making reports on aerial conditions at in(Continued on Sirth Page.) (TOCKADE, ROCKPILE FOR HOBOS, SHERIFF'S PLAN. "Bums" Pouring Into City at Rate of Two Hundred Daily; Traeger to Ask for More Deputies. 1 and will hold office until permanent appointments are made. Sawtelle will maintain its public schools, books and teachers. County Superintendent Keppel atated yesterday a plan is afoot to petition the Board of Supervisors to annex Sawtello to the Angeles district for school purposes only.

Seten hundred Sawtello residents last night unanimously adopted 8 regolution petitioning the County Supervisors to appoint a school board for Sawtelle until such time A9 8. board can be chosen by regular election. Seventy-five Westgate- residents last night asked that Westgate be presented with all the Los Angeles departments which have been removed from Sawtolle, With information at hand arriving in Los Angeles daily days, Sheriff Traeger today will emergei' authority to appoint ties to handle a situation unusual stated, a large number of itinerants climate of Southern California, such numbers, The Sheriff said he had no information to support that these men, some of whom are I. W.w.. are being encouraged to come to this city in view of tho threatened strike of railroad trainmen.

He had no information, either, that It da planned, as reported, to Import 30,000 of such men here. to arrive in box cars prior to November 1. the date set for the strike. PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE. But the Sheriff Intends to take precautionary measures, he stated yesterday.

He said that Constable Hitchcock of Newhall reported to him that for about fifteen days from 200 to 300 hobos have been arriving 0n1 Los Angeles-bound freight trains. Under present ditions the Sheriff is unable to take all these men Into custody, but today will propose 8 plan to the Board of Supervisors by which he hopes to discourage such an influe into this section. Sheriff Shay of San Bernardino county is taking all such Itinerants from trains that arrive there and the courts are setting them to work with a ball and chain on the countv rockpile. At present Los An- geles county has no rock pile or chain gang, but Sheriff Traeger today will ask the Board of Supervisors that stockade of some nature be 05- tablished to house these men and that 3 rockpile be furnished for those who will not work. NEEDS MORE MEN.

In order to meet trains coming into Los Angeles county, the Sherif SOYS he needs from forty to nfty more men, to be appointed temporarily as junior deputies The overcrowded conditions of the County Jail will not permit the housing of such large numbers there, It was stated. It was learned that some of the men arriving here by freight train have money and appear to be workers who have been attracted by the widely -advertised fact that Los Angeles is the "white spot" In the United States so far 85 Industrial and Anancial conditions are concerned. that from 200 to 300 hobos are and have been for the last fifteen ask the Board of Supervisors for from forty to fifty junior depuin this district. While, it was each year seek the warm never before have they come in merce request that representatives from tarlouq clilc organizations be named to form a committee to handle this situation and provide work for men who want it. Others, ho advise, should be held in the proposed stockade and then put to work on a rockpile.

WOULD HANDLE PROBLEM. It was stated by the Sheriff that with emergency authority to appoint tomporary deputles he could meet trains coming Into the county, take hobos into custody and sift out the workers from nonworkers. dition, he stated, such an emergency ordinance would give him a chance to handle any situation that would result in personal violence or property destruction. The Sheritf soon will make a percanal investigation, and at the same time will continue his plan to police the county thoroughly through the aid of volunteer deputies of standing. In a resolution forwarded to all boards of supervisors In Southern California and all city councils, the Puaco Officers' Association of Southern California, In a meeting at San Bernardino last Saturday, urged that reckplies be established for men who not work and employment be found for those who would.

off Left to right Ist Brown, H.V. Hopkins, G66. F. Stone, and Isl. Gout.

C.P Rants, crew of balloon 35-28 WOMEN, MAN HURT BY AUTOS. Actor's Car Strikes Pair Who May Not Recover; Aged F'oman Hit, Injured. One man and a woman may die and another woman Is in 1105- vital serlously injured as result the of traffic accidents last night. The man is Floyd Thompson, age 26 years, of 4314 Burns avenue, who suffered a basal fracture of the skull and severe abrasions when an automobile driven by David S. DyAs of the Hollywood Hotel, stock salesman, knocked him donn at Burns and Vermont avenues.

His wife. Mrs. Ruth Thompson, aged 20, who was walking with him also knocked down and suffered fractutes of both knees, abrasions internal Injuries. Her condition grave. Both were treated at the Recohing Hospital.

Earlier In the evening Susanna Kakelday, 70 years of age, of 1116 Marion avenue, was struck by an automobile driven by Morris Finklestein of 2503 Slaters' avonue. opposite the Hospital on Sunset Boulevard. When rushed to the Receiving Hospital by George Rrogmus of 1137 Madison Avenue. she was found to have received a possible skull fracture. lacerations of the face and a fracture of the right leg.

According to Mr. report to the police. the aged woman stepped from the curb of Sunset Boulevard directly In front of his machine. He said he was driving at a speed of about twenty miles an hour and could not his car in time to avert the accident." MYSTERY WIRE KILLS MAN. A mysterious copper wire, about the diameter of a shingle nail and heavily charged with from the "high line" of the city's I lighting system at Seventy-fourth and Hoover streets, caused the death last night of Reinholder Klelnstauber, age about.

50 years, of 843 West Seventy -fourth street. and seriously year-old burned schoolboy William of Laughlin, 633 West Seventy -seventh street. In the heavy fog which hung over the southern part of the city the wire, which the police of the University division say was In no way connected with the lighting system, dragged in several places from the "high line." Ono of tho pleces, about seventy-five feet long. was dangling in 8 driveway near Dir. Kleinstauber's home as Mr.

Kleinstauber entered it. Ho 13 reported to have tripped on the wire and fallen face down Into the fog-soaked grass. The wet grass, the police say, formed a circuit through Mr. Kleinstauber's body. The boy, according to the police, tripped over the same wire.

He was taken to the Receiving Hospital by Officers Moran and Knotts and treated for sovere burns of the According to Omer Moran, the hands. police last night were unable to ac- Second Venice Official Set Free by Court. It is part of the Sheriff's plan department and In paying city to Ask that the Chamber of money to contractors. Matrola X1 One of the popular priced madela $159 The Victrola Gives Everybody the Kind of Music They Like Best The greater your love of music. the greater will be your appreciation of the Victrola.

This wonderful instrument reveals to you in all their beauty the exquisite musical masterpieces superbly interpreted by the world's greatest artists. Come in and hear your favorite music. We will gladly play any selection you wish to hear and demonstrate the various styles of Victrolas. Price $25 to $350 Easy Terms Arranged "Mail Orders Given Prompt Attention" FRANK J. HART OUTHERN CALIFORNIA MUSIC 832- 334 SOUTH BROADWAY, LOS ANGELES The second official of the volcanio city of Venice to be tried on a charse of misconduct in office was acquitted yesterday when a Jury in Judge Monroe's court returned a verdict of not guilty in the case of W.

F. Crawford the beach town's City Engineer. The jury was out but ten minutes. As a result of an upheaval in Venetian politica, Mr. 'Crawford and several others were charged with misconduct in office by the grand jury.

It was charged that there were irregularities in the handling of pay rolls in the City Engineer's True enough, 500 orphans of Lot Angeles have been Invited to the Sella-Floto circua matinee at ger Park Monday afternoon. The Times arranged this delightful entertainment for the little folks yesterday, Te want in on that." exclaimed George Baker Anderson, manager of transportation for the Los Angeleg Rallway, when he heard that The Times is to give a circus party for the orphans. No circus is complete without a ride on the Los Angeles Railway. The company mill furnish specia: cars to take all the (Continued on Thirteenth Pago.) count for the presence of the dangling wire. One theory advanced was that the wire might have been part of a boy's kite which had caught on tho high line and snapped.

Another was that an airplane had flown low over that territory with a wire hanging from it which might have caught and broken. KATHERINE GRIFFITH. FILM ACTRESS, DIES. Katherine Griffith, cinema actress, died Monday night at her home, 1232 Gower street, following a stroke suffered while she was acting at the Marshall Nellan studios. Mrs.

Gritnth leaves her husband. GritAth, character man in pictures, two sone. Gordon and Graham, both child players, and a daughter, Miss Gertrude Sutherland Griffith, who Is secretary to the president of Occidental College. Mrg, Griffith was 45 years old and had spent more than half her life on the stage and In pictures. She had been appearing in pictures for nine years..