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Eos FEBRUARY 2, 1927. PART II. WEDNESDAY MORNING. ALL-YEAR CLUB iHE'S QUIT KITE FLYING SPORT jCRYER ASKS FOR Hung Jury in Crossan Case Laid to Animus IC Downey Pupils Demonstrate Oral Hygiene Jail Prisoner Thought to Be Dark Strangler UNITY OF PORTS Tells Thoughts During Five-Story Fall WORK LAUDED Chamber Also Praised for Population Gains Harold Janss Says State Has Set New Record City Declared to Have More Tourists Than Ever "California has broken a national record for population Increase. "The rate ot Inquiry about California from the rest of the United States Is growing faster right now than tt ever has.

"According to one great Index, the restaurant business, wo have va7y more people In Los Angelea right now than we ever have had. "The bank clearings show them to be Drosperous. "They are; I know It from my own Harold Janss, head of a real-estate A demonstration of oral hygiene by the children of the Downey grammar school under the auspices of the Los Angeles County Health Department featured the afternoon program of the nineteenth annual convention of the alumni association of the college of dentistry of the university yesterday at the Clinic Building. The children presented a dramatic interpretation cf the diet and health protams essential to the development ot good teeth. The morning session of the convention was featured by addresses on dental technique.

In the afternoon student clinicians and alumni members gave clinical demonstrations. The annual banquet and dinner-dance ot the dental alumni association took place in the evening at the Elks' Club. Today marks the close ot the convention. GOLD fTAB MOTHERS The regular monthly meeting of the Gold "Star Mothers of America will be held Saturday at a pm, at the Disabled Veterans Hall, 34a South HU1 street. Charged with suspicion of murder.

Steve Keilnas, 51 years of age, who. according to police, resembles the "dark strangler" who has killed eight women In Pacific Coast cities within the past six months, was arrested laxt evening and is being' held In the City Jail for investigation. Police said last night that search ot the prisoner's room in a Santa Barbara avenue houte resulted In the finding of eight feet of hemp rope In a carpet bag and, under a pillow, a newspaper clipping describing the "dark exploits. Keilnas. who was taken into custody at Second and Main streets by Detective Lieutenants Hlckey and Dryden, declared he Is a marine fireman off duty from one of the vessels In the harbor and denied the truth ot the charge on which he was booked.

The strangler, who is wanted for murder in four cities and whose description has been broadcast the length. of the Coast, killed three wom en in Fortiana. two santa bara, one in San Jose and one in San Francisco. iTU I i if' 2 3 T7. -kr'4 -X, vN ViMi viiT." 0N- JI 1kut 1927 WoM POWER tube organization so large that It maintains its own complete statistical department', made those observations yesterday from news from Washington on the population Increase and on material from his own flies.

"The news from Washington that was growing about two and one-half times the rate of the rest of the United 6tates." said Janss, "is welcome, but after all It Is only a national, and an txtra-conservatlve statement, of things that all of us know. CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE "If the population Increase for California is two and one-half times greater than for the rest of the United States, then the Increase in Southern Callforna Is at least Ave times as great. This Is conservative, yet from the investor's standpoint It means that a dollar in Southern California vrlll grow into 12 in a given length of time whereas the average investment elsewhere in the United States will take five times as long to do It. "This occurs because here In Southern California we have two great organizations whose business it is to see that the community grows and grows soundly. The organizations are the All-Year Club of Southern California and the Los Angeles AR OWNER ASKS CITY FOR $3.50 Claim Assorts Auto Ffll In Hole and He Had to Get it Toned Out Citizen M.

Levlne yesterday asked the Los Angeles city government for $3.50. He said his automobile landed in a hole In the street at Slauson avenue and Morgan street and charged that the hole had been dug by employees of the municipal water department and had not been maiked with a warning light. To tow Mr. Levlnes automobile out of the bole cost $3.50. sinking fund requirements on harbor bonds was praised by the Mayor, who admitted that "there was unmerited criticism of the Harbor Commission's action from sources hostile to the administration." The criticism by Coun-cllmen of the Harbor Commission's action was unwarranted, the Mayor said, as the Council had within Its power the right to use the "gilt" for budget purposes or toward paying charges on harbor bonds.

The Mayor said that rapid progress is being made on the new City Hall and he hopes that before the end of the present year the building will be completed and ready for occupancy. Mucn space was devoted by the Mayor in his message to the need, he $aid, of a consolidated city and coun ty government In Lon Angeles. He said: "It would seem that the greatest need of this great district is a unified and simplified form of government. Separate city and county governments are becoming a thing of the past in great metropolitan areas. Progressive people all over the country are coming to realize that there is no function now being penormea Dy euner a county or by a municipality which could not be performed equally as well or better.

by a consolidated city and county government. Originally, city gov ernments and county governments occupied entirely separate fields of activity. The county administered State functions locally, while incor porated cities dealt almost excla slvely with local affairs requiring regulation to meet the needs of thick ly settled urban areas. "Why should wasteful duplication continue to exist? Why for instance, should there exist side by side in the city of Los Angeles a City At' torney and a County Counsel, each with a large staff of deputies, a Dls trlct Attorney and a City Prosecu tor, a uity fumic uerenaer and a County Public Defender six senar ate publlo legal departments in our city to confuse and bewilder the citizen by reason of their number and his lack ot understanding ot their various activities? "Why should there be a city health officer and a county health officer, city librarian and a county librarian, a city motorcycle squad and a coun ty motorcycle squad, a city Planning Commission and a County Planning Commission, a Sheriff and a Chief of Police? Why should there be Board of Supervisors and a City Council, both legislating for the people, and a similar legislative body making laws in every one of the othor, or more municipalities of the county? "The people of the county must be brought to understand that the moveme.it is not one designed to further selfish Interests of the city of Los Angeles, or of any other city in the district. "I recommend that steps be taken to form a city and county consolidation commission to study this problem and to work for the accomplishment of city and county consolidation." MICHIGAN MEET TOMORROW The Michigan Society will have Its first February meeting tomorrow evening at the Hollywood Roof ballroom.

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The cas before Judge McLuca. A feature of yesterday's proceedings was tne fillnsr with ether papers in the case of eleven affidavits presented by Dep. Cos'eil- and signed by Jurors in the previous trial. The eleven Jurors declared la the affidavits that the one Juror who held out for Crossan 's acquittal dM so not because of the evidence in the trial, but because of animosity th.t developed between him and his lows. ADDED HELP EEQtESTED To expedite the completion of en gineering plans for the Glendale-Hy perion viaduct and the Sixth-strert and the Fourth-treet viaducts.

City Engineer Shaw yesterday aked the City Council for authority to employ there additional civil engineers and one draftsman. jz3 0, inc. 1 1 (Continued from First raj) the government lias made one appro priation CI SBOO.WW, wnicn through failure to create the port district, and has recently made another of 726.000. which wlU lapse unless the condition Is met. FAVORED BY PEOPLE 'As your honorable body well aware, the voters oi ooia i geles and Long Beacn nave, wiuuu the last few montns, ptmwu thi nuestlon.

and have indicated that they favor the principle of harbor unification. "This does not mean, or course, that they would approve any plan of port district management which miaht be submitted to them. At the time the matter was Be fore the voters of Los. Angeles, there un wl vigorous ocDosltlon to tne port-district plan, led by the Ma nlclpal League and others. "Their arzument was that a con olldatlon of harbors with Long Beach was unfair to Los Angeles by reason of the great disparity in tne investment of the respective cities in their harbors, in the assets owned, and in the municipal front- aee controlled by the repectlve cities.

Los Aneeles. it was argued, had an established harbor in which the city has invested 35.0OO,0OO. It is ea sentially a owned harbor. having many miles of municipal wa ter frontage owned and controlled by the city. Long Beach, on the other hand, has Invested but $3,000,000 in its harbor enterprise, it has praa tlcally no municipally owned front' age.

is not yet an operating harbor, and when completed, will be, to a laree extent, privately owned "This argument evidently had great weight with the people, for upwards of 70,000 votes were cast against the port district plan in the city of Los Angeles, notwithstanding the fact that the rress of the city were united ly on the other side. AGREEMENT NEEDED "However, the majority of the peo pie in both Long Beach and in Los Angeles voted favor oi tne princi pie of a unified harbor, to be controlled and operated by a port dlS' trlct to be organized for that pur pose. "We should accept that expression, and In good faith endeavor to reach an agreement with Long Beacn over the details of the organization and control of the proposed port district. The formation and adoption of a port district plan would Insure to us large additional appropriation from the United States government for the extension of the breakwater ana would give to Los Angeles county great protected harbor, whose future as a world port could never there after be questioned. Replying to the argument against harbor unification and Joint control based on disparity in the amount ot the investment of the respective clt les, it may be said that the harbor has never been a revenue-producing asset.

It Is doubtful whether it would ever be wise so far to increase Its charges that it would be more than self-supporting. It returns no direct benefits to the taxpayers, but it re turns millions of dollars to our peo pie in the form of indirect benefits in lower commodity rates, inaus' tries attracted to our midst and in making of our city a great center of trade and commerce. To a considerable extent all of Southern California profits by rea son of the existence of our harbor, Our people derive no particular or pe cullar benefit from the ownership or control of the harbor no benefit which they would not receive from it If it were united with Long Beach Harbor and placed under a competent port-district management acting In the Interests of the people. EXAMPLE CITED "San Francisco does not own or operate the harbor of San Francisco. That harbor is owned and operated by the State of California; yet it can' not be regarded as anything but great benefit to the people of Ban Francisco, who are In fact Its chief beneficiaries.

Of course the people of the city of Los Angeles are interested in the character of the control and man' agement of the harbor In which we have Invested our millions. We are Interested to the end that It shall be so managed and controlled that it shall return the largest benefits to the people indirect though these bene fits may be. we are interested to tne end that Jts management shall be nonest ana competent ma uio riizhts of the people of the city of Los Angeles shall be scrupulously protect ed and preserved, in my opinion an of these objectives may be accom plished, and the Indirect Denents to the people, not only of Los Angeles, but of the entire Southwest, may be immeasurably increased through the formation of a port district, the uni fication of our harbors, tne nuuaing of the great projected breakwater and the creation of such a harbor as would result therefrom. Whether you agree with this conclusion or not, the matter should not be allowed to rest where it is at present." OTHER PROPOSALS Outstanding recommendations In the Mavor's annual message, aside from the comments on the Port District delay, included the following: (1.) Recommended that the Council give attention to a comprehensive Rapid Transit Plan, as required by the City Charter, to be adopted before additional railway franchises are granted. (2.) Suggested that steps be taken to ask the people to approve a charter amendment making the civil service department financially Independent and to receive its support directly from tax funds, as library, park and playground departments are supported.

Declared that the people "hav not been satisfied with the work of the State Railroad Commission in handling local utility rate problems." and recommended that the State Legislature be asked to place a constitutional amendment before the people of California to reinvest the cities with rate-mak)g power over publlo utilities now exercised by the Railroad Commission. (4.) Recommended the formation of a special commission to study the problem of and to work for the consolidation of the Los Angeles city and county governments. Viewing the city government's work during the past year, Mayor Cryer pointed with pride to the Los Angeles city administration saying that "a high degree of harmony and cooperation has existed among the Various departments of the city government notwlthstandhig the continued efforts of hostile political interests to stir up trouble and dissension. Satis factory progress has been made every field oi municipal endeavor. "GIFT" MAILED Th "gift" of the Harbor Commission of $1,000,000 from its revenues to the city government for spending money while the taxpayers paid this amount and more far Interest and In down Balance 119 monthly.

Small Interest Charge. The Broadway Radiot Ft Eighth Floor. MJ mmmmmmmmmmm tin .1 --f-rr -rn-a-fai-at-m-- viiumDer 01 commerce. "In the past week 2347 families made inquiry about Southern California to the All-Year Club. This is better by TOO than for the preceding week.

It a sign of the interest and it reveals the organization that arouses the interest in the first place with its advertising and then crystallizes the interest into action with Its follow-ups. RESTAURANTS PROSPEROCS "In December, 1926, there were 116,233 more customers in the Leigh-ton cafeterias, coffee shops and dairy lunches than in the same month for 1925. This increase, according to S. Hoedemaker, resident manager of the enterprise and presldenlrof the Los Angeles Restaurant Association, Is attributable almost entirely to tourist visitors and these are attributable to the All-Year Club. "Bank clearings here have lust passed those of San Francisco, and, what is more important, our bank clearings are growing faster than our population.

We are getting richer per person as well as bigger in the gross, "All of the things that I learn from the outside are conflrmable in my own business. I am free to confess that a great deal of this business is almost placed in our hands. It is business that is brought to Los Angeles and Southern California from the outside advertising and publicity of the All-Year Club. If all will Join hands in increasing the budgets of this institution they can make our future prosperity as sound and as satisfying as our past." PROFESSOR LEAVES TO REVISIT ITALY Dr. D.

Austin, head of the department of Italian at the University of Southern California, accompanied by his wife, left Los Angeles yesterday for a sabbatical leave to Italy, where he will spend a large portion of his time in research and study of art and language. Dr. Austin will return to the Trojan campus next September. Naples, Rome and Or-vleto are Included in his Italian stopovers, with the greater portion of his time to be spent in Florence, in libraries and in conference with Italian scholars. Dr.

Austin also will ve-vlslt the University of Florence, where be was a student. Richard Lilley After Tumble DC-NT think I'll fly kites any more," said Ricnara tiiiey irom his bed at the General Hospital yesterday. "I'm getting a little bit too old for that, anyway." Richard, who is 14 years of age, and lives at 108 South Plgueroa street, had been told not to fly his kite in the busy streets, so on Monday afternoon he went to the roof of a five-story apartment-house for his sport. In a moment of intense interest he took one step too many backward and fell five floors to the pavement below and is still living to tell the tale. His only injury is a compound fracture of one of his legs.

"My kite was 'way up high," he said, "and I stepped back to get it up a little higher. I stumbled up agalhit the railing on the roof and then, (here he snapped his fingers) Just like that, I was over. While I was falling I wondered if it was Physician and Actress Fail to Attend Hearing Charges against Dr. Walter R. Anderson of Hollywood were postponed yesterday by the State Board of Medical Examiners when both Dr.

An derson and Miss Gloria Del Mar, film actress, now 19 years of age, failed to appear. Miss Del Mar was to be the principal witness. The charges involve asserted moral turpitude. The board spent most of the day hearing testimony for and against Dr. Eldrldge R.

Morlan of Fellows, charged with performing a criminal operation. Decision was reserved. Dr. Morlan denied the charges and declared there had been a "frame-up" against him by professional enemies. Other cases are to come up today.

The board is sitting at Foresters' Hall. SUSPECTED ROBBER HELD TO ANSWER Earl Dye, 18-year-old youth charged by authorities as one of two youthful automobile bandits who had terrorized outlying communities, yesterday was held to answer to the Superior Court by Municipal Judge Blake. Fred Whaley, 19, asserted companion of Dye In at least one of the suspected robberie is confined in the General Hospital in a critical condition as a result of a revolver wound in the neck. He was shot by Police Officer Raner during a chase after an asserted attempt to rob Mr. and Mrs.

Ben L. Bear, 119V East I street, Wilmington, on the night of January 25. Hundreds of pairs of high-grade arch-fitting shoes, included in our NOTE! Many lines of men's 'shoes included in this Sale. 728 South Olive Off High Apartment-house a dream. I thought: 'Am dead or alive or what?" Then, boy, I lit! Right on the cement and Just bare ly missed a packing box.

But it didnt evei break tho crystal of my watch." Here Richard proudly exhibited the watch without a scratch or dent on it. and went on to tell, plucklly, about the terrible pain he suffered and how his friend, Charlie La Mont, came rushing down from the roof, frantic for fear he had been killed. "I'll have to be here a month." said the boy ruefully, "and I'll get 'way behind at school, but I guess I'm pretty lucky that It wasn't any worse." The boy's mother, Ethel Lilley, who works during the day, had a presentiment that ail was not well with her son, it was said, and on Monday afternoon called up to talk with him. She received no reply and a half-houv later was notified that he was at the Receiving Hospital. VANISHING DEFENDANT CONVICTED Man Accused of Robbery Rearrested and Declared Guilty by Tired Jury George Adams, who Monday eve ning compelled twelve women Jurors in Judge Balrd's court to spend the night locked up In the Rosslyn Ho-tel.

yesterday was officially pronounced guilty of first-degree robbery by the Jury which he had inconvenienced by his absence from the courtroom. Adams was tried on the robbery charge in connection with the assert ed disappearance last July of $50 from the Chapman's Ice Cream Cbm-nanv's store at Sixth street and Western avenue. The Jury retired to deliberate at 4 o'clock Monday afternoon and reported to the court that It had reached a verdict at 9 o'clock. But Adams was nowhere to be found, so Judge Balrd ordered the iurv locked up for the night, as the verdict could not, under law, be read in court in the absence of the de fendant. Clerk Clark took charge of the sealed verdict for the night.

A cou Die of Deputy Sheriffs were dlS' patched in search of Adams, who was arrested later in the evening and placed in the County Jail. He was brought into court; yesterday ana tne Iurv then took the verdict irom Clark and turned it over to the court Adams will come Detore tne court Friday for sentence. The penalty for first-degree roDDery is irom nve years to life in tne Btate penitentiary. AL BARNES HANDS OVER TAX CHECK Federal Government Gets $175,000 from Circus Man in Income Compromise After a year of bitterly contested' litigation, in the course of which he stoutly denied possession of the income credited to him by the govern' ment, Alpheus George Barnes Stone' house, known throughout the State as Al G. Barnes, yesterday settled his disputed income tax by paying 175' 000.

The settlement came in the form of check given by the, circus owner to Collector of internal Reve nue Welch In the courtroom of Unit' ed States District Judge James. Barnes wiped the slate clean through a compromise approved by Commissioner of Internal Revenue Blair. The original amount asked by the government was $150,000 in taxes and $75,000 in penalties. The suit was brought agslnst the Marcus Land Company and 'against Barnes personally. Barnes pleaded gulty to one count In the Federal indictment charging him with false entry of Income tax, but denied, guilt In a second count of similar nature.

MAPS ASKED SHOWING ASSESSMENT DETAILS To start under way the plan of budgeting public improvements so sections of the city will not be overburdened with, many Improvements and many assessments at the same time, the City Council's special committee which has been working on the problem yesterday obtained the adoption by the Council of instructions to City Engineer Shaw to prepare three large maps of the city which will show at a glance the pending and proposed Improvements for each part of the city. (TV 7 Anglo-Persian 9x12 Rugs $11975 9 Anglo-Persian 8.3x10.6 Rugs $110.40 atThe of Broken Lines ffiursday Broadway! Snug-fitting arches, well-balanced heel and combination lasts combine with smart styling! in every pair. Values to $13.50. In the lot are some drop patterns and some that are slightly shopworn. Note the small quantity for such important price-reductions and bear in mind that this opportunity is an extremely rare one.

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