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JANUAHY 6, 1923-PAHT TL) 2 SATURDAY MORNING. VIDOR STUDIOS OIL MAN NAMED AGED CITIZEN I CHARITY FUND CAREER IS CLOSED SELZNICK MOVE I GREAT VICTORY To The "Times" Announcement Cause for plat ion Here is Means Other Distributing Agencies IF ill Come Result of Yecrs of Effort by Business Men The determination of the Belt-a'ck Pictures Corporation to brin? tta distributing agency, general of flees and eastern production com panles to Los Angeles In the spring a announced exclusively In Th Times yesterday, was tho cause 01 rejoicing yesterday among bankers hud business men here. I meant a victory after many yearf Of endeavor In which tho banking groups and the Chambor of Commerce have sought to convince tht picture people that Los Angeles can offer tetter advantages than New York for distributing as well as for production. "It is the biggest piece of Industrial news Imaginable for Los Angeles." eaid Mayor Cryer. 'I feel sure that when this important company brings its distributing forces here the others will follow, and this will mean almost is much to the city as the motion-picture production industry has meant ail these years.

It, Is the logical thing to do. and I am only surprised that It has not been done before But the habits of business are not easily broken and New York ha? been firmly Intrenched as the motion-picture distriouting center. The Cb.aml.er of Commerce should be congratulated on its efforts to convince the motion-picture people of the merits of unified production and distribution." FIRST HAS ADVANTAGE "Now that the ice Is broken, I am sure that all of the distributing agencies will be brought here," ea.d Frank Wiggins, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. "We always have felt that the company making the first move in this direction would have such an advantage of quick fire that the Others soon would follow. It means a very great deal to Los Angeles; its importance cannot be overestimated." When the motion-picture Industry developed production distribution and exhibition became separate entities.

Many years ago Los Angeles bankers and business men began rg.ng the industry to establish its distributing agencies here. But It was argued that this could not be done because New Tork was supreme In the theatrical world and liways would be. OPPOSING ARGUMENT Arguments to the contrary were that a motion picture Is chipped In tin can, and is not like a traveling troupe, and that while theatrical companies would continue to originate at New York since the pictures were made here because of tht climatic advantages there wast no reason why the finished prod- bci couia not be started on its way from this point directly to the exblb'tors, whose group nat- uraiiy wm widely separated: tha the cost snd energy of commuting; Home-L)ving Man Let's talk over this afternoon the matter of comfort in your living room. How about it? Do your Irvintj-roora chairs measure op to your needs after the days work? To rest the mmd, you've got to rest the body. Let yourself relax in soft, springy cushions when you get home nights and you'll bat a higher average in good humor than ever before.

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a. A Prloni! A J. HactIs Ctatnd foul NEW JOB OPEN F0RW00LWINE (Continued from First Page) Sets of picture finished by one company will be saved, catalogued and announced to al) producers In the association, enabling them to use them Immediately tor their own productions If possible, and at a great saving. This plan alone, it is said, will save the producers million of dollars each year. It is further proposed that after the scenario or itory ha been accepted that the directors, carpenters and property msn get together and prepare the plans for the different sets and scenes, consult the catalogue and notify the different studios of the time when such are needed.

If this is done it will be possible for the director to make as many scenes a day as he will deem advisable One man. to -be selected by the different committees of tne industry, it is planned. wU be appointed a supreme head. He will designate men as guards at the different studios whose duties will be to prevent any indiscretion on the part or any person employed. The purpose of this Is to prevent any person obtaining liquor or anything else that would be objectionable to the proper performance of their duties and ultimate ly to the great detriment of themselves and the industry.

It also is planned to create an arbitration committee endowed with full power. to act In the ease of any so-called star who has been charged with committing an indiscretion or violation of rules. The actor or actress will be forced to file his written answer to the charges with the committee and a day will be set for a regular hearing. The judgment of the majority of the arbitrators will be considered final. Standing committees also will be formed from the writers, the cameramen, the directors and.

assistant directors, the property men, electricians, the carpenters and the performers, for the purpoee of co operation. The committee to be formed from the directors will be responsible to the public and the producers for any obscene or ob jectionable scenes taken by such directors. The formation of the association as announced yesterday will entail no capital. zatton. CONSCIENCE DRIVES MAN TO ARREST Surrenders to Oincinnad Police, Telling Story of Theft Here Conscience etricken because he had stolen several hundred dollars from his employer In Los Angeles a few days before Christmas, Col lin N.

Ball, 25 years of age, surrendered himself to Cincinnati po lice last night after wandering across the continent With tears streaming down his face he suddenly appeared In the doorway of the police station and pave h.mself up to Detective Chief Emmett Kirgan, saying. "I am a thief; I want to surrender." According to Ball's statement he was In the employ of E. H. Buente, a Loe Angeles real estate with offices In the Luckenbach Building, and that two days before Christmas he was sent to the bank with 8400 to deposit for his employer and that Instead, of going to the bank he went to the railroad station and purchased a ticket to San Fran cisco. He remained In the north ern city for a few days and then continued on his journey to Cincinnati, where he related his story.

Mr. Buente. when seen last night at his home on North Alexandria avenue, said that he hadn't issued a warrant for the young man's arrest because he thought It was merely New Tear's jollification and hadn't thought much about It Authorities in the eastern city declare that the youth Is willing to sign pnpers for his return to Los Angeles and that he is willing to make good Ball, while in this city lived at the Lennox Hotel. 817 South Flower street IS eew 10 7 tot I AM IsV aseee a r- etOO Je an H50 AAAA.1A1A1.AA. tiff If WWII ff-- -dl IN GIRL CHARGE f- i iii Faces 'Serious Offense, Due to Night Jaunt Madalynne Obenchcdn's Half Sister is Involved Beauty Is Found tn Lonely Spot, Almost Nude A warrant charging X.

B. Bar-nett, an on worker, with contributing to the delinquency of Glenys Smart, young and attractive half-sister of Madalynne Obencbaln. was Issued yesterday afternoon at Santa Ana. Barnett Is listed among the missing. He was Miss Smart's companion Thursday night whea she thoughtlessly marred the beauty of a virgin bed of caotua by turn ling into It from the top of a blur at Newport Beaoh.

Miss Smart Is now a patient at Orange County Hospital, where surgeons devoted the entire day extracting thousands of tiny cactus needles from her body. Though Miss Smart "fair for Barnett on Thursday night, she declined to reveal her Identity until twenty-four hours later. She was discovered groveling in the cactus by fishermen, who rescued her from her bed of thoma She was almost nude, wearing only a transparent silken undergarment. Before she reached the hospital she was overcome by fright, exposure to the chill seaside breezes and liquor. ADMITS SHE DRAWS To City Marshal Porter of Newport, Miss Smart told her story yesterday.

Barnett had Invited her tor a ride to an abandoned oil well at Newport Beach where he was once employed. She eald he produced a liquor Bask, She accepted iwo annus, sne though she believes Barnett took many more. On the mesa overlooking the placid ocean near Newport Beach they left the car and went for a stroll She wandered into a bed of caetua The farther she struggled, the more cactue needles did she become acquainted with. To alleviate the pain inflicted by the needles ehe tore off her garments, she said, one by one, and threw them to the four winda Struggling through the caetua, she wandered to the brink of the bluff and toppled over, falling fifty feet into another cactus bed. Barnett disappeared, and she remained In the cactus until her screams attracted fishermen, who took her to Orange County Hospital "He did not attack me." eaia Miss Smart.

"He did not tear my clothes from my body. He made no Improper advances to He was always a gentleman while with ma But why on earth he deserted me In that terrible bed of cactus and left me to my fate In the cold and in the dark I do not know. "I never want to see his face again!" According to City Marshal Porter of Newport. Ba-nett appeared at the hospital at 3 a.m. yesterday, but was refused admission because he was intoxicated.

He has not been seen since then. Marshal Porter then swore out a warrant for him and requested Los Angelee police to assist in the search. Miss Smart wept when she thought of her mother. She doesn't want her mother to know. She doesn't want to see her.

For many months she had been residing with Peggy Coombs, a friend at 1824 Vi North Western avenue. "I don't want to go home," she pleaded. So she Is being held at the hospital pending further Instructions from the marshal of Newport. CALIFORNIA SPLIT SEEN (Con tinned, from First Page) nomic demands, the State Senator eald. FOR REAPPORTIONMENT State representatives In the Legislature from the Southland have agreed to make reapportionment their first and most Important task.

Careful estimates. Mr. Romlnger said, have shown that with the sd-dltlon of new districts, control in the Legislature should pass from the north to the south, due to the amazing growth of the latter The south should gain seven or eight assemblymen and about four Sena tors. Mr. Romlnger Indicated.

Election of Assemblyman Frank Merriam of Long Beach to the speakership of the assembly Is practically assured, he declared Such an achievement should prove of unlimited importance to the Southland In carrying out Its leg islative program, he said. Long Beach should hnve a separate branch of the Superior Court 'with a judge to handle Long Beach rases until such time as action to make the Long Beach district a separate county can be taken, he declared. Mrs. Paddleford. prior to her Illness, had been arrested at Vienna and later taken to Lucerne to await trial on charges of shoplifting and for failure to pay debts she Is s.iiJ to have contractea with Swiss shopkeepers totaling approximately 37.000 Swiss franca' Her arrest was the climax of a series of startling episodes in this country.

It was preceded by the filing of a divorce complaint by Ds Paddleford charging extreme mental cruelty and branding his wife as "a masterful woman elth a checkered career and sinister Influence." Prior to this Mra Paddleford fig. ured conspicuously In several sensational divorce cases In few Tork and St. Paul, including the noted Gould ease. The divorce action revolves about Mra Paddleford's adopted daughter, who i with her mother. In the legal tattles which had raged between Dr.

Paddleford and his wife It wae charged by Mra Paddleford that he had Improper Trilh 'he fi! Th: the GOES TO REST J. K. Skinner, Former Police Chief for City Original "Forty-Niner" Had Successful Life Services Will be Conducted This Afternoon Funeral services for J. K. Skin-ner, years of age, pioneer citizen of the State and one time Chief of Police In Los Angeles, vho died at 13:80 m.

Thursday the home of hi son-in-law, William R. Ruese, ttl South Ho- art Boulevard, will be conducted today at I p.m. at Booth and ioylson'e chapel. The body will cremated. Older citirens will memember Mr.

Skinner as the builder of Baker Block in 1876 and the oilman Building at the tntersec-ion of Second and Broadway In 1897. For many yeare Mr. Skinner was prominent In real estate circles here, and in 1 888 served as Chief of Police. His first residence was on the site of the Union Oil tltdlng at the Intersection of Seventh and Spring streets. He also lived at one time in the old Fremont home at the Intersection of Carr and Main streets.

As one of the original "Forty-niners." Mr. Skinner landed penniless In San Francisco after losing all of his possessions in a shipwreck near the "Horn." He lived in the northern part of the State until 1868, when be married Miss ia u. uanieis or iapa laej then came to Los Angeles. tsy judicious investments in real estate Mr. Skinner amassed a considerable fortune and became prominent in the affairs of the city.

Since about 1900 he had been connected with the W. H. Perry Lumber Company, and for the past ten years lived with his son-in-law. He leaves two sons, Henry Skinner of Oakland and John Skinner, of Venice, and one daughter Mrs. William R.

Ruess, 262 South Hobart Boulevard. Other relatives are said to live in Nova Scotia, but there has been no communication between tho members of the family since the late Mr. Skinner left home as a boy. BARS UP ON EDUCATION MONEY QUIZ Sifters Decide to Work in Private Until Ready With Report The first act of the committee appointed last week by Mark Kep-pel, County Superintendent of Schools, was the Issuance yesterday that body of barring newspaper men and the public from the hearing which will investigate the financial outlays of the Board of Education for tht last five years. The statement, which was given out through Mr.

Keppel, said the committee will form opinions and draw up a report as to lis findings. This report will be made public on Jts completion and until that time the committee will make public nothing concerning its progress or activities, he asserted. The committee, which was authorized by the recent teachers' convention aid appointed by Mr. Keppel, has eleven members, most of whom are superintendents of the county schools. It is understood that the County Auditor and the County Treasurer as well as several other persons wno may De aDie to cast light on the expenditures, will be heard by the committee.

The Investigation follows on the charge by the grand Jury that the expenses of the board have in. creased disproportionately with the attendance at the schools and the recommendation by that body for economy. Married Man Is Sued by Jilted Girl for Breach 8uit for $40,000 damages for asserted breach of promise was filed yesterday by Violet Woodyard against Burt L. Windiate. The young woman as.erts In her suit that she met the defendant in Long Beach, where she lives, on February 15 last She asserts that he represented himself as single and asked her to i marry him, declaring that ha weaitny and would buv hr home, an automobile and give her Mu a montn ror pin money, Believing that he would make gooa nit, promise, the girl says, she went on a hunting trio with him Into in iniw him near Humboldt for five weeks.

They returned to Los Angeles on uecemoer 7 last Arter their return. Miss Wood-yard asserts, she learned that her nance was married. PLAN WELCOME FOR NEW BEACH PASTOR ELABORATE RECEPTION READY FOR DR. ROACH OF OKLAHOMA IS By a 'Times' Staff Corrcspmidcm LONG BEACH. Jan.

Plans for an elaborate reception for Dr. I. Frank Roach of Oklahoma City, appointed ty bishop Leonard to the pulpit of the First Methodist, v-iiurtn in mis city, are oeing car- rtra out. was learned here to- Aa'. TfL reception to he tendered the new papr win De held on the 16th two days after his arrival: nere rrom tee bast, and will be r.

the auditorium the First Methodist Church at Fifth street and Pasadena avenue. Among the speakers will Mayor A. Buf-fum, W. Stehans, Superintend ent of Schools, i'rfdsothrs prominent In civic and chn'ch aff.i o( CHANGE HANDS (Continued from First Pace) companies will hereafter function as one unit with headquarters) at the new studloa Stare of the greatest drawing power will be signed under the Principal Pictures Corporation banner, according to Mr. Leaser.

It is understood that negotiations are now under way for the signature of contracts by many men and women celebrities, among whom Is Dorothy Phillips, wife of the noted director, Alan Hoi Mist Phillips has just completed a feature for Princlpsl Pltturee Corporation titled "The World's A Stage" which was written by Elinor Glya. Big productions with all star caste and the best obtainable stories will be the slogan for all Principal Pictures releaeea The productione will be shown la the finest theaters In America and Europe. It Is the Intention ef the officials of Principal Pictures Con poration to make studio alterations which will provide space for individual producing unite which desire to lease studio space tor independent productiona This la the plan now Is effect at the United and Hollywood studloa Work will be started on the Improvements of the studios at onoe and It Is thought actual production can commence within a thirty-day period. The sale of the studios waa consummated directly between King Vldor and the Principal Pictures Corporation. Mr.

Vldor has signed a contract with the Goldwyn studios and Is no confinlnfl his production activities at Goldwyn'e plant. One of the big assete of the new studloa according to Mr. Sol Lesser, Is a complete fire department on the premises. This Is a valuable asset In the present-day picture-making as many thousands of dollars have in the past been lost In studio equipment and settings wtych could have been saved had the fire department a shorter distance to travel. Mr.

Lesser also states that arrangements have been made the General Electric Company whereby one of their experienced engineers will come to Loa Angeles and supervise the Installing of a giant motor gsnerator which will be one of the largest used In a motion-picture studio anywhere. Plsns also include the erection of permanent street and exterior seta Heretofore space did not afford the possibility of leaving street scenes remain after filming was completed. The great area of land acquired by Principal Pictures Corporation will permit construction of these settings, which cost small fortunes to erect, to remain Intact for as many film units to use as is desired. "It is the wish of my brother and Mr. Rosenberg," said Sol Lesser, "to give Hollywood one of the most thoroughly equipped studios as well as one of the most beautiful.

We will make extensive additions and will have a landscape gardener supervise the garden changes and an experienced aeco-rator work on the Interior deco-rationa. will be made for service and beauty combined and I feel safe In saying that when our new etudlos are ready for oecu nancy, they will be on a par with any now In operation throughout the country. That the year 18ZS will be one of. the biggest In the history of fllmdom Is the belief of tne ex ecutives of Principal Pictures Cor poration. They have made ar raneements whereby their organ! ration will expend hundreds of thousands of dollars throughout the new season, in the production of big cinema classica Their purchase of tne viaor studios Is but one of many Investments they contemplate making throughout the new year.

AUTO THEFTS ON JNCREASE (Continued from First Pag) strictly business way, by organized gangs of thieves, than ever before. Private garagee In the residence section are being used to a large extent by the tbievee for harboring stolsn autos. while all Identification marks are being removed and cars repainted eo that their ownrs could not recognize them. Excellent work wae done last year by the Automobile Club and the Police Department, ecoordlna to lecal authorities. In recovery of stolen machines, as 1268 cars have been returned to their owners during the year.

The thft bureau of the club arrested 148 auto thieves during the twelve montha IS ANARCHIST EVEN JN DEATH (Continncd from First Page) planned to place the ra ket In the Alameda, where It will be viewed by thousands. An inscription piste, prepared here, will be placed on It at the capital. The plate wilt bear the Inslrnla of the railway-men's fraternity. The government will not be permitted to do anything, for it Is not proper that anarchists, dead or alive, have anything to do with government of any description whatsoever. Members of the radical gioup in the House of Deputies cai i come to tne Alameda ana on.

If they care to. GLENN DALE HERTZLER Young Bostness Man Sncmmha to Attack of Pneumonia Glenn Dale Hertzler, well-known Loe Angeles broker and president of the Security Finance Corpora-t on In the Marsh-Strong Building, died at the family home. 2831 West Eighth atreet, yesterday morning. Mr. Hertzler was 84 years of are.

a native of Michigan. He leaves hi widow. Mrs. Florence Hertlzer; his mother. Mrs.

Cornelia Hertzler. i snd a sister. Mra F. KuU. all of Los Aneeles.

Mr Hertzler was identified prominently with lodee end social oreanlxalions of the Parlfle Coset. He was active In Masonry and Elk-dom. and was a Rhriner and member of the charter. Fuaeral arrangementa completed through the Rupne Mortuary, call for burial under direction of the Masonic Lodje. Tuesday, at 2 o'clock, from the residence.

Interment will be In Hollywood Mausoleum. rneumonia was assigned as the nT death. 3i23L -4, i y- iniffiTiir mhiii in J. ti, omnner PRISON AID LEAGUE RAID PROTESTED rr' 1. President Declares orti Praiseworthy and Will Fight Detractors Charles Brandon Booth, president of the Prison Development League, the offices of which were raided Thursday by police detectives and investigator of tb District Attorney's office, and documentary evidence seized for investigation, entered a vigorous pro-tett yesterday through hi attorney, Munson T.

Case. "Incorporation papers, work on which was started October IS, are on the way," Mr. Booth said, "The growth of this organlzat'on' since Its Inception, three months ago, has swamped us. We have collected about 12500 in funds, only about 855 of this in California. Howard Hall our financial secretary, and myself have received slightly more than each for our services.

The remainder has been used in expenses incidental to the framing of our organization work. The other officers contributed their services." Mr. Booth said the organisation planned to begin propaganda to the end that proper legislation may be enacted that prisoners be forced to work' and plao the rerult of their labors on the opon market, at market prices. Mr. Booth said the raid of the District Attorney's of- nee was unwarranted, but that his books and letters now in the hands of the s.

stantiata the Integrity of his work. "Now that this inveuUbauon nas been started," he continued, "1 shall force it to a conclusion and shall demand the indorsement of every Indorsing body in the Staite of California, If it takes my last nickel." Mr. Booth, In support of his assertion that the Prison Development League is a praiseworthy organization, produced numerous clippings from newspapers in the East commending his work and plan for reform of convicts. All fact? relative to the Investigation of the league were turned over yesterday to United States Attorney Burke by representatives of Dist-Atty. Woolwlne's office.

Reports Thursday that H. Howard Hall, an official of the leae'ie. was the producer of the opera "Carmen," staged at the Hollywood Bowl were denied yesterday, by officers of 'the bowl. Hall was connected with the production for time, it was stated, but his connection ceased before the opera was given. Fashion-Plate Bandit Suspect Under Arrest A fashion-plate boy bandit, who, the police say, has confessed to one hold-up and who Is believed to be responsible for a number of others, was arrested lart right and lodged in the County Jail.

He gave his name as Jack Graham and h's age as 17 years. He was arrested at the Intersection of Telegraph Road and Whittier Boulevard by Motorcycle Officers Billy Weeks and B. C. Martle. who recognized the car he was driving as one that had been reported stolen.

It i resriRtered to Sander. Owensmouth. When they halted the car. young Graham leaped out and attempted to escape, but was captured. Deputy Constable Robert Ander.

son declares the youth confessed to him the hold-up on Thursday night of an oil station at 804 Pasadena avenue, operated by J. IB. Reyley. Three other men were with the youth. Reylev declared.

and he wrote down the license number of the machine In wh'ch they were riding. His description Identified Graham as the leader of the garg. the officers say. Graham, who said his home wss In Arizona, was well dressed, and wore patent-leather pumps, one of the marks of Identification noted by Reyley. ADMITS HIS GUILT AM) GOES TO PRISON Robert Bulmer's admitted "way with women" Is useless now.

The man ho acknowledge that a trail of worthless checks and broken hearts follows him, yesterday was sentenced to San Quentia by Judge Avery. Some days ago Bulmer was arrested by Private Detectives N. H. Peterson and J. W.

Buchanan. They hud trailed him for months. He had posed as a prosperous business man urd, in this 1 ght. they said, had pacst-d checks on a number of local hotels. The officers declared that he kept books so that he eould "covtr up" when those en whom he passed checks became too insistent.

1 A Pi executives and leiegraphic orde.t 8ee the organization is in-were unnecessary and above all dicated completely. Ultimately I Beginning in the Issue of January 0 LOS ANGELES' DISTINCTIVE WEEKLY Announce a Romantic Historical Novel "Katharine Howard" (Fifth Wife of Henry VIII.) BT SAM T. CLOVER, (Editor of Saturday Night) In the Prologue It Is disclosed that the original manuecrlpt. In ancient French, was found la an old Virginia mansion, built In 1721, and UU standing on the bank of the Rappananock the home of the Culpepere. The wife of the first American Cnl-peper wae a great grandnleca of King Henry's een and learned the particulars of the plot derlsed by the Tindlctlro duke of Norfolk, Katharine's uncle, from the llpe of her grandmother, a daughter of Lady Baynton.

sister to Katharine. This descendant married Anthony Culpeper, who had escaped to France after the battle of Marston Moor, so disastrous to the Royallsu. and the' two sailed to Virginia, where they greatly prospered and raised a family. The diary, lost for two hundred years, was accidentally discovered In a recessed cabinet and on the death of the last Culpeper was left to the author, then editor and publisher of a newspaper at Richmond. Virginia.

The story which Saturday Night will print in serial form purports to be the result of his translation and transcription. It throws a new light on a much-egltated period of English history. SATURDAY NIGHT Invite all persons interested In music, art, the drama, poetry, books, finance, golfing, social affair, women'i clubs' activities, children's department, educational, literary and ethical matters generally, to try a three months' subacription by filling out the appended form below and enclosing it with one dollar to the office of publication. A STRONG AND FEARLESS EDITORIAL PAGE IS MAINTAINED AN EXCLUSIVE WASHINGTON LETTER Discussing the Politics of the Day, is a Weekly Feature SATURDAY NIGHT has a genuine mission In the Southwest It attempts to reflect that side of life which is creatlTe and critical, ambitious and progressive. It alms to be an Incentive to all who are striving toward worthwhile goals stressing the best at all times.

1 Your trial subscription Is Invited. Name that the producing and distribut ing divisions of the industry need ed a greater unity which only could be accomplished bv proximity. In recent years the producers to over their own dl tributing organizations, often un der a separate corporation, but di-rectlj allied. Besides Selznie there are Goldwyn, Famous Play-rs-Lasky, Douglas Fairbanks and others ho develop their own plo' tures. Many companies do not.

bu the tendency is in the direction of uninea operation in all but exhibition. This more than ever em phasized the advantages of one lo nation. BANKERS TO AID About a year ago the Chamber of Commerce called a meeting of producing executives and bankers and the matter was discussed at length. The difficulties of finence had been advanced in opposition to Los Angeles, but local bankers naa tegun to aid the industry, offering facilities that eastern capitalists had afforded. A few weeks ago Paramount, the distributing agency of Famous Players-Lasky, held Its convention here, bringing hundreds of mo-Uoa-pictute men to this city and showing them, for the first time, how pictures are made and Just wath the producing part of the Industry ta This the first step In the direction of the production-distribution unity, and it is said that the advantages of the convention to the company were great Now, the announcement that such an Important company as Selznick will bring its entire distributing or- here, and leave only a ocal office at "New York, means realization or this city's hopes and, the Chamber of Commerce officials think, a sure Indication that in a few years Los Angeles will have all Df the motion-picture Industry and be its capital In every sense.

POLICE SIFT MYSTERY OF lit' i IE VI A Al fill Unidentified Stranger is Found Unconscious; Dies at Receiving Hospital Detectives late yesterday were seeking to unravel the mystery In he death of a man believed to be Enrico Picclninnl, who was found naconsclous yesterday behind a billboard at the Intersection of lunset Boulevard and New High ttreeL The man died at the Re-' eeJrlng Hospital shortly sfter his removal there. The cause of his death has not yet been determined. It at first thought that he was suffering from alcoholic poisoning, but examination disproved this. His symptoms were those of one etricken with a cerebral hemorrhage, but there were no marks of Injury except a small bump at the back of his head which Dr. Dorn declares was not inflicted re-ntly i In als pockets were 81.48, li-urk ebeck tram and a card with the came of Barioo ptccinlnni.

CONTINUE PADDLEF0RD SUIT Wife Missing When Divorce Case is Called and Courl Allows Her Time in Which to Appear With the whereabouts of Mrs. Genevieve M. Paddleford, one of the three principals tn the sensational Paddleford divorce suit, a mystery. Presiding Judge Crail yesterday continued the case until the Address City (and Subscription. Four Dollars a Office of Saturday Night, and Broadway.

Los Angeles. state) Year. O. T. Johnson Bunding, Fonrth 25th Inst.

The postponement was obtained by Attorney Philip Cohen, repre-enUng Mrs. Paddleford. Unless she appears to contest the suit by the 25ih inst, it was Indicated yesterday, a divorce will be granted to her husband by default. Only the pleas of the attorney for an extension of time prevented Judge Crail yesterday from writing finis to the case hich has attracted national attention. Attorney Cohen told the court that Mra Paddleford had written to him from a hospital at Lucerne.

Switzerland, on necemher 8 last, to the effect that she would be here on the iav set for the trial of the case. Dr. George E. Paddleford. wealthy HoMywood oil man and former associate of E.

L. Doheny In Mexico was In court. Noth'ne has ben heard from Mrs Paddleford since the receipt of her letter. It is the belief of her attorney that she has either suffered a relapse and could not mike the Jourrev. or tht she Is -n liner In m'd-Atlnrtic which The Times Illustrated Magazine itself Is ens of th 12 nr-st ynit which mafca silne published In Southern California.

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