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FEBRUARY 6, 1036. PART I. 8 THE SOUTHLAND' Along (Distress Call Sent Out by Tuna Fishing Boat Helpless in High Seas -rrt I FUTIf! ATHl WIT Wf.Nf.tt A COASTGUARD Navy Bombers Return Pair Injured in Tuna Ship Blast ill InA inmmTinn! 7VT T.rl QJwri SENDS AID Storm Feared by i r- Ed-Ainsworth DR. BLAISDELL TOMORROW Seventy Colleges to Have Part in AlUDay Program at Claremont; Sproul to Be Speaker CLAREMONT, Feb. 4.

Leading educators from more than seventy colleges and universities of the Pacific Southwest and East will gather here Friday to honor Dr. James A. Blaisdell, according to registration Crew fr I San Diego VesseVs Position Given as About 1000 Miles South of Port lists today. SAN DIEGO, Feb. 5.

Believed in the path of a severe storm and with i 0 propeller lost and shaft broken, the 147-ton motorship San Rafael early I -v Cl Vi' Lj! v. -J i I A I i i I 1 1 'j I I i I 1 I i I I tonight broadcast a distress call from the Gulf of Tehuantepec, more than 1000 miles south of here. MOCK ENEMY COMBATED March Field Army Flyers Conduct Maneuvers Over Southland Dr. Blaisdell, for twenty-five years a leading figure in Southland and national educational circles, will be guest of honor at the all-day program featuring Dr. Robert Gordon, Sproul, president of the University of California, as speaker.

Former President Herbert Hoover will be a guest of honor. NOTED EDUCATORS Listed among the noted educators who will attend Friday's conference Seas were reported running high and adding to the ships peril. The broadcast appeal fixed the T1 ship, a tuna fishing craft, as fifty miles off the coast and sixty-five miles from the nearest port, La Pur Puerta. The Coast Guard will dispatch a RIVERSIDE, March V. ship to assistance of the vessel.

Field's crack attack pilots turned jB Von Klelnsmid, president of the Southern California into a mock i University of Southern California; MERCY FLIGHT UNWARRANTED Robert A. Millikan, California Insti- NAVY MEN DECLARE SAN DIEGO, Feb. 5. Indignation at a request for aid which caused naval officials to send two huge fly The navy bombing planes last night completed their flight back from Cape San Lucas, Lower California, where they were dispatched to bring two of the five survivors of the blast and fire which destroyed the tuna clipper Olympia. Lieut.

B. T. Talbot, left, had charge of flight. The others, who took part, are Lieut. W.

E. Kellum and Lieut. C. H. Duerfeldt.

John Caelso, who with Victor Zolezzi, was brought back from Cape San Lucas by Navy planes following the Olympia blast, is shown being assisted from one of the two Navy planes which landed last night at San Diego on the return flight. Navy officers later expressed the belief that condition of the men did not warrant the hazardous mercy flight which they made. iho ing boats to Cape San Lucas to rescue two fishermen was expressed tonight by naval authorities when condition of the men did not bear L- battlefield today for extensive maneuvers agains a mythical enemy that was laying waste the countryside with poison gas and bombs. Led by Capt. John F.

Madman, the Thirty-fourth Squadron worked out a time and distance problem over the Oceanside district, with detachments located at San Juan Capistrano, Fallbrook, Newport Beach, Temecula and Escondido. The Seventy-third Squadron set out to repulse a sham enemy bent on a poison gas attack upon Riverside, Fontana and San Bernardino, while the Ninety-fifth Squadron sped to the Mojave Desert on another defense problem. Movements of all units were directed from March Field headquarters. JAIL CHARGE Woman Seeks $55,000 WILL STANDor Dogs' Board Bill FLOOD PERIL TO BE ENDED Debris Basin Work Started in Area Above Upland to Eliminate Perils OxnanL Chiefs Resignation Wont Halt Prosecution; Successor Named Feb. 5.

Mrs. Maude Williams, owner of dog-boarding kennels in Beaumont, today asked Superior Judge Freeman to award her a judgment for approximately $55,000 against Lois Kellogg, Palm Springs dog fancier, for care of the BURON FITTS SAYS HE IS going to give Special Prosecutor Clyde Shoemaker "the licking of his life" after the Fitts perjury trial Is over. Maybe he'll really have to do it, too, to keep up the fistic reputation California District Attorney's are setting for themselves. Tommy Whalen did an absolutely professional job of beating up Edgar Dudley, "Secret Six" investigator, in the grand jury room at San Diego the other day. The only reason Mr.

Dudley didn't have more than two black eyes was because he didn't have any more eyes to black. Buron will have to make hamburger out of Mr. Shoemaker to exceed Mr. Whalen's pugilistic artistry. LEAVE IT TO LOUIS Louis Matthews of Covina, the political patriarch who now bears the imposing title of chairman of the State Unemployment Reserves Commission, explained the other night out at Duarte how the unemployment insurance plan Is supposed to work.

His long title is confusing. And I don't understand the unemployment reserves any more than I understand Chinese poetry. But I do know that with his honesty and common sense Louis Matthews is the best man we could have to straighten out the complicated tangles of this new set-up. UNFORTUNATE OVERSIGHT They had to call off the Fol-Jies one night because Fanny Brice was sick. It's a pity they didnt know George Bernard Shaw was in tms country on a visit, so he could have substituted.

He's twice as funny, and has whiskers to boot. GREAT VOICE GONE A great voice has been stilled at- San Gabriel. 8 Maurice Slavazza, the Italian-born baritone is dead. He had not gained "ally great fame but I always thought he had one of the three finest bari-tone voices I ever heard He was a splendid looking big fellow who loved spaghetti and conversation, but went very light on the wine. He was a fine gentleman as well as a marvelous 6iMay he always have the best solo parts in Valhalla.

WILL IT CONTINUE? Who will be next? we are having a regular epidemic of finacial trouble among public officials again. PUCounty Recorder Justine -ney has been removed from office at Santa Assessor James Hervey Johnson has been outsted at San Diego County Auditor Dennrth 8L Olivier of Ventura is in San Quentin after admitting the misappropriation of funds out seriousness which had been asserted when the flight was requested. The navy planes returned tonight from their "mercy flight." RESPONDED TO FLEA Responding to pleas of relatives of five fishermen saved when the tuna clipper Olympia sank, the Navy sent $300,000 worth of equipment and eleven men on a mercy flight which officials now brand as unnecessary and ridiculous. Lieut. B.

T. Talbot, in charge of the two planes, said that when the planes landed at Cape San Lucas the five men were in good spirits and that John Coelho and Victor Zolezzi were able to climb into the boats unassisted. They are in the hospital here where doctors say their conditions are excellent. Both are suffering from burns and cuts. INQUIRY PLANNED Lieut.

Talbott declared that the flight was entirely unnecessary and medical authorities said that boat transportation would have given sufficient speed to the rescue to give every care to both men. A thorough investigation is planned by naval officials. latter's dogs between 1929 and 1934. Mrs. Williams testified in the trial of her Superior Court suit, furnishing details of her claim, that Mrs.

Kellogg, member of a widely known American family, owes her the huge boarding bill. Her detailed report showed that at one time she boarded 117 dogs owned by Mrs. Kellogg, in addition to seveal horses. The board bill originally was more than $80,000, but part of it has been paid, she testified. The plaintiff also asserts that she advanced to Mrs.

Kellogg more than $3000 for the latter's personal use during the five-year period, and she ED DUDLEY'S AIDE GUILTY UPLAND, Feb. 5. werej taken today to assure residents of San Antonio Heights and property owners in the valley below that flood losses like those recently suffered need not be feared. R. O.

Price, president of the San Bernardino County Farm Bureau, reported that work has already been Dr. James A. Blaisdell started by the W.P.A. for construc tion of an adequate debric basin and drains. BURGLARY SUSPECTS HELDOVER VAN NUVS, Feb.

5. Following testimony by four women who effected the capture of two burglary suspects, Abe Rosemaa and Joseph Morris, the two were held to answer in Superior Court after preliminary hearing here today before Municipal Judge Call. In a courtroom crowded with residents of the North Hollywood-To-luca Lake district, Mrs. Jack Core of North Hollywood, Mrs. J.

A. Pa-bian of Burbank and Virginia Miller and Catherine Carencit of Los Angeles related how they followed the suspects for more than four miles after the two assertedly had committed a burglary in the Toluca Lake district. The suspects were apprehended and held for police after they assertedly entered another home In North Hollywood, unmindful that the women still were on their trail. Detective Magnes also testified. VENTURA, Feb.

5. The District Attorney's office announced here today It will continue to press charges of prisoner maltreatment against Joseph E. Kerrick regardless of his resignation last night as Oxnard Chief of Police. Kerrick is being detained under $500 bail bond fixed by Superior Judge Henderson for assertcdly "beating" up six prisoners in Ox-nard's jail, as charged in two grand jury indictments. His surprise resignation before the Oxnard Board of Trustees was followed almost immediately by appointment of Lucius R.

Orton as the new chief. Orton officially will take over his duties tomorrow. He opposed Sheriff Durley in the last election and some fifteen years ago was under-sheriff to E. G. McMartln, slain in a gun battle.

Kerrick, in his resignation, said he hoped his action would save the city of Oxnard some "embarrassment" in the matter of off-color publicity for the city. DAMAGE DONE It will be built at the base of the foothills above San Antonio Heights for carrying flood waters into the Cucamonga Wash. The San Antonio Heights area asks repayment of this money. PRISON PLAN PROTESTED SANTA CRUZ, Feb. 5.

Ventura county, deciding to become alarmed over the possibility of Santa Cruz Island, of the channel chain, being used as a site for a proposed State prison, today appealed to the Santa Barbara chamber for protest as was seriously damaged by the recent heavy rain which swept down SAN DIEGO, Feb. 5. (JP) Paul A. Burns, Los Angeles attorney for Edgar A. Dudley of San Diego "Secret Six" notoriety, this afternoon was pronounced guilty of misdemeanor contempt of court for having failed to answer all questions put by the grand jury late last year in its investigation of "Secret Six" activities.

Township Justice Dean Sherry, who tried and convicted Burns, set February 14 for sentence. Aircraft Head to Be Speaker at Installation INGLEWOOD, Feb. 5. J. H.

Kindelberger, president of the North American Aircraft Corporation, General Motors subsidiary, now erecting a $100,000 plant ad tute of Technology; Dean Anna Cot Brinton, Mills College, and C. F. Cheverton, president of Chapman College. Dr. Walter S.

Adams, director of the Mt. Wilson Observatory, and Hugh M. Duce, Loyola University president and president of the As sociation of Colleges and Universities of the Pacific Southwest, also will be present. JOINT MEETING Fridav's morning convocation at which Dr. Sproul will address the academic and public gathering will represent the first joint meeting of the colleges ever held in the history of the Claremont plan of education represented by Pomona, Scripps and Claremont Colleges.

Dr. Sprouls topic, announced today, will be "The Role of the Privately Endowed College in a Stat System of Education." Reservation for both the luncheon and the alumni dinner honoring Dr. Citrus School Doing New Kind oi Home Study AZUSA, Feb. 5. Intricacies of modern middle-class homelife are of major interest to certain members of the Citrus Hi senior class at school as well as at home, since "Skidding" has beg in its development.

"Skidding" is not a new fad known only to Citrus seniors, though. It sistance. Managing Secretary MacLeod re WhittierPlay ported that Ventura w-as opposed to a prison at its front door, from the standpoint of operating costs and other reasons. Santa Barbara Group to Offer "Double Door the fire-denuded foothills, tore through homes, drove twenty-five families out, and swept top soil away from groves. COST TO BE $23,000 A check dam in Frankish Canyon filled in twelve minutes and the water ran unchecked over highways, through homes and into groves.

Cost of the proposed debris basin of 50,000 yards capacity will be $25,000, according to Price. FALL RACING SEASON DUE SAN DIEGO, Feb. 5. Completion of the new San Diego County Fair grounds at Del Mar by October 7, in time for a fall racing season on the one-mile track to be built, was forecast today as preliminary work was begun. Crews of laborers started work and Carpinteria, opposed to the prison location plan for tourist reasons, already have entered formal protest with Gov.

Merriam and joining tne Los Angeles Municipal Airport near this city, will be one Blaisdell were at a premium today, according to anniversary committee heads W. S. Ament and Robert J. received assurance from Justinian What Did Dog Have to Say? VAN NUYS, Feb. 5.

Although it never has been definitely derided what a dog had to say to Officer W. W. Brown of the Sunland-Tu-junga substation of the valley police division, an individual who says he Is Edwin S. Taylor was arrested today on a drunkenness charge. The police report says the suspect entered the substation and reported that his dog, which was following him, had something to tell Officer Brown.

Bernard. Caire of San Francisco, who heads WHrmER, Feb. 5. The Whit-tier Community Players will present the "Double Door," a drama in ft I the owning heirs, that sale for prison We had a simuar use will not be entered into without i vwirs BCO. Garden Contest Opens at Beach due notice being given.

PAIR FACE SENTENCE three acts by Elizabeth tomorrow and Friday evening in the auditorium of the Whittier Woman's clubhouse. i The play will mark the annual, appearance with the local group of! Miss Laura Frankenflcld, who is; head of dramatics at Whittier Union! High School. The cast which will support Miss Frankenfield, under the direction of Mrs. C. F.

Baldwin, consists of Mrs. A. T. Emory, Dr. John Tuni-i sen, Helen Mitchell.

John Meredyth Jordan, Dorothea Oil Washed Down HUNTINGTON BEACH, Feb. 5. (Exclusive) The Huntington Beach Garden Club announces a spring yard and garden contest. Registrations will close February 14. Mrs.

May S. Jackson assistant secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, is the registrar. IN SLAYING SAN DIEGO, Feb. 5. Mrs.

Mintee Billie Lou Chester by Rains Brings Death to Birds clearing the grounds for sites for the exhibit buildings, race track and grand stand. The project, financed partly by W.P.A. funds, Is to cost nearly $500,000. Fullerton Shows ft In influence is it that causes the trouble to come all at once each time? NGLEWOOD FROWNS 1 Inglewood, looking with frowning disapproval upon the troubles of its small neighbor Hawthorne, has banned bingo games within its borders. Mayor Darby and his cohoits know that Hawthorne has had nlentv of grief from its games.

inglewood is essentially a home community. It doesn't care for the notoriety and turmoil that bingo always brings. THE DYING GAMBLER It remembers that the gambling fever grips people so hard they will Ptor ewn hen they are dying. One man over at Hawthorne kept playing almost to the moment he died, winning part of his funeral expenses. But Inglewood pilfers to get its tax revenue from some other source.

Smart town! Donald Jordan, Floyd Hibbs, George Bessler, H. J. Borchers and John Landreth. J. H.

Kindelberger SANTA Feb. 5. The recent week-end of heavy rain brought death to hundreds of; gulls, grebes, scooters and loons along Savage, 45 years of age, and Junio Baccus, 31. found guilty today of complicity in the murder of Paul Arriola, Filipino dance-hall owner, will be sentenced Friday in Superior Judge Griffin's court. The pair were found guilty by a jury of seven women and five men.

A recommendation for life imprisonment was made. Testimony of Jose Gonzales, Filipino sentenced to death for Arrlola's murder, branded Mrs. Savage and Baccus as the persons who had hired him to kill Arriola as the result of business rivalry. of the speakers at a joint installa lion banquet of the Inglewood sen ior and junior Chambers of Com is a three-act comedy by Aurania Rouveral. Katherine Peck Herndon, dramatics coach, is handling the direction of the play, which Is to be presented In the school auditorium Friday, February 14.

Billie Lou Chester, Marcella Williams, Temp Hastie, Beverly Hen-drick. Glen Kuhry, Bob Singleton, Koricn Gilkenson, Lambert Whit-comb, Tamasina Stevens and Fred Siemears are included in the cast. Santa Barbara county beaches that merce Friday evening. The banquet will be held at the Potrero Country Club. The other speaker will be Charles A Horrworth, field agent of the All-Year Club of Southern California.

George C. Malloy will be chairman of the evening. Townsend Idea Hit byPritchett SANTA BARBARA, Feb. 5. "The Townsend Folly" was the subject of Dr, Henry Smith Prltchett, president emeritus of the Carnegie Foundation, speaking before a crowd at the Santa Barbara University Club at luncheon today.

"The Townsend plan." said Pritchett. "is not a plan but a belief. It rests on simple faith in the prophecies of the good Dr. Town-send, who, like some other prophets, brushes aside the plain facts that stand in the way of the realization of his dream." Gain in Baby Arrivals FULLERTON. Feb.

5. Visits of the stork are increasing here and if there were any prizes to be won in a "country baby derby," Fuller-ten would be well up in the prize money. In the five years since 1931, the total of birth certificates filed has increased from 122 to 181 a year, which figure represents a 5 per cent increase, and this in spite of the depression. The figures were tabulated from United States Census Bureau estimates and announced by Fullerton Chamber of Commerce. front the oil fields of La Mesa, El-wood and Goleta.

The downpour washed from the fields heavy coats of waste oil which formed in pools and coated, the beaches. Wild life experts from the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History explained today that in attempting to preen their feathers after alighting on oil pools the birds get their bhV covered with oil and take enough into their stomachs to kill them. Klldees alone seemed able to rid themselves of oil without harm. Sam T. Hill will be installed as Boy Loses Life in Old Reservoir president of the senior group and iUidi'ey Excell as head of the jun mm ior group.

GLENDALE ELECTS SINGER GLENDALE, Feb. 5. Sidney C. Singer, manager of the Glendale division of the Southern California Gas Company, was elected president of the Chamber of Commerce for the ensuing year at the annual meeting of the board of directors, chamber headquarters announced today. Memorial Rites of Dr.

Denison MEMORIAL TREE PLANTED REDONDO BEACH, Feb. community will pay honor to the memory of the late Mayor John McClain Saturday at 2 p.rn. when a memorial tree will be planted in the Municipal Park, under the auspices of the Garden SAN JACINTO, Feb. 5. Five-year-old Roy de Soto was drowned this afternoon when he slipped into an abandoned reservoir while playing with a chum.

The lad's body was recovered from the water by his father with-ing twenty minutes. A city fire department inhalator squad worked for two hours in a "vain effort to revive, him. Set for Today Club. Redondo Beach Opens New Harbor Campaign AUNT II ET BY ROBERT QUILLEN CLAREMONT. Feb.

5, Civic and educational leaders of Claremont will Join with students of the associated colleges here tomorrow to honor the memory of Dr. Robert C. Denison, professor of philosophy, riCO CURATOR NAMED PICO, Feb. 5. Mrs.

Delores Connors of this city has been appointed curator of the famous old Plo Pico Mansion' on Whittier Boulevard. For the last several months the old mansion has stood like a deserted relic, with no one, in charge. BOGS'lQ' LOVE IT! CAR THEFT CHARGE FACED BY STUDENTS who' died last week. Memorial services will be con SANTA BARBARA, Feb. 5.

ducted in BriQges Hall of Music on the Pomona College campus at 4 p.m. tomorrow: Dr. Charles K. Edmunds, Pomona College presi Thomas Eugene Dill and Franham Fought, both 18-year-old Palo Alto High School students, were arrested SOME WOMEN ALWAYS ATTRACT by deputy sheriffs this morning near dent, will have charge of the pro sand drifts within the basin, according to engineers. Organizations will try to interest county and Federal officials in financing the project, at a cost of approximately $1,250,000.

A move which was brought to a head last November was defeated at a special election to decide a bond issue for the local cost of the project. A campaign to permit oil drilling in the vicinity which also failed helped to defeat the harbor project, according to the sponsors. gram. Others who will participate include Dr. James A.

Blaisdell and Buellton, charged with stealing from Salinas the costly car which they were driving toward Los Angeles. REDONDO. BEACH, Feb. 5. This community's newest campaign to obtain a harbor was pushed rapidly forward today.

Under the Impetus of the combined efforts of the City Council, Chamber of Commerce and other civic bodies, the plan, outlined by City Attorney Frank L. Perry, for which the approval of Los Angeles county engineers is being sought, would provide an anchorage of approximately fifty-five acres by the construction of a steel bulkhead from a point on the North Beach at Eighth street southerly to a point opposite Emerald, street. An ocean canyon near the shoreline at Emerald street will prevent F. Raymond Iredell. You want to be beautiful.

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