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FEBRUARY 17. 1936. PART II. MONDAY MORNING. Here Are Some Good Phone Numbers Victim of Mystery Attach NAME QUEST DRATO1ANY 1 i WOMAN ILL IN MYSTERY Mineralogist Reports Man Attacked Her With Needle While on Stroll SUSPECT TO ASK RELEASE Promoter Arrested Friday for Investigation of Financial Deals 1 ,1 Library's Phone i Books Thumbed Directories From 350 Cities Sinking into a coma after she had Used Most by Film Men and Sweethearts been jabbed in the thigh by a mysterious poison-needle attacker shortly after midnight yesterday, June Arnold, 28-year-old mineralogist and daughter of a former Smithsonian Old-age pension applicants Motion-picture directors-Anxious sweethearts Institute scientist, was.

taken to Hollywood Receiving Hospital by police. Still dazed eight hours later but able to speak coherently of the epi Those are the constant users of the Los Angeles Public Library's city directory and telephone book department, Margaret Domers, reference department head, revealed sode which occurred in the 1600 I i 1 -hW i i' i I block on North Hudson street, Miss Arnold related how the customary nightly walk she always takes just before retiring almost ended in yesterday. More than 350 phone books from very important city in America tragedy. POLICE AID SOUGHT As she turned off Hollywood Bou and even from Paris and London-give worried friends and business levard and started down Hudson street, the mineralogist said, a short, dark man brushed against her. A moment later, dizzy, she sought police aid.

Unless definite charges are filed today by Dep. De Vec-chlo against Bayard Weibert, held pending an investigation of his handling -of thousands of dollars intrusted to him for investment, a rit of habeas corpus will be sought W'eibert's attorney, Charles Ostrom, said last night. The young promoter was still in custody in a suburban jail while District Attorney's investigators searched for a college student who assertedly helped Weibert contact Influential people. ARRESTED FRIDAY On complaint of Charles Parker, sfcho told police that he had intrusted $5000 to Weibert, the latter was arrested last Friday night by John McDonnell and Jack Sumner, investigators for the District Attorney. Shortly after he was apprehended, Mrs.

Leafle Sloan-Orcutt, Los Angeles social leader, went to the District Attorney and said that she, likewise, had intrusted considerable money to Weibert for investment. DEFENSE CONTENTION Weibert contends that all his transactions were legal and that he defrauded none of his clients. Miss Lora Lorton, manager of a Hollywood secretarial service, who handled much of Welbert's correspondence, appeared voluntarily at the District Attorney's office and denied any knowledge of Weibert's affairs which might incriminate him In any way. Dep. De Vecchio announced that he will question all witnesses who may have knowledge of Welbert's transactions.

Miss Arnold fainted as she was being taken to the Hollywood Hos pital in an ambulance. She was only semiconscious during the en tire night. More than 350 telephone books in the Public Library bring millions of persons within easy access of City' directories also are available. Those gathering Information are, left to right, Mary Pauly. Margaret Domers and Frances Williams.

Time photo MAN SMALL IN SIZE Investigating the scene of the at On The Side tack, police reported that the young woman's assailant was identified by his footprints as a man of unusually small stature. Miss Ar FLIES MAY FORM POINT milm-A from Flrcf Tirl AGAINST KIDNAP SUSPECT nold recalls him only as a short, dark figure who dashed across the street after supposedly injecting a drug into her thigh. coquette, why go Zanzibar if fog June Arnold, mineralogist, Is shown recovering at her home from a mysterious poison-needle attack in Hollywood. She holds a bit of valuable montmorillonite and a map of the region which she hopes to prospect soon. Time phota CAREWE INCOME TAX SUIT COMPROMISE HELD LIKELY awes Max" At her apartment at 1519 North received when Green engaged in a Flies may prove to be evidence Western avenue.

Miss Arnold told AIL which will be most damaging how she if penniless and on relief against Floyd Benjamin Green, sus This communication Just pected bank robber, on trial before received: Superior Judge Fox today charged today although believing she knows the whereabouts of valuable California mining properties yet unclaimed in the upper Feather Creek region of Plumas county. With Edwin Carewe, veteran mo gunflght with two Los Angeies ponce officers who attempted to intercept him as he fled toward Los Angeles from Sierra Madre. The kidnaping charges arise out of the abduction of Miss Mattie Seeley Spencer, teller at the bank, who was taken for more than a mile from the institution by the hnnrfit. Miss Seelev. on the witness with robbery, kidnaping and assault with attempt to commit tion-picture director producer, "Dear Eddie We girls sure get a great kick out of your stuff.

"Mrs. Hancock Banning, Jr. This is plainly a forgery. Every scheduled to appear today before Dep. Crail announced PARENTS DEAD Eight years ago her father, Dr.

yesterday that he expects to prove Meat Cutter Plea stand, identified the defendant as George Arnold, Smithsonian mineralogist, died and left her an orphan. Possessing only the mining through Charles P. Dixon, streetcar conductor, that Green boarded a street car near Rivera a few hours after the robbery of a Sierra Madre body knows Mrs. Banning would say "us girls." Diva Welcomed to Los Angeles With Songs lore he had taught her, she hitch bank and was suffering, apparently, people easy access to long-lost persons. A hundred directories place the addresses of millions of people at Los Angeles' fingertips.

DIME-LETTER CRAZE "The recent dime-letter craze had us bothered Miss Domers confessed. "Other chain letters sometimes make our lives fairly miserable, too. People must be very anxious to get new addresses! "And when the Townsend Plan pensions were pending, our questions totaled 300 to 400 each day. Usually we handle about 200 phone calls and visits Miss Domers hastened to add that telephone requests for information are discouraged; the library staff prefers to have inquirers do their own first-hand seeking. SWEETHEARTS' ANXIETY Most anxious of all address-earchers, Miss Domers related, are young men checking up or.

former sweethearts (and vice versa;) attorneys seeking missing persons to settle estates; motion-picture studios making certain that fictitious names used In scenarios don't belong to real people; and last-minute Christmas card senders looking for old acquaintances. San Francisco, New York and Chicago addresses are most in demand, Miss Domers said. But the library gets many calls for Paris, London, Baltimore and San Diego names, too. REPLACED EACH YEAR Each year the 350 old telephone books are replaced by new ones, Miss Domers explained. Phone companies in other American cities exchange regularly.

City directories, however, are more difficult to obtain, as even libraries must purchase the volumes. "So you can imagine," the reference expert concluded, "what a struggle it is to maintain up-to-date files on a reduced income. New York's directory alone costs $75:" GOLDWYN ON TRIP TO ENGLAND Samuel Goldwyn, motion-picture producer, left Hollywood yesterday bound for England to complete arrangements for an international exchange of film talent. The picture magnate, who will he tone about six weeks, will confer Again Before Council from a wound in his left hand. hiked to California from Pennsylvania.

Since 1928 she has pros PASSING BY Eric Wolfgang Korngold. pected and catalogued ores in the FLIES FOLLOW MAN Before the grand jury" Dixon tes Composer. If Eric would put his own full name' to music It would the bandit. VICTIMS RECALLED Victim of the shooting was Frank E. Meredith, police officer, who was seriously wounded.

He and hte partner, C. Miller, testified that Green closely resembles the man who engaged them in a gun duel when they sought to stop him in his flight. The case will be given to the Jury by Judge Fox tomorrow. State's desert and back-country hill regions, she said, until she has gained the nickname, "Cactus Kate." make a great opening number for a company of Swiss Bell Ringers tified that his attention Was attracted to the disabled hand by 1 the swarm of flies that followed a man resembling Green into his street car. Bill Brennan.

The horse United States District Jddge Yank-wich for setting for trial of an indictment charging him with evasion of income tax for 1928-29, it appeared likely that the case will te continued, pending action on an offer of compromise now pending before authorities in Washington. "We have made what we consider a fair offer of compromise," Attorney George Bouchard, representing Carewe, stated. "We still maintain that his acts were not cf a fraudulent nature at the time he made a detailed return on his income for the years in question." The bone of contention between Carewe and the government consists largely of royalties the producer received on his pictures exhibited in Europe, coupled with his deductions for legitimate business expenses incurred in production. The government contends he owes approximately $80,000 for the two years. Carewe, however, holds that the amount should be much lower, in view of his claimed deductions.

He made payments on that bask. The City Council will have before it for action tomorrow a recommendation from its Ways and Means Committee that a request from the Meat Cutters Union that trainer. I remember him when he The wound, officers contend, wa 5 was an apprentice rider for "Fa ther B01" Daly. This old gent MASS KILLER TO BE SENT the city regulate the hours of butch used to give his jockeys all the same instructions namely "Lad, TO INSANE ASYLUM TODAY In Sweden when a celebrity comes to town the native chorus, Instead of a band, turns out to do the welcoming. So yesterday twenty-three members of Harmoni, a male Swedish, singing society, gathered in the music room of the Biltmore and then G.

Wickham, one of their number, invited Goeta LJumgberg, visiting Swedish opera star, into the room, A burst of folk songs of her own country greeted her from her countrymen and there was a happy reunion Gosta Loftman, vice-piesi-dent of the society, made a speech, and H. 8. Halgason led the songsters in Swedish melodies. Mme. LJumgberg, once star of the Swedish Royal Opera, is here with the San Carlos Opera Company.

take' this horse out in front as Former Visalia Officer Will Be Buried Today VISALIA, Feb. 16. (Exclusive) Funeral services for Tom Collins, 74 years of age, former deputy sheriff, city marshal and constable, will be conducted at the Brooks Chapel tomorrow afternoon. Collins, a native of Missouri and resident here for the last fifty-three years, died at his home Thursday. For twenty-five years he served as a peace officer.

Layman. 44-year-old la quick as ye can, and stay there. If ye die, die in front." Hence er shops be referred back to the Welfare Committee. The union requested that the sale of fres hand uncured meats be prohibited between the hours of 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.

The Ways and Means Committee pointed out that the majority of shops are unwilling to pay for the additional cost of Inspection which would be required if the hours were regulated as the race-track saying when a' borer, today will appear before Superior Judge Blake for commitment to a State institution for the insane as a result of his sanity 'trial following the slaying of six men on horse gets right out in front. He's off on a Bill Daly" day nightreturned a verdict finding the defendant "insane. LAW OUTLINED Under the State law, Layman must be confined In a State asylum for at least a year. Should be he found to be sane after that time, there is no law to prevent his release. The defendant was arrested by police officers after he had used a rifle to slay six fellow Wi.A.

a Work Progress Administration Kitty Carlisle. Hollywood nightingale. First to sing such hits as job last December, 16. On going to trial, Layman ad "Cocktails for Two," "June in January" and "Love in Bloom(" mitted the killings by withdrawing his not guilty pleas and standing trial for sanity only. The jury, Fri- workers on a ditch digging project CITY SEEKS VISITORS TO at Exposition Boulevard and -La Brea avenue.

CAUSES RECALLED At the time of his arrest. Layman OLD BEACH said that the men he had killed with Alexander Korda, British pro had teased 1 him continually, attempting to force him to leave the W.P.A. service. Authorities. Need Help of ducer.

Between them they have worked out a plan which will mean a virtual commuting of the industry's most important players be Citizens Who Remember Del Rey Shore Line During the trial four alienists testified that the defendant was insane at the time he committed the crime, is now Insane, and had been mentally deranged for several years. tween London and Hollywood to make a continuous flow of pictures both here and abroad. Old-timers and residents who Accompanying Goldwyn are his wife and 9-year-old son, Samuel bathed, fished or picnicked at the turn of the century on the South Venice beach are being sought by Jr. Mary Pickford was at the Santa Lincoln Heights Fe station to bid them good-by. Vote Registering Jail Inquiry to Be Made Who remembers when singers became famous with one song as Eva Tanguay "I Don't Care," Maggie Cline "Throw Him Down McCloskey," Blanche Ring "I Had Rings on My Fingers and Bells on My Toes" and Anna Held "I Just Can't Make My Eyes Alonzo Stagg.

Long a member of my personal Hall of Fame but just met him for first time last week. He's everything a college football coach should be but rarely is. Ftrst became famous as a baseball player when while pitching for Yale against Boston professionals he struck out King Kelly, Babe Ruth of that day, on three pitched balls Mike Levee. Actor's agent. Broke Into the Hollywood scene as a stenographer.

Same as Irving Thalberg. I used to be able to write shorthand myself. Only trouble was' I couldn't read my notes after I had written them. Figuring this fact might possibly prove a handicap I decided not to take up stenography as a career Charlie Chung. Chinese lobby boy at Biltmore.

"How do you like America?" guests often ask him and he replies "Velly good. Muchce likee" In what seems to be a struggle to master the English language. Fact is, Charlie was born in San Francisco, brought up in Chicago and was in the U. S. Navy during the World War.

Like all Chinese he is what is known as a "dead pan kidder." Conditions at the Lincoln Heights Jail will be investigated with a view to changes if found to be desirable, the Police Commission will inform the City Attorney's office as witnesses in the retrial of the city's suit to quiet title to the shore line near Playa Del Rey, it was. announced yesterday by the Playground and Recreation Department. The suit, in which Prince-David Mdivani, Mae Murray Mdlvani, E. Duncan and the Title Insurance and Trust Company are named is in progress before Superior Judge Parker. Assistant City Attorney Leon David is representing Los Angeles and on information from old residents of the beach area seeks to throw -light on the old- high tide line, before artificial additions were made to the beach by piers and groins.

In a former trial the city' obtained a portion of the newly formed beach. The Appellate. Court ordered a retrial. the City Council today. Now 877,473 Voters registered in Lai Angeles city and county reached a total of 877.473 during last week.

Registrar of Voters Kerr announced last night. Los Angeles city voters numbering 488,670 expressed the following preference: Republican, Democratic, 287.680; Socialist, 1056; Prohibition, 1315; Commonwealth, 30; Progressive, 469; Communist, 106. and declined to state, 26,087. Registrations in the county outside Los Angeles totaled 388.803 as follows: Republican. Democratic, 209.891; Socialist, 837; Prohibition; 2555; Commonwealth, 33; Progressive, 323; Communist, 93, nd declined to state, 19,214.

Deputy Chief Stecker has been assigned as at Lincoln Heights; succeeding the former chief Jailer. John Shand. In its cpmmu nlcation to the Council, the com: mission says that a thorough in vestigation will be made into exist ing conditions and that if there Is any justification to warrant a change immediate action will be taken to correct the situation. TRACK PLEA RETURNED TO i 'Unusual oQy so Bullock's Dollar Day i Specials will remain on sale Today Monday where if quantities permit. I I Bullock's Broadway Hill Seventh mm 1 1 1 i ii i i ii.

-d MAYOR SHAW Lowering the tracks of the Pacific Electric on Exposition Boulevard, requested In a petition to the Mayor by the Exposition Boulevard Improvement Association, which was referred to the Board of Public XJr2it A J' Utilities and Transportation, is a ACCOMMODATIONS- XSfrZV.tf 4'U 5U.TYOUR DESIRES' matter for the Board of Public Works to investigate, the utilities il PiRe Electric Station mefo Tlll ill I I yTuA board Informed the Mayor yesterday. The improvement association cited as a precedent that the railway recently entered into an agreement with the City of Glendale to lower Its tracks on Brand avenue. The utilities board Informed the Mayor that there Is a complicated situation on the north side of the right of way between Vermont and Western avenues, due to houses fronting the railroad property, making It quite different frcm the procedure la Olcndala, Ki 1 fl KL LK.