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The Weather In Two Parts 30 Pages PART LOCAL NEWS 14 PAGES (FORECAST FOR LOS ANGELES AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: Fair today and tomorrow! orertait nifht and morntnr: not much change in temperature. Maximum and minimum temperatures tor e-terdar: 7460. Complete weather report en Pace IS, Part I. VOL. LIV SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 29, 1935.

CITY NEWS EDITORIAL SOCIETY MOVING DAY I Testifies in Sewell Case FOLLIES GIRL Discovery Told Scientists TheLancet FOR "TIMES" TAKES STAND BY HARRY CARR FOOD POISON GERM FOUND Discovery Told to Scientists New Home Ready Testifies Against Guttman Ll iii'iiiir Witness Tells About Austrian tor Occupancy Plant to Operate Tomorrow; National Radio Broadcast at 1 p.m. Monday R. V. Stone, Head of County Jr IT)J I Accused by Mrs. Sewell of $44,000 Theft Laboratory, Uses Broth to Make Segregation NEVER get tired of the sea.

Going around the world two yejirs ago, I was, from first to last, three months on the water and traveled fifteen ships. But I must say that the Lurline which is now conveying my distinguished carcass to the Hawaiian Islands is the finest ship I have ever been on. jtly steward is a very interesting young fellow who comes in to talk prize fights. Nothing ever happens that so flatters me as when stewards recognize that they don't have to pull "Yes, sir; if you please sir" on me. Servility is an Insult.

The first time the hired help bend double and begin to crawl, I advise you to smack them on the nose; they have marked you for a cheap fool. Another woman officially entered To medical science, food poison the life of Henry Guttman, promoter, ing has been a baffling mystery for yesterday, when Christine Sloan, former ZUegfield Follies beauty, was Amid the hush of a city deep in slumber The Times will move Into its new building tonight. While the fleet of delivery trucks, long after the witching hour, rumble away with their last high-piled loads of the Sunday edition, the epochal undertaking will be accomplishedand from tomorrow on The called as a witness against him in Superior Judge White's court. Guttman is on trial charged with the last thirty years, and until yes terday modern physicians were far from solving the puzzle of the strange and sometimes fatal illness caused by tainted foods. But before an intent audience 4 local bacteriologist yesterday dei scribed how he has finally Isolated the staphylococci of food poisoning, adding to medical science's seventy-odd known bacteria another recosi eight counts of grand theft for as-sertedly stealing $44,000 from Mrs.

Blanche Sewell, wealthy Beverly Hills widow, while he was acting as her business agent. Times will be published in Its new plant at First and Spring streets, a mutely eloquent monument to EXPERT'S OPINION For the last two days, Sewell, vision and progress. My steward was very skep the major prosecution witness, has And then after the great granite nized and combatable germ. been subjected to cross-examination structure has poured forth to the Southland the first product of its by defense attorneys who sought to SECRET REVEALED At the American Association for the Advancement of Science Pacifio prove she gave the. money to Gutt existence, The Times of Monday, man as gratuities.

During the July 1 there will come on Monday sectional meeting at the University cross-examination the. woman was tical about the fight between Baer end Braddock. Ha jsaid there was something queer about a match that calls for bets that go ten to one. 'But, I said, "you have to admit that Baer broke both hands." "Oh, yeah," says the steward. "With what? Certainly nobody hit anybody else during the whole fight." a national broadcast to celebrate the newspaper's removal to its new home.

questioned regarding numerous let ters which she wrote to Guttman. of California at Los Angeles, Dr. n. V. Stone, chief of Los Angeles county's health laboratories, revealed his secret research of more than five BEAUTY TESTIFIES NATION-WIDE BROADCAST The radio program will be pre Alter the trial had settled down years.

to a routine of questioning bank sented froml to p.m. over the Ko elaborate scientific implements nation-wide networks of the Colum ers, brokers and bond clerks late in the day, the case suddenly invoked new interest when the prose bia Broadcasting System. 'HE MAJOR-GENERAL There will be music and song and Coming from San Pedro to cutors called Miss Sloan to the story and tribute all arranged out witness stand. of pardonable pride of achievementbut all wholly informal In Christine Sloan, surprise witness broueht here from the In these three test tubes Dr. R.

V. Stone, County Health Department researchist, has isolated the bacteria causing food goisonin, he announced yterday. His findings were related "When did you first meet Henry East to testify yesterday against Harry Guttman, promoter accused by Mrs. Blanche Sewell. "Timet" photo Guttman?" Dep.

Richardson asked. nature. Along with announcement of the program, still incomplete last night, CRAIG FIGHT NEAR CLOSE; are used in the bacteriologist' work, he explained. Only a simple beef -broth culture which liquefies when tainted food is injected and solidifies in the presence of pure edibles. In.

beef gelatin, Dr. Stone reported, he has separated from more than seventy other known disease-causing bacteria the noxious food-poisoning germ. USES POISON SAMPLES He used samples of foods aciually causing poisoning to the eaters. His beef gelatin culture is his only "proving ground," Dr. Stone told his audience.

With the first announcsment of the bacteriologist's findings In the food-poiscning field, scientists aereed "In 1923," the witness answered "Where was that?" "In New York City." "When did you next meet DECISION EXPECTED SOON there came from The Times management a request that the newspaper's friends refrain at this time from expressing their congratulations with flowers. At some future date not far distant, the time to be announced STOLEN RICHES IDENTIFIED BY HUNDREDS OF VICTIMS Scores of mysterious burglaries in the Wilshire and Hollywood districts were solved yesterday as hundreds of losers of valuables identified more than half the $150,000 worth of silverware and "In 1934, when he returned to San Francisco, I sat next to E. A. Kreger, formerly Judge-Advocate-General of the Army, now. retired.

He came originally from a little town In Iowa; taught school to get money to complete his legal education and volunteered as a soldier during the Filipino conquest captain of an infantry regiment, he was detailed for service in various courts-martial. He did so well that he was finally assigned to the Judge-Advocate-General's department and finally became the big boss of the legal department of the Army to which he brought the knowledge of a good lawyer leavened by a stock of good Middle West common sense. Expressing himself as dissatisfied with the state of the record New York City." AS TO INVESTMENT Dep. Richardson then questioned the witness concerning In the case, Superior Judge Jones late yesterday halted final argu ments in the ouster suit brought against Justice Gavin W. Craig later, the formal ceremony of dedi cation will take place.

This Is im of the District Court of Appeal, reopened the case on his own her association with Guttman in jewelry on display at the Wilshire Police Station, Captain of De possible at present because of the motion and continued the action until Monday. turmoil caused by moving. This is an important case," the that a majority of contemporary misdirected research into that subject must be discontinued. tectives Curtli announced. The plunder was recovered recently after the arrest of Daniel Mercer, 45-year-old bank guard, in San FIRST IN HISTORY FILMS LOSE 1934.

She said Guttman told her that he was in New York with to invest for a wealthy Beverly Hills widow. "Did you ever see him go to a jurist interrupted, "and as it now The radio broadcast Monday will MERCY GIVEN stands the record is meager and in mark the first time in history an CHANGES TREATMENT "This discovery has revolutionized complete. It is not fair to this court Francisco, and capture here of American daily has ever put Its "at NAVAL BRIDE broker's office?" Richardson asked, or to a higher court should the lat Walter M. Dcutsch, 37-year-old ex- home" fete on the air. 1930 SLAYER As the clock strikes 1.

there will "No," Miss Sloan replied. ter be called upon to pass upon an treatment of a malady which constitutes a serious menace to publio health." commented Dr. J. Li Pom-eroy. County Health yesterday.

"Work begun as late as last go out over the ether waves a fan At the morning session John L. fare created by Raymond Paige'j Fleming, defense attorney, sought to thirty-five-pieoe orchestra. introduce into' evidence a photo Shirley Chambers, 'Actress, Weds Lieut. Moulton in Colorful Ceremony xne ensemble win serve as an January is now Invalid after his discovery." graph of the undraped figure of Mrs. overture to the voice of the Fourth Waiter Who Confessed Crime and Saved Innocent Man Receives Sentence STIPULATION OF FACTS Judge Jones pointed out that the stipulation of facts introduced in evidence at the onset of yesterday's session did not fully set forth the proceedings in the United States District Court as they concerned Most practical use of Dr.

Stone's Estate the loar of the presses, Sewell. UNEXPECTED MOVE research, physicians agreed, will be for cohvict, and his wife Delia, 35. THOUSAND VIEW PLUNDER More than a thousand persons Inspected the plunder during the day, Capt. Curtis said. Meanwhile, subpoenas were issued by the county grand Jury for the appearance of all officers assigned to the investigation of the burglaries the suspects, and all the victims, in the grand jury rooms July 2 at 10 a.m.

Summoning of victims was at to locate the causes of food poison With the fadeout of the last or The move came unexpectedly after The screen's loss was the United ing and determine how to immun chestral notes. Bill Goodwin, C.B.S. ize edibles against illness induced by announcer, will make a tour of the Attorney Fleming had. recalled the wealthy widow to the witness stand. "Did you ever give Mr.

Guttman Mercy was shown yesterday to Craig's indictment, trial and the Judgment. laini. vast press room on the ground floor John E. Healey, 29-year-old singing Psychologists disclosed recent data States Navy smart set's gain last night as Shirley Chambers, blonde film actress, became the bride of Lieut. H.

D. Moulton lna colorful a certain photograph' of yourself waiter who recently pleaded guilty Inasmuch as one of the main points in the present action revolves or the new building and take listening America with him through the medium of the microphone. on the vagaries of the intellect at the meeting. to a murder charge, because the tributed to the desire of the grand- (Continued on Page 14, Column .5) Sheriff's Office youth communicated with authorities and saved an innocent man MEN QUICKER Persons annoyed by racy stories AUDITORIUM PROGRAM Between graphic descriptions of ceremony at the Wilshire Methodist Episcopal Church. Dr.

Willse Martin, pastor, officiated. about the question of whether Justice Craig stands convicted of a felony, the court indicated to the attorneys for both sides that he believes it best to have a more complete record. Jury members to investigate thoroughly the manner in which the burglaries were reported to police from prosecution on the charge. are apt to be equally bothered by the mighty presses with their ca When Healey appeared before Su bad smells, unkempt clothes and Miss Chambers was attended by pacity of 50,000 complete newspapers per hour, Goodwin will hold henking auto horns. Dr.

Charles exclusive of the regular police reports of the thefts. perior Judge Desmond, official cognizance was taken of his efforts to M. Harsh of the University of Call. the "mike" hard by the towering LAWYERS AT ODDS While Webb and his save Paul O. Hays from prosecution fornia reported.

machinery that It may catch every RECENT INQUIRIES Recently members of the grand Reopens Crash Death Inquiry On the statement of a friend of the victim. Sheriff's deputies yesterday reopened their investigation for the murder and the defendant's Men are quicker at realization than Enid Zambonl as bridesmaid and by Mrs. Agnes Chambers, her sister-in-law, as matron of honor, while Lieut. John Colwell of the U.S.S. Aaron Ward served the bridegroom as best man.

st hum oi the song that is heard aides. Deputies Campbell and Elson, crime was fixed at second-degree Jury questioned Chief of Detectives 'round the world and shapes the women, it was declared bv Dr. J. W. Todd of the University of South- imurdtr.

Taylor, Capt. Curtis and subordi agreed with Attorneys Daniel Hunsakier and Albert A. Kidder, Jr, that the offense of which Craig was destiny of nations. Once the nation has been intro- RECEIVES SENTENCE nate officers regarding the report (Continued on Page 14. Column 6) of the death on June 16, last, of As a result, Healey was sentenced to San Quentin Prison for a term convicted of in Federal court is a felony under United States statute, they were at odds on its legal effect Lambert Mockenhaupt, 42-year-old truck operator, of 1207 Chevez street, of from five years to life imprisonment.

-Healey pleaded guilty to the mur (Continued on Page 11, Column 5) JOB CREATED BY COUNCIL SLAIN INDIAN CREMATED IN TRIBAL PYRE Burbank. Mockenhaupt was found dead In the wreck of his automobile' at the bottom of a 100-foot embankment near Chatsworth and the fatality der of'Danskl Kubo. Japanese market proprietor, of 5407 South Hoover street, February 1, 1930. It was After the ceremony the couple left for a honeymoon in the north. They will make their home in San Diego, where Lieut.

Moulton is attached to the North Island naval air base. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Q. C.

Chambers of 33S North Sycamore avenue. RAPID GAIN IN BUILDING DISCLOSED Building operations In Los Ange GETS VETO under the California statutes. The State's lawyers maintained that Craig does stand convicted of a felony under the California law In view of his conviction of a felony in Federal court. They agreed, however, by stipulation, that "there is in this State no State statute making the acts of which the defendant was convicted a felony." On behalf of Craig, his lawyers charged that Healey attempted to was declared accidental." ed disappearance of $270,000 worth of Jewelry from Wilshire district homes. Among those who yesterday identified part of the plunder as articles stolen from their homes are Mrs.

A. Wenck, 201 South McCadden Place; M. F. Hanifan. 305 South McCadden Place; Grace Calhoun.

5902 South Van Ness avenue; George Stevens, 1538 Courtney street; R. O. Neesley. 4021 Montclair street; Mrs. James Cheek.

345 South Las Palmas avenue; C. Bilicki, 363 South McCadden Place; Charles White, 121 North Detroit street; W. J. Powers, 434 North Fuller avenue; Roth (Continued on Page 3. Column i) Convinced that Willard Bridde, Yesterday Harry C.

Parker of 422 rob Kubo and shot the Japanese down when he failed to understand The ordinance creating the of legislative co-ordinator in South Hoover street told the officers he believes Mockenhaupt was taken for a ride. His sister-in-law, Mrs. Indian athlete, was murdered. Federal officials returned from Yuma yesterday with a story of the tribal funeral rites in which his body waa orders to retire to a rear room. WIFE TESTIFIES Mrs.

Kubo testified, however, dur Louis Mockenhaupt, of 737 North THE PASSENGERS Somewhere concealed in the ship is supposed to be Miss Marilyn Miller, the stage star. I feel that -1 should be In some way excited about it; but thus far have been unable to experience the correct emotions that the situation seems to demand. She has remained In regal seclusion. How perfectly wonderful If she should appear some day among the hoi polloi. I don't know just what we should be expected to do, but something dramatic.

Jo Alderman, who runs the interesting group of girls who have a salon in Los Angeles, is also aboard, going to Hawaii to study at the university. George SeifTert, the traveling Bcout of Doubleday-Doran, the-publishers, Is on his way to the Orient to collect literary material. The name of his firm holds magic for me; my first boyhood hero was MaJ. H. T.

Lee. who had been an aide on the staff of Gen. Dou-bleday, at Gettysburg. He was the father of the Doubleday of this firm. Ex-Gov.

Judd of Hawaii Is also a passenger, a surprisingly young man who has been on a lecture tour that carried him all oyer the United States. The Islands are much concerned about Statehood. Hawaii were to be admitted to the Union It would forever stop the danger of having an outland-er for Governor and would give the islands more representation in Congress. On the ether hand, it might result in having a Japanese Governor and a bevy of Japanese Congressmen. Move Launched to Ban Oratory at Plaza The City Council decided to find another location where F'iza orators may expound their At present an ordinance thr Plaza, as the only park la which public speaking is permitted.

Because of complaints of property owners, the Council yestsrday instructed City Attorney Chescbro to revise the ordinance 0 as to bar speakers there, but also Instructed Real Estate argued that inasmuch as there Is no statute in California making the Adams street, Glendale, said Mock ing the preliminary hearing, that cremated on a funeral pyre of rail-road ties. enhaupt was believed to have had $235 in his possession when he left his ranch June 16. acts of which Craig waa convicted (Continued on Page 14, Column 1) her husband and Healey appeared to quarrel over the price of carrots after -which Healey fired the fatal shot. Asst. U.

S. Atty. UUey. Special les in the first six months of the present year were more than for the entire years of either 1933 or 1934. Indian Agent Moore and an agenc The defendant was represented by J.

J. Bachus. superintendent of the Robbery Victims Scan Recovered Gems Attorney Richard Cantillon and Joseph Scott Building and Safety Department, announced yesterday. City Clerk Dominguez's office was vetoed late yesterday by Mayor Shaw. Howard Davis, president of the City Council, was understood to be the leading candidate for the position.

Mayor Shaw spent the day at the harbor, returning to his office late in the afternoon, after the Council had adjourned, sine die, to meet Monday with three new members. In his veto message Mayor Shaw said that "circumstances and conditions do not Justify the creation at this time of the position referred to. nor the additional expense to the city that would follow enactment of the Department of Justice, who went to the reservation to investigate Bridde's death, reported they had ordered Harold Cooper, another Indian, held in the El Centra Jail pending further Investigation. All Bridde's athletic treppirgs, including his vaulting pole, foot The total for the six mouths since January 1 was $15,454,380. compared to $15,283,216 in 1933 and $14,594,595 in 1934.

CHILD'S GUN DEATH HELD ACCIDENTAL During the last thirty days per ball attire and baseball glove, went up in flames with his body on the pyre, they said. mits totaled $2,200,915, of which 1585 Before the torch was applied a medicine man preached on the evils On the testimony of other children, only witnesses of the tragedy, a Coroner's jury yesterday returned of liquor. jsnaac body was round acres valued at $864,234 were for homes. Marking another major transaction in the of recent downtown deals, sale of the vacant property between Eleventh and Twelfth streets on the east side of Flower street was announced yesterday. The area with a riower-street frontage of 250 feet and a deDth a verdict of accidental death In the the railroad tracks, indicating, the fatal shooting last Wednesday pf officers said, that the slaver had Probation Won in Dope Case schemed to cover his crime by mak Jessie Elizabeth Vleira.

11-year-old Sierra Madre schoolgirl Rena May Hasan. 5, testified she ing it appear an accident. Th t'rtim's skull had been fractured. ioo leet was bought bv the After her attorney, George Wat-'Fler Realty Company from the iand several other children. Including I Jessie, were playing Indians with son, had convinced Superior Judge 5.

no. th Citizens' National Trust and Savines Bank Desmond that the charge to which Miss Mary Murphy. 25-vear-old British Naval Officers Given Luncheon Hem Capt C. H. Knox-LitUe.

com opium smoker, had pleaded guilty was only a misdemeanor, the girl was admitted to probation yester Happy Heasleys wooden gun. "I knew where there was a better gun," she said; then recounted how she obtained her father's revolver from the top of a water heater. Lucille Clark. 9. said she relieved Rena of the weapon, fearing she might shoot herself; -I started to place it on a rock." she said, "and my foot slipped and the gun went off." Jessie will be buried today after day with the understanding that she spend one year In the County JaiL and Oscar Lawier for a reported consideration of $125,000.

Negotiations for buyer and seller were handled by M. A. Moule of the W. Ross Campbell Company. Improvements are contemplated In about a year.

Mayor Urges Pageant Help A proclamation calling on all citi jucge recently sentenced manding officer, and Lieutenant-Commander M. Goodenoush of the H. M. S. Danae.

now In port here, were guests, of honor yestrdy at the defendant to prison because the a luncheon given at the Jonathan. would not aid police In apprehending the man who sold her the drugs. DEL REY LAGOON iuneral services at 2 pjn. in the Bethany Church, Sierra Madre. Club by the Chamber of Commerce, navy officials and heads of local British societies.

Byron C. Harra. vice-president of the chamber, waa Actress to Go LEASE RENEWED Agent Witter to locate a suitable site on city-ewned property where the Plaza type of gatherings may be held. toastmtster. under Deration1 More ten wo members of the An agreement between the Title zens to co-operate In the observance of Independence Day by attending the fireworks pageant of the American Legion In the Coliseum July 4 was issued yesterday by Mayor Shaw.

He pointed out that It win be an excellent opportunity for cltlzens'to Insurance and Trust Company and the Playground and Recreation DR. WALKER TO SFEAK Dr. Hugh K. Walker will be the Los Angeles Lancashire Societv Stricken br an attack of more tc dicitis. Ann Grey.

E.gUh PTi picture actress, was tken to the 13? HcP r- 8 Hollywood HosjiTal res.enifT after- pjn- toiy. Wilfrid Barlcr-. '-noon. Dr. Hiram Wearer wfll rer-'5151 raid en -3- -ett speaker next Monday noon diction of the Del Rey lagoon for tt a luncheon meeting of the Fed-: another year atihe nominal rental eration of State Soci-tk-s at Boos -of $1.

was executed TesteniaT. The Join in community observance of the Searching for stolen from their homes during the last year, hundreds of persons appeared yesterday at wUshire Police Station to look at $150,000 worth of jewels and sver recovered fcy police. This picture shows some of the robbery victims. form an appendectomy at 1 am. ment refresnmenU wij ke pro- Brothers Cafeteria, 319 West Fifth Icompany owns the land around the day.

as well as to aid disabled ret-1 lUeet. popular stia-water mmmir.g place, erans. Tided. today, he said. I.

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