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2 Port I FRIDAY, JAN. 17, 1947 Log gngelcg CttttCg Collins Shakes, Three Hurt in Fiend SI ctim Sd Vi envji'se ay in Tree and Plums Goodyear- Latex $100,000 Fire ds of inaerprinr ktecor Fell to Bourbons BY THE WATCHMAN" SACRAMENTO, Jan. 16. Hluitratd on Pag 3, Part I Fire, sweeping through 'Times' Learns Girl Wrote Mother She Worked in San Diego Hospital Republican Speaker Sam Col- ins of Orange County shook stocks of foam rubber, yesterday ruined the two-story fabrication shops of the Good the political plum tree today by way of announcing ap Fingerprints identified tne attractive victim or a brutal sex-fiend murder found Wednesday in a vacant: lot near Norton Ave. and 39th St.

as Elizabeth Short, 22, formerly of Santa Barbara, the Federal Bureau of Investigation informed year Latex Co. at 921 Venice causing more than $100,000 damage and injuring pointments to the Assembly standing committees. The Times yesterday. When. the scramble was over.

hree employees. Five fire companies with 10 it was apparent that the Democrats had gotten away with but subsequently It was learned that her soldier-husband was overseas. The Santa Barbara authorities placed Miss Short on a train by more, bigger and better fruit pieces of mechanized equipment under the command of Asst. Fire Chief Frank Winkler fought the this session than last though the Republicans had gained order of juvenile officials, to be returned to her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

'Cleo Short of Medford, blaze for two hours, while streetcars became hopelessly jammed in the area. Ofily a few hours after the Identification, Los Angeles police, acting on. information from Diego, were searching for a rfd-haired youth with whom she was reported to have left a temporary home there Jan. 7. The F.B.I.

identification was made in Washington, being gleaned from the vast fingerprint fijes of the government agency. It was made as scores of persons more seats in the Assembly thi3 session. Mass. Since then she has not Injured were Richard Hender been seen in the Mission City. At the tinfe she was photo- son, layout man, 8306 Crenshaw who received first and second-degree burn3 on the Lgraphed in the Santa Barbara police station, Miss Short had hands and legs; Harold Gardner, telephoned and visited the homi small, brown, molelike freckles on her left arm and two faint, cide detail in City Hall, claiming the girl to be a relative or friend.

foreman, 729 S. Normandie who sustained hand burns, and Allan MacLeod, 124 N. Westmoreland hurt slightly small, brown, moles on her right cheek. This tallies in some degree with the results of an ex "When, he was campaigning among Assemblymen for the speakership it wa3 known he had announced his intention to reappoint 33 committee chairmen those Democrats who had been appointed chairmen by the then Speaker Charles Lyon and who had "done good jobs." He went even further than that, a study, of the committee chairmanships shows. Democrats Gain There are 25 standing commit' tees, same number as last year.

while leaping from a second- amination of the murder victim. floor window. Movements Traced Clothing on Fire According to Manager C. UP photo AT RACES Actor Cory Grant shown fit Santa Anita track recently with Betty Hensel, ex-mpdel, who said in Sr. Louis she wears his -ring, but denied enlargement.

It's Gary Grant Ring, but Capt. Jack A. Donohoe, given the identification by The Times. launched ah immediate investi Christie, the apparently started when a workman accidentally dropped a piece of hot rubber into a cas" heater. The gation to trace the movements of the girl before she fell prey to Reported in San -V In.

a telephone call to The Times learned last night that Elizabeth Short wrote her mother, Phoebe Short of, Medf oroV Boston suburb, two weeks ago, telling her of working in a San Diego hospital. Police said they had been informed that Mrs. Short was planning to leave by plane for Los Angeles at once. I The murder victim left the San Diego area 10 days ago, presumably for Hollywood, after having lived a month at the home of Mrs. Elvera French at the perverted saaism of a per flames spread rapidly through son who apparently tortured her Girl Says He7s Just Friend At the last session the Demo out the stucco and wood factory which employs 40 men arid before she died.

Drs. Frederick D. Newbar and Victor Cefalu, deputy autopsy surgeons, reported finding three deep abrasions on the forehead women. Henderson was saved from more serious burns by the prompt action of Holly Connell, 1355 Wright St, who extinguished his flaming clothing by rolling him on the floor. The Latex company manufac just over the right eye.

They in FIEND'S VICTIM Elizabeth Short of Santa Barbara, identified as the fiend's victim whose mutilated body was found in a vacant lot near Norton Ave. and 39th St. here. dicated Miss Short had been Pacific Beach, Mrs. French, told crats had seven chairmanships.

This session Collins gave them, eight. Of the seven Democratic chairmen last session, three did not come back to this session. That would leave four deserving of reappointment on the "good work' Collins formula, and three Republicans could severely" slugged by a blunt in mer St. Louis girl and the 43-year-old English born film star, received impetus on March 14, 1945, when she was scheduled to marry an Army medical officer but instead turned up at a Los Angeles hospital with a sudden nervous breakdown. -Invitations Sent Invitations to the wedding, hi, which 1st Lt.

Henry Wil strument, which may have caused concussion. Her skull was detectives there last night. Had Premonition "When I read of the murder I had a premonition it was Betty," tured aircraft seats and other not fractured. MRS. PHOEBE SHORT CANT equipment from blocks of processed foam rubber.

It was a sup When the young woman's body was found some small Dets. Gerald Walker and Ed plier to the Douglas Aircraft Co. pieces of flesh were missing, BELIEVE SLAIN GIRL HERS Rtotler of San. Diego quoted Mrs, French-as saying. These were found by the autopsy Mrs.

Rooseveltj The detectives aid Mrs. ST. -LOUIS (Mo.) Jan. 16 Radiant and smiling, Betty Hensel, former Powers model who made her debut here, is in St. on a visit, wearing a diamond ring given to her by Cary Grant, but she insisted that it "isn't an engagement ring." A daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Emil R. Hensel of St." Louis and Beverly Hills, Miss Hensel 'said the ring was a gift from the movie star, but laughed off all questions concerning rumors that-have linked their names romantically. Only Good Friend' "He is just a very good friend," said Miss Hensel. Friends reported that Grant 'has been phoning her repeatedly since her arrival last Friday, but Miss Hensel declined, to discuss what telephone calls, if any, she had received from him.

Reports connecting the for MEDFORD (Mass.) Jan. 16. "She was working in Holly surgeons. Tied for Torture French described the girl as "de wood doing bit parts for the mo pressed and moody" over not ()Mrs. Phoebe M.

Short, 46, Marks around the girl's legs vies until two weeks she said tonight she will not believe wrists, neck, and right thigh shojved she had been tied with told newsmen. that a girl 1 whose' nude and butchered body was found in a Holds Mishap Penalty Just NEW YORK, Jan. CSV- "I got a letter from her which rope or wire prior to death. Det Lts. Harry Hansen and Los Angeles lot yesterday is liam Dodge of New York City was to be the bridegroom, had been sent out the previous March 3.

Following, postponement of her marriage, Miss Hensel was seen and photographed increasingly in the company of Grant, who some years ago played in the Municipal Opera here under his real name, Grant was separated from his second wife, Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton, who received her divorce decree last Aug. 31. was written, in San Diego. I think, she was working In an Brown said they believed she her; daughter until notified by police. had been bound and tortured be work and secretive about her past.

She said her daughter Dorothy and Elizabeth Short met at 3 downtown San Diego theater, where the former is an usher, and the girl murder victim, believed destitute, came -t iUe at the French home at 2750 Camino Pradero in the Bayview Terrace housing project. "Sight Club Visits As detectives sought the vic Army hospital then," oi in some (The Federal Bureau of in fore her murderer carried her connection with -the armed serv have taken the chairmanships vacated by nonreturning Rut Collins reached out into the Democratic, minority (which voted solidly for Collins with the exception of three) and gave three Bourbons jobs. Further, he gave to Democrats chairmanships of four important committees that had been iheld by Republicans in the last session, viz: Lester McMillan, Los Angeles, chairman of Conservation and -Planning Committee which will handle much of the new highway legislation; Francis Dunn, Oakland, Education; Ralph Brown, the powerful Judiciary Committee, and Ernest Los Angeles, Public The four Republicans who held these chairmanships did not seek re'-election to-the Assembly- None of the vestigation identified the slain body to the Norton ices, girl as Elizabeth Short, 22, and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, whose automobile driver's license has been; revoked by New York State, said, today in her column "My Day in the New York World-Telegram that "I am a lit lane for disposal. fthe Los Angeles Times said she So shocked by the details of Left After Strike "She said she left Hollywood because of the movie strike, was the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. the butcher-murder were city officials that a $10,000 reward tle sad about this, since it takes which made it difficult to get tim's supposed red-haired escort, police learned from two other sources of Elizabeth Short's so- away one of the thing3 that I enjoy, but I recognize fully the work as an extra." One of Elizabeth Short's class was planned for the capture of the slayer. City Councilman Lloyd G. Davis said he will ask the posting of the reward at the Cleo Short of Medford, Mass.) Mrs. Short, who lives here with three daughters, told a reporter her daughter Elizabeth worked for a.

few weeks early last summer as a cashier at a local theater and then went to Florida, where she worked as a mates, Clara Fisher, was shocked PURCELL HITS OIL GROUP IN HIGHWAY BILL FIGHT iourns in Hollywood. at news of the slaying. Three youths and two young "She was such a beautiful girl." she said. 'I remember her -earliest opportunity. Resemblance Doubted BY CHESTER G.

HAN SOX, Times Staff Representative very well because she was so Policewoman Mvrl McBride SACRAMENTO, Jan. 16. onfuse the people. They are an four Democrats held chairman- popular and dressed exceptional, ly well." KTort to defeat through con- chin in t.h last- session Certain oil interests are making justice of punishment for endangering other people." The State Motor Vehicle Department announced revocation of the license as the result of an accident near Yonkers last August, but -said might apply for reinstatement after 30 days. "And while I hope that some day the license may be restored to me," Mrs.

Roosevelt wrote, "I shall certainly not ask for any special consideration." I jr waitress: Worked as "Waitress Mrs. Short said Elizabeth worked as a waitress at Camp Cooke, California, in 1943. Mrs. Short said Another daugh fusion and misrepresentation of an eleventh-hour effort to de women told 7 police they recognized victim as "Betty" Short, whom they had seen in December in'; Hollywood, and with whom they had visited -a flight club there earlier in the fall. They described her as "very classy" and said she told of her plans to marry "George," an Army pilot Texas.

To Interview Actress who said the victim' looked like a girl talked with on Main St. last Tuesday night, last night was more dubious about the resemblance after seeing Elizabeth Short's photograph. The policewoman said the girl Lawyer Bogus feat the new highway program of Gov. Warren with misleading it was charged to ter, married, was living at Berke Asks Probation day by Public Works Director a H. Purcell.

Had Better Chance McMillan is the one who, at a meeting of the Democratic Executive Committee of the State in Los. Angeles before the session wasover, aVgyed against a move to put up a Democratic candidate for Speaker, saying the Democrats would have a better chance to put then: program -over with Collins in "Vie" Speak came to her in a bus station, saying "Someone wants 'to kill me," then told of a former serviceman-suitor's meeting her in ley. Mrs. Short said her daughter had been working in motion pictures until recently. facts the efforts of Govl WTarren and the majority of the Collier committee to provide the State with an efficient and safe system of highways, roads and streets." He'll Be Director Purcell's "'barrage, was considered significant not only because he will be the engineering and directing Mr.

Big if the high Purcell, who' was for 15 years a bar and repeating a threat on State Highway Engineer of Cali her life should he find her with fornia and chief engineer in the Stanford Selects another man. Policewoman Mc Charles Joseph 28, bogus attorney, yesterday pleaded guilty to charges of forging a letter to the State Bar and stealing his police record from the files, in the-City Hall. construction of the San Francis Bride said she later saw the girl re-enter the bar and emerge co-Oakland Bay Bridge, let loose Two New Officials STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Police said- Harold Costa, 31, and "Donald Leyes, 22, last night identified the victim as "Beth" Short, who had lived two months at a hotel on N. Orange Drive, where they also resided. The.

hotel proprietor also identified, the girl as a former guest jjnd said she had checked out of the hotel late in August. In an attempt to trace the $ead girl's activities and acquaintances in Hollywood, police said a blast at the oil interests ne with two men and another wom GIFTS OF FILM FUND REJECTED Continued from First Page chairman, for his expressed determination to permit no individual canvassing in the industry. In Its own, official statement on the dispute, the P.C.C said: "This action (the foundation's refusal of. the $30,000 check) is had in mind. an.

She had told the policewoman she was to meet her parents "The Western Oil and Gas Jan. 16. (JF) Dr. Easton Roth-1 well, former secretary-general of the United States delegation to Edwards appeared subdued as he stood between his attorneys, Walter Gordon Jr. and Phil Cus-ry.

and heard them ask proba Association (an organization of way "program goes, through the Legislature, but because it is considered unlikely he would have issued a statement like that without the knowledge of -the Governor. at the bus station later. Miss McBride oil interests) has a well-financed the United Nations, and Dr. campaign to create the impres The entire homicide detail tion for him from Superior Judge James Norman Goodier, head of sion that California requires no more funds for its highway Edward R. Brand.

Judge Brand continued the matter until Feb. that, they plan to talk to a mo the department of machine design at Cornell University, were appointed to he Stanford Uni unprecedented. We know of no tion-picture actress, information system," Purcell said, adding ership than Don field (R.) of Glcndale, On the over-all Collins said he gave the Republicans a good majority on every commits tee a 5-3. ratio of Republicans to Democrats, reflecting the membership in the lower house. Ha explained the additional Democratic chairmanship on the ground that he had to make a last-minute shift' of putting a Republican into a chairmanship he had planned on giving to a Democrat.

That was understood to'be McMillan. But Republicans wonder why he was bound to give McMillan a chairmanship when he didn't hold one last session. All along, prior to the 6 for disposition. other example in the history of they. received having indicated that the murder victim knew The defendant admitted he in American charities in which a versity faculty today by the board of trustees.

serted his name in the contribution by a. reputable do the film player Youth Questioned Dr. Donald B. Tresidder, presi nor has been rejected by a repu table charity organization." dent of the university, said Roth- "If the trend of thinking, set forth in those statements and the procedures suggested in the minority report (Collier committee) are accepted and enacted into law, the metropolitan freeway systems so critically needed, particularly in the Los Angeles area, will not become a reality for many years to come. The Sacramento-San Francisco joined in the widening search for the killer as telephones in the squad room jangled incessantly with the tips of citizens who read of the murder.

Depot Visitor Questioned Picked up by officers early yesterday at the bus depot at Sixth and Los Angeles Cecil French, 23, of Bakersfield, was booked on suspicion of a morals offense and questioned concerning possible implication in Miss Short's murder. One youth was questioned at the City Jail as a possiole sus pect in the sadistic slaying, State Bar letter, thereby gaining admittance to local and Federal courts as a. practicing attorney. The police record involved a prior arrest on forgery charges. Judge Brand allowed Edwards, who at one time was entertained by such film luminaries as Van Johnson, Cesar Romero and well will become vice-chairman of the Hoover Library on War, Revolution and Peace April 1.

Goodier will become professor of mechanical engineering Sept. 1. The P.C.C., which has "tax-deductible status," has proved the best means of raising charity funds in the film industry, the statement said. Last year 20,048 that such talk is "propaganda intended solely to mislead the public and the Legislature." Foes of Plan Hit Purcell cited figures on highway revenues. "There are statements publicized that there is no need for additional money for highways in this State over the amounts available from present sources of revenue," said Purcell.

"Such statements and publicity re an eleventh-hour effort to while in the Coroner omce au topsy physicians announced that Miss Short died of hemorrhage donors pledged more than highway, U.S. 40, and the Los Angeles Sacramento highway, US. 99, will still have many 000 for a per capita average of $77. The P.C.C., it concluded, French, said the officers, was and shock. The young woman's mouth was slit with a knife three inches on each side while she was still alive, the doctors City College Plan Slated for Hearing others, and launched a ship at Calship yards in wartime, to remain at liberty under $2500 remains "the only one organized industry-wide appeal for charity seen molesting women in the vi-cinity-of the depot.

His automobile, parked near by, was miss funds." bond. session, Collins insisted "he had made no promises in order to win Democratic support. Republicans Hold Posts All Republicans who held chairmanships last session were reappointed. Assemblyman A. I.

Stewart of Pasadena, one of the few Republican majority districts in the State, was put off of the two important committees he was on ing a back seat. French told 1 Hansen and Brown that he had two-lane sections In operation several years from now. The same conditions will prevail on the other two-lane highways, some 2500 miles, where most traffic accidents occur and where excessive operation costs are piled up." Slum on Freeways x-. removed the seat to carry some machinery. He was not consid ered a suspect.

Cars Seen Near Scene last session Governmental Effi Another witness. Bob Myer, Dr. Einar Jacobsen, president of Los Angeles City College, yesterday spoke in behalf, of the campaign to expand his school which is now under consideration by the school board. Addressing a public meeting at the school administration building, Dr. Jacobsen said that 85 per cent of 8000 students will be unable to complete their college educations.

City College has only two-year courses. The board ordered a resolution expressing tentative approval bf the plan to be drafted for discussion at the next meeting ciency and Economy and Reve also reported seeing a Ford se dan pause near where the body was found, and continue. He On the subject of freeways It is becoming more and more apparent that those legislators representing the large cities and heavily populated metropolitan areas are wrondering: How about the freeways in the proposed giant highway program? The placed the time at 6:30 a.m. Other witnesses, however, said they walked past the lot as late as 8:30 a.m. Wednesday without said.

This plus a concussion of the brain induced by blows on the head caused her they Stated." Other mutilation of the body, which was found cut in half and otherwise desecrated, ccurred after death, in their The F.B.I, files disclosed the victim's identity after The Times wired classification of her fingerprints to Washington, Girl Once Arrested Santa Barbara police revealed that Miss Short was arrested there in the latter part of September, rD43vhen she Avas seen drinking with a number of soldiers in the El Paseo Restaurant. Then a minor, she claimed one of the soldiers was her husband. Police disproved this. Further investigation at that lime disclosed that the girl was living with one Vera Green in a West Cabrillo Beach court at 321-C V. Montecito St.

I Policewoman Mary Unkefer and other officers who visited the place reported that they seeing the body, found only 12 freeways are highly important feet from the sidewalk. to the cities. The populous 7 Tilden, Tennis Star, Given Nine-Month Jail Sentence things, but also to parents who are too busy to concern themselves in determining what type nue and Taxation. Stewart was one of the. chief lieutenants of Field in the Speakership fight.

Republican Tom Erwin, who also led in the fight for Field, got the chairmanship of the Fish and Game Commission. Sportsmen and a Democratic member of the Fish and Game Commission made a fight for Erwin, it was understood. Prounion Strength The highly important Governmental Efficiency Committee, for which Field was reappointed as chairman, is considered to b3 dominated by members, Democratic or Republican, who ar prounion labor. This is the committee out of which Field selected a subcommittee last year that investigated and condemned practices in connection with the Hollywood movie strike. Assemblyman Ralph Dills, predicted, again got his chairmanship of the Oil Committee.

Jhe Industrial Relations Com-mittee has a majority of nine strong union-labor men out of 16, with Republican Jack Lyons, Los Angeles union business agent, as chairman. of persons their youngsters are associating with," Judge Scott commented. 0A' areas contribute most in taxes to the cost of an over-all highway system. But so, far, it has been pointed out by the city men, in the nearly score of bills presented to the special session of the Legislature there is no specific provision or definite mention of the freeways. And the city and metropolitan area men, such as the majority of the Los Angeles County delegation, want to see something about freeways in the bills.

Go Slow To this end it is understood that the staff, of the League of California. Cities is working on a bill to. provide specifically for freeways. They may be in the present bills, but you "have to look under the chips to find them, it is said. He then sentenced the tall, gray-hair ed former world's champion tennis player to one found two soldiers there, one of them in the bedroom.

Miss Green stated that he was her husband, William (Big Bill) Tilden, 54-year-old internationally known tennis star, yesterday was sentenced to serve nine months in the County Jail with a road gang recommendation, by Juvenile Judge A. A. Scott for contributing to the' delinquency of a 14-year-old boy. Judge Scott excoriated. Tilden for his actions declaring: "You have been the idol of youngsters all over the world.

It has been a great shock to sports fans to read about your troubles. "I am going to make this an object' lesson, not only to other persons tempted to do similar year in jail, but suspended it and placed him on probation for five years with the first nine months to be spent the Coun ty Jail. A request of his attor Treason Suspect Cleared OTTAWA; Jan. 16.. UFy Frederick William Poland, 37-year-old R.CA.F.

squadron leader, today ney, Richard Maddox, for a LTi photo stay of judgment, was refused was acquitted of a charge, of STARTS TERM William T. (Big Bill) famed tennis star clad in prisoner's denim, consults attorney, Richard Maddox, right, in County Jail as graying athlete begins nine-month sentence in morals case involving boy. by Judge Scott. Tilden was arrested last Nov 23 by Beverly Hills police. communicating confidential -information to Russia..