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THE SOUTHLAND DECEMBER 31, 1937. PART I. "LIFE BEGINS AT SEVENTY" AUTHOR ACTIVE AT 89 ipfpvi roNTPm Huge Legion Along El Parley Seen Camino OF ROAD FUNDS HIT Ventura Grand Jury Says Cost Excessive; Welfare Department Upheld in Report -v. VENTURA, Dec. 30.

The Ventura county grand jury today strongly urged elimination of Supervisorial control over-road funds in a report which asserted that county road maintenance costs are more than $100 per mile above those of neighboring counties. National Commander Doherty on Desert Plans for Convention PALM SPRINGS, Dec. 30. 4i -or "We will have nearly 300,000 Le gion members and guests In Los Ed Alnsworrh Angeles fo the 1938 convention, in a aemana for A preliminary survey shows Los the jury's final report before being disbanded asked. that the Twelve Shifted Angeles adequately equipped to take care of everybody and we lsu road administration be grouped under a single head in the inter expect to have a great time." (Mayors and civic leaders of representative Southern California cities were asked to list the three outstanding accomplishments of their commu ests of efficiency.

This was the assertion today of Daniel J. Doherty, National PLAN OUTLINED Commander of the American Le in Jail Shake-up Entire Personnel Move at San Diego Following Under the present' plan," each gion, who arrived here for a two- of the five Supervisors has day vacation. SEEKS RECREATION charge of road funds and road work In his district, as well as Commander Doherty, who said ronce Deanng v-narge the hiring of all employees in he is here primarily to play golf, swim and bask in the desert sun SAN DIEGO, Dec. 30. Follow- nities in 1937, the three main goals for 193S and one mistake during the year.

This is the sixth and last in series giving their replies.) TORRAXCK Mayor VV, H. of 'Tor- ranee: Completion of the Civic Center project with the occupancy of the $28,740 Administration Building; a project that included the construction of a new is accompanied by his aide, Ed tne worK wnicn cost the county $26,202 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937. 'j a In another Dhase of the rp. ing closely on charges of pollc ward M. Seay, former Command er of the Department of Ken brutality in the City Jail, the en fftn nancnnniil Ik 4nf1 tucky.

f. port the welfare department and Director William C. Heck were The official will, attend the transferred today in a sweeping! Rose Bowl football game. Satur completely exonerated of charges of "discrimination and Inefficien departmental shake-up by Chief day and then will confer in Los cy" the distribution of relief. of Police George Sears.

Angeles with the national con INQUIRY BACKFIRES vention committee. Members of The changes effect three nolica He enjoys a game of roque ond olso likes golf. The innulrv into welfare af Dr. Martin D. Kneeland shown with fingerprints.

TlmM photo the board who will greet Com' mander. Doherty include Ches. Timi pnoto sergeants and nine other officers, who have been in charge of the City Jail for several years. Chief Sears denied that tha ter Turner, John R. Quinn and Drew A.

Bernard. changes were promoted bv re Torn planned fairs poomeranged on relief clients whose charges brought on the investigation seven weeks ago. Instead of finding fault with 1 the welfare department, grand jurors recommended that a "full and complete investigation of the cases handled bv the cent charges by James Phillips, Commander Doherty proposes Woman Found Shot to Death city hall, police station, auditorium and public library at a cost of $183,526. Reduction of the municipal tax rate one cent on property within the original city limits, from $1.11 to $1.10. Reduction of the municipal water rate from $1.10 for a minimum of 500 cubic feet to $1.25 for a doubled minimum of 1000 cubic feet an achieve UNIVERSAL FINGERPRINTING URGED BY WORLD TRAVELER to visit the Veterans'.

AdminiS' 2-year-om san Diego contractor, that he was beaten severely in tration Hospital in San Fernando Sunday morning and in the aft School Head's Funeral Today Glendale Will Pay Final Homage to Norman R. Whyrock department be made for the pur jail by officers. Neither were tha shifts to be interpreted, Sears said, as a promotion or demotion. ernoon will call at the Soldiers CLAREMONT, Dee. 30.

Be figure. Approaching hig nine pose or determining whether any persons have been fraudulently receiving relief and that all cases Home in Sawtelle. A meeting at Patriotic Hall, Los Angeles, also cause he believes that every per Husband Sought for Questioning by Polict at Santa Monica is on his schedule. tieth year, he regularly shoots his age in golf, excels at chess and plays a better than average of possible unlawful applications be submitted to the District At Mrs. Doherty.

did not accom son in the United States should voluntarily have himself finger pany the Commander on the game of Roque also trip. printed, Dr. Martin D. Kneeland, Capt. Y.

N. Adams, formerly; in charge of the East San Diego substation, was transferred to Central station, replacing McConnell Neely, under suspen sion on charges of conduct un becoming of an officer. Lieut. E. T.

Osborne, head of the police vice detail for several is a favorite game. NEW JURY SELECTED SANTA MONICA. Dec. 30. Advanced years are no handi 89 years of age, retired Clare GLENDALE; Dec.

30. Fu Members of the 1938 erand cap, according to Dr. Kneeland mont minister, made history here Found dead in her bed early today with a bullet wound in her neral services for Dr. Norman jury, seated by Superior Judge To It at 75 he traveled k. wnyiocK, 4.1 years of age, Glendale school superintendent alone around the world, a year Mail and Rubbish Mix-up Solved urapeau, include Richard Bard, Hueneme.

foreman: Frank J. head, Mrs. Eulalia De La Cruz, 23-year-old mother of four children, later toured soutn America and who died today in Glendale Sani Harrington, Oiaf: D. T. Bonham.

at the age of 79 spent several years, and considered the right-hand man of Chief Sears, will be In charge of the East San Diego was said by Santa Monica police to have been a murder victim. tarium, will be conducted at 2 Ventura: T. S. Clark. Oiai: W.

P. months in the land of the mid p.m. tomorrow in the First Daily, Camarillo; A. J. Dingeman, They are seeking for question station.

night sun in Norway. He has just returned from an 8000-mile by Yellow Paint uxnard; Thomas Donovan, Ven ing her husband, Juan De La Methodist Church. He had been ill since last Oc tober with a rare bacterial in recently. Voluntarily, he came to Desk Sergeant Case of the local Police Department and requested a fingerprinting. As a result his fingerprints now rest in the department file in company with some 10,000 others.

They are unusual in that they are the prints of the oldest person ever registered here and possibly in the United States. SHOOTS AGE AT GOLF Bewhiskered Dr. Kneeland Is tura: A. A. Fluetsch, Ventura; Herbert H.

Harwdod. Santa tour of the United States. -LOXQEV'ITY FORMULA INGLEWOOD, Dec. 31. Ingle- Cruz, 35, who last Tuesday had returned to the family's home in a bungalow court at 1664 Twen Paula: Paul J.

Leavens. Santa fection of the inner lining of wood will start the new year Toy Gun Robbery Suspect Arrested Paula: John B. McNab. Fillmore: with street-corner rubbish recep Forty years ago doctors gave him six months to live because ty-first street, from Olive View Sanitarium where he had been a John A. Milligan, Oxnard; J.

E. tacles that cannot be mistaken for mail boxes. patient the heart. SECOND TO DIE He was the second school su perintendent to die in office with in a year, succeeding Rich- of a gland complication. He survived an operation and today Beside the bed was found a Morrissey, Ventura: Mrs.

Alice Mosher. Ventura; J. B. McConica, Ventura: Ernest Nichols, Santa Paula: Robert J. Parr.

Ventura- Installedthroughout the bust at Long Beach single-shot rifle of .22 caliber ness district and painted a dark gives as his formula for longevity, plenty of rest, plenty of a familiar and active community here were no witnesses to the Sidney B. Pevton. Fillmore, and I green similar to that of the mail boxes, throughout the Christmas shooting, but the oldest child of LONG BEACH. Dec. 30 Em.

fren u. bnodgrass, Ventura. the couple, Margaret, 8, told De JF season persons In a hurry have ment made possime oy vvaier Superintendent William H. Stanger. Aims for 1938: The beautifi-cation of the Torrance Boulevard and Western avenue entrances.

Addition of new industries to the city's manufacturing 1 don't believe we made a mistake of such size as to warrant publication. In no case was our city budget penalized or the solid financial foundation of our city threatened. KEDLAXDS Mayor Mancha Bruggemeyer of Redlands: We lined and covered many storm drains throughout the city. -'vvw, We repaired and surfaced many miles of streets. With the aid of civic minded women we took a dump hole and made it into a beautiful park.

The coming year should see: A civic center with a new City Hall the central theme. An improved entrance at the east approach to the city-grades lessened, road widened and tree lined. By all means we should assist in making the "Asistencia" a shrine in fact as well as In name. It Is the only real landmark of the Padres in this part of the country. Our big blunder was in not letting "Uncle Sam" build us a new City Hall.

OCEAXSIDK Mayor Albert P. Waibel, tectlve Lieutenant Ben Carrillo, mistakenly mailed everything from Christmas gifts to New nvestigating the case, that last Rare Wood Used night her mother had tried to worK, plenty or recreation. Practically on the eve of his ninetieth birthday he has completed a book titled "Life Begins at Seventy." It Is entering its third printing, Dr. Kneeland is also the author of "Eighty-one Years 'A Trip Around the World" and "A Trip Around South America." Year's cards and even air-mail prevent her father from drink ing some wine. etters In these receptacles, not TWO BOYS WHO WRECKED RAIL CARS "FOR FUN" HELD MONROVIA, Dec.

30. "Just for fun" two boys released the in Redlands Gift ployces of four dairy stands today assertedly identified Gordon K. Darcy, 25 years of age, San Pedro longshoreman, as the "toy gun" bandit who accosted them last month. Darcy was arrested by officers in a radio car after they assertedly recognized the automobile in his possession as one reported stolen Christmas Eva and used later in two robberies. withstanding they were plainly marked "For Rubbish Only." City painters today began on REDLANDS.

Dec. 30. Economists Close rare varieties of wood, including City Council orders to paint them yellow. oiive wood from the Garden of laremonf Session Gethsemane, were used in the making of a gavel, nedestal. case brakes and sent a train of ana card holder recently pre CLAREMONT.

Dec. YOUTH ACCUSED eighteen gravel cars from a siding to the main line of the Santa Fe, railroad, and today they are ecting Berkeley as the confer uarcy, according to ponce reports, reached into a pocket for a toy gun, apparently the one used In hold-ups of the Coast Ice Cream Company. Van de seniea to a. p. crim, re tired inspector of Masonic Dis trlct No.

105. ence city for 1938. Pacific Coast college economists, sociologists Covina Aufo Crash Victim's Rites Set COVINA, Dec. 30.Funeral services will be conducted at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Christiansen Moore chapel for Edward F.

Gloege, 70 years of age, rancher here for last twenty-six years, who died last night, IN CRASH DEATH In Monrovia jail awaiting ar Other varieties include rose. and philosophers today closed' a Kamp's Bakery, Mountain View raignment ljefore Judge Stur wood from Burma, tulip wood three-day Joint session here, geon. EL CENTRO, Dec. 30. A R.

T. Flewelling, University Dairy and Wheaton's Confectionary. Officer C. Wiggins was holding a revolver on the sus charge of negligent homicide trom Brazil, black ebony from Central Africa and Mississippi gumwood. of.

Southern California, was elected president of the Pacific dl was filed today against Robert Louis Holt, 19 years of age, Glen- pect at the time. Wigglns's part The pair, who live In Monrovia, are 15 and 16 years of age. They had their "fun" last Thursday night. Four of the cars T. R.

Benjamin, 631 Magnolia vision of the American Philo ner, M. Graham, grabbed Darcy's hand. sophical Association. Samuel San Bernardino, assembled the wood and fashioned dale, by Officer Walter -Walsh of the California Highway Pa Death was believed caused by injuries suffered in an automo were wrecked, piling up on the Ilaig Jameson, University of Dr. Norman R.

Whytock the set. main line at California avenue, bile accident. A Coroner's in quest tomorrow will precede the Oregon, was elected to preside over next year's session of the Pacific Sociological Society. tearing up the pavement and spreading the rails. It took more than twelve hours to clear away funeral.

Rear-Admiral Will Head Hospital SANTA BARBARA. Dee. 30 me wrecKage. 1'assenger trains trol in the death of Albert II. Fager, 48, Glendale truck body and trailer builder, twenty-two miles west of Brawley, last Right.

Holt was arraigned in Judge Griffin's justice court in Brawley and bail was set at $500. Friends, posted bail money and Holt was released. Hall of Justice Urged at San Diego were delayed from thirty to Attorney Appointed forty-five minutes until they Barking Dog Saves Home From Flames were rerouted. ardson D. White, who died February 1.

Dr. Whytock became identified with local schools as a teacher In 1916 and rose rapidly. He served in the World War with the rank of first lieutenant. After the war he went to Havana, Cuba, where he was employed as a newspaper reporter SAN DIEGO. Dec.

30. The The boyi were apprehended Harden Successor last night by Officer Frank Rear-Admiral Norman J. Blackwood, Montecito resident and commander of the United States Naval Hospital from 19U to 1929. will become superintendent 1937 county grand jury, in its final report, ursred that a Hall nf O'Neil. SAN DIEGO, Dec.

30. (Sh SAN DIEGO, Dec. 30. A barking dog was credited, by firemen today with saving a home at rank J. Macomber, attorney Justice, housing all courts and the City and County Jail, be con- here since 1915 and a member structed on the water front ad LEADER" SOLD of the State Bar board of gov of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital January 1..

Admiral Blackwood has taken an active Dart In the hosnital of Oceanside: Acquisition of twenty-eight acres of land within the city for recreational purposes; acquisition of additional bo ch frontage and construction of an open air auditorium or amphitheater on the beach. Improvement of the municipal water system by construction of a modern pumping plant in the San Luis Rey River basin. The settling of a "Mattoon Act" district. Major objectives for 193S: The hard surfacing of about twelve miles of city streets in the residence sections. Additional water develop-, ment.

Adoption of a comprehensive civil serviee system. The most serious shortcoming of the ciui administration, according tocriiujs.on the street, was its neglect to arrange for a fortnight's vacation with full pay and all expenses paid for the entire population Of the town sn thiv prmlH an ernors, has been appointed by Gov. Merriam to succeed Supe rior Judge Clarence Harden, ac from 1910 -to 1920. Returning here, he re-entered the school system and before his appointment as superintendent was director of research and assistant superintendent." PALLBEAKKCS NAMED AT LA VERNE jacent to the nearly completed Civic Center. The report decried plans of the city to build a new City Jail, police headquarters and court building on Market street and i'jm inaia street irom Destruction by fire.

Locked alone in the house, the dog barked loudly when smouldering broke out. Next door neighbors heard the dog's cries, saved the animal and called the fire department. cording to word received from Sacramento. Harden is retiring for the last year. He will succeed Harold O.

Cummings, whose resignation was announced today. No change in policy will ba forthcoming, it was announced. LA VERNE, Dec. January 1 to resume private ing January 1, La Verne practice. Pacific Boulevard more than a mile from the Civic Center.

Civic leaders and educators Macomber led in a poll con Leader will be edited and published by Lambreth Hancock, will serve as pallbearers at the ducted hy the San Diego Bar funeral. They are Frank C. Wei- Plunder in Ontario Burglaries $1500 ONTARIO, Dec. 30. Articles valued at more than $1500, including approximately $800 in currency, were taken in three burglaries early today, police reported.

The money was stolen from a bos in living quarters above a restaurant operated by Frank Hobart at 108 East A street. Clothing valued at approximately $100 was stolen from the home of Lome Poister, 328 North Fern avenue, police said. Mrs. Doris Baker, 607 Holmes avenue, reported that wearing apparel, valued at approximately $400, was stolen from her home. Association to test sentiment.

Ranch Rider Dies SAN LUIS OBISPO. Dec. 30. Times correspondent, and ad' vertising manager for the Lead' ler, H. Park Arnold, A.

L. Ferguson, John T. Cate, Irving H. Oliver and Max Eddy Utt, Montano, 75 years of age, for twenty-five years a rider at Ferguson, assistant superin the William Randolph Hearst Baby Swallowing Safety Pin Gains REDLANDS. Dec.

30. The condition of Richard, 0-month- tendent of schools, will assume ranch at San Simeon, was found Dr. Whytock office pending se lection of a successor by the fishing and forget all thetr troubles. dead by fellow riders late yesterday. He had been rounding up stray cattle and was separated Board of Education.

SB8 old son of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Buehler, who has been critical The funeral will be conducted from the group working with by Dr. William C. Hodgson, pastor of First Methodist Church.

him. When they saw his rider AUNT HET Br nOBEHT QUILLEN ly ill for five days following an operation to remove an open safety pin, is improved. i I less horse, search was started Private cremation services will and he was found dead on a hillside. He was a native of Fresno. follow InTorest Lawn Memorial Park.

Upland Tightens Up on Tests to Obtain Drivers' Licenses Encinp Hurls Protest Against Film Cowboys' "Rawhide Town" UPLAND, Dec. 30. Applicants for drivers' licenses here must the questions we simply refuse to issue a license. Books of instruction are Available." One of, the first steps in re ENCINO, Dec. 30.

The case answer correctly twenty-four rests. With the leading men in one ducing the traffic accident toll, In the opinion of Chief Mchl, is to make certain drivers know corner and film cowboys in the other, members of the Chamber out of twenty-five questions, This is the result of a new ruling. Until recently applicants could miss three questions and still be eligible for permits to drive. In an effort to tighten up the Issuance of licenses, the Upland Lambreth Hancock of Commerce here today awaited outcome of the petition they presented the City Planning According to Joseph M. Schumacher, spokesman, an 1100-acre tract is proposed to be converted into a frontier town with a sa loon, dance hall, blacksmith shop and other enterprises.

It Is proposed to be fenced and visitors, who are to leave their cars on the outside, are to be met with a buckboard and driven to the town. Enclno residents, who are for the most part actors, asserted that the establishment of such an "amusement center" will decrease the value of their proper- SPECIAL TRAINS TO PA It A I Continuous service from 8th and Main St. station, Lot Angeles, commencing at 4:45 a.m. SPECIAL SERVICE TO FOOTBALL GAMI Through trains from 6th and Main St. Station at frequent lntervali between 11:30 aja.

and 1:00 p.m. direct to Roae Bowl Stop. Returning Immediately after both Parade and VxtbaU Game as last aa traina are loaded. something about the law and highway courtesies. In refusing to Issue licenses to persons unable- to qualify, the police chief points out that It is for the good of the motorists themselves and the general public.

"We are. In a campaign to cut down he said. "Know the traffic laws and then use Irate because members of a film studio proposed establish "I know Pa still loves me. A man is shbwin' real affection if he gets blazin' mad and roars at you every time you hurt yourself." (Copyrikht, 1937, Tuhlishtrt Syndittti) er, according to an announcement made today by the publishers. Hancock has purchased entire business and property from the owner and former publisher, Ulrich Knoch.

The present publishers, Mr. and Mrs. J. Y. McClellan, will retire.

ment of a rent-free "rawhide Police Department Is carrying out suggestions of the State Highway Department. "Questions in the examination are not of the 'catch' type but concern practical traffic problems," chief of Tollce Mehl said. "If a person can't answer! mmmy town" in the heart of Enclno's exclusive residential district, the community launched concerted opposition sgainst the plan. common sense in observing.