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SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1932. CITY NEWS EDITORIAL THE DRAMA EARLY DECISION A to and Victims Lifted From Sea VETERAN OF FILMS PLAYS LAST ROLE ancer FOUR DROWN WHEN AUTO ROLLS OFF HARBOR PIER Navy Crew Rescues Girl From Sea; Locomotive Raises Machine With Bodies of Long Beach Family LONG BEACH, Sept. 2. (Exclusive) While several hundred horrified sailors and civilians watched, an automobile toppled over the seaward end of Pier adjoining the navy landing at the foot of Pico avenue In outer Long Beach Harbor today, carrying four members of a wealthy family of this city to their deaths In thirty-two feet of water. Harrv Carr farry I 'is Ih'llj I 1JUI li .11 (I ml I I J2TVv' ,2 LiM Harbor Tragedy Depicted Photo shows Barnes auto in which Long Beach Harbor.

Artists toppled from the pier. UMPIRE FIXES Slate Potential Output femberlon at Barrels California's potential output of oil for SeDtember at 1,032,330 barrels daily, against a potential of 1,017500 barrels daily for August, by Oil Umpire Pemberton, and with a small adjustment in allowables the oil curtailment program for the State remains nractirallv A thrilling rescue by members of a boat crew of the U.S.S. Marlbor ough saved a fifth member of the family from a similar fate. The dead: R. L.

Barnes, 53 years of age; his wife, Mrs. R. L. Barnes, 50; their son, William Barnes, 18, and Barnrs'i mother, Mrs. S.

W. Barnes, 75. DAUGHTER RESCUED A daughter of the Barnes's. Marian, 14, was saved by the heroic efforts of the cruiser Marlborough's snore-boat crew after she had clam bered through an open window oi the automobile as it settled in the water. Boat crews- from the Marlborough and the cruiser Milwaukee and squads from the Long Beach Fire and Police departments, as well as a train crew which pressed a loco motive Into service struggled des perately to raise the large automo bile to the surface before the lives of Its remaining occupants were taken by drowning.

SCREAMS BRING AID The tragedy occurred when the elder Barnes, at the wheel of the seven-passenger car, attempted to turn the machine about at the pier's end after he and his family had spent several rtours watching fish ermen at work off the pier. In turning the Barnes machine drew too close to the end of the pier ana its wheels on one side slipped over the edge. The screams of the car's occupants as the ma chine swayed toward the sea at tracted the attention of a throng of civilians on the pier and of the many sailors in shore boats plying about in the navy basin. For an instant the car seemed to nang to th edee. then it tonnn into the water below, its occupants aim screaming.

BOAT CREW SAVES HER As the car struck the water the earnes gin, sitting beside her father In the front seat of the sedan, be gan to struggle through the window nearest ner, wnich was oran. soon she was seen to reach the surface of tne water swirling about the snnt i where the car had disappeared. The men or tne Marlborough's boat be gan tneir aash to the rescue, reach ing the girl before she sank beneath the surface and hauling her aboard tne snore boat. simultaneously boats from the MiiwauKee, lying about 300 feet from the pier, began splashing toward the scene and firemen and police were summoned. In a few minutes, with hundreds of spectators watching, the work of raising the machine began.

PULL UP AUTO The crew of a boat from the Milwaukee dropped an anchor and hooked it to a bumper of the sunken car. A locomotive ran along the tracks on the pier to the end: A line was passed and hooked to the anchor dropped by the men of the Milwaukee. The crew of another shore boat from this cruiser attached a cable to this line, extending the cable from the anchor to the locomotive, which then began to move away, drawing the automobile up to the pier edge from which it had fallen. In the death car, huddled grotesquely where they had died, were seen the bodies of the four members of the family. Brief examination showed the inhalator crews standing by that they were not needed.

SPARED SAD SIGHT The Barnes girl, who had been taken aboard the Marlborough by the shore boat crew for treatment for cuts and bruises about the head, asked to be returned to the scene of the accident. She was taken to the pier and while the operations went on for raising the car she watched from an ambulance. When the dead forms of the other mem- (Continued on Page 5, Column 3) RELIEF FUND i -1, 1 1 Guy Oliver GUY OLIVER RITES SET FOR TODAY Pioneer Character Actor Leaves Record in Total of Screen Appearances Leaving behind him a record of having appeared in more motion pictures than any other player in Hollywood and being one of the few, if not the only one, who worked under an unwritten contract, Guy Oliver, pioneer, character actor, will be paid final tribute today. Services for Oliver, who passed away Thursday at Hollywood Hospital following a lingering illness, will be private and conducted from the Edwards Brothers' Colonial Mor tuary, 1000 Venice Boulevard. His body is to be cremated.

Oliver leaves, besides his widow, Mrs. Elinor Oliver, a daughter and son, Georgie and Parker. The fam ily resides at 7620 Lexington ave nue. He was 54 years of age. Beginning his professional career at the age of 6 as a cornetist at Lamar, and after traveling with his family in a musical troupe, Oliver determined r.n a career as an actor at the age of 21.

In 1908 he Joined the old Lubin film company in Philadelphia. His salary was $3 day. After appearing with Eclair, Kl- nemacolor and Selig, Oliver landed in California and in 1916 Joined the company headed by Jesse L. Lasky. He worked for Lasky under a verbal contract.

His first film was with Sessue Hayakawa. He played in approximately 600 pictures without interruption. He appeared in all of the pictures made by the late Wallace Reid and in those made with every star who has been on the Paramount roster He was forced, on account of his health, to retire to rest a little more Chan a year ago, but the studio still kept his name-on the pay roll. Coroners Jury Finds Phillips's Death Accident Death of Albert Louis Phillips, 72 years of age, wealthy Pasadena resident and owner of the Santa Fe Warehouse Company at 300 Avery street, who was killed last Wednesday when he fell down an elevator shaft at his place of business, was declared accidental by a Coroner's Jury following an inquest yesterday. Funeral services for Mr.

Phillips, who lived at 437 South Los Robles avenue, were conducted at 2 p.m. at the undertaking parlors of Ives-Werren Company in Pasadena. Burial was in the Mountain View Cemetery in Pasadena. SETBACK PROTEST DENIED Protests against the establishment of setback lines in Bronson avenue between Washington and Adams boulevards were denied yesterday by the City Council. ACTION LOOMS ON AQUEDUCT Steps Taken in Anticipation of $20,000,000 Loan Water Districts Executives Prepare to Start Work R.F.C.

Expected to Approve Aid Plans in Few Days Active preparations by the direa tors and engineers of the Metropolis tan Water District were under way yesterday to take immediate advan tage of the anticipated loan of $20, 000,000 from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to start work on the Colorado River aqueduct. As announced exclusively in yesterday's Times, it is expected that plans for this loan will be approved within a few days, to be followed later by an additional credit of $20,000,000 or $25,000,000 should it be found neces sary. It is believed, however, that the increasing improvement in the bond market, plus the effect Qf getting the great Job. actually well under way, with the first $20,000,000, will make possible advantageous sale in the open market of a portion of the $220,000,000 issue of bonds voted by the district in time to obviate the necessity of a second loan from the government. PROBABLE PROCEDURE Chairman Whltsett of the Metro politan district's board of directors was in telephonic communication with Directors Bullock and Honnold, who, with Chief Engineer Weymouth and Director McClure, are in Washington carrying on the negotiations for the loan.

A few details remained to be cleared up, it la understood, before the Reconstruction Corporation takes formal action. This probably will be in the form of a contract between the district and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation under which the corporation agrees to buy district bonds to the amount of the loan and un- der terns to be set out in the contract. ADDITIONAL APPLICATION The district directors at their meeting yesterday approved the final draft of a supplemental application for a loan of approximately $100,000,000. The new application was drawn at the request of the government and is based on a lengthy questionnaire concerning the project's details. The original application was filed by the district July 18, last.

From the questionnaire it became apparent that the district will be expected to work in harmony with the administration's program of spreading out available work by Incorporating a program of shortened work periods for individual amployees. BIDS TO BE ASKED As soon as the Reconstruction Finance Corporation approves the contract the district will advertise block of Its bonds for public sale In the amount of the proposed loan, and Reconstruction Finance Corporation, under the terms of the contract, will bid thereon. Unless a pri- vate corporation enters a bid more favorable to the district than does the government body, the latter becomes the successful bidder and, in effect, makes the loan. The terms under which the Reconstruction Finance Corporation will id are set forth In the contract. The district yesterday received a letter from the Los Angeles Realty Board urging that work on the aqueduct be begun "at the earliest possible date.

Among the reasons given for the request were the re lief that will be brought to the un employment situation and the economies that can be effected by building at this time. Baylies Funeral Will Be Today Funeral services for Fred N. Bay lies, retired official of the Aluminum Company of America, who died at his home here in the Roosevelt Hotel Thursday morning, will be conducted today at 2 p.m. in the Cunningham O'Connor chapel, 1031 South Grand avenue. Cremation will follow.

Mr. Baylies, who was 54 years oi age, succumbed to a heart attack. Ill health had caused his retirement four years ago and last year he came to California. He leaves his widow, Mrs. Charline Baylies; a brother, Harry L.

Baylies of Beverly Hills, and a sister. Mrs. Fred A. Forr of Lake Forest, 111. POOR PA BY CLAUDE CALLAN "When Betty mentioned the "moon to her beau he said it looked like rain, an' she's disgusted with him because' he knows mpre about the weather than he does about women." a Copyright fftU, Syndicmtt) i DUE ON DEPOT Roads Expect Agreement on Plans by October 1 Santa Fe Remains in Favor of Through Station Co-operation of Three Rai Lines Promised Representatives of the three transcontinental railroad lines serv ing Los Angeles told the State Railroad Commission yesterday they are convinced they will be able, to agree by October on the apportionment of the cost of the projected $10,000, 000 Plaza union passenger terminal.

They made their statements at a hearing on an order of the Rail road Commission calculated to speed tne construction of the terminal, wnicn has been before the commis sion, State and Federal courts and the Interstate Commerce Commis sion for the last sixteen years. At the conclusion of the hearing. Presi dent Seavey of the commission ordered the matter submitted. COST DIVISION SOUGHT The commission's order which brought the rail line officials and attorneys before the State body yes terday directed the carriers to show cause why the commission should not set aside an order of January 18, last, approving certain plans for tne terminal, why the commission should not further consider the plans filed by the carriers and, final ly, why the commission should not proceed immediately to apportion the cost of the undertaking among the carriers. Yesterday's hearing was concerned chiefly with the attitude of the Santa Fe, which favors a through station, instead of a stub-end type of terminal, such as is specified in the commission's order of January 18.

W. K. Etter, general manager of the Coast lines of the Santa Fe, took the stand, appearing as the only witness, to state that his line still believes the through type of station has numerous advantages ove? the stub-end terminal proposed. CO-OPERATION PROMISED At the same time, Etter declared the Santa Fe Is desirous of co-operating fully with the commission and the Southern Pacific Company and the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company in an effort to work out a plan satisfactory to all. Earlier in the hearing, Robert Brennan, counsel for the Santa Fe, resisted the order to show cause, pointing out that the Santa Fe is testing the validity of the order of January 18 in the Federal Because the commission is tne de fendant in the Federal court ac tion, he said, it was not qualified to sit in Judgment in connection witn the order berore tne commission vesterday.

He moved that the order should be discharged to the end that the suit in Federal court might proceed to its final determina tion. Unwillingness of the Santa Fe to Darticioate in the commission's pro ceedings while the Federal suit is nendinc was resDonsible for a mild flurry when Arthur T. George, counsel for the commission, accused the line of bad faith in refusing to put on witnesses to testify as to objections to the order of January 18. Attorney Brennan said he resented the imputation and he then summoned Etter to take the stand. DILLY-DALLYING HINTED Attorneys George and Max The-lari, the latter special attorney for Los Aneeles.

raised the question as to whether the carrier is seeking to prolong the litigation. Attorney Brennan and Etter declared their suit was predicated upon what they conceive to be major departures from the original union-station plans and Etter testified at considerable length as to the asserted changes. Etter said the stub-end plans call for an additional crossing over Santa Fe tracks, that provisions for handling mail are distinctly different in the new plans from those in the old plans, and that the new plan calls for a bridge across the Los Angeles River which was not embraced in the original plan, among other things. "The proposed plan," he said, (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) thereby reducing the taxes of the people. He declared the bureau planned to use $5,500,000 surplus from the last fiscal year In the construction of the plant but that under the law it must first retire the indebtedness.

It also was maintained that the power board Is controlled by law In the manner In which it can use funds and that It Is mandatory and not discretionary that funds first be expended In maintenance and operation and secondly In repayment of indebtedness. In the main action, which will go to trial at the conclusion of disposition of the preliminary matters, the plaintiff maintains that for the power bureau of the city to use such funds for the construction of the steam plant be to waste the public money illegally. The city is represented by Attorney S. B. Robinson and assisted by Attorney Will H.

Anderson, Nathan Newby and William Schrelder. NEW YORK has temporarily lost Jimmy Walker; but it still has Texas Gulnan. In the separation agreement of Rudy Vallee and his California bride it Is not made clear to the public who gets the book rights of the pieces they wrote about their eternal love and devotion. WET OR DRY It is a curious reflection on our system of government that candidates were elected or defeated in the primaries according to whether they were wet or dry. And the wetness or dryness of the Presidential candidates is the question most heatedly debated.

Whereas the truth is, of course, that neither of them can do a thing in the world about it, either one way or the other. The people who squeak most shrilly about the dear old wet days are now drinking more booze than they did before prohibition than they will if prohibition falls by the wayside. The wet-and-dry question is just one of the things talked about. THE NEW LEISURE At that, the question of liquor will be found to be tangled up in a profound sociological question before long. Whether or not prosperity comes back, the five or even the four-day week is an Inevitable development of modern industry.

There are too few jobs and too many machines. HAPPINESS? MAYBE The five-day and to a greater extent the four-day week will open to the American working man an opportunity for leisura never before enjoyed by any people in the history of the world. And what will he do with the leisure? Various sociologists see the future as the happiest period the world has ever known. Undoubtedly it could be made so. CALIFORNIA It is quite possible that it will mean, for California, millions of families living on small country places with Pa coming Into town half his week to work.

Playing wfth California the rest of his time. TIJE SCHOOLS The public schools have anticipated this future condition with a great deal of wisdom and forethought. Much of the instruction given at schools in these days is a course looking toward an Intelligent use of leisure music, art, courses in reading, botany, home cabinet making RUNNING DOWN Meanwhile 'the economists perceive that the machine age will finally run down of its own speed. With the Intense competition, it becomes necessary that machines go each year faster in speed and become more Intricate in design. These machines Involve the use of certain metals which are becoming very scarce.

It is not beyond the range of possibilities that these metals will become so rare that machines will be too costly; hand work may, in the end, become cheaper. AUNT HET BT ROBERT QUILLEN "Shell be sorry if she marries him. You can't do much with a man that asks you what you want to know when he sees you lookin in a dictionary." (CepyTifkl, mi, $yAicmlt) four drowned, being raised from the sketch illustrates how the machine OIL QUOTAS for September Placed by 475,810 barrels, against 475,600 barrels ELDRIDGE AGAIN FILLS CITY POST Council Approves Porter Renomination of Veteran of Public Works Board Public Works Commissioner El-dridge, a public servant for twenty years, was continued in' office yes-F- terday for an- rfSjawwt sp oiner nve years by Joint action of Mayor Porter and the City Council. His term expired July 1, last, but in expectation of reappointment, he was elected vice president of the board. Yesterday Mayor Porter sent his renomination to the Arthur.

Jf.lDF2.lOGE. Council. Feeling in a playful mood, the Council summoned Eldridge to answer "charges'" filed against him. The "charges," as read by Minute Clerk Browning, was the message of renomination, whereupon the Council suspended its- rules and proceeded to confirm the nominal tlon unanimously. Eldridge has served in the executive offices of former Mayors Wood man, Snyder and Cryer.

Under Cryer he directed the bureau ot budget and efficiency. Nine years ago Cryer appointed him to the Board of Public Works. During one year of the construction work on the City Hall he served as president. STREET CONTRACT LET The contract for Improving the streets in the Banning street and Santa Fe avenue district was awarded by the Board of Public Works yesterday to the Griffith Company on a bid of $8591.25. The specifications call for asphaltlc concrete paving, curbs, gutters and MAN AND WIFE KILLED IN CRASH Auto Falls Into Canyon on Ridge Route 1 Pair Leave Four Youngsters, Including Twins Tivo Dead and Many Hurt in Other Mishaps Marking the fifth automobile fa lauiy in me same vicinity in a ten-day period, a man and his wife were killed yesterday morning when the automobile in which they were riding ran off the Ridge Route north of Castaic and fell about seventy-five feet down an embankment.

Yesterday's mishap claimed the lives of Nick Ohanesian, 44 years of age, and his wife Sarah, 36, 3247 East Third street, and at the same time orphaned four minor children, it was reported by Deputy Sheriff Blasdel. Investigating officers reported that the death car, a sedan, had evidently been traveling too fast to negotiate a curve with the re sult that it struck a two-feet high bank at the side of the road, caus ing it to overturn and roll down the canyon side. BOTH FOUND DEAD Officers stated that both occu pants were dead on their arrival. The bodies were taken to the un dertaking parlors of W. G.

Noble In San Fernando. Mr. and Mrs. Ohanesian were en route from Los to visit a son at lone, according to Blasdel. At their home here they had left three younger sons.

Roy, 10. and Robert and Richard, twins, 5, officers reported. The scene of the accident was near that of a similar accident on August 22, last, which resulted in the deaths of a woman and two men. Other traffic accidents claimed the lives of two men early yesterday, caused minor injuries to nine passengers on a Los Angeles Railway trolley that overturned, and also resulted in painful injury to a 5-year-old girl who ran into a passing automobile as she ran after a rubber ball In the street, according to police reports. DIES IN HOSPITAL The dead were John Parkinson, 57, 5052 Argus Drive, and Oscar Odin, 65, 7427 La Salle avenue.

Parkinson died at Georgia -street Receiving Hospital after being struck down at Sixth and Alameda streets by an automobile driven by Herbert W. Drees, 353 Arroyo Seco Drive. Injured in a collision of automobiles Thursday, Odin died early yesterday at General Hos pital. Inquest into the death of Parkinson was set for 9:30 a.m. today and at 10 a.m.

for Odin. An open switch at Forty-eighth and Hoover streets caused a "one- man" trolley to turn over and en dangered the lives of twenty-five passengers, police reported. Only nine of those riding the car were injured, none serious, according to a report of Receiving Hospital surgeons. CHILD INJURED. In an effort to recover her ball near her home at 1165 North Orange Drive, 5-year-old Christine Boal ran into the side of a machine driven by R.

R. McDougall, 3216 Ellington Drive, and was hurt. -She was treated at Hollywood Recelv lng Hospital for a fracture of the shoulder and body bruises. Run down by. a truck while rid (Continued on Page 5, Column S) HOPE JARRED iii i ii ii for R.F.C.

elf are Loan clared. "Frankly, I do not agree with the Attorney-General I think that as an emergency the Governor can Incur the indebtedness: If he cannot, then it is my belief and understanding that the county, as a political subdivision, legally can make application direct. However, this would require a bond Issue to Insure payment of the Indebtedness, all of which would take time. Tt is my opinion that the Governor may apply legally for the money in an emergency like we have, the Indebtedness later to be paid out of the 1-cent Federal gasoline ax collected In California. "If this is not the case and we have to vote a bond Issue I propose to go before the next Leglsla-, ture In an endeavor to amend our gasoline tax law so that instead of using all the money for highways we can use at least 1 cent for welfare Such an amendment (Continued en Fife 2, Column 3) unchanged.

The new allowable is dally for August, The new schedule gives San Joa quin Valley fields a September po tential of 515,630 barrels daily, a 12,320 barrels daily increase over August Coastal fields have a new potential of 132,100 barrels daily in comparison to an August figure of 129,250 barrels daily, while Los An geles Basin fields were given a potential of 384,600 barrels daily for September. The greatest change in the San Joaquin Valley was made at Ket-tleman Hills. Its new potential is 263,000 barrels daily, an increase of 13,000 barrels daily over August. The San Miguelito oil field's potential for September will be 2600 barrels daily as against 150 barrels daily for August. The Ventura-avenue field's poten tial dropped 990 barrels daily for September 82,940 barrels to 81.950 barrels daily while Signal Hill potential increased from 95,720 barrels to 97,445 barrels daily.

The Po-trero townlQt area enjoyed an increased potential from 900 barrels to 1550 barrels daily. The Santa Fe Springs potential dropped from barrels to 88,925 barrels daily. A tentative potential of 23,000 barrels dally has been set for the El-wood oil field. It was 21,860 barrels daily during August. Thrasher Will Report Soon on Vice Quiz Plea A report on the request for a Councilmanic investigation of vice conditions, submitted by Women's Christian Temperance Union leaders, was promised, for early next week by Councilman Thrasher yesterday.

Thrasher is chairman of the Police and Fire Committee, to which the request was referred. The temperance leaders, in sev eral communications to the Council, declared that speakeasies, lewd performances, gambling Joints and houses of ill fame are operating in the city, and that Mayor Porter ignored complaints. KEWANEE GROUP TO MEET The Kewanee-Los Angeles Society wUl hold its annual fall picnic re-union all day Monday at Grevillea Park, Inglewood, according to a call Issued by Mrs. Belle Thompson, secretary. EDISON POWER OFFER MADE Saving to Taxpayers of $1,000,000 Promised if Bureau Drops Plant Plan and Buys Service Supervisors Hear Webb Doubts Rolph Legally A ble to Apply If the Los Angeles Bureau of Water and Power will abandon its plan for the construction of a $7,000,000 steam plant' at Wilmington, the Southern California Edison Company offers to furnish complete power service at a saving over a period of ten years of $1,000,000 to the taxpayers, according to a statement made yesterday in Superior Judge Hahn's court by Attorney Vincent Morgan, appearing for the Edison company.

Attorney Morgan made the offers return this amount to the city Hope for immediate welfare relief in Los Angeles county under the Federal Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act was given a Jolt yesterday when the Board of Supervisors received word that in the opinion of Webb the Governor of California legally cannot make application for the funds. try some other channel." Shaw de- NEW MACHINE SOLVES STUDENTS' PROBLEMS The board last Thursday ordered an application sent to. Gov. Rolph to appeal to Washington for for Los Angeles county's welfare needs for the remaining months of the calendar year. The request was made following a report from County Superintendent of Charities Harrlman that the above sum will be needed for the present year and approximately $7,000,000 more for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933.

It Is doubtful, however, in the mind of the Attorney-General whether the Governor has authority under State law to make application for the money, according to a letter to the Supervisors from County Counsel Mattoon. The news came as a shock to the Supervisors, particularly Supervisor Shaw, head of the welfare committee of the board and the county-wide committee on unemployment. "If such Is true we will have to begin Immediately an endeavor to during his argument In resisting a demurrer and answer to the suit of the Edison company for an Injunction restraining the municipal bu reau from proceeding with erection of the proposed plant. He declared the Edison company has a large steam plant in operation 'at Long Beach sufficient to meet all the city's needs Including stand-by service. Since the expiration of the city's old contract a portion of the Edison plant is idle.

Attorney Morgan said, and with.the coming of power from the Hoover Dam the plant work will be further reduced and for those reasons the offer to fur nish power to the city bureau a much-reduced rate is made. The Edison lawyer also pointed out to Judge Hahn that the city had advanced the power bureau in excess of $3,000,000 from the general fund and that under the statutes the first duty of the bureau is to answer to a schoolboy's dream a machine to solve automatically mathematical problemswas described to members of the 'American Mathematical Society at their concluding session at the University of California at Los Angeles yesterday by Dr. D. H. Lehmer, national research fellow of the California Institute of Technology.

Known as a number theoretic machine the new device, perfected after yean of labor on funds granted by the Carnegie Institution of Washington, is said to handle problems 10.000 times as fast as the most adept mathematician. function Is to determine prime numbers. It runs on the average some fifty hours -between solutions, sifting approximately 20.000,000 numbers an hour without attention. Years of work are required to find the same prime numbers without the aid of the machine, according to Dr. Lehmer.

Prime numbers are numbers divisible by no whole number except Itself and unity, or one. In addition to Dr. other eminent mathematicians presented reports on the various fields of pure mathematics with which they are concerned. Outstand-. ing was the concluding address' of Prof.

J. F. Ritt of Columbia University, who, since the convention opening Tuesday, has presented a series of talks on "Differential Equations from the Algebraic Standpoint." The next summer meeting of the society, according to Dr. Hedridt of U.CJLA, will be In Chicago In connection with the World Fair. winter meeting will be Atlantic City, he saw.

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