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an r-rt 1 miii i i ht nrtaial aiiairi IB in in miai nua 11 1 llil'i ini i i iTHfi iM 7f it 1 TiT" liil 1 "i Til 'HI rti lii 2Q5 APRIL 28, 1932. (PART Hi 16 THURSDAY ACTRESS ORDERED TO PAY BOOK BILL PIN MARBLE GAME RULED GAMBLING Cigar Store Operator Fined for Possession of bevice DEATH STALKS AT GAY PARTY Mate and Guests Unaivaro Wife Lifeless at Scene Police Reveal Fact Wheri Sent to Home ORATOR PICKED FOR NEW GROUP Bellarmine "Prep" Boy Wins North of Fresno Line Student at Claremont High Victorious in District 15 THEATER ON W1LSHIRE TO STAYTHERE But Judge Shjnn Takes Under Advisement Case Against Mrs. Sherrard Although he indicated he will not compel Mrs. Katherine Sherrard and Complaint of Drinking Had NEW SCHOOL DATES FIXED FORJ1AMES August Opening in Three Cities Delayed to Allow Attendance at Olympics Oakland, Berkeley and Albany public schools will delay their fall openings until August 15 to permit students to attend the Olympic Games here July 30 to August 14, according to Olympic officials. Ordinarily, the schools reopen on or about August 8.

One school -official said attendance at the games would do more for a child's advancement than an ordinary half school term. Headed by Zack J. Farmer, secretary-manager of the games, the Olympic officials returned yesterday with a report that thousands of San Tustin Union Entry Gets Place in Semifinals Caused Investigation While the northern boundary cf Fresno county marks the northern limit of the Pacific Southwest zone I of the National 'si iff i i-t i 1 -rr-m-i-i fe Oratorical Contest on the Con-s i ution. a group of schools north of this line, from Tracy to Alameda Bay, sought entrance this year, and a special district, known Evelyn Brent Discovery that Mrs. Pearl Schafer, 28-year-old housewife, lay dead in her home at 3015 Bellevue avenue, while her husband Louis and sever al friends, not knowing she had died, carried on a gay celebration in tha house, was made yesterday morning when police officers arrived at tha home to investigate complaints thai a child had been permitted to witness drinking parties.

Present at the home when Policewoman Sallie Florlan and, Officer Campbell arrived were the husband, a friend, John Ryan, and Mrs. Dorothy Beal, a roomer at the address. Patsy Lou Schafer, 7-year-old daughter of the Schaf ers; was asleep others to remove an $89,000 theater building at Wilshire Boulevard and Mansfield avenue, as sought by F. N. Halgren, Superior Judge Shinn late yesterday took the case under submission.

The plaintiff contended that the theater building violates residential restrictions imposed on the property, and asked that the defendants be compelled to remove it. In resisting the petition, it was argued that the restrictions were imposed twenty-one years ago and that the boulevard has been devoted to business purposes over a distance of several miles. At the conclusion of arguments Judge Shinn stated that as the case now stands he des not see how he can give judgment to the plaintiff. He stated that he will take the matter under advisement for several days, and unless a review of the authorities and his notes disclose that he has misunderstood a material fact, he then will hand down his decision as Indicated. Franciscans are arranging to at 1 as District 15-A, 1 7- 1 was created for ,41 225 their benefit, Evelyn Brent, motion-picture actress, also sued as Mrs.

Harry Edwards, yesterday was ordered by Presiding Judge Kincaid of the Municipal Court to pay $724 for books assertedly purchased from Stanley Rose, several months ago. Default judgment was obtained by Attorney Charles Katz, who pointed out that the actress failed to answer a complaint filed on the 1st that she ordered the books and failed to pay for them. fHAHLES This group STAUFFACHEQ-I held its district 2 'contest at Ala in a bedroom, Mrs. Beal, according HYPERION FISHING PROBLEM UNSOLVED IJjtiL FUNERAL OF GLIDER PILOT SET FOR TODAY tend the games. SCOTT URGES ALL TO WEAR PINS "Every citizen of Los Angeles should wear an Olympic pin, and help support the American Olympic team," Joseph Scott, member of the executive committee of the Southern California division of the American Olympic Finance Committee, said yesterday.

"It is more than an opportunity to aid American sports; it is an Investment for Los Angeles, since most of the money spent for the American athletes will be spent here." Scott urged that the pins be worn continuously from now until the final day of the games, August 14. COL. WOOD TO LECTURE Col. Charles Erskine Scott Wood, author and lecturer, will talk on the -subject of "What I Believe" before members of the Liberal Forum at a meeting scheduled to be held Monday evening, May 2, at the Wil-shire-Ebell Theater. This will be Col.

Wood's only appearance in Los Angeles. Judge Nye Trying Out Machine COUPLE WED Enforcement of the health regulations prohibiting fishing within 500 feet of the Hyperion outfall sewer, requested of the Board of Public Works and by the city health board, has been declined by the for to the officers, met them at the door and in reply to their inquiries for Mrs. Schafer said the woman was sick and could not be seen. Insisting on seeing Mrs. Schafer, however, the officers found the body on a davenport, dead apparently, several hours.

The body was taken to the morgua and an autopsy ordered. A report on the cause of death is expected today, according to Autopsy Surgeon Wagner. CLUB TO HEAR McINTOSH Burr Mcintosh will be the principal speaker at the meeting of tha Authors and Artists' Club in the new Edison Building, Thursday evening. May 5. Jane Withers, Jean Clark, baritone, Marshall Ames, pianist, and Lillian Horton will feature the musical program.

meda and It was won by Francis J. Cronin, a student of Bellarmine College preparatory school, at Santa Clara. Second place went to J. Evans Skelly of Alameda High School. Last year Bellarmine was grouped with the private schools In the contest, and won first place there in a field of many contestants.

SECOND TRY SUCCEEDS Charles Stauffacher of Claremont High School was the winner in District 15 and will represent his group at The Times semifinals Friday night, to be held at Kern County High School, Bakersfleld. Stauffacher won his spurs on his second appearance in the contest, having entered as a sophomore last year. As there is no public-speaking department at Claremont he had to depend largely on his own resources. He is a member of the Scholarship Federation and also ranks high in athletics. SPEAKER LAST YEAR District No.

1 will be represented In the Qtoup A contest of the semifinals, to be held at Long Beach, by mer on the ground that it has no Funeral services will be conducted today at 10:30 ajn. in the LeRoy Bagley mortuary. 5440 Hollywood Boulevard, for Lyle Armstrong, 23-year-old glider pilot and builder, who died Sunday at Muroc Dry Lake when his glider plunged to earth. Entombment will be in the Hollywood Cemetery Mausoleum. He resided at 145 South Manhattan Place.

He leaves his mother. Dr. Gertrude Armstrong: a brother Lemoyne; and two uncles, LeRoy and Clarence Bagley. MORE THAN SIXTYYEARS Hawthorne Pair to Observe Anniversary by Playing Host to Children officer to enforce the law. The subject was brought up recently by Health Commissioner Stevens, who reported fishermen continue to use the Hyperion pier despite the Ruling that the 5-cent pin marble games which recently have been placed In large numbers in the city and county are in yiolatlon of the city gambling ordinance, Municipal Judge Nye yesterday found Edgar S.

Morris, cigar store operator, of 4700 South Hoover street, guilty of gambling device possession and imposed a $30 fine. Morris's attorney, Chandos Bush, filed an appeal. Deputy City Prosecutor Harris called Officer Barclay of the police gambling squad as an expert witness. Barclay said the game is one of chance and not of skill. He also said Morris awarded prizes for high scores made on the machine seized in his establishment.

Harris told the court 11,000 machines taking in $100,000 a week are in operation in the county. Their golden wedding is just something to remember, not look forward to, for it was one of the events that iook prrs: place years ago in the lives of Mr. and Mrs. W. B.

Frost of 363 Ramona avenue, Hawthorne. To-day they will MUSICIANS MEET FOR REHEARSAL Members of ISeiv People's Orchestra Will Appear in Series of Concerts Under the leadership of Heinrich Hammer, internationally known composer and orchestra leader, sixty members of the People's Orchestra assembled yesterday at the home of Mrs. Harvey Mudd, 1500 Benedict Canyon Drive, Beverly Hills, to meet the patronesses of the newly organized orchestra and to rehearse for a series of concerts to be given at the Greek Theater, Griffith Park, beginning at 4 p.m., May 15. next. The artists are all well-knowr musicians temporarily out of work The Sunday afternoon concerts will be given the last three Sundays in May and every Sunday in June.

A series of Friday evening concerts at the theater, featuring Beethoven's symphonies, will begin May 20. Mr. Hammer came to America with a European festival chorus in 1907. He organized and conducted the Philharmonic Orchestra of Washington, D. for fourteen years.

Mrs. Emma Loeffler de Zaruba, Mrs. Otto Wartenweiler, Mrs. Elmer Nelson and Mrs. Mudd form the executive committee of the patronesses, who include optstanding professional and society women of Los Angeles.

4- vv Joseph Y. Harriett of Tustin Union High School. This is Barnett's second effort for honors In the contest, as he represented Tustin in the celebrate the 'I aiirornia can sixty-second an i niversary of their wedding in England. Mr. Frost is 85 years of age.

and Mrs. Frost is 82. They re semifinals last year. He has a good record as a student, being a member of Chapter 82 of: remove the nation's Mas. W.

B. FH.OST INQUIRY INTO LA ARGA ACTIVITIES TO CONTINUE Investigation into the asserted activities of 'Dago" Tony LaArga who was arrested Monday night after he had made an address at a meeting of pin marble-game operators at a downtown hotel, will be continued today by the District Attorney's office in an effort to determine whether a criminal complaint is to be issued against him. According to Blayney Matthews, chief of the District Attorney's extortion investigation detail, fifteen witnesses have been questioned in the matter and several others will be called today. Police assert that LaArga addressed a gathering of marble-machine operators, asking that they contribute a fund of $55,000 monthly to be used for "police protection." He was arrested at the close of his speech. JOSEPH BA15NETT the Scholarship Federation and active in all cently moved to Hawthorne from Hermosa where they spent most of the twelve years they have been in California.

They came to America a few months after they were married and since have lived in New York, Kansas and Missouri. They came here from Marysville, Mo. The two live with their daughter, Mrs. Gertrude Fuller. They have five sons, Cecil, in Hermosa; Clif student affairs.

He was student-body president last semester and active in athletics. He intends to follow journalism as a profession. ue cjlasse -'If ford, in Redon--lo; Everett in Diego; an- other in Marysville and one in Corpus Chrlsti, i'Tex. (POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT) The children in California will visit their 0tk parents tomor- Mrow. Ana now aia Hearing Week to Feature Lip Reading Contest The Los Arigeles League For the Hard of Hearing and associate organizations will observe National Hearing Week, May 1 to 8, with public meetings at the clubhouse, 2026 West Ninth street, at 2:30 and 7:30 pin.

Saturday and May 7, according to plans announced yesterday. All leagues in Southern California will participate in the programs. A feature of the program will be a tournament for the selection of the lip reading champion of Southern California. Similar tournaments will be conducted in all States where the league is active. National Hearing Week will be sponsored by the American Federation of Organizations for the Hard of Hearing, with headquarters in Washington, D.

C. 'ML JVM WW hold your hus band that long?" a re- queried o.FaosT, porter. The Truth! The SHARKey OIL CON TROL bill, if enacted into law, will create a Huge Oil Monopoly and raise the price of gasoline to 25 cents or more a gallon. ENLIST YOUR DOLLARS for STATEWIDE PROSPERITY Cooperate in Bank of America's spirited movement for a statewide mobilization of all inactive dollars Every loyal Californian should put his shoulder to the wheel in this confidence-restoring "back-to-good-times" campaign Let's all pull together for a speedy return to level-headed thinking and a sound prosperity Help restore a normal flow of money into all trade channels. Cooperate with the banks of your state Even now definite signs of better times are appearing.

Let's encourage, stimulate and accelerate this trend to-ward the return of a sound prosperity Each individual can contribute to better business conditions by opening a "California Prosperity Account" this, or any other and by returning to normal buying habits Why passively WAIT for good times to return? Put every dormant dollar to work and you'll put every worker back on the job; Open a "CALIFORNIA PROSPERITY ACCOUNT" NOWt "Well, he was a good man and I just let him alone," Mrs. Frost replied. City Assigned Extra Judges Assignment by the State Judicial Council of five additional judges from suburban cities for service in the Los Angeles Municipal Court was announced yesterday by Presiding Judge Kincald. The judges will not be called until needed. The jurists certified are: George Damon of Alamitos township, Irving P.

Austin of Compton, C. E. Hollopeter of Monterey Park, Oscar E. Houston of Signal Hill and Frank Lavan of Culver City. Assignment of the additional judges is necessary to keep the city tribunal operating during vacation time.

Thirteen Named by Federal Jury In ten true bills returned yesterday by the Federal grand Jury thirteen persons were accused of various offenses against the government. Michael A. Saulter was accused of possession of a stolen postofflce money order for $78. Vlto Cumma-no and Tony Rossi were charged with manufacture and possession of fifty gallons of alcohol. The two have already been released on bail of $1500 each.

Qther charges were for violations of the Immigration Act by Illegal entry Into the country. One secret Indictment was returned. SIGNS OF BETTER TIMES" Fight (rhooli are lining built in I.n Anprlei. Municipal improvrmrnli in progren amount In $33310. S.thfmrtmuuUlxir California farmm giinnd hy an in-rrtate in prirf tf rattle, ihrrp and hncm during late February and rirly March.

FtJtnl Jtmrw The credit situation brrama pro(rrv ivrljr fier during the four Wffk rnded March 16. fcml Krm It will halt the return of Prosperity by Destroying Independent oil producers, refiners, service stations and affiliated industries, thus throwing Thousands More Men Out of Work Construction rontinun en the Sunny vale Natal Air Bae, hrre conlrai of about $2,958,000 have been aardr d. V. J. DxfWMM, talw Sheriff Opens Valley Outpost Establishment of a Sheriff's outpost at Lancaster to serve the Antelope Valley district was announced yesterday by Undersheriff Blscalluz.

It will be in charge of Deputy Sheriff Wilson, who will operate from his residence in Lancaster, Blscalluz said. This expansion of the Sheriff's Office has long been felt necessary because of the widely scattered district comprising the territory of the Newhall Sheriff's substation, out of which Wilson will work, the Under-aherlff said. A similar outpost is maintained at Topango Canyon to facilitate the work of the Fairfax substation In North Hollywood. Tuberculosis Report Issued More than 150 tuberculosis sufferers are receiving treatment at the Duarto plant of the Los Angeles Sanatorium, while an additional sixty, who have been cured, are under convalescent care at the ex-patient home in Belvedere, Judge Lester William Roth, president of the organization, revealed in a midyear report to sponsors of the organization. Each Tuesday children from homes In which the disease has been found are examined and a clinic continually rechecks the condition of patients no longer requiring active care, the report stated.

FLORISTS DEATH TUZZLES Tentatively reported as a possible victim of acute alcoholism, according to Dp tec ti vs. Lieu tenant Clark, George Foye, 64 years of age, was found dead In bed In his hotel room at 1040 Sunset' Boulevard yesterday. Post-mortem examination will be made at the county morgue to determine' dlfinltoly the cause of death. Foye was a fiower-ahop employee, according to Clark. RESERVE TRIO PROMOTED Three Southern California Reserve officers of the United States Army have been promoted, according to word received yesterday from Ninth Corps Area headquarters, San Francisco.

They are Second Lieutenants George S. Badger, Infantry Reserve, of 3JS73 Holboro Road, Los Angeles, Jerome W. Kennedy, Coast Artillery Reserve, Al-hambra, and Edward M. Levine, Engineer Reserve. Covlna.

All have received the grade of first Vote NO on OIL CONTROL Proposition No. 1 Election May 3 RADIO Bank of America' MACK TO GOOD TIMII Program Saturday, 7tlS to 7:45 KGO-KFI BAM Kof AMI NATIOMAI TRUST SAVffltt ASSOCIATION mm (nnvt Independent Association Opposed to Monopoly AND Independent Petroleum Association of California 900 Spring ArcuU lldf Lei ArIi 401 Monomry Strttt, Sn Franclica 490 14lh Strict, OMn4 SETBACK MEASURE TASSED The City Council yesterday adopted the resolution of intention for the establishment of setback lines In Fdgecltffe Drive between Sunset Boulevard and Winslow Drive. The resolution was set for the hearing of protests June 2..