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him SATURDAY MORNING. Los Angeles a Daily Times, FEBRUARY 1, IL RAIN GENERAL IN SOUTHLAND. Fall is Preceded by Thunder and Lightning Here. Ranchers to Benefit Greatly by the Drenching. Showers Today is Weather Bureau Prediction.

Following is the precipitation up to last night: This date last Stations- Storm. Season. year. Los Angeles .82 4.97 .93 Pasadena 1.26 8.13 .74 Covina .61 4.79 Sierra Madre .85 6.29 ,63 Ontario .80 5.51 1.30 Santa Monica .87 6.54 .06 Redondo Beach 1.08 2.17 .88 Santa Barbara 8.06 .79 Ventura .75 San Diego .49 1.89 Whittler .69 2.65 1.35 Long Beach 1.06 8.45 1.84 1.19 Santa Ana ,48 4.44 Riverside .64 4.80 ,93 San Fernando 1.10 8.57 1.15 P'omona ,66 4.80 1.85 Oxnard 1.04 6.31 .65 San Bernardino 44 5.55 1.18 Fullerton ,52 5.74 1.51 Fullerton 1.69 6.57 2.09 Corona .37 2.46 1.36 Rain was general throughout So Southern California yesterday, and was preceded by thunder and lightning in many places. Los Angeles recorded for the rainfall, which began about 2 a.m..

.82 of an inch, making the total for the season 4,97 Inches, AS compared with .93 of an inch at this date last year, The official government prediction for Southern California and Log Angeles last night was "Saturday Ford A. Carpenter, local gOVernment forecaster, said last night: was badly needed. and will bring great benefit, as it is a slow rain, and will sink into the ground sr gradually." Warning of the rain here was given by an electrical storm which put temporarily out of commission two electric substations of the Los Angeles Railway Company, slightly crippling service on yellow car lines during the early part of the da An electric switch at Long Bean caught fire from lightning and sparked and sizzled. The substation near Inglewood was "burned out" and some damage done. Citrus growers had been needing rain badly, and finally had begun, to Irrigate their groves, which usual for this time of the eyar.

Coast barometers showed a reading of 29. the lowest point reached. in five years, and mariners predicted a prolonged storm. STORM WARNINGS. BY A.

P. NIGHT WIRE. I SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. Rain will tall throughout California tomorrow, according to a forecast issued by the district weather observer tonight. It will be accompanied by moderate, southerly winds in the southern part of the State; moderate, and northeasterly northern winds in and the valleys section, gales the north coast.

Storm warnings were ordered displayed from Point Reyes to Eureka. The wind at Reyes tonight was reported to have reached a velocity of eighty miles an hour. The weather observer reported the barometer had fallen steadily all day, reaching 29.52. marine department of tine Chamber of Commerce reported that the glass had fallen to 29.40, the lowest readAng this year. CONCERT PIANIST HERE.

Rudolph Ganz will be Heard at Trinity Auditorium Today, Rudolph Ganz, who, aside from Gadowsky, is considered the world's greatest concert pianist, arrived in this city. last night, preparatory to his concert afternoon at TrinItv Auditorium. To stimulate the American public and possibly to raise the standard of concert programmes in this country, Mr. Ganz says that a small group of artists- Bauer, Gabrile. witsch, Shelling, probaBly Hoffman, Godowsky, Ysaye, Zimbalist, Spalding, Cazals, and others will bring forth in concerts the chamber musie of Beethoven.

At the outbreak of the war Mr. Ganz, who was in his native Switzerland at the music festival, volunteered and was in service six weeks as a private. "I had a good taste of it, but the experience was hard. We were celebrating Paderewski's birthday when we were told we couldn't leave the house we were in. And 50 I volunteered.

But I'm glad I'm here, where can't do anything more strenuous than play golf," he said. FOR ALSACE-LORRAINE. Postoffice will Now Receive Mail for France's Lost Provinces. Mail may now be sent to AlsaceLorraine the same as to any point in France, according to an announcement made yesterday by Assistant Postmaster Foster. French office will care for all letters, postcards, printed matter, samples of merchandise commercial papers, ordinary and registered, that may be consigned to any point in Alsace or Lorraine, says Mr.

Foster. No provision has yet been made for the dispatch of parcel packages to the recovered provinces. HEROES BACK FROM ARGONNE. (Continued from First Page.) Motorcycle Messenger Kenneth Pennington was lost one night in France and has not since been heard from. Private Jerry Kissene was drowned while swimming in a river at Treliza, France.

Most of the men in this organization were volunteers from Middle Western cities. They were trained at Fort MacArthur and sent into service without delay. They went through some of the thickest of the Argonne fight. LETTER IN MURDER MYSTERY CALLED FOR. DELIVERED AT PHOENIX TO MAN GETTING MAIL FOR MRS.

ROBERTS, The letter, which Mrs. William Burgess of Los Angeles sent to her sister under the name of Mrs. Oliver Roberts was called for on Thursday at the postoffice at Phoenix, by a man who had been calling for mail addressed to Oliver Roberts and Mrs. Oliver Roberts. This was the word received last night from Phoenix.

and is the latest information in the search for Harry Ellis, alias Oliver Roberts, wanted for the murder at El Centro of Mrs. Harry Watkins, Los Angeles woman with whom Ellis. is belleved to have eloped. The dispatches received last night from Phoenix stated that information had been given to Undersheriff Bowers and Night Jailer Isaac last Wednesday that Roberts had been seen on the street two weeks ago. The information was given by a man who said he had been a fellow-employee 011 the Los Angeles Street Railway with Ellis or Roberts.

Roberts told his former Los Angeles acquaintance that he had come from Imperial Valley, The officers are awaiting the arrival of Sheriff Applestill from El Centro. They believe that received the the mall letter who called for and addressed to Mrs. Oliver Roberts may be the Oliver Roberts for whom the Sheriff is seeking, but have no evidence that he is still in Phoenix or where he has gone. COURT WARNS LAWYER. Woman's Probation Contingent on Her Avoiding Her Attorney.

In granting probation to a woman offender yesterday Police Judge Chesebro imposed upon her the condition that she must not have anything further to do with her attorney, S. A. D. Gray. The magistrate then addressed the attorney directly.

want you to let these when they leave courtroom," he said. "Stay do absolutely address them from in them, and not any manner or form." Gray protested when the magistrate named two women. never went to see either one," he said. Justice Chesebro replied that he had in his possession a letter written by Gray to a woman now on trial for forgery In the Superlor Court and that the letter was unprofessional, to say the least. Two detective sergeants, who had complained of Gray were present in the courtroom, but made no statements.

BOTH CHARGE CRUELTY IN DIVORCE CONTEST. Fred Siegert, a theatrical man, is suing Sarah Siegert for divorce. Mrs. Siegert, he told Judge Hewitt yesterday, has a violent temper. She cut the leather of his automobile to shreds, he said, and once when he went to San Francisco she sent the number of his machine to him, saying the car had been stolen.

Mrs. Siegert said he hit her in the eye with a biscuit when he got mad over a pipe organ; he struck and bit her and once threatened 10 drive the automobile off a cliff. The case will be concluded today. EIGHT INJURED IN CAR CRASH Brakes Fail to Work and Coaches Bump Hard. Woman with Fractured Skull Dazedly Starts Home.

Faints on Way; Examination Reveals Serious Hurts. Eight people were injured yesterday morning when brakes falled to grip slippery wheels at Seventh and Main streets and a southbound Moneta avenue-Garvanza car. crashed into the rear of a Huntington ParkGriffin avenue car. The force! of the collision threw Mra. Rose Emery, 60 years old, of 1605 Mt.

Royal drive, from the front seat of the Huntington Park car. against a metal bar, causing concussion of the brain and a possible skull fracture. Dazed by the accident, Mrs. Emery got off the car during the confusion, and a spectator placed her on a north bound Garvanza in a kindly endeavor to send home. heap At Avenue Twenty and the Santa Fe the conductor noticed his passenger, had from fainted, the and East called Side station.

Mrs. Emery was taken to the Receiving Hospital, where Assistant Police Surgeon Dunsmoor dressed a. number of bad bruises and contusions, and she was sent to a private hospital. The others hurt in the accident were: Thomas Nelson. 45, 315 East Fourth street; contused chest and possible fracture of two ribs.

Mrs. Dorothy Hansen, 32, 243 South Olive street; contusions between shoulder blades. Henry Moll, 82, 346 Goss avenue; abrasions on legs. Sherman A. Wells, 40, 803 South Grand avenue; contused elbow.

George Garlow. 62, 408 South Malabar street; bruises and abrasions. Henry J. Pritchard, 55, 413 Agate street; contused back. Clyde A.

Noyer, 43. North Daily street; cut on head, contusions on lower back. The rear end of the Huntington Park car was smashed. and every window in the Garvanza car was broken. Conductor J.

R. Bewley and Motorman J. E. Hendry were in charge of the front car, No. 409.

Conductor C. C. Wilson and Motorman W. J. Mitchell, were in charge of Car No.

920, which ran into the rear of the other car. SHIPYARD MEN TO VOTE ON STRIKE. LOS ANGELES HARBOR, Jan. 31. -Over 5000 members of the Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuliders' and ers' Union will begin Sunday taking, a referendum vote on the question of whether or not the original demands made upon the Macy board for a.

new agreement governing Wages and conditions in the shipyards should be enforced. If the majority casts an affirmative vote it means a strike and the probable closing of the shipyards here, as the Emergency Fleet Corporation has announced that the same policy will be followed here as at Seattle in refusing to grant the increased wages. Three days will be devoted to the voting, polling places being maintained tith in the union hall at San Pedro and at Long Beach. The union meets alternately at each place. Both halls will be open Sunday, Monday and Tuesday for balloting.

This was decided at a special meeting held here last night This action is being taken following the failure of the appeal board to reverse the decision of the Macy board to increase the wage scale provided under the old agreement. which expired last August. The increases allowed were not satisfactory to the metal trades and after many conferences the appeal board held that the award of the board way a fair scale for the current six months from October 1 to April 1, 1919. ARCHITECT ROBBED. ARCHITECT ROBBED.

While J. E. Flanders, an architect of 955 Caheunga avenue, was at a theater last night, burglars pried off the rear door of his restdence, ransacked the place and took $70 in jewelry, according to a report to the Hollywood police station last night. The jewelry consisted of a ring and lavalliere belonging to Mrs. Flanders.

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Open Action Suspended Till State Board Reports. A demand for a complete change in the methods employed in the California School for Girls at Ventura, and a substitution of proper reformatory and educational methods for those now in use there was the substance of a motion at a meeting of delegates from the women's clubs of Los Angeles, yesterday, in the Chamber of Commerce Building. The meeting was called to report on findings of a committee which investigated the school following the filing of. charges some time ago. In accordance with the motion, committee of five clubwomen, headed by Mrs.

Florence C. Porter, chairman of yesterday's meeting, will take such steps as it deems advisable toward obtaining changes at the school and is empowered to consult with Gov. Stephens to this end. The meeting was opened by Mrs. Porter, the compiled reports of the delegates Mrs.

C. C. Ashley, Mrs. Cora Deal Lewis, Mrs. Clinton S.

Sterry, Mrs. J. B. Millard, Mrs. Jonathan Dodge, Mrs.

Ada I Faulconer, Mrs. Florence C. Porter and others -were read. During the reading of the findings by the delegates women from the twenty different clubs demanded to know what could I be done to correct the faults in the alleged methods employed at the school. It was decided, however, that no action will be taken by the clubwomen until a report of findings is rendered by the State Board of Charities and Corrections, which investigated the conditions at the school, and action taken by the latter body.

The committee with Mrs. Porter as chairman, will not be named, according to Mrs. Porter, until after the findings of the State Board of Chariues has been made public. CITY SEARCHED FOR TWO IN SPOOK CASE. MEN INDICTED AS RESULT OF GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION DISAPPEAR.

Deputy sheriffs yesterday searched in Los Angeles and vicinity for, two men indicted with Mrs. Jean Lounsberry and P. H. (Paddy) Kean, as the result of the grand jury spook investigation. One of the men, who has figured prominently in the alleged activities of mediums and the investigation of the murder of Reuben Fogel, was seen in the Hall of Records on the day he was indicted.

He was later seen in the harbor district. Since that time he has not been found. The opinion was expressed yesterday by the officers that he and the other man suspected that they were to be indicted and have fled, taking separate, routes. The other man. was known to have been in Los Angeles early yesterday morning, but a watch kept at his accustomed haunts, his office and hotel, failed to discover him.

He passed as a broker, with a downtown office. Sheriff Cline yesterday made plans to prevent. either man from leaving the city, if they are still here. Three indictments were returned by the grand jury, one naming Mrs. Lounsberry, Kean and another man as defendants.

This charged extortion from Samuel I. Wilson, a Santa Ana bean grower. Another accuses Kean and the other two men of grand, larceny of $600 from John Schroeder by the sale of fake mining stock. A third indictment accuses and one other man of grand larceny of various sums from Mr. Schroeder, Isaac Smith and Thomas Katsma.

FREE ENTERTAINMENT AT BARKER BROTHERS. An interesting programme by Dorothy Lyndall's Long Beach pupils in classic dancing will be given today, from 12:15 to 1:30, at Barker Bros. this being one of the semiweekly entertainments offered the public, free of charge, at the same place. Among the pleasing numbers are "Italian Dance." by Nevin: "'The Naiad," Delibes: "The Story; "Anitra's Dance." Grieg: "Danse Hosmer: cense Joyce; 'Persian Dance," Gounod. MUST KEEP THE PEACE.

After scoring Arthur H. Maybee for alleged threats to kill his wife. Justice Palmer yesterday placed man under a $200 bond to keep the peace for six months. It was brought out in the trial that Mrs. Maybee supports herself.

and that her husband many times threatened her. HUNTS FAR FOR SON HERE. After searching from San Diego to Chicago for her lost son, Clem, or "Jack," and invoking the aid of the police of a dozen cities in vain. Mrs. Maude Irene Lukenbill heard yesterday at her rooms in the Maryland apartments that the lad is in Los.

Angeles. He is sick and under the care of a Dr. Gibson. but she has no other particulars. She told the police yesterday that she fears the boy's paternal grandparents are trying to coax him to come to their home in Mulbury, Kan, and that they will get him away from her for the second time unless she finds at once.

Your Refreshing Wholesome, and Cleansing, Healing Letles- for RedEyes tion, ness, Itching Soreness, and Granula- Burning Miss Eleanor Page. WEST CATANACE TO BE LAUNCHED TODAY. SOUTHWESTERN COMPANY SHIP TO BE CHRISTENED BY DIRECTOR'S DAUGHTER. The steamer West Catanace will be launched at 9 o'clock this morning at the yards of the Southwestern Shipbuilding Company, East San Pedro. She will be the third United States Shipping Board steamer, to be launched at these yards.

The vessel will be christened by. Miss Eleanor Page, the 9-yearold daughter of Benjamin E. Page, a director of shipbuilding company. The launching will be attended by officials of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, officers of the company and invited guests. The keel of the West Catanace was laid on August 25, and the sel is one of twenty-three contracted for with the Southwestern yards by the government, through the United States Shipping Board.

The steamer will cost when completed nearly $2,000,000, and is of the 8800-ton Robert Dollar, type of freight-carrying vessels being built on this coast. The West Sequana, the fourth vessel built for the government at the Southwestern yards, will be launched on February 27. The keel was laid on August 28. Thereafter it is expected the boats now on the ways will be launched at intervals of fifteen days. The West Caruth, the second vessel launched at the yards, Is now being completed and will be turned over to the government next Thursday.

Seven thousand men are now employed at the Southwestern yards and no cancellations of contracts have been made by the government. Inquiries have been made from that might indicate that the government plans to build freight or even passenger vessels larger than the 8800-ton vessels now being built. Dispatches from Washington have stated that the government believes that larger vessels will prove more profitable. It would only be necessary to alter the plans to proceed at local shipyards to build the type decided upon hy the government. There has been absolutely no letup to shipbuilding at the Southwestern.

Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company and Long Beach yards, no indication that any stop. ping of work is in sight, and the yards are going on a full steam ahead basis. The trial trip of the West Errol, recently launched at the Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company's yards, will be held next week. The West Selene, the sixteenth vessel launched at the company's yards, 1s' now being completed following her launching last Wednesdav. The seventeenth vessel to be launched from these yards will enter the water the first of next month.

HANGS HIMSELF. Ventura Pioneer Commits Suicide in Hose Tower of Fire, Hall. James Maloney, a well-known1 transfer man of Ventura, closely identified with the success of the Ventura fire department, committed suicide last night by hanging. He climbed up the ladder to the hose tower of the fire hall, passed a rope around his neck and jumped from the ladder. The body was found about 10 o'clock by Job Chrisman, who rooms in the fire house.

Maloney earlier in the day, when asked by Deputy Sheriff Orton to go to Santa Paula, to fetch a crazy man. had remarked that he wouldn't g0 as he himself was crazy enough already, He was a single man and had lived in Ventura thirty-one years. He leaves a brother in Jackson. 0. of the Eyes or Eyelids; "2 Drops) After the Movies, Motoring Golf confidence Your for when your Need Cares Marias Eye Remedy Con Chicago Women's Black or Tan Shoes Shined, 10c- Main Floor ESTABLISHED Now at a Lowered Price! Liberty Boy Maid Suits -Here is a sale price on brand new merchandise! $3.98 -Suits for the boys and girls! Clever ones built on the military lines! -Some of white -others of khaki and a few in Rahja and wool.

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Mitchell. his wife. and Miss Marjorie Morgan, an entertainer. were taken to the Hospital by the University ambulance and their abrasions and contusions were dressed by Assistant Police Surgeon Goodrich. Douglas Boswell.

A Sacramento dealer In tarm Implements, was also in the car. but did not apply tor treatment. A few minutes later Louis Blanco, 22, a sailor, who lives at 607 Castelar street. was prought in by Rouse, and a contusion on his chest dressed. Rouse reported to the police that he had drawn his auto up at the curb to repair a tire, and that his lighting system failed.

Mitchell told the police that he would have seen Rouse in time to avoid him had the lights been on. DEATH CLAIMS WIFE OF HOLINESS PASTOR. While hurrying to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Walter Matney, wife of the holiness pastor at Chino, Mrs. Margaret Walker of Los Angeles contracted pneumonia, of which she died at Pomona yesterday.

She was 61 years of age. The body was taken to the Hanson undertaking parlors in Pomona and will be brought to Los Angeles for the funeral and interment todav. She will be laid beside the body of her husband in Forest Lawn Cemetery. SERVICES FOR LATE JOHN HORNER MONDAY Funeral services for John Horner, whose woolen mill established here in 1878 was one of the city's early industries, will be held on Monday at the chapel of Pierce Brothers, 810 South Flower street. Mr.

Horner died of a heart attack on Thursday night at the age of 81. He was Chief of Police of Los Angeles in 1884, an internal revenue officer for some years and 8. water department official. Surviving him are a widow. Mrs.

Kate C. Horner of 2659 Pasadena avenue; a brother, William J. Horner. 362 West Santa Barbara avenue: a sister. Mrs.

Belle E. Weld, 3029 Montclair street, and a grandson, Charles Herner, now, in the navy. COLLECTOR IS A FATHER. Collector of Customs Elliott is the proud father of a bouncing -baby boy, which was born to Mrs. Elliott in the California Hospital yesterday.

The baby gives every indication of becoming, in the fullness of time, "a deserving Democrat." The day of the political hosses has gone. See what happens if they return. "The Mother and the Law" at the Kinema Sunday, DON'T CHANGE YOUR HUSBAND. DON'T CHANGE YOUR HUSBAND BERKSHIRE HAM HERE'S real ham- -with the flavor you know good ham should have. It takes selected, grain fed, young hogs to make ham of Berkshire quality and it takes uncommon skill in curing and smoking to get the Berkshire flavor.

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Uniform with "Dere Mable." Written by Lieut. EDWARD STREETER With 25 illustrations by Corp. BILL BRECK "THATS ME ALL OVER, MABLE" Four Printings, totalling 200,000 STOKES, Publisher In 1912, when the boy's father died, he left his money to his son And appointed his own father they boy's guardian, Mrs. Lukenbill said yesterday. After a court fight, Mrs.

Lukenbill obtained custody of her son and brought him and his younger sister to Los Angeles. The little girl. 13 years old, attends the School of the Sisters of Merey. While Mrs. Lukenbill and the boy were at San Diego last May "Jack" went to Imperial Valley to pick melons.

From the valley he went to Ran Francisco, and from there to A postal from the latter place, written in August, is the last word the mother has of him. Then followed a four monthe' search, which San Francisco, Denver, Chicago and all cities between Were visited. Mrs. Lukenbill even hunted for him in the Mare Island navy yards, and other unlike. ty, but possible, places.

Last month she returned to Los Angeles, dis. couraged, Yesterday from the grandparents gave her the inforsation that Jack la somewhere! the city, pick, and BOW all she Je to dad him. or for him To find her THE TIMES Always Has the Most Want Ads. THEY REACH..