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The and Environ? Cdlifornia 's Costa ica. Editorials News Justness society Hie Uramu VOL. XXXVIII. FRIDAY 3. 11)19.

PART II: STAGES. pnPTTT ATTOV Federal Ul UliilJliUili By tlx City UUacUw 111) E. T. EARL DIES SUDDENLY. Death Summon Newspaper Owner WHOLE MYSTERY TO GRAND JURY.

WIFE'S CHARGE HOLDS OFFICER. TO CLAMP DOWN FLU LID. Increased Vigilance Urged by Advisory Board; May Open Some Schools. Publisher Succumbs to Heart Trouble i After Short Illness. Definite Plans Announced to Handle Gibbons Case.

Maj. Mettler to Answer for Alleged Nonsupport. a Edwin T. Earl, owner and publisher of the Evening Express, founder of the Earl Fruit Company, and largely Interested In oil and realty holdings, died at his residence, No. 2425 Wllshlre boulevard, at 8:10 o'clock last eve' nlnff aa a result of an attack of heart disease.

lie had been ailing for about ten days, but on Wednesday felt much better and was about the house! Invalid Spouse Member of Prominent Family. taking New Year's dinner with his family. Dr. V. Jarvis Barlow, his physician, was with him at the time of death, Increased vigilance In maintaining the quarantine against Influenza and pneumonia was ordered yesterday after a meeting of the Physicians' Advisory Committee with Health Commissioner Powers.

In addition to a special detail oi inspectors to investigate all reports of violation of quarantine, a special Inspector will be detailed to gather evidence of failure to comply with the law on the part of physicians and householders. Keports of new cases to the health Inquiry 'o Begin Next Week, Hearing Both Sides. District Attorney Goes East; Preliminary Continued. According to Or. Harlow, the end was peaceful, Mr, Earl suffering no pain.

attendance of children who are afflicted with Influenza. It was pointed out In the discussion that many of the individual teachers in the city schools refuse to co-operate In measures for the protection of pupils and for this reasdn the general opening of the schools must be delayed. The committee agreed to the plan for opening some of the schools as soon ns proper inspection can be provided, the reports showing that In the Sierra Vista and Tropico districts there are few cases. It Is also probable that schools in the district between Florence and Manchester avenues and between Alameda street and the river and in Boyle (eights may be among the first to open. In Mr.

Earl leaves a widow, formerly Emily Jar vis of Louisville, four Accused Man ex-Instructor at i Ft. MacArthur, children, and a brother, Guy Chaffee Earl, a lawyer and capitalist of Oak land. The latter left Oakland for this city yesterday and Is duo here today of $250,000 and vug for years the largest fruit racking and shipping concern in the Slate. His combi The murky atmosphere of the Dlhhnna nnlsnnlne case, obscured by Mr. Earl was a large stockholder In ths Union Oil Company and subsidiary organizations.

He had a residence here and a country place department indicate that In some the contradictory findings of many cases physicians are failing to make i nation ventllator-refrlgeritor cm their reports of new cases promptly experts, was considerably cleared a sppcla, drWe wjl, be'made Ik. .1 1 yesterday by the definite announce. which he was sole owner. He Is i he was BnA 1. I HiO 111 i-f 11 1 1 1 II IIUWBICI.

1 1- wns tie- see that this point of the law Is com- tn th. Karl organized Cont.i enal Fruit plied with. All eases reported up to 5 p.m. will be placed in quarantine closed Indefinitely, because thero la Express. Maj.

E. O. Mettler of tha Coart Artillery, who was arrested on New Year's Day on a warrant for fallura to provide for his wife, and lodged In the County Jail until friends could procure bail for him, was arraigned before Judge Hewitt yesterday. Tha court released him on his own recognizance and fixed the hearing for tomorrow morning. The warrant waa sworn to by Ida Ford, with whom Mrs.

Mettler ta no means for proper and careful In also Interested In a number of other large local realty holdings and in fruit and farming property In various parts of the Slate. Mr. Earl was born in Inyo counts sixty-two years ago. His parents The car then was used extensively In the transportation of Florida as well as California, oranges and of southern strawberries and other fomla pioneers. Mr.

Earl often told P88 rvi rew Bt of having sold plea his mother baked CX, ment of a grand Jury Inquiry into the whole mystery. This will begin probably the first of next week. Each side of the extraordinary controversy will be given an equal opportunity to prove respectively that Frank C. Gibbons did and did die of cyanide poisoning. Upon the grand Jury's estimate of the preponderance of evidence will rest the ultimate disposition of the case against Mrs.

Gertrude Gibbons, accused of murder. In the meantime, the preliminary examination of Mrs. Gibbons has said to be staying. It also appears by noon the next day, and cases reported before noon will bo luaran-tined the same day. Yesterday's new cases were 4S7, compared with 307 new casee for Thursday of last week, with seventeen deaths yeuterday, as compared with twenty-nine deaths a week ago.

In reporting on conditions to the advistory committee yesterday, nr. Powers said that the Increases In the number of cass after Thanksgiving and Christmas have demonstrated beyond doubt that influenza follows crowds. In discussing the advisability of Pany In 1900 to Armour Co. of spection of the children to ascertain whether they should be excluded. WILIi MAKE SURVEY.

"I wish to make a detailed survey of the entire school system before I advise the School Boerd In any way," said Dr. Powers. "We think that If we have good dally Inspection, continued as long as the Influenza threatens the city, we can possibly open a few Institutions In certain districts wnere there are no flu' cases." Special action was taken yesterday by the School Board, authorizing the meeting Monday evening of the naturalization class that Is held un 't waa 17 vears old I chieaB. 'or about that sum, thus His first activities were connected a on flBht he had wltn with the fruit shipping business In tne Dls Packers. California.

Born and raised on a In 1900 he bought the Los Angeles farm, he became familiar with this Express and for several years de- that Maj. Mettler has been payi.ig his wife, on an order of the court, 823 a month for her support. Ha fold the court yesterday that Mrs. Mettler, In addition to the sum he pays her. has an Income of her own.

She also seamed to think, he seld, that she should be provided with a special nvrse. She has been an invalid for yeara. The arrest of the major, who waa an Instructor at Fort MacArthur. on industry, and after his scnool aays ne voiea nis attention to mat anernoon newspaper and to his realty. On onenln the schools, members of the cave to the business packing and time to c0mmiitee were unanimous in their again been continued, this July 4, 1911, he entered the morning newspaper field by establishing the Tribune, but he ceased the publica in KMh sMsu nirreelntr nDlnlon that ther should be a lftrser der government ausp'oa In the Cen- Woolwlne lett yesterday force of physicians to prevent the tral Intermediate school.

mnrnlne for Washington. U. C. on kthe day he was discharged from ROBBED AS THEY DANCE. what was described his olllce as Will WASS LUKMAL.K.

chipping his entire attention. He soon perceived that the ordinary ventilated box cars then in use were not adapted to the successful marketing of California fruits In tine Bast, and in 1890 he Invented the first successful combination ventilator-refrigerator car used in the transportation of ill torn la products ta the Atlantic Coast. tion of that paper during the war. He Interested himself deeply In poll-tics and was ore of the founders of the Progressive party in California. The funeral service will be held on Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Pro-Cathedral.

Bishop John DIDN'T SEE PARADE. Early New Tear's Mornlnjt Ccle-brators at Venice Cafe Tell Folio of I.QSSLl. son will officiate. Final arrange Shortly afterwards the Earl Fruit Company was Incorporated unjer ments for the burial await the ar-the laws of California with a capital rival of Guy C. Earl, the brother.

otnciai Business. Anions um5i things, he will enter a motion In the United States Supreme Court to dismiss the appenl on a havens cor-: is application of George W. Biller-man, arrested at New Orleans for forgery, and fighting extradition to Los Angeles. He Is accused of forging the name of B. G.

Pahbltt of this city to a check for $2600 In a race horse deal. Mr. Woolwine will be gone a month, and will attend to other business while in the East. It Is stated. Whether any of this COL.

PATTON IS DECORATED She was a very pretty young lady: the dean Is willing to concede that. In fact she was al-together too pretty. It happened on Wednesday, New Year's Day. Dean MacCormack of St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral was In Pasadena making In the small hours of New Year's morning someone of the throng of celebraters in the Ship Cafe at Venice snatched from the hair of Mrs.

E. A. Hutchings, here from Cleveland, tha bird of paradise plume forming her only halrdrens. Mrs. Hutchings, who is at the Van Niiys Hotel, reported yesterday to the police that the plume la worth i 1 50.

Another of the party, Mrs. Ethel Lefko of No. 636 South Serrano service caused surprise, ine usual procedure. It Is Btated, would hava been to have him come to court to show cause wh he should not pay Mrs Mettler a larger sum monthly. IS HELPLESS CRIPPLE.

Mrs. Mettler, in 1913, suffered a paralytic stroke which necessitated her removal from the home of her husband to a sanatorium tn Burbank. She returned to her home for a short time, but, she says, waa told that she was too great a cure for her mother-in-law r.nd that the mist sgain go to a Although she repeatedly wrote to her husband, she has never seen him since, she states. Mra Mettler Is a member of a prominent Denver family, a daughter of the late Jude Julius B. Bis-sell In his will he bequeathed Mrs.

Mettler about IjOOO, which she avera her husb.and spent, and left an annuity of (500 to an invalid sister. When she died this sum reverted to Mrs. Mettler, and she says that It, together with $25 month which the court ordered her husband to pay her some time ago, is her entire income. Attending Mrs. Mettler is Dr.

H. Utley, who ta expected to giv testimony In her behnlf. Her son, (Continued on Eighth Page.) tance to the success of the movement, Col. Patton, on foot, went ahead of the tanks, directing the way for the advance. German machine gun nests were thick, and a shot from one of them hit Col.

Patton in the right leg, disabling him. He took refuge In a shell hole, however, and, with a number of Infantrymen as aides, continued the direction of the American tank attack. Only after the complete success of the movement was has to do with the Gibbons case Is not known. When Mrs. Gibbons, accompanied bv Detective Sergeants Bowe and Taylor, entered Justice Palmer's court for her preliminary examination yesterday, the little place was filled by a crowd of curious men and women.

Mrs. Gibbons, attired In black, took a seat between the two detectives, and later was Joined by her attorney, Harrison Cassell. There was a ripple of disappointment and excitement when Oeputv District Attorney Clark said the a vain attempt to see the Tournament of Roses parade, street, left her 11600 sealskin coat Edwin T. Earl. But the trouble was everybody else over the back of her chair while she Lieut-Col.

George S. Patton, Of this city, has Just been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his work with the American Tank Cprpa, according to information received here yesterday. I The exploit for which Patton has been honored occurred on September 20 last, the first day of the American attack on the German lines near Verdun. Patton, who had been active in the 'ormatlon and Instruction of the Tank Corps, was, with a number of south of Varennes, in the Aire Valley, when the attack was ordered. A thick fog and a heavy mist obscured the scene of operations, and is ou'cV nct'on wa of vital impor wanted to see the Tournament or danced, and when she returned It Roses parade and stood in front of was gone.

This was later mysterl-him. ously returned to the same cafe by Finally he found a big Bu.Tel In a an unidentified messenger, vacant lot and, rolling It to the edge John R- Foster of Zertia. did a NEW JUDGES TAKE BENCH. assured, did he consent to be prosecution was not ready tc go on 0f the sidewalk, managed, without Many Cases are Certified Here for Hear taken to the rear. Col PiUton went to Europe In May, 117, as a member of Gen.

Pershing's Btaff. Four new devices which he developed for the Improvement of tanks were adopted by the American, French and British armies. with the case, end askeri roe the ins9 0( ecclesiastical dignity, to climb continuance to January 20. This up; irr He was having a beautiful view of iox uui who cunning luue UOium- blne and shortly afterward missed his mallet, containing $90. Others in the party lost diamonds and other Jewels to the festive pickpockets, they complain.

ing by the Supreme Court. U.II1UO.IV WIH.1IT the proceedings when the pretty young lady came along. She tried to proceedings lasted less than two i Losing no tim in getting down to peek through the crowd: but apparently had no success. She tried to stand on the tins of her toes, but she business, members of the new second division of the District Court ents i in 1867. He waa educated in the Carolyn Chapln K'trtz.

State's public schools of San Francisco, and wltness." whose story ex-s a graduate of the Hastings Col- th)s connectlng l'nk he-lege of Law. receiving the degree the mot)v, ftnd the alIelre(, was admitted orim. vas nne of thoe In on-irt. Shf bar in 1885 and has served a term WRg from Mrs. G'bbnns by only managed to hoist herself up I hlsh enough to gaze at the backs of the necks of the people In front.

Finally she could stand It no longer. When a particularly entrancing float came along, she in the California Legislature. He several rows of seats, and not reach the door until Mrs. Olhbons I Sale So ecm was elected to the Los Angele county Superior bench In 1910 and 1916. Judge Sloane was appointed to the Superior Court bench of San Diego county In 1910 by Gov.

Johnson, served two years, and waa reelected In 1912. Judge Sloane Is a was out of the room, as tne woman In black, with a detective on each side, walked toward the County Jail, Mrs. Kurtz watched her from the Courthouse steps, and shook her head. "I'm so sorrv for her, so sorrv." she aafd. "I dn hone thev free her." rushed across the sidewalk and 1 reached up one tiny gloved hand.

"I want to get up thera," she said with a smile that would have made any- one else dizzy with emotion. The good dean gallantly reached down a helping hand and helped her upa the top of the barrel. As they stood witching the pa-' NewE, mm native of Rockford, 111., and graduated from the Iowa State College steyO rgans at Grlnnell, coming to California In kxrr nr rwr ta cr A vrn 1889. In 1890 he was chosen Jus- HAVE CLEW 10 SLAYhK. rnde, the Improvised grand stand suddenly began' to sag and sway.

cf Appeal, consisting of Judge Frank G. Finlayson, Los Angeles, presiding Justice: Judge William A. Sloan San Diego, and Judge William H. Thomas, Santa Ana. met yesterday to organize and discuss the work of the court It was announced that a calendar for tha new court will be heard on January 13, the calendar of the first division being set for January 27.

The second division has had 102 cases certified -to It for disposition by the State Supreme Court. Until the Legislature makes some provision for the clerical force to be employed by the new division, the employees of the first division, consisting of Chief Clerk W. D. Shearer, H. C.

Lillle, deputy, and James H. Crumrine, stenographer, will officiate for both divisions. What additional help will be authorized Is as yet unknown. MUST DRAW LOTS. Judges Finlayson, Thomas and Sloane will serve two years, when they must Jtand for an election if 'mmm 20 Discounts Up to From the Regular Prices Detwtlves Hnnrtnat for Murderer of Jack Cuslmano Export Important Revelations Today.

milium i il I if ila Tf tice or Ban Diego and served two terms. Before coming to California he served as the editor of papers In Sedalla and Carthage, in which State ha was admitted to the bar. Judce Thomas waa born In Wales In 1868, and waa brought by hi? parents to America, when he was less than 7 yeara of ae. Tha family lived In Oneida county, N'ew York, for -some time, thence removing to Iowa, where his' yet reside. He came to California from Leeds, N'.

In 1909, hanging out his shingle In Santa Ana, where he began the practice of his profession. He "Oo! Oo!" squealed the young, lady. Her hands began describing frantic circles and her hat tilted for- ward and tfhen back as she strove to m-flntaln her equilibrium. Finally, with one last squeal of alarm, she flung both arms around the dean's neck and clung on for dear life. "I think If I got down," suggested the blushing clergyman.

But the young lady gave another little let me fall!" she cried. With the assistance of the smiling' audience which had by this time for- gotten that a Tournament of ItAscs parade was in progress, the clergyman was finally dlrengaged from the" Llttle Italy la close-mouthed regarding Its knowledge of the slaying of Jack Cuslmano, supposed blackhander. slain by a rival band, whose body, riddled w'th bullets, was found at the corner of Avenue Sixteen end Darwin avenue, New Year's Eve. Investigation of the murder was 15 it Ha mmtt they care to continue on the bench was admitted to (he bar in Mlnne- following mat election, tne Jurists sota. and nracticert law In Knnh continued yesterday by Detective clasn of the teetering young vision Sergeants Tom Rico and I.oui Rico, an rimbed down.

but with no tangible results. i haven't driven you from bors and acquaintance of the dead yor nl-ce." said the vMnn politely: man evade questions or deny out the dean Not at an: not an will draw lots to determine their Dakota twelve years before, coming respective length of service, as the to California. He was appointed to term of one will expire in four! the Superior Court bench of Orange ye.irs, another in eight years, and a county by Gov. Johnson in 1913, and third In twelve years, which is the elected to a full term In 1814. full term of a Judge of the Court of I The chambers to be occupied by Appeals.

I the new judges will be those that Judge Finlayson, the presiding i have heretofore been used by the J'istlce, Is a native of Australia, and Justices of the State Supreme Court, Los Angeles with' his par- In the Union League Building. right that they know anything about the cae, according to IxjuIs Rico. Poth detectives said, however, they had a clew they expect will bring nortnnt repetitions tr.fav. muttered gallantly, "I Just remember that I make It a lifelong rule never to stand on barrels before noon. I had forgotten." And with that he vanished tn the amused crowd.

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I I. vv 'i Frank J. ffART jmVUinJbiiN 1UjIi'VMVUJ'i IS If 1: liiJLiZS 111 tdlMVSlCtOMPAKV Sixth 332-334 SOVJSEROrWtW LOS ANGELES. 2 "Ettablished 1380." New second division, District Court of Appeal. 'Left to rlehtt Judga William B.

Thomaa; Judge Frank Q. Finlayson, presiding Justice; and Judge William A. Koana,.