The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 19

Drama 7 Vol. XLVI. population is; ft MONDAY MORNING, JULY 18, 1927. PART II. 18 PAGES.

CALM EXPECTED CO-EDS DESIGN TORTOISE GET-UP MANY INJURED IN CAR WRECKS MONROVIA FILM STUDIO DEDICATED IN POLICE BROIL Multilines Replace Nature's Drab Tints Notables of Hollywood Colony Attend Ceremony Two AW Commissioners to Have Council Approval Four May Succumb as Result of Being Mangled Southern California Interests. Rodney Webster Slated to Become President More Than Dozen Hurt in Varied Accidents mm larry ''tit 1 a ft 'f i vv A a 3 of Victor Adamson Productions Next! Helen Stay (left) and Margaret Dehler In artist smocks with palette and brush painting Archie, a one-foot turtle. On ground below Is Oscar all dolled up, and four other turtles awaiting beauty 'treatment. Retention of Chief Davis Believed Favored Two new Police Commlsalrmers, who will meet with the spproval of the City Council, and Rodney Webster, as president of the reorganized commission, probsbly will end the political upheaval which last meek resulted In the resignation of Isadora W. Btrnbaum.

president of the Po- lice Commission, and the refusal of 1 the City Council to approve the re- appointment of Commissioner Tom Foss. From the three remaining member, of he commission and from a num ber of the City Counotlmen yester- j. mu aeniais oj any unpenning shake-up at the top of the police department Chief Davis, according to the men who have his destiny In their bands, will not bo discharged or asked to resign at the present time. CHIEF HELD SECURE Efforts of disgruntled higher police officers, petty politicians and leaders. In the Spring-street gambling element to turn the present unsettled condition of police affaire into an excuse for removing Chief Da-via, according to the Police Commissioners and the various members of the City Council who have interested themselves In the matter, will have no bearing on the situation.

That the police department needs harmony and better organization la the belief of the President of the City Council, William O. Bonelll, and Councilman Jacobson, as well as E. Snapper Ingram, of the Council Committee on Police Affairs. That the desired conations can be brought about by a smoothly operating Po lice Commission to be the opinion of most of the officials Interested. In expressing this view yesterday Commissioner Thorp pointed tl-at under the new city charter actual operation of the police de-fiu-jTiont rests In the hands of the Police Commission and not with the Chief of Police.

The Police Chief, Commissioner Thorp pointed out. Is In the nature of a general manager appointed -by the. commission under civil service and charged with the duty of carrying out the orders of the board. MORE HARMON- NEEDED "I believe," declared Commissioner Thorp, "that more harmony in the Police Commission should be brought about. To connect Chief Davla with the various changes which have come about during tha past week la unfair and unjustified.

Under tb city charter the police department operates through and under the Police Commission. I believe that it Chief Davis Is given tha chance he will prove wel fitted for the position." Speaking for publication Saturday afternoon, President Bonelll and Councilmen Jacobson for the most part agreed with Commissioner Thorp. Both of the Councilmen agreed, however, that conditions within the police department were far from what la expected by the City Council and both expressed the hope that with two new commissioners in sthe saddle pollco matters' would change for the better. From all of the officials Interested In the affair came statements that they bad been misquoted and in several instances words had been put (Continued on Page 2, Column 8) NOT only do the artistic co-eds at the University of California at Los Angelea know how the well-dressed collegian ahould appear, but they also have their ldeaa as to what color schemes "the smart-appearing tortoise should sport. Leaving their designing boards behind In the art classroom, Helen Stay Several Autos Turn Over and Crush Occupants Overturning of automobiles In three different traffic accidents resulted In possibly fatal Injuries to three men and one woman early yesterday morning.

Mors than a dor-on other persons were painfully hurt. Herery Amaezcua, 35 years of age 731 West Eighteenth street, suffered a severe fracture of the aplne when an automobile driven by Dlrso Al-varea, 618 West Forty-second street. ran off the road and overturned at Pico street and La Brea Boulevard. Alvarea was unhurt. Other persona In this car who were Injured were Ernest Guzman, 28, 5ll West Eighteenth street, bruises; Anna Martinez, 83, 1218 West Eighteenth street, fractured collar bone, and Alice Gillette 24.

the same address, who suffered contusion of the brain and bruises. WOMAN MAY DIE Gladys Miller, 24. 2151 West Twenty-eighth street, suffered a possible skull fracture when a. car In which she was riding turned turtle at Adams and Hoover streets. The car was driven by Martin Vlollch, 22, 1845 West Thirty-eighth street, according to police.

He was not In jured. Pinned beneath his automobile when it turned over at Vermont avenue and Seventy-sixth street. Alex Punsyunski, 60, West Nlntleth street, suffered a basal skull fracture. His wife and son were severely lacerated. Punsyunski swerved his car Into the curb, according to police, to avoid striking a pedestrian.

PROVE INTO STREET CAR 'Possible internal Injuries, a fractured right shoulder, and numerous contusions were suffered by Ralph J. Faneuf, 48. 8278 1-2 Des-canso Drive, when he drove his automobile Into a Los Angeles Street Railway car at Eighth and Oxford streets, according to pollco who said be was In an intoxicated condition. All of the injured were given emergency treatment- at the Receiving Hospital. ACTOR'S CHAITFECR flGCRES IN COLLISION Richard Tomita.

chauffeur for Raymond Hitchcock, actor, had his employer's car out for a drive last night when he collided with another machine at Ninth street and Norma ndle avenue. With Tomita was Miss Tsuyako Iso-uo 24 years of age, of 2249 West Twenty-ninth street. She was thrown through the windshield to the pave-ment and sustained cuts about the head and shoulders. Her condition i irf mmrinim I 4 I The driver of the other car save his name as Jack Keeling, 625 Irving street. Culver City.

Neither be cor Tomita was injured. MOTORCYCLE RIDER SI ITERS FATAL HURTS SANTA ANA. July 17. (Exclusive) Smith. 20 years of age.

of 366 South Whlttler Boulevard, Whlttler, suffered mortal hurts today when his motorcycle collided with an automobile at La Habra. Hla skull was fractured and he died soon after his arrival at Orange County Hospital. The car he crashed Into was that of George A. Anderson of La Jolla. An Inquest in the case will be conducted tomorrow by Coroner Brown.

Child Not Yet 4 Years of Age Swims ike Duck Although only 34 years of age, Shirley Mann swims a distance of forty feet without difficulty. Accord i to Airs. Rose 'ann, mother of 3aby" Shirley, he child first videnced her v'mmlng propensities at 2 years of age. "lnce then she -as been under Instruction of Combs, wimmlng intruder, rapidly veloplng into an unusual wtmmer for her Shirley's 14-vear-old brother SHIRUCY Mann commenced swimming at 5 years of age and now la a junior life-guard. NOW.

honestly, this 1 amazlnf, Most of the population of tha most powerful and supposed ly the most Intelligent nation tha world has aver known walttn breathless to see whether an aa hobo or chuckle-headed Lithuanx lan can win fist fight. Both Jack Dempsey and Jtrtf i Sharkey are aecond-rau fighters Tha fact that they win draw "gate" towering up toward tha 11,4 000.000 mark la either a triumph of ahowmanshlp or an evidence of the coft-headedneas of the publlo, ItCQCARE GAMBLERS" "A 3 Modern prize fighting is tn thai hands of a coterie of gamblers. But It must be confessed that they show a great deal of shrewd knowU dge of mob psychology. Incidentally, although wa hear a good deal about "square ganvt biers," as a general proposition, A quara gambler strikes ma as ba Ing about as probable aa dry watasv The gayety of nations always promoted when doctors testify la murder triaL As for Instance, tha case of this Pomona boy who beat ft woman te death with an automobile spring and who now la discovered to be) pans or insane or what have you Ilka snapping on and off an electrlti flashlight. If only there were soma way te know when he was going to lest that wayl As SNAKES i I don't know Just where mercy starts and stops; but tha human officers of Riverside seem, to hava been cutting It pretty fine when they Intervened, to stop a fight at the American Legion between av rattlesnake and ft king snake.

I heard about ft fight Ilka that before. In the presence of shivering aun dreds, they put the two snakes ta the cage together. They looked each other in ft bored way; each retired to a corner of the cage and pursued hla own meditation. MTSTERT If any more Hollywood people get Into San Quentln there will be enough to start movie company. Meanwhile the killing of Kerrick, for whose murder five different persons have been convicted, continue to be as great ft mystery as ever.

Our local Sherlock Holmes seems to be at a low ebb. HUSBAND INSURANCE A lady very much In tha dumps write me to know what abe should do about an unfaithful husband. "For financial she says, aha has to stick to him for thai protection of her two small children. As to the charmer, "ha says aha la a nice girl, but I can't sea It." Some day there will be marriage Insurance Ilka automobile or burglar Insurance. And then the Injured wife will simply notify tha company that tha "risk" is beginning to wander.

An adjuster win come out; take him by the ear; send the hussy about her business and Increase the premium. THE MEAL TICKET The contest to see whose meal ticket Prise Ilia Moran shall be la an Indecent scandal. The court might well have set--tied tha dispute Solomon-like by ordering the child Into the custody of whichever one would agree t-take her off the screen. It would be interesting. In that Continues on Page 8.

Column 8) AUNT HET BT ROBERT QCHiSN "The kind women that, a married man gets infatuated with is mostly the kind I'd be ashamed to be jealous of." 7iw I onrovia became a motion-picture center with the opening and dedication yesterday of the new studios of the Victor Adamson Productions, which are located near the new Santa Fe station in that city and named for the railway. A number of Hollywood actor folk, Including Chief Yowlacbe, baritone and actor; White Wing and his daughter, White Bird; Red Wing, Art Mix. Ann Bannan. Dorria Lee. Gaston Glass.

Ernest Hilllard and weU' Part cere monies. Representatives of the Santa Fe Railway, Chamber of Commerce and other organizations participated In an event, presented In front of the studios in the afternoon when, by special order of General Manager W. K. Etter, the California Limited was stopped five minutes for pictures. The studios, an independent organization, will start production about August 1, according to announcement by Adamson.

The first picture in the new location will be a western scenario with Art Smith In the cast. Local Woman Made Officer of State Body Dr. F. May Morse, president of the Los Angeles Busanpro Club, has been made second vice-president of the newly organized California League of Business and Professional Women, which is acting as host to the national convention In Oakland this week. More than 1000 women who went through Los Angeles and were entertained here by the local club for three days will convene In the Bay City tonight when Gov.

Young opens the convention. A group of local women left last night headed by Dr. F. May Morse and Mrs. Mattle Joy.

ft BRUNDIGE BURIAL ON WEDNESDAY Obsequies for State Rail Commission Head to Occur in First Unitarian Church Funeral services for Harley Walter Brundlge, president of the State Rail road Commission, will be conducted from the First Unitarian Church at 8 o'clock Wednesday. Interment will be In Rosedale Cemetery. Mr. Bnihdlge, 60 years of age, was taken suddenly 111 Saturday night whlla attending a dinner with his wife and some close friends at the Surf and Sand Club. Hermosa Beach.

He was beyond medical aid when the house physician. Dr. C. F. Smith, reached his side.

Mr. Brundlge was a resident of California for thirty years and president of the Railroad Commission since 1910. Before that time he was actively engaged in newspaper work on several Pacific Coast dallies. He came to this State from Kansas City. A native of Kingston, Mr.

Brundlge graduated from the Ohio Normal University at Ada. From 1886 to 1890 he owned and published two newspapjs at Horton, and at Gallatin, Mo. In 1897 he came to Los Angeles'to become city editor of the Record. He became affiliated with the Evening Express as managing editor and assistant publisher In 1899, which affiliations he retained until 1919. During his residence In California Mr.

Brundlge took an active part In the civic and social life of his community. He was a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, the Union League and Commonwealth Clubs of 6an Francisco and the Claremont Country Club of Oakland. Mr. Brundlge leaves his widow and one daughter. Mabel Brundlge of 1635 Wllshlre Boulevard.

The body Is at Pierce Brothers' Undertaking chapel. WOMAN KILLED IN FALL FROM PORCH Mrs. Ella Lltsey, 55 yeara of age, 457 North Ditman street, was killed yesterday by a fall from her front porch. She- struck ber head on the sidewalk, fracturing ber skull. Her body was sent to French it Sons' undertaking rooms.

He plunged the weapon deep tn-to the shark's vitals, and for the next three minutes took a severe beating from tha beast's head and tall. He swallowed a lot of water, too, before he came to the water's surface, hla knife broken during the combat, but he had slain his shark. Three-score spectators wit- nessed the deep-sea encounter through the bottom of the glass-bottom host. Incidentally the whale, killed a few days previously by Capt. O.

M. Bryde, was ninety feet long and one of the largest eter seen In Southern California waters, it happened also to a a Br)d Thai', i species named for Norwegian whaling ancestor of tha captain several hundred years Mil Home I i 4 vv LLEWELLYN IRON WORKS FIGURE DIES Ben jamin Jlarvcood Was Prominent in Los Angeles Business Circles Benjamin Harwood. for many yeara director of the Llewellyn Iron Works and associated as director with several other Los Angeles concerns, died suddenly at 8 o'clock yester-d a morning of cerebral hemorrhage at 1 home, 128 Fremont Place. He had been In ex cellent health until a few minutes before the attack, according to members of his family. Mr.

Harwood was born in Grand 1 and waa HARWOOD 44 years of ar. He came to California when young and attended Los Angeles High School, from which he graduated In 1901. Later he attended the University of California, where he was a member of the class of 1905. Immediately on leaving college ha became Identified with the Llewellyn Iron. Works, where he remained until last fall, when he retired from active business life.

He was married In 1900 to Campbell, who, with two children, Betty and Benjamin, and his mother, Mrs. Mary Harwood of 815 Plymouth Boulevard, aurvlve. For several years he was a member of the board of directors of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association and the Metropolitan Turst Company and ho waa widely known in Los Angeles business circles. Funeral arrangements had not been completed lost evening. taxpayers' money in an uncertain ana hazardous adventure In aa untried field of private enterprise in which the city would be In competition with those whose lifetime of training and whose entire capital haa been In vested In devising every modern method for the economic production.

handling and transportation of their product under Intense competitive conditions," the letter states. PRICES QUOTED The letter pointa out that the city haa been paying 75 cents to 90 cents a ton for Its rock' and gravel and one job was bought for 50 cents a ton. "Assuming the proposed speculative venture should pay for Itself in ten yeara It will be seen that the financial burden on every ton produced by tbe city, even If run continuously at the proposed capacity'of 1200 tons a month, would be 45 cents a ton, without any labor or other productive cost whatever." the letter states. It is also argued that the city will have to grant a right of way for flood control purposes over tbe proposed gravel bed site, which would detract further from possible profit. I 'vw fit Lmm urn REPAIRING RUSHED ON AQUEDUCT Gates Wrecked in Latest Owens Valley Dynamiting to Be in Operation Today Much of the damage to the Aque duct caused by the, latest depreda tlons of dynamiters was expected to be repaired by this morning' after large crews of men rushed to the scene at daybreak Saturday had worked continuously to recondition the Tbebault gates, eight miles north of Independence.

The open condulj at Tuttle Creek, which also was blown out by the dynamiters at about the same time, probably will be in shape by Tuesday at the latest, water department officials said last night. At Thebault gates, large wooden structures just outside the gates were blown up by the dynamiters allowing the water intended for Los Angeles to flow down the ld channel into Lake Owens. The actual financial loss was small, officials said, and quick repairs were made possible by the large crews of men rushed the scene. Everything was quiet along the Aqueduct last night and no further outbreaks were expected, although guards were warned to redouble their vigilance. No extra guards were added.

WOMEN FACE CHARGES Accused having entered tne house of Anna Dixon at 5009 Long Beach Boulevard and taking (600, Ora Bergamy and Eva cmitb will be arraigned today before Superior Judge Marsh on charges of burglary and grand larceny. wells, Puller No. 1, is producing 2500 barrels, dally and is increasing steadily with 3000 arT rela estimated aa ita peak flow. This well Ss the most productive yet corn-Dieted In the field. The other new well.

Fleming No. is producing approximately 700 barrels daily. Two othwr wells. Redmonrt No. 1 and Larsen No.

1, are nearly finished and probably will be brought in to day, it was announced. GIVES NEW HOPE The increased' added to that of two other wells brought In last wesk, created an exceptionally optimistic attitude among Julian stockholders and caused the receivers to express renewed hopes of salvaging the affairs of the corporation. With the investigation of pools and and Margaret Dehler selected Os car and Archie, two members of the desert tortoise family each boasting a mere 100 years In age to his credit, and proceeded to try out their new decorative theories. Oscar and Archie are now high-hatting then fourteen companions In the university biology tortoise pen, Helen and Margaret having decked them out with" a "suit" of paint In colors that would make a peacock Jealous. But even this distinction that has come about in the drab' lives of Oscar and Archie has its setbacks.

No longer can they slip off In a dark comer of their pen and avoid the dally observation by experimenting students. 1 And maybe their colorless rela-t tlons will exile the boasters of the new adornments because of Jealousy and maybe their shiny new suits will wear off in the next 100 years of their lives but the two turtles are now having their place" in the sun-thanks to Helen and Margaret. ACTRESS OF STAGE AND FILMS DIES Florence Roberts, Kin of Veteran, Passes Following Operation Florence Roberts, prominent Uge and screen actress and cousin of Theodore Roberts, died yesterday morning at the Hollywood Hospital following an emergency operation performed two days before. She was 5ft years of age. The widow of Lewie Morrison and wife rf Frederick Voed-ing, actor, Florence Robe.ts worked In plc turea up until four months apo when the Illness that ended in her FLORENCE POSEOTS death forced her to give up acting.

She had ben confined at her home, 6331 Franklin until an emergency operation was' deemed necessary by her physicians. Mr. Vogeding will accompany the body of his wife to New Tork City where It will be placed beside that of her first husband. Funeral services will be conducted by W. M.

Strother, funeral director. 6240 Hollywood Boulevard. The time bad not been set last night. THEODORE ROBERTS'S CONDITION SATISFACTORY Theodore Roberts, film actor who waa operated on by Dr. Norman S.

Berg at the Osteopathic Sanatorium Hospital Saturday, Is reported ta be recovering satisfactorily by hospital authorities. He will probably be confined for two weeks, according to the report. The actor la suffering from a renal CITY ROCK PLANT OPPOSED Builders Declare Venture Into Highly CompelUicc Field Would Prove Unsound A protest against the proposal that the city go Into, the rock and gravel business by building a plant in the San Gabriel wash near Azusa has been filed with the Board of Publle Works by the Builders' Exchange. TWO NEW WELLS AID JULIAN Producers Come in on Company's Property at Beach; Conference W.iih Money Lenders Today Two new oil wells have been brought In by the California Eastern OH Company to Los Alamltos field near 8eal Beach and are pouring revenue into the depleted coffers pf thr.Jullan Petroleum Corporation, according to an announcement made yesterday by H. L.

Camahan and Joseph receivers. 1na of these One of these SCORES SEE CATALINA DIVER IN DEATH FIGHT WITH SHARK The protest came In the form of a resolution passed by tha directors of the exchange at a regular meeting. It atatea, In part, "that the Builders' Exchange of Los Angeles Is emphatically opposed to the proposal being considered by the Board of Public Works to purchase for the city certain gravel-bearing lands and erecting a new plant thereon at an approximate cost of $650,000 for the purpose of producing Its own rock and gravel. CALLED ABSURD This, opposition la not only be-cause it Is unsound public policy for the city to embark In private business in a highly competitive field In competition with fifty or more of Its own property owning and tax citl-cens, but for the further reason that the proposed project la economically absurd and cannot be Justified by any expert Investigation of the facta." In a letter accompanying the resolutions the exchange says that It is not raising the question of the principle of municipal ownership of public utlUtlee. "Even the most ardent advocate of municipal ownership will hesitate to Indorse the spending of 1G OLF STROKE CRIMPS NECK Hollywood Man' to Hospital as Victim of Unusual Accident Harrv M.

Blecel of 5121 Mar- athon avenue, Hollywood, was treated at Ban Pedro General Hospital by Police Surseon A. j. Langan yesterday for wrenched neck suffered while playing golf the Royal Palms course near by. 1 Slegel aald he was Just teeing off for a mighty drive bending his head to his cliouldrr. When he sought to straighten his neck his head wouldn't budge.

Dr. Langan wrenched Slcgel's neck back Into place and sent him home still suffering from the odd accident, Flctlonlsts stories of battles with sharks In the deep were re-enacted In real life yesterday when Harry Booslnger slew, his quarry at Catallna Island. The shark was not a real man-eating kind, because there, are none such hereabouts, but the thrill was no less genuine. A whale on exhibit was about to be towed from ATalon when Harry, a professional diver on tbe glass-bottom boat Empress, dived under to see what was making the dead mammal ripple the water. An eight-foot thresher shark glared back at him as It fed oa tbe blubber, beneath the whale.

Harry drew his trusty knife and warn to toa attack stock manipulations asserted to be responsible for the financial difficulties faced by the Julian Corporation completed, everyone connected with the corporation is concentrating upon rehabilitation plans. (Continued on Page Column 6) He.