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8 WEDNESDAY MORNING. JANUARY 27, 1932. PART I. scours HURTS -Tfn rT a NOGOTA" TRUE INDIAN STORY-TELLER POPULAR Navajo Girl Kept Busy by Beach Citizens Will Do Skits to Aid Charity IN CHECK CASE FIRE LOSS -IN TUNNEL RUNS HIGH Tccate Blaze, Still Going Japanese Blends Humor With Candor In Signatures, San Diegans Learn on, May Result in Total CROGIIAN CASE WITNESS SOB! Laura demons, Prosecutio Star, Choked by Grief Innuendoes of Attorneys fo Defense Met by Tears Gradual Disillusionment Employee Told SAN DIEGO, Jan. 26.

"I I ha sincere feelings for Mr. Crcgha all along, and I still do." Spoken i a voice choked with grief, this wa the answer made today by Mb Laura Clemons, star prosecutio witness to the Innuendoes of attor neys for Herbert A. Croghan. In SAN DIEGO, Jan. 26.

K. Yamata, Japanese, does not speak but even the merchants who caused his arrest today, on bad-check charges admit he writes humorous prose. Damage of 9100,000 SAN DIEGO, Jan. 26. The slow progress of fires which for two days have been burning in the interior of the San Diego and Arizona Railroad tunnel near Tecate had trav CHARGES FLY IN HAWTHORNE Council Fails to Give Data on Fund in Closed Bank Protesting Group Asks for Information on $60,000 Caustic Comments Hurled in Temfwstuous Session HAWTHORNE, Jan.

26. Inability cf the City Council to presen a report of the standing of some of city money assertedly on deposit without sufficient security In the Hawthorne branch of the Exchange State Bank of Znglewood, which closed its doors a fortnight ago, brought a storm of protests which enlivened the Council meeting here last night. Mrs. Pearl Ramage, wife of former Mayor Robert Ramage, led the Protestants and after City Attorney Lewis's statement that data would not be available until the latter part of this week, directed several caustic eled far enough from the west end Yamata's candor, they state, rw i is second only to the ab sence of any bank account under the name which Yamata is asserted to have signed on his checks. The checks, all of which were returned, were signed Nogota." verbal sallies at Mayor Jones and i the Councilmcn.

The situation assertedly was re sponsible, together with ill-health, of the bore to allow workmen this afternoon to enter and extinguish the glowing embers with water. Flames, however, were still burning near the east end of the tube, some 1200 feet from the point of origin, where they are expected to die a natural death soon from lack of fuel. The flames were discovered early yesterday but smoke and heat made it impossible to halt the slow destruction. Interior framework of the tunnel is entirely lost, railroad officials said, and repair costs may run as high as $100,000, entailing two weeks of work. Railway officials indicated that the fire might have been started by a tramp thrown off one of the trains or by some other person nursing a grievance against the organization.

Meanwhile all travel has been routed from San Diego, to the main line of the Southern Pacific via the Santa Fe Railroad north to Los Angeles. TWICE SPUN ON ROTARY, MANLIVES Injury Incurred on Oil Rig at Long Beach May A'of Prove to Be Fatal --J VV 1 4 E. lor tne resignation, oi tne city Treasurer, Mrs. Luella Wells, a week ago. As the city's governing body, Mrs.

Ramage charged the Council with responsibility in the matter, "laid at the door of Mrs. Wells, City Treasurer, until she was dieted County Tax Collector, Jha her motives for testifying are im peachable. To complete the picture of faithful employee, gradually disil lusioned as she uncovered a trail short accounts, Prosecutor Buckle today recalled Miss Clemons to th witness stand, where, th opening of the trial last Wednes day, she has delivered the majorit of evidence intended to convic Croghan of perjury and appropria tion of county funds for his person al use. Under obvious emotional stres she related that the morning of th day when Croghan summaril "fired" her, she offered to drop thi tax office investigation If he wouli take her back. "You're making big mistake," she testified to" hav lng said.

Miss Clemons was fired" at nooi December 5. That morning, sh aaid, she discovered a circumstanct which caused her to burst Into tear; and tell a fellow-worker: "I'll afraid Mr. Croghan has been dotof something wrong." Up until October 28, last, sh firmly she said, that tht shortages could be accounted for so-called "held-out" tar stub, Miss Harriet Keeie REDONDO BEACH, Jan. 26. CAUSEOF SUIT Mother of Hemet Boy Brings Action for.

$20,000 Fall From Truck in Hauling Fireplace Rock Asserted High School, County Council and Troop Leader Named RIVERSIDE, Jan. 26. Asserting that her son was seriously injured when he fell from a truck while working with Boy Scouts in hauling rocks for construction of a fireplace at the Hemet Scouts' camp, Mrs. Rena Woodman of that place has brought suit in Superior Court for $20,000, for injuries said to have been incurred by Donald, iter 14-year-old son. The suit, which was filed by Attorneys Fred L.

Hamblin and Albert Ford of Riverside, names as defendants the Hemet Union High School, the Riverside County Council of Boy Scouts, the troop committee of Hemet Troop, No. 47, Boy Souts, and W. J. Austin, a teacher at the school. The accident in which the suit is filed occurred when a truck on which Woodman was riding ran into a ditch along Florida avenue about seven miles east of Hemet.

The truck, the suit states, was defective and unsafe in that there were no emergency brakes, no top, windshield or headlights, and in that electrical connections. were exposed. The complaint also charges that Robert Ogleby, another Boy Scout, receiveda shock from an exposed wire and ran the truck "off of the highway, causing Woodman to be thrown to the ground. Mrs. Woodman also asks special judgment of $1405 for costs incurred in care of her son.

Wounded Negro 'Taken for Ride Deputies Think AZUSA, Jan. 26. Believed by deputy sheriffs to have been "taken for a ride" by other Negroes, Arthur O. Warner, 35-year-old Negro of 1021 East Thirty-third street. Los Angeles, was removed to the General Hospital from the local emergency hospital this afternoon, with two asserted rifle bullet wounds through his head.

Warner, who is not expected to live, was found this morning by Clarence Gilbert of this city lying in Coney street, near Third street. Deputies Tucker and Hull of San Dimas substation No. 8, with Chief Gauldin and Officer Kimbrell of Azusa, investigatlner, found an exploded rifle shell, and a bloodstained boulder and pliers about fifty feet away. Santa Ana to j-mimmmmmmmwmmmmmmmmmmmm Powell Press Service photo Johnny Miller and Na Glee Nonada FRIENDS TO MEET TODAY IN WHIT TIER Seven ih Ann ual Sch ool of Methods to Convene for Five-Day Session WHITTIER, Jan. 26.

The seventh annual school of methods of the California yearly meeting i of Friends Church will convene' here tomorrow for a five-day session. The school is conducted under the auspices of the Board of Religious Education, the Pastors' Association and other organizations of the church. Rev. E. L.

Gregory is dean. Tomorrow will be devoted to peace and publicity; Thursday to education; Friday to the spread of the Gospel; Saturday to young people, and Sunday to worship. Among those who will speak are Dr. E. P.

Ryland, Prof, Walter J. Homan, Dr. Henry Edwin Mc-Grew, Dr. J. Whitcomb Brougher, Dr.

E. Guy Talbott, Dr. W. O. True-blood, Dr.

Frank Dell, Dr. Roy L. Van Deman, Rev. George Taylor, Mrs. Eva C.

Wheeler, Rev. Ray L. Carter, Dr. W. C.

Pearce, Rev. R. Furnas Trueblood, Dr. E. W.

Bysshe and Fred J. King. forced to resign. The comments "better off in Russia" and "Mussolini, had better be sitting where you are" were interspersed in the attack. Ramage was recently a circulator of the petition bearing more than 1000 names In which annexation to Los Angeles was sought, and which the Council rejected as Insufficient on the 11th inst.

Full information on the status of the city's funds, which officials say are not in the Jeopardy with which they are credited by rumors, depends upon access to figures now in the hands of the bank receiver. heritage of the Navajo girl, who is of the lineage of chiefs. The Navajo girl was the guest at a recent outdoor breakfast of the Desert Riders in Andreas Canyon. Her escort, who listened with rapt attention to the Navajo anecdote of Hosteen chipmunk and the Rain-God, was 4-year-old Johnny Miller, young son of Mr. and Mrs.

Clarence. O'Dell Miller of San Marino. PALM SPRINGS, Jan. 26. Fairy tales of a thousand years ago have made Na Glee Nonada, beautiful Navajo girl.

Palm Springs's most popular winter resident among the younger generation of visitors. Stories of the desert that were ancient when Colambus discovered America, never written but handed down from father to son, and from mother to daughter are the With charity as the objective, more than 300 leading, citizens of this community will appear in the hilarious musical comedy, "The College Flapper," at the high school auditorium Thursday and Prlday. The Parent-Teacher Association of the school is sponsoring the event. Miss Harriet Keefe, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, plays the feminine lead. Impersonations on which the production depends for many of its humorous situations Include United States Marshal Albert C.

Slttel as "Miss South Bay;" Mayor John Clarke as "Joan Crawford;" Eiks' Exalted Ruler Arthur Oder as "Bathing Beauty;" Judge J. G. Moodle, "Spinister School Ma'am; Stuart Samson, City Treasurer of Hermosa Beach, as "Dolores Del Rio;" Happy McNay as "Peaches Browning;" Delos L. Bundy, Redondo City Engineer, as "Clara Bow," and others. she found the amount of the short age sweu irom sseoo to $12,000 anc then finally to the $21,000 which i.

charged in the Indictments, hei iaiui graauauy waned, she Legion Auxiliary Gets Report on Gain in Numbers ORANGE SHOW TO OFFER MANY MUSICAL TREATS LONG BEACH, Jan. 26. Although he was whirled twice around the cathead of a rotary, his body being thrown against derrick beams at each revolution, Harry White. 26 years of age, residing at 534 Ar-tesla Boulevard, Bellflower, may live, attending physicians at Seaside Hospital report He suffered a broken leg, broken arm, chest Injuries and scalp wounds. The accident occurred at the S.

S. Wortlcy well, American avenue at Thirty-fifth street, while White was visiting an acquaintance at the well while seeking work. Modernist Art Colony Seen for Newport NEWPORT BEACH, Jan. the coming of the modernistii artist, Charles Rider, to this city, Modernistic Art Colony is beinf established as a rival of the conservative art colony of Laguna Beach. Rider opened his studio at 113 West Surf street and ha brought his remarkable collection oi Newport Beach Chamber Picks New President NEWPORT BEACH, Jan.

26. W. S. Smith, Jr, business man, was elected president of the Newport SAN BERNARDINO, Jan. 26.

Tabloid productions of famous light operas and musical comedies with Perry Askam, star of the "Desert Song" as headllner, and with a company of eighty persons, are the entertainment ensemble contracted for by the forthcoming Twenty-second National Orange Show at San Bernardino. That the orange show, which runs from February 18 to 28, will feature this diversified entertainment was the. announcement made here today" by Roy E. Mack, general Hartman Named Ventura Mayor by City Council VENTURA. Jan.

V. Hartma. is the new Mayor of Ventura. He was elected last night by the City Council. "Changes of program will take place every two days," said Mr.

Mack. "Our company will include a symphonic orchestra of thirty pieces under the direction of Cecil Stewart. Condensed versions of the "Student Prince" and similar musical offerings, embracing the cream of these shows, will be presented." Other features will be Bud Aver-ill and his songsters, Miami Octet, Sequoia quartet, woman's ensemble and the Orange Blossom ballet; Background of the show will be a Colonial decoration scheme in honor of the bicentennial of the birth of George Washington. Redondo Post Black Sheep Back in Fold modern paintings done by modern Harbor Cham He succeeds James S. Blackstock.

ber of Commerce at the annual meeting istic artists. Other modernistic artists have selected this city for a center anc an art association may soon fct founded. ARCADIA, Jan. 26. Definite signs that the depression has produced an inspiring force to the varied welfare works of the American Legion auxiliary units of the San Gabriel Valley was evident in the reports last night of some 330 delegates at the Eighteenth District auxiliary meeting at the Arcadia Women's clubhouse.

Mrs. Agnes L. Walker of Glen-dale, membership chairman, reported that paid-up memberships in district units are 20 per cent greater at this date than at the same time last year. Mrs. Bernice O.

Keyes of San Diego, State president, told members that even stronger membership drives will be needed. Mrs. Myron Wynkoop of South Pasadena, district president, presided. Mrs. Grace Cornish, Arcadia auxiliary president, and Mrs.

Marion Wis-niewski, chairman In charge of arrangements, were hostesses. Youths Jailed as Fight Sequel COVINA, Jan. 26. Jack (Bennie) REDONDO BEACH, Jan. 26.

who was called by death a week ago. Blackstock received the largest Councilmanlc vote in the municipal elections last December 18. Hart-man was second high. Appointment Object of a two-day search, the State Beach I held today in I the Green Dragon Cafe. succeeds L.

Isbell. Elect- South Pasadena of another member to replace Black- American Legion black sheep, Honey, Is back in the fold today. The sheep had been stolen from a pasture in the Villa tract, fo the Sift Records of Taxi Drivers SANTA ANA, Jan. 26. Charees ed to serve with the president on consternation of Howard Stickney, stock on the Council was continued for one week.

Hartman is single, 46 years of age, and a native Venturan. His position as Councilman was the first political office the new Mayor ever occupied. commander of the local Legionnaires. Late last night the lost sheep was found hitched to a fire rift and counter-charges involving as 'I serted police records of local taxi- to Sell Scrip as Jobless Aid SOUTH PASADENA, Jan. 26.

A plan to furnish employment by sale of "labor" scrip has been completed and a selling campaign will bt rtartcd next week, it was learned today. The scrip will be sold in 50-cent the board of "the hardest-working chamber" on the Orange county coast are: W. L. Jordan, first hydrant here, comfortably ensconced W.S. Smith, Ja.

Bond Poll Set Apostle to Man in Street Will Talk in Burbank BURBANK, Jan. 26. "Which Shall It Be Christianity or Communism" will be the subject of in open-air address to be made Thursday night from the band stand opposite the City Hall here by David Goldstein of Boston, known as "the Catholic apostle to the man in the street." The address will be delivered under the patronage of the ioly Name Society of Holy Trinity Church and the speaker will be Introduced by John Steven 'McGroarty, whose friend he has been for many years. cab drivers, several of whom are said to have been involved with the law, are expected to be hurled next Monday night when the City Coun cil meets to air the entire taxicab Park Sought at Huntington HUNTINGTON BEACH. Jan.

26. Joseph Rodman Post, No. 133, of the American Legion, has started a campaign to obtain a State beach park for this city. Hansen Moore, president of the Mills Land and Water Company, and owner of a large expanse of beach frontage; J. s.

Lawshe, manager of the Huntington Beach Company; J. Ed Huston, realty dealer and Councilman, and Herbert Gray, past commander of the Legion Post and employee of the Standard Oil Company, met and discussed ways and means. It is believed the project will call for $75,000. It is hoped to avoid a bond issue. situation.

between a rug and a blanket. The kidnaping provides a new chapter for Honey, snatched from a less kind fate at the Los Angeles stockyards to provide a mascot for Legion posts of the Nineteenth District which evidence a low membership rating. From now on she will share the Stickney parlor, while In charge of the local post. vice-president; George Gordon, second vice-president, and Lew Wallace, treasurer. George C.

MacLeod, who has served as secretary for years, was reappointed for another term. Martin, 18 years of age, and Robert (Brick) Marshall, 17. of Baldwin Park, were sent to the County C. H. Eckles, proprietor of a city bus system, has charged that several of the drivers of a rival company have police records.

A city ordinance provides that no taxi-cab driver's license shall be issued to a man convicted of a felony. at San Gabriel SAN GABRIEL. Jan. 28. Follow-ing a recent election in which San Gabriel voted to withdraw from the Alhambra High School District, plans have been completed for a special election on February 23 to vole on a $345,000 bond Issue for a high schoor building.

A site will be selected later. Election officials and polling places have been named. Voters will cast their ballots at the Washington and McKinley schools. Game Wardens School Expense Beggar Tells of Buying Car on 'Earnings' Ventura Sees Giant Lemon denominations to local residents, who, in turn, will use It to hire unemployed persons about their homes. Workmen who take the scrip as payment for services will exchange it for food and clothing and other necessities through arrangement" made with local stores by the Citizens' Emergency Relief Committee.

Whittier Gets Famous Fowl WHITTIER. Jan. 26. Word wai received here today that the De Laviaga collection of water fowl in San Mateo has been released by a court order to the Whittier Ornithological Academy at Whtttler College. This collection Is considered to be the finest In the United States and will be brought to Whittier soon, according to Dr.

Leon Singing Actress Frank Parmelee VENTURA, Jan. 26. A giant lemon, measuring sixteen and one-half Inches in circumference and weighing almost two pounds, was Jail for sixty-day terms today. Marshall will be certified to Juvenile Hall. Two weeks ago, when the La Verne school basketball team was playing the Baldwin Park school team at Baldwin Park, the two boys were arrested when they started a disturbance just before the game by taking a basketball away from La Verne youngsters.

In the lively fist fight which followed, Clem Kelly of the La Verne team suffered a broken nose and Joseph Gonzalez was badly beaten, assertedly by Martin and Marshall BOTTLE "BOUNCING" ACCUSATIONS MADE ARCADIA, Jan. 26 For the second time, Arcadia police brought 'grief" to participants In drinking parties from an adjacent city when Officer Peterson took Into custody a drunken driver and his companion who assertedly were "having fun" with a touring car load of empty displayed here today. The fruit was grown at the Russell Walker ranch, Change Theme of G.OP. Club MONROVIA, Jan. 26.

-Proposed plans to change the school expenses from county to State, will be discussed In the tax reduction address of J. Francis Potter of the taxation committee of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and of the Associated Realty Board of Los Angeles County, before the forty-ninth Assembly District Republican Club here, Thursday night. C. H. Anson.

Dr. James Bowers and Postmaster Harry Kellogg arc in charge of arrangements. Montalvo. Meets Grief on Traffic Charge COVINA. Jan.

26. Popular though Barbara M. Ferns, singing actress of 973 East Villa street, Pasadena, proved to be In a leading part In "College Spirit," local talent musical comedy, here last week, her popularity did not give her "freedom of the highways" when she drove her automobile too The big lemon measured fifteen and one-half Inches around the short way and is tlx Inches long. The fruit Is grown on a 25-ycar-old Patrick, president of the academyj tree. Lancaster Tree Guard Ducks in Imperial 4 War9 EL i CENTRO, Jan.

26. Game wardens have, been detailed by the State Division of Fish and Game to patrol the wild duck refuges In the vicinity of Salton Sea, to protect the wild fowl from Irate ranchers who have begun a "shotgun rebellion" because of the asserted ravages of the birds in their fields. The thirty-day open season on ducks closed December IS and wardens may arrest persons found shcotlng the game birds. In the meantime, the United States Biological Survey and the State Division of Fish and Game are co-operating in an Investigation of the situation In an effort to prevent depredations In valley Surveyor Hurt gin Cdnyori Fall AZUSA, Jan. 26.

Falling forty feet from a ledge on the canyon wall near the old San Gabriel dam site, Charles Hlmmelrclch, member of a surveying party of the United States Bureau of Public Roads, was seriously Injured yesterday afternoon, it was revealed today. Dr. W. O. Wheatley ot this city treated Hlmmelrelch for concussion of the brain and possible frontal skull last over Covlna Boulevard to "make" a radio singing engagement.

Miss Ferns, protege of Madam Santa Paula's beer bottles as they drove along El Ellen Beach Yaw, will not drive at Appeal Filed in Arson. Case REDLANDS, Jan. 26. An appeal has been filed with the Fourth District Court of Appeals in the case of Lawrence Ferguson, convicted in Superior Court ot arson. In making the appeal, Raymond E.

Hodoe. attornev for Fersuson. Rites Conducted HERM03A BEACH, Jan. 26. Funeral services were conducted today for Frank H.

Parmelee, 71 years of age, retired contractor and builder who bud been a resident ot this section more than twenty years. He leaves his widow, Mrs. Dora C. Parmelee, and a daughter, Miss Viviane Parmelee; A Charles Parmelee, former United States army officer, died In an airplane accident near Burbank several months ago. Rodent-riddance Measure Urged 8ANTA ANA, 26.

Passage of an ordluance requiring property owners to rid their premises of rats, was urged on the City Council by George S. Morgan, sanitary Inspector for the State Board of Health, and Dr. Sutherland, county health officer, at an Informal meeting ot the City Council last night. The Council will act on the rodent ordinance next week. Dorado street, "bouncing" them off all for sixty days.

Judge Reed de the pavement. George W. Aldstadt. elded in suspending her driving Program Nears LANCASTER. Jan.

26. The fourth annual drive to distribute and plant trees in Antelope Valley will start Saturday. The seedlings will be received here and given to ranchers with instruction where to plant thrm. For several years tree planting has been one of the hobbles ot Antelope Valley residents. license.

She also paid a fine of 110 CONCERT ANNOUNCED 3223 West Thirty-second street, and Robert Earl. 3236 Andrlth street, both of Los Angeles, are held. HUNTINGTON PARK, Jan. 26 stated that he had sensational newl PASADENA, Jan. 26.

Out of the "earnings" of his begging on local streets, William R. Searcey, who hails from somewhere In Oklahoma, Is buying a new automobile, he admitted In Police Court, where he received a thirty-day jail sentence today. Searcey declared he "Is living very nicely in Los Angeles," but declared his old car was so decrepit that he decided to "panhandle" a new one. For more than two months he has driven the new machine to the outskirts of his "office" on the local pavements. After a twelve-hour day, he admitted that he counted himself a failure unless he had extracted 110 from the credulous.

Hit-Run Case Hearing Set ONTARIO, Jan. 26 Dexter K. Orifflth, Pomona College student, will face preliminary hearing February 9, next, on a charge of failure to stop and render aid after an accident. Griffith appeared today for preliminary hearing, but the date was changed by Judge Holbrook. According to police, Orilflth's car struck and Injured O.

T. Baldwin, 77 years of age, of Pomona, and then aped away. Montecito Oil Fight on Trial SANTA BARBARA, Jan. 26. Judge Blgler la presiding over the trial of the $50,000 damage suit ot C.

M. Wright vs. the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors and Uie County Planning Commission, One of th red-letter events of the year in. the Woman's Club will be the mldwlnte- concert under the direction of Mrs. R.

E. Squirs, Pioneers Dine SANTA PAULA, Jn. 26. Commemorating the sixty-Ant anniversary of the founding of Santa Paula, forty pioneers who have lived here or In the Immediate vicinity for fifty years or more gathered at noon today in Glen Tavern for a luncheon. Dr.

D. W. Mott of Los Angeles, former local resident, was the principal speaker. The affair was sponsored by ex SCOUTS MOVE HEADQUARTERS VAN NUYS. Jan.

26. Ocorge Bergstrom. newly appointed Scout executive of the San Fernando Valley Boy Scout Council, today moved Scout headquarters from Victory Boulevard to the second flood suite of the Cowdrey Building on Van Nuya Boulevard. There are 800 Stout In the Council. evidence to disclose that would put a new bearing on the case.

GARDNER RITES TOMORROW INOLEWOOD, Jan. 26. Funeral services will be ronducted Thursday afternoon for Harry O. Oardner, Inglcwood Plumbing Company proprietor, who had been In business here for seven years. musical curator, at the high school Friday.

There will be a chorus of thirty voices, to be directed by J. Arthur Louis. Zaruhi contralto, and Miss will be soloists. mayor m. u.

oiecKfi and Leo Smith, editor and publisher ot the fracture. He was removed to the Santa Paula Chronicle. Monrovia Hospital. DR. CM.

STUART, EDITOR AND THEOLOGIAN, DEAD SANTA ANA AUTHORIZES MUNICIPAL STADIUM JOB Some of the first trees planted already are Improving trn landscape. MARICOPA-VENTURA ROAD NEARLY READY VENTURA. Jan. Chapman Scott, contractors on the eight-mile atrip of the Marl copa Ventura Highway beyond Wheeler's Hot Springs, will com plcte the road job by February 3, according to word received today by Charles Petit, engineer for the Tri-county Highway Board, from the United States Bureau of Public Roads. CARDENA CONSIDERS CURFEW ORDINANCE MONTEBELLO BIDS ROLPH TO WASHINGTON BANQUET at which they entertain their husbands.

This year, In keeping with the nation-wide movement to commemorate the 200th birthday anni LA JOLLA, Jan. 26. W) Dr. Charles Macaulcy Stuart, 70 yean of age, retired editor and theologian, and president emeritus of Garrett Biblical Institute. Evanston.

Ill Hied of paralysis at his home here today. lie had been 111 three months. Dr. Stuart was born In Glasgow, Scotland, but came to the United fiuu when a boy. He Graduated Ordained a Methodist Episcopal minister In 1880, Dr Stuart devoted forty-six years to religious work.

He was editor of the Northwestern Christian Advocate from 1009 until he was elected professor of Christian Ethics at Wesley an University. Connecticut, in June, 1911. Shortly thereafter. Dr. Stuart returned to the Garrett Institute, where he received part of his schooling, as pro-feasor of homlletlwi and preMdcnt.

Dr. Stuart retired six years ago and made hli home here. He wtj author of many religious papers, nd in 1R0J edited the MrthodiM Hymnal, He ipsvra his widow, Mia. Einm UtUcflcld Stuart. adopted, that for day laborers being $3.60 and for skilled labor at $4 dally.

City Engineer Dudley declined the task of selecting the workmen for the Job. City Councllmen have agreed not to ask for special favors In the selection of workmen to thai Bpeed will have a free hand in the make-up of his employment list. The present bowl will be equipped flrnt for the playing ot night bnw-ball games and the excavation will fit In with a plan to make the bowl available this fall for night foot ball and pageants. versary ot the "Father of His Country," tho club decided to ask SANTA ANA, Jan. 26.

for the construction of a municipal stadium took definite form last night when the City Council declared an emergency and act aside $15,000 to cover the cost of erecting seats and excavating the present Olive Bowl. Work for about fifty men will be provided within a few it Is believed. Robert Speed, secretary of the Mayor's committee on emergency relief, was dc-lgnatrd to pick out the most do.rrvlng laborer- for Job-on the project. A wage scale for the stadium tu MONTEBELLO, Jan. 28 Mrs.

W. W. Clark, on behalf of the Monte-bcllo Woman's Club, today formally extended Oov. Rolph an Invitation to be the guest of honor at the organization's twenty-second annual Washington's Rlrthday banquet. A little more than two 'decade and two years ago the Womaal Club was organized here and the members sriectrd George Washington's birthday annlvrntary as the dale lor their annual dub alXalr growlni out of Wright's arrest two the Oovcrnor to be guest ot honor and principal apeakcr.

The members will be dressed In colonial tostumrs while their escorts will wear three-cornrrrd hats. Mrs, Charles A. Graham la chairman in charite, while Mrs. Clark is the organization' president. years ago for assenca violation oi the Montecito zoning ordinance, prohibiting drilling of oil wells in the million-Ires' subdivision.

Tt, I. tuini irlivl dlthnnL a OARDFNA. Jan. Is rxpected to ring here shortly as the result of Instructions given City Attorney Lure to prepare an ordinance prohibiting youncstrri 4 on the streets after pm. uulcss accompanied by their elders, from Kalamazoo (Mich.) College in 1880, and received his matters de-tire seven years later from North-western University.

Later he received hlghrr and honorary degree from many, elber schools, A ill, mmii am Jury.1.

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