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JUNE 13, II. THURSDAY MORNING. Golden Slipper Fits Two BANDIT CASE FIGHT LOST FLEET UNITS WILLRETURN of New dcneauie Purported Confession St. Charles Let Into Record by Judge Disclosed Major Combatant Forces to Over spirited objections by de-; fense counsel, a purported confes Move to Home Berths From San Diego sion by Bradlord J. St.

Charles, suspended police trfncer, to participation in bank robbery was written into the record yesterday at his trial before United States District Judge James. The testimony was given by C. C. White, Department of Justice agent. TELLS OF CONFESSION White said he was present at the old City Jail Building February 16 when St.

Charles was confronted by B. E. Sackett, head of the Department of Justice here, Capt. Seager. I If HJI LV vr it i -r Capt.

Horrall and Capt. Lofthouse II, (T I it W- ic a to Dim of the police department. The officer, White testified, admitted being involved in the robbery with Verne Miller and Theodore Wieden, explaining creditors had been hounding him and he feared the loss of his Job. FEARED DISGRACE St. Charles, it was further testified, broke Into tears, asked that he ve indicted under a fictitious name and tried in chambers, and then told the other officers that he had contemplated suicide to escape the disgrace that was closing in on him.

Despite the objections of Ames Peterson, defense attorney, Judge James held with Asst. U. S. Attys. Gallaher and Purdue that White's testimony be admitted.

STORY REPEATED White was followed on the stand by Capts. Seagar and HorralL and both repeated his story substantially. Capt. Horral added that after the others left St. Charles in his custody, the officer had begged him for a gun to "end all this." Another witness yesterday was Wieden, who, along with Miller, implicated St.

Charles after their arrest. Wieden corroborated Miller's testimony of the preceding day that This SI Contest Major combatant units of the United States Fleet regularly based at Ban Pedro will be In their home berths, Instead of at San Diego, as heretofore scheduled, when the fleet begins its northward dispersal for Independence Day visits on June 28. This was disclosed in a schedule announced yesterday by which the eleven remaining heavy cruisers at San Diego will return to San Pedro next Tuesday. In addition the cruiser Louisville returned yesterday, the battleship Tennessee will return this morning and the aircraft carriers Saratoga and Lexington will come In tomorrow. MOVEMENT NORTHWARD The annual hegira to Puget Bound, via Independence Day holiday ports, will be started June 28, when the submarine force sails to San Francisco from San Diego, followed on June 29 by the Scouting Force cruisers, from San Pedro, and destroyers, from San Diego, direct to Puget Sound.

On July 1 the Battle Force dread-naughts, light cruisers and destroyers, with their tenders, will go to the San Francisco Bay area. NAVAL CRAFT REMAINING The entire base force and several battleships, cruisers, destroyers, the aircraft carriers Saratoga, Banger and Langley, and numerous auxiliaries will remain in the San Pedro-San Diego area through the holiday period. From July 5 to 8, the widely-scattered squadrons will begin assembly for summer concentration on Puget Sound, via ambitious tactical exercises en route north. CHANGES IN COMMAND Changes in command were made at San Diego yesterday afternoon when Commander S. B.

Robinson relieved Commander B. Phillips as commander of Destroyer Division One and hoisted his flag over the U.S.S. Ellis, and Commander J. C. Clark assumed command of Destroyer Division Seven, hoisting his flag over the U.S.S.

Hatfield. Three destroyers, the Dorsey, Roper and Elliott, will enter routing reserve service and four, the Dent, Waters, Rathburn and Talbot, wilf become Division Nineteen in active service with the break-up of the present concentration. DEATH CLAIMS 2,000 These two women with, feet small enough to fit the golden 2-B Cinderella slipper were discovered at the California Shoe Retailers' Convention. They are Dolores Brison, left, and Mary T. Smith.

Each was given four pairs of shoes. CINDERELLA PAIR A WARDED SHOE CONVENTION PRIZES A golden slipper and a tiny foot; After several hundred women tried to slit) their feet into the 2-B St. Charles had instigated the rob- Are you a goo'd enough host or Hostess to seat eight people tactfully at the dinner table? Would you know which of your dinner guests would "hit it off" seated next to each other? Would you have any hesitancy in giving a dinner party when a few of your guests had conflicting personalities? Of course you can do these things and for doing them in Aunt Sunway's Dinner Party Contest you may be returned a winner for there are eighty prizes for eighty people who read Aunt Sunway's story as contained in the booklet noted below and mark the seating arrangement of. her eight guests down on the simple solution blank. and Cinderella stepped forward and golden slipper, two were proclaimed! slipped the tiny foot into it.

So might the original Cinderella winners. They are Dolores Brison of 4615 ABTKTQ Haskell street. La Canada, and) VJlMlEsU illYlliJliJ Mary T. Smith of 615 South West-i story have gone, but it was different with the Cinderella contest conducted by the California Shoe Retailers' Association at their convention. There were two Cinderellas.

PICK LICHTMAN (Continued from First Page) of the election of Lichtman on his way to Hollywood from Singapore. Lichtman said after the announcement was released that the moreland avenue. Each received four pairs of shoes. An intricately woven braided evening sandal yesterday brought the gold medal for the best formal shoe attire to Bullocks-Wilshire. Made In New York, the winning sandal was designed at the Los Angeles shop.

Join in today surely you can match wits against anyone in this real life social )lem. Join in and get your share of the $12,000 in prizes! probl BASE PLANS CHAMPIONED IVEY KIDNAP Complete Naval Plant Here The rize That Will Last a BANDIT DIES Favored by Departing Admiral Lackey former policy of United Artists will continue that of releasing quality products independently produced, sold and exploited. CONTINUE POLICY "There will be no deviation from this policy," he stated, "and the business of the corporation will function as if there were no change." Goldwyn, who acted as spokesman, told of the new plans of the group. "We are encountering no difficulty in getting product," Goldwyn declared. "As a matter of fact, we W.

P. JEFFRIES Death early yesterday morning closed the lips of Jack Williams and Los Angeles' campaign to obtain complete base facilities for the Tak Lif eti On I probably closed the investigation of United States Fleet on San Pedro Bay gained a strong champion yes me es the $72,000 extortion and kidnap plot 3 against Herbert D. Ivey, Los Angeles terday. He is Rear-Admiral Henry E. banker.

Lackey, who hauled down his flag are swamped by requests from well-known producers who want to make Williams died in the prison ward of General Hospital from bullet their pictures for our wounds inflicted by San Marino There are several of these deals! now being discussed, but nothing! can be said at present." police and Department of Justice agents on the night of May 25 when he attempted to escape a pay-off trap. Almost daily for the seventeen days he lay in the hospital he was questioned ln an effort to disclose his identity and reveal his past history. Stubbornly Williams defied the Few Minutes to Win! A deed to happiness! That's the first prize that's what winning the $10,000 Times' Model House will mean to you! Complete home ownership home contentment home pridefulness all brought to you free in one fell swoop! Countless people have saved, skimped, planned for years in order to be able to only partially own a home not even comparable to this "House of Tomorrow." Think of moving into a home that is truly complete to the pictures on the walls the vacuum cleaner in the closet the silverware in the drawers not one single thing that any one of your family could ask for left out and everything of matchless quality and beauty custom-furnished by the Los Angeles Furniture Company located on a scenic landscaped acre knoll in the Capital Company Valley Park in San Fernando Valley all of it, all your own. A home for a lifetime for you, for solving an entertaining contest game. (Continued from First Page) California.

He also had been chairman of the endowment board of the Grand Lodge of California. At the time of his death he. held both the latter positions and was a thirty-third degree member of the Scottish Rite. Mr. Jeflries was elected president of the Jonathan Club in 1923 and served in this office until 1930.

He was credited with being mainly instrumental in construction of the club's present building. A large painting of Mr. Jeffries, a tribute from other members for his untieing work as head of the organization, was hung in the building in 1926. He also was a member of the California Club, the Flintridge Country Club and the Westport Beach Club. HE LEAVES WIDOW He leaves his widow, Lor a Loomis Hubbell Jeffries, three sons, Aller-ton Hubbell, Lawrence Loomis and Stephen Parrlsh, a daughter, Sally Jeffries Martin, and two brothers, James of Tineville, Ky, and R.

H. Jeffries of Los Angeles. The family resides at 335 June street and has a country estate in La Canada. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Kenneth H. Gillette mortuary, 950 West Washington Boulevard.

Services will be conducted tomor authorities and with almost his last breath cursed officers who pleaded with him to discard the mystery with which he cloaked his life. a "r'T i tH -v -I From the first rational moments in the hospital after he was hit by ei grit bullets from police guns until death, caused by septic poison, Williams clung to his story that he was aided io the extortion and kidnap plot by two other men. UNITED ARTISTS ASK STOCK SALE PERMIT WILMINGTON (Del.) June J2. UP) Permission to sell 1000 shares of common stock in the United Artists Corporation, controlled by Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin. Joseph M.

Shenck and Samuel Goldwyn, is sought by the trustees in dissolution of the Art Cinema Corporation. OFFER RECEIVED The trustees ln a petition filed in Chancery Court state they have received an offer of $650,000 for the stock on behalf of the United Artists Corporation from Nathan Burkan, New York, representing Mary pickford, Chaplin and Goldwyn. The court Is asked to approve the proposed sale. It is provided, however, that the Elton Corporation, controlled by Fairbanks, will have the right to purchase the stock at the same price if it so desires. HEARING JUNE 28 The court has directed all stockholders of Art Cinema be notified of the petition and be directed to appear before the court June 26, at which time the petition will be He gave no other ldpntiftcBtinn i of supposed members of the gang except we names or Slim and Tony.

He said he was without employ ment and joined them only to drive the automobile in the plan OFFICIAL SOLUTION BLANK io couecc me money. Williams declared he came here Rear-Admiral Lackey from Texas. row at 2 pjn. in the Immanuel from the U.S.S. Northampton as (Ts Presbyterian Church, 663 South Berendo street, under the auspices Miss Lederer Funeral Rites of Southern California Lodge No.

commander of Cruiser Division Four and left for Washington to become chief of the shore facilities section of the office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. 4 TABLE 278 of the Masons. Dr. Herbert Booth Smith will preach the funeral i A WO MOT VSS TBS ST ACS) a Will Be Today LACKEY'S CONTENTION Admiral Lackey has consistently heard. William Jasle, Dennis F.

O'Brien, general counsel of United Artists, and William Philips, treasurer of United Artists, are the trustees. Funeral services for MLu Ppni urged the immediate provision of adequate facilities on San Pedro sermon. Interment will be in Inglewood Park Cemetery. Farewell Talk at Planetarium Lederer, daughter of Geonre W. Led erer and Reine Da vies Lederer, who Bay for drydocking and repair of All You Do Is Write The, official solution blank at the left shows you just how easp it is to send in your answer and the coupon below will bring you everything you need to i compete, rules, problem, prize lists, sub scription blanks and solution blank.

Someone will win this udmo first prize. Let that someone be you, major vessels or the fleet, on the the Good Samaritan Hospital Tues-t ATTN AllFR day nleht. will be conducts run I LtljlXlJ LtSXO premise that tack of such facilities nrecimta tietfn, Wan a 4m i VISITORS HERE Attract I hmncr emgency and a costly loss of Oitrain'n ln Pace time. I His successor wul be Rear-Ad- Astronomy minded Los Angeles H. L.

Brinser. who 1 now (Continued from First Page) p.m. today in Hollywood. With the B. B.

Dayton mortuary ln charge, the services will be at St. Mary of the Angels Church. 4510 Flnley avenue. Entombment will follow in the family mausoleum at Hollywood Cemetery. Miss Lederer was a patient under treatment for acute melancholia last night packed Griffith Observa- 'chief of the fleet facilities section GUEST Big Tim Yogi Alma Elysia Kelleher fiddle Fixupp Whiting torr Blanetarium to hear Dr.

Philin 'd who will hoist his flag at main Aunt Sunway't agitata are latl at the left, with a apart opposite each name. Daignat In arh apace the chair numher yeu tlwt for that irutat to occupy. (See chart of table.) Make sure you do not anign two or more guests to the aame chair. All solutions muit be mad en official solution blanks, which may be clipped out of The Times, or obtained free at The Time' office or by ending' a seU-addreeaed stamped enrelop. Typewrit or print your same and addrem clearly ln the apace below marking an to deeignate the claaa in which thia solution la entered: the latest methods in this work, too." Fox in tin rst of hi two farewell Jl Northampton at San Governor-elect Ramos win rule i ituiw ni wiluo J.

jwium ociurv oepamuw lomoT' over a population of 330,000. AIDES ALSO LEAVE Several members of Admiral When her nurse turned her back, according to detectives, MJss Lederer hurled herself against a window screen and fell to the ground, six Lackey's staff also left Sin Pedro yesterday for east coast ttutr. row for Chicago, where director of the Adler Planetarium. So great was the crowd that a second lecture wis hastily programmed and announced for the overflow. Before the capacity audience of 507, Dr.

Fox lectured on "Constel These include his flag secretary. noon oeiow. Accompanying senor Redo are his wife, two daughters, Beatrice and Maria Teresa Redo, and a son Alejandro. With the party also Is Roberto de la Vega, cousin of Senor Redo, from San Diego. Senor Redo, who has extensive sugar raising interests ln Sinai oa and who was Instrumental in the ixxnmanaer w.

c. Barnes, naviga BROADWAY PRESENTS Uon expert, who goes to the NaTal War College at Newport. R. and his flag lieutenant, Lieut. Alfred J.

lations. BOOK REVIEWS TODAY Book lovers and those who desire Dr. Dinsmore Alter, professor of 1 Bolton, to be executive officer of the NAME organization of the co-operative sys destroyer Herbert, of the training astronomy at the Cniverxitv of squaoron. to keep abreast of current fiction ADDRESS State Chamber win be Interested to know that Doris D. Cerf will give another of her colorful book reviews today at Booklet Coupon Aunt Sunwiy Contest Editor, Los Angeles Times.

First and Broadway, Los Angslts, Calif. I Inctoaa Sc In stamps, for whlel pleae tend me the Aunt tunwal boeklst Mntainlng vsrythlng I need to compete In the Aunt Sunt way Contest. tem lor sugar production control and the stabilization of prices ln Mexico, is a strong advocate of commodity exchange development between Mexico and the United States. In stressing the need for the exchange between the countries, Senor Redo said products under exchange could be exempted from im Kansas, who is here for the summer as associate director to Dr. W.

T. Meyer of the University of California, then addressed the second audience on The Land of the Mld-zught Sun, the Pcar Sky and the Aurora Borealis." Dr. Fox wtn give his final lecture tonight on The Architecture of the Heavens." a pjn. as the Broad wars audi' to Meet COY STATE torium, Six Action and four non- I Action books wa be discussed, in- tWi filatem ta Bs awtarel tat CLASS (1 CLASS port duties In order to facilitate the Conservation of the State Chamber SttZZ I JTVlZ of commrai win tr Ha Everything. There is rge the public is co-operative transactions under such NAME plan.

Bi.tmore to dssctr nrobiems vital HKEWEBY FETE SATURDAY ADDRESS v. weuare bcuvnem Psrfc'palicn ia Nstie ACdet DUDE RANCH VACATION Ip- of "rrr. CITY STATE 11 1 17: of IXmiors at a incrUr.i I street City I streets next Saturday is bv in Tata Seiattee tm Be Catered as: CLASS CLASS XT 4-a a tml im mH mmn I rtv nm le Me mtt mm. aevaact catavaTtea mt. a tH at hksom dude ranch, oa fiedra, calif.

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