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Southern California Interests. r-' Drama a A j. i noes -r IK II I A i i -iM A o.V (' kA Wn -SfiyU MM ft I II l-isr VoLXLIV. TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 1, 1925. PART II.

24 PAGES. A 1JV I Br I ho lltr Ulrectorj IM1 1 19A.14 What Was and What is in Trolley Travel ROADS DEAF TO STATION APPEAL LOS ANGELES TAKES OVER VENICE CASH Custodian of Beach City's Funds 'Transfers'- Monies ji U.I I I III.IIIIIM I I ,1,1.1 JL. Remaining in Treasury The funds of the late lamented city of Venice were turned over to City Treasurer Powell of Los Angeles yesterday By E. H. Racek, City Treasurer of Venice, prior to its consolidation with Los Angeles.

The moneys were represented by government and municipal bonds worth 1398,800, held Jn trust by the Venice treasury for bank deposits of a street paving trust fund 'of a surety bond of $1380.99, and a number of local improvement bonds held on behalf of the bond owners hy the treasury." 4 This represents the actual funds in the possession of the former treasurer of Venice, while an auditing of the bills of the beach community continues. Mr. Racek was accompanied by a guard of Venice patrolmen, Earl fieinweiman ana Dean G. Brown. VENICE REQUEST FOR STAFF INCREASE DENIED The Council Finance Committee yesterday adopted the policy of maintaining the present personnel in municipal departments at Venice without Increases until all de partments are prepared to make reequests for their needs.

This action came when Fire Chief Scott asked $53,000 for salaries for in creased personnel for the Venles division during the remainder of therfiscai year. Appropriations will be made from week to week to nav Ven ice employees pending the decision as to personnel. Chief Scott was granted, however, $6000 for new hose, $8417 for water and $1600 for a new road ster, all for the Venice division. RACE PILOT REPORTED IMPROVED "Red" Cariens, Victim of Auto Crash at Culver City, Still Unconscious R. L.

"Red" Car lens, racing Dil- ot who was seriously injured in the one accident which marred the 260-mile race at Culver City Sun day, was reported slightly but still unconscious, at the Angelus Hospital yesterday. Dr. P. C. H.

Pahl. in attendance on the injured driver, stated, however, that Cariens probably will "pull through In good shape." A more thorough examination of the victim late yesterday by Dr. Pahl revealed that he had not suffered a basal "skull fracture, as was at first supposed, but that he Is the victim of concussion of the brain. Cariens was injured when he locked wheels with Jerry Won-derlich's mount on the back stretch of the speedway. RIVER DISPUTE ACTION HOVERS California Conferees Take Compromise to Phoenix Representatives Prepared to Make Concessions Nevada Governor Wins Plea for Effort at Unity Prepared to make concessions to Arizona concerning the allocation of water and hydroelectric power from the proposed development of the Colorado River, members of the California Legislative Committee, appointed to obtain action on the controlling and harnessing of the river left Los Angeles for Phoenix yesterday.

Their departure followed a meeting at. the Blltmore, which, adopted a program based upon concessions wrested from the Southern California "lrreconcil- bles" by Gov, $crugham of Nevada in an effort to present to Congress a Southwest united in Its demand for Colorado River development. This program of concessions will be laid before Gov. Hunt's representatives at Phoenix at a meeting scheduled for 10 a.m. today.

Unless the meeting continues over until Wednesday, Gov. Hunt- will not be present. Gov. Scrugham, who attended the Blltmore conference, received a telegram from Gov. Hunt's secretary, H.

S. Mc-Cluskey, stating that the Arizona executive will be away from Phoenix until Wednesday, but had given him authority to call the Arizona committee PROPOSALS WITHHELD Terms of the concessions agreed upon at' the Blltmore conference were withheld until they can be laid before Arisona's representatives Gov. Scrugham expressed himself optimistically concerning their probafele reception. "I am very much pleased at the program agreed upon," he said. "California, has made a fair and reasonable proposition, which, I believe, cannot but be approved by people of the States con-.

cerned." Congressional hearings in Washington on the Colorado River project will be resumed December 8. It is hoped to have the Southwest united on a program by that time. The Senate Committee on Reclamation and Irrigation has insisted that, the States concerned settle their Internal differences regarding the division of water and power resulting from river development. CONFEREES ANNOUNCED Those making the trip to Phoenix are three of the four members of the California Legislative Committee, Assemblymen Walter J. Little of Los Angeles and C.

Finney of Imperial county, and State Senator Ralph Swing of San Bernardino; Charles L. Childers and i Earl Pound of the Imperial Valley Irrigation District; Dr. S. S. M.

JanningR of the Coachella Valley Water District; Mayor S. C. Evans of Riverside, executive director of the Boulder Dam Association Dr. Roy W. Martin, president of the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce; Special Counsel W.

B. Mathews and Chief Electrical Engineer 17. F. Scattergood of the Los Angeles department of water and power, and Charles P. Squires and Edward W.

Clark of Las Vegas, who will represent Gov. -Scrugham of Nevada, who had to return to Cnrson City last night. Members of the Arizona committee before whom the program of concessions will be iaid, are Cleveland W. Van Dyke, A. G.

McGregor, F. A. Reid, Thomas Madden and Secretary McCluskey, acting for Gov. Hunt. In addition to those making the trip, the Blltmore conference was attended by Mark Rose and Frank H.

Mclvaf of the Imperial Valley Irrigation District; Burdette Boody of the Boulder Dam Association; Thomas C. Tager of the Coachella Valley-district, and Shirley Ward (Continued on; Page 24, Column HARBOR TAKES IN LONG BEACH Coolidge Orders Extension of Customs District Three Water Fronts United in Port of Entry Dream of Combined System Realized in Action Unification of San Pedro. Wilmington and Long Beach into one United States port of entry designated as Los Angeles Harbor has been ordered by President Coolidge and became effective with his signature on November 15. last. It was announced yesterday by Collector of Customs Louis H.

Schwaebe following receipt through the malls of the executive order. By the President's action. Long Beach, In the jpast a separate ports! from Wilmington and Los Angeles Harbor, becomes a unit of Los Angeles's dream for a unified harbor on Its south and southeastern shores. Lonr Beach, through Its City Manager, C. H.

Windham, broached the subject on October 8. last, to Collector Schwaebe with duplicate communications addressed to the Secretary of. the Treasury, requesting his recommendation to the proposed "designation of Long Beach Harbor ns part of the port of Los Angeles." INDORSES MOVK In his petition accompanying that of the Long Beach City Manager, Collector Schwaebe. on October 16, last, heartily indorsed the proposed move to Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, urging the extension of Los Angeles Harbor to include that of Long Beach on grounds of economy. The executive order of President Coolidge, dated November 16, last, at the White House, ordains: "By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Act of Congress, approved August 1.

1914, making appropriations for the sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ended June -20, 1915, the port limits of Los Angeles, the headquarters port of diatoms Collection District No. 27 (LoS Angeles) are hereby extended to include Long Beach. effective November 15, 1925." Kxteneion of Los Angeles Harbor, to include Long Beach completes the unification of the entire so-called harbor district and. with the opening on January 1. of Beach harbor to light craft, presages a generous increase In shipping that In the past has not been credited to Los Angeles in othVial government records.

"With the construction of the Iong Beach breakwater, a port of Its kind in the world, will be flung open to naval commerce," Collector Schwaebe predicted, yesterday. ECONOMY FEATURE 'The economy effected by Long Beach by its merger with Los An-geies Harbor has been the motivating force behind Its plan, and from now on will increase as the harbor, district is improved." Merchandise shipped to Long Beach from inlercoastal and foreign points In the cast has been examined by Customs inspectors at the expense of Beach. Their dues hare been mounting with a steady increase, according to Federal officials, and the cltv now will be relieved of this additional cost. Another factor determining1 the merger has been the time lost In sending an Inspector from Long Beach- to Los Angeles Harbor, a schedule that delays ship movements from half a day to two days. Collector Schwaebe yesterday was unable to foresee the time when a deputy coilector of customs would be stationed at Long Beach, but intimated that such an appointment would not take place until buainess warranted it.

in the meantime all customs business originating in Long Beach will be transacted at Los Angeles Harbor. County Traffic Board Named by Supervisors The county's share In traffic problems will be taken up by a committee named yesterday by the Board of Supervisors, with the designation of the Public Utilities Committee. It Is headed by Supervisor Cogswell. Other members are Road Commissioner Jones. County Surveyor Rockhold.

Deputy County Counsel De Costa and Secretary Pomeroy of the Regional Planning Commission. The committee is to co-operate with the committee recently appointed by the City Council, in examination of the Kelker and De Leuw report and its application. rcrt t.n Vr 4 I Y' A "1 a II Union Terminal Plea Made to Rail Commission City Declares Cost of Depot Greatly Overestimated Lfoes Try to Block Efforts to Speed Hearing Appeals by the city and State to the three great transcontinental railroads in Los Angeles to unite In a stipulation saving much time and public money In the Plaza Union-Station case fell on deaf ear at the'opening of the case before the State Railroad Commis sion here yesterday. The railroads repeatedly tried to block efforts of the city and State to proceed ex peditiously with the case, railroad counsel declaring their Interests are so opposite to those of the city that such action, is necessary to protect their legal rights. The principal clash came when Max Thelen, special counsel for the city, offered in the reopened case the evidence 1 and exhibits presented on the same subject to the Interstate Commerce Commission when it held a hearing in 1923 op the city's petition that the railroads be required to build a union passenger station on a Plaza site.

C. W. Durbrow, Southern Pacific counsel and spokesman also for the Union Pacific and Santa Fe railroads, immediately objected. RAILROADS OBJECT C. I.

Wheat, counsel for the State commission, went to Thelen's assistance with an appeal to Durbrow asking that the material be permitted to go in subject to railroad objections. "It seems to me that this Is an exceedingly reasonable concession for the railroads to make in the interests of the public," Wheat said, but his appeal and those of Thelen were unheeded. "We can't consent to enter Into such a stipulation," Durbrow said. A. S.

Halsted, Union Pacific counsel, and B. W. Camp, Santa Fe counsel, indorsed Durbrow's position, saying it is necessary to protect their rights. Taking of the evidence then began by examination of George S. Hill, commission assistant engineer.

The railroads' attitude and tactics during the day were understood tn be such as will facilitate an appeal by them to the courts If the com mission's ultimate decision is con trary to their wishes. COST OVERESTIMATED That the cost of bulldine a Piazn station has been greatly overestimated by many was asserted by Thelen. He said it would cost sliehtlv in excess of $7,000,000 new money. "In sme unaccountable way," Thelen said, "the Supreme Court of the United States got the idea mai it would cost $25,000,000 or $36,000,000," Later Thelen read from the Interstate Commerce Commission's decision in the case that the Federal body was of the opinion that an adequate Plaza station could be built with a total investment cost (Continued on Page 2, Column 5) ice at San Francisco; H. D.

McGla- shan, also of San Francisco, district engineer for the United States Geological Survey, and F. J. Safley, chairman of the committee and inspector attached to the inspection division of the Department of In-terior at Salt Lake. Upon their findings will depend largely the outcome of the San Gabriel flood-control Water-storage contention of the city and county of Los Angeles on one side and the city of Pasadena on the jDther. Their reports will be made to Secretary of Interior Work and Secretary of Agriculture Jardine From -advance information received by Chairman Safley, the maln issue to be determined Is whether the Forks dam, several miles below the Granite dam site, should be built wih In bonds voted by Los Angeles coun-ty or whether the Granite dam would prove the more feasible and less expensive of the two.

"It is not our mission to dictate what Los Angeles or Pasadena shall or shall not build," Chairman Safley asserted yesterday, but we hope to safeguard the Interests of each other and to effect a conciliation; if possible." The problems as outlined by Chairman Safley are divided into several groups. Chief among these are the contentions that the Granite dam can be built at a saving over the Forks dam. of from $10 to $16,000,000, and perform the purpose of the Forks dam equally well, stoAng the same amount of water, approximately 240,000 acre feet. If it Is ultimately decided that fhe Forks dam is more suitable for Lob Angeles county flood control. Pasadena's claims that a railroad to be built by the city of Lo An-gelee to the forks will hinder construction of a dam at the Granite elte will be considered on the grounds that It will halt Pasadena's plan for at least eight years.

"The government's Interest Ha solely In Its vesting the public land in San Gabriel Canyon to the proper authorities and for the proper mears to insure a harmonious and abiding present and future," Chairman Safley declared. tarry IT APPEARS that we are suffering from an overdose of Joy and laughter. June Mathis, the author and producer, who ought to- know If anybody does, sayx America. In fed up with too much comedy. Laughs have been lugged In so much that we want to What she says applies equally to the printed page and even to private conversation.

SMART RACKS Mathis is right. The1 habit of this generation- Js for brilliant, conversation 'near brilliant. Any three people at a lunch-f con table they are all engaged In a frenzied and painful effort to make smart cracks. The casual meeting of a man and a girl on a street corner sounds like a sally between end men at a minstrel show. A banquet is a miserable ordeal, because you sit there, dreading the wheeies of the speaker of the evening.

Even preachers try to glitter In their sermons. "THE WILD WEST We are also tired so the literati and the movies assure us of the drama of the great open spaces where men are "Western" literature is dead. The reason of this is that there never has been any. There never were any cow ranges such as we read about': or bad men such as we shudder at. Perhaps there have been' books that were real, but no plays or pictures that have resembled the real thing.

The spent hi' time shooting out the lights of the nearest saloon was a figment of, the imagination of writing gentlemen' from Hoboken. Vimi.vr comes next? There is a fortune for any-, one "who could guess what the' American public wants next. 1 Some think' it will be war Rtorlcs-Jiidging by the suceess-of "The Big Parade" and "What Price Glory." I do not think so, "VTH.VT PRICE GLORY "What Price Glory" is a crashing, stupendous story of disillusionment and consecration. It was a striking, vivid and wonderful version of what Sir Philip Globs tried to say strikingly In "Now It Can Be Told." "You can say it Just once. "What Price Glory" opened no; new fields.

It said ail there wss to say. a'T'HE RIG 1 "The Bit PARADE1 ilg Parade" Is on of the finest pictures ever. It has the most poignant, the most beautiful and the most' moving love story ever told on the screen. And that Is why it It offers no promises to producers of other war plays. On the other hand.

It stands as a warning. BIG LEAGUERS Without a director of the highest type of genius; without actors of the warm tenderness and interesting personality of, John Gilbert and Renee Adoree. It would have been nothing. The war was a dramatic oh-stacle to be surmounted rather -than an asset to the dramatic. THE CRET DRAMA I am willing to wager the traditional cookie that the next great war story will be of the' Civil War.

The World War seems to be unpromising literary material. C'air and goat roping. "Poop "Tacit burr' under saddle. Plank straits. "High life" or other dop for horses.

Throwing of steers prone. A roped steer niayvbe brought to it knees only; If it fe thrown prone the contestant will be barred. Breaking ir loosening of horns. Bella or other noise-producing device to excite or in-furiate I tr animals. Bell fighting.

The' lat fe forbidden already by St4 law, but the regulations add cd -Clow I tikuure. Besides, alt the arenas are tt he contracted under lh pcrtifcinit of bunue officers -ami must be approved by then hefore being ssed. Humane Rccra are. to be sepreme judge to whether any of the ruiae bate been violated. DAM FIGHT HEARING TODAY Government Decision Expected to End Row Over San Gabriel Canyon Basin Sites Hearings to determine the United States government's land-permit decision on the Los Angeles county flood-control dam at the forks in San Gabriel Canyon, Its supply railroad and the proposed Pasadena water-storage dam at the Granite site In the canyon, will begin at 10 a.m.

today in the contest room of th TTnit Scenes at Dedication of Giant Tube At top is the old horse-drawn car which made trip through underground passage designed for use of new type of car (lower photo) which' is inspected by officials and1 guests. They are, from left to right, Sylvester Weaver, D. W. Pontius, vice-president and manager of the Pacific Electric, R. W.

Pridham, Joseph Scott and James E. Shelton. In the center picture is shown Los Angeles' first trolley train at Pico and Maple avenue. Phot by Arthur W. Kinney, 1887.

FETE MARKS SUBWAY OPENING Pacific Electric Bore Hailed as Start of FAIR YULETIDE FORECAST Father Ricard Predicts Rain for Pirsl and Last Paris of December in Southland Three days of rain and snow over the Pacific Coast, beginning next Sunday; then fair weather for Christmas followed by storms to close the month are forecast for December by Rev. Jerome Slxtus Ricard. California's "apdre of the rains." There is a possibility of rain In Los Angeles tomorrow, Father Ricard predlcte. with clearing weather Friday. The entire forecast for the month Tomorrow: Quite early in the-tthen another are passing over the New Era When First Train Moves Marking the beginning of a new era in transportation In Los Angeles, the city's first section of underground electric railway was opened yesterday with ap proprlate exercises, Including a luncheon, given by the Chamber of Commerce at the Blltmore at noon, and the operation of the first train Immediately afterward.

The passenger list Included many city and county. officials, II. W. Brunei Ige. president of 'the Slate Railway Commission', heads of the; different departments of the Pacific Electric Railway and the Chamber of Commerce and numerous other citizens of prominence.

Regular service on the new sub-ln possession of certain mystIcacross the plstfornr leading to he RIDlE 'EM COWBOY! BUT YOU BETTER USE A HOBBY HORSE In, the Federal Building. The hearings will be conducted by F. E. district engineer for the United States Forest Serv- high north. 16th and 17th Inst.

A couple of depression of larger dimensions passing over the Northwest, causing cloudiness and rains, sleet or snow from Prince Rupert to Te-hachapl and possibly bridging over to Los Angeleg and San Diego and thence to Arizona and New Mexico. 18th Starting to clear. 1 9th Generally fair. 20th Small depression running eastward by way of north: fair In California. 21st, 32nd and 23rd Inst: Generally fair.

-24th lnst.t A minor, depression reaching British Columbia, causing some trouble there and then running eastward. Fair from Oregon to the southward. 26th Fair practically over the whole Coast. 28th Fair except for a few clouds. -37th.

28th. 3th and 30th Inst: Bad weather over the whole Coast, taking in Montana, Idaho. Nevada, Arizona. Utah and New Mexico. Severe winds and a-ecerous rains the order of the day.

31st inet. Stormy yet with some clearings. N. Stormy first three days of January. 192S.

As the wet the bootlegging business diminishes. trains. Here they awaited the process'on which had formed at the Blltmore and now, headel hy lames E. Shelton, Sylvester Weaver, D. V.

Pontius and R. W. Pridham, walking abreast, marched up to th' flimsy barrier, breaking It. and the station platform was open for the large crowd of marchers and the thousands who will follow them as the years go by. FIVE CARS WAITING A train of five car was in readiness to take the travelers on their Journey to the end of the tunnel.

but before climbing aboard they were detained to have their pictures taken and to witness the ceremony involving the breaking a bottle, containing, it was ssid, ginger ale, on what would have been the prow, had the train been a ship. This ceremony was performed by Mrs. K. K. BUhardt.

a niece of Vice-President Pontius. These preliminaries over, the gathering of officials and others got aboard the train, the signal! was given and the Brut subway train to leave. Los igelea was under way. The passengers enjoyed signs being admitted EVERYBODY HAPPY There were a number of tnese favored citizens and entrance Into the chill caverns revealed them wandering vp and down the corridors trying to comprehend the signs on the walls, which Included arrows sid helpful sdvlce Informing the questing soul to go this way to reach the Hill-street exit or the other to rech the subway trains, to turn here or to get into the next corridor. The arrows and signs were In black.

-They should have been green. Then the Illusion of belnr 'In the New York shuttle would have been complete. But nobody was lost and everybody, was happy, and when presently the strains of the Pacific Electrlo Band, stationed on a large flat ra on one of the tracks. Indicated that something apparently was doing, the entire assembly underground rushed to the end of ihe ramp leading in from Hill street where a ribbon had been stretched "The soul that slnnefh. It ihaU die but if the wicked will tarn from all his sins he shall not die." Ezekiel xrili, 20-2L.

xorenoon a disturbance of marked character entering by way of British Columbia, will cause rain or now over the Northwestern States preceded and accompanied by brisk south and southeast winds. Same disturbance is Rkely to come down to California and Arizona, taking In Idaho, Nevada and Utah and thence off to past the Rockies. 3rd Same storm continued. 4th Beginning to clear. 6th A measure of fair from Oregon to the southward, but getting cloudy at the northward.

6th. 7th and 8th A series of successive depressions (areas of low barometer) taking control of the Pacific Coast, dispensing rains over the plains and snow over the mountains, preceded and accompanied by brisk southerly winds. Clearing on the 8th. 9th and loth Fair over the southern and central coast cloudy or partly cloudy from the Siskiyou to the northward. 11th At night another disturbance of some severity landing over British Columbia and extending to the southward.

Rains and brink south winds to be looked for. 11th Same storm continued. A Jith. 14th and 15th Generally fair, with stray clouds, while a small area of low barometer and way line vwill begin at 6 a.m. this mcrning, operating from the terminal on Hill street, with slity-seven trains running daily over the underground line to GlendaJe and thirty-two to Burbank.

MARKS TRIUMPH The completion of the ne tunnel, which Is one mile In length, terminating at First street Jind Gler.dale Boulevard, marks a triumph in construction of this character, only fourteen months having been required for the work. Work is etill going forward on the terminal building, which it Is estimated will be eomDleted next July. The entire improvement, in cluding tunnel and building, wit: represent an aggregate Investment on the part of the Pacific Electrlo Railway Company and the Subway Terminal Corporation of 000. Scenes in the underground chambers of the terminal at Hill street prior to the starting of the first train at about 2 yesterdx.v afternoon, rivaled -those of' tl famous "shuttle" between Times Square and the Grand Central In New York. Thousands gathered in the" etreet and on the sidewalks outside the terminal long before the departure of the train which was waiting for the delegation of dignitaries who had attended the luncheon.

Policemen guarded the entrance to the subway, only those Angeles yewterday cut another tie that bound it to the. Wild West. The Department of Humane Treatment of Animals sprinkled ro-water on the rodeos. Hereafter these exhibitions of row punchers prowee will be conducted under aseptic conditions. The new regulations for the conduct of lie erstwhile sport were promulgated yesterday by Mrs.

E. M. Waddell. secretary of the department, and lay down a barrage of dont'a that will keep the riders in be trenches for many a CbriMmas. For Instance, mwdylvm.

of liquor, quarreling with the Judges and disputing with tin-inane officer each Is made sof-fk-tenl rauve for the barring of any contestant. As for the rodeo itself, the following are forbidden aniocg r-ther biBgr I the ride hugely, the crowded cars reminding one of a lot of Isohool children on a lark. Some of the old-timers aboard fell into reminiscence, telling of the time I forty or more year ago when they I had betn aboard the first wobbly (Continued on Page 3, Column S).