The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 15

CHEST LUNCHEON TODAY L0g gtlgClCg CimtS TUESDAY, OCT. 31, 1944-Portn COUNTY POPULATION GAIN OF 60 PER CENT SEEN HONORS ALLIED NATIONS Council in Plea to Supervisors Urged by Councilman Harold Harby, who represents the area, the City Council yesterday passed a resolution asking the An increase of 60 per cent in Board of Supervisors to recon Chief Warns on Halloween Rowdyism Equipped with masks, gowns, noise-makers, pumpkins and all the other paraphernalia of hobgoblins, spooks, witches and kindred creatures, L03 Angeles youngsters await this evening's twilight and the annual celebration of Halloween. Those "who plan to celebrate All Hallow's Eve the original name of the contraction now observed on Oct. 31 in a manner giving fun and pleasure to sider their action of last week denying an appropriation of to help defray costs of spreading 200,000 cubic yards of sand on the Venice beaches. The City Council some days ago passed a similar appropriation, but the whole program designed to combat beach erosion and prevent beach property storm damage this winter, was threatened with failure because dle the estimated legal business in 1970.

Population estimates were obtained by the committee from surveys of the County and State regional planning commissions and United States census figures. Acting on the assumption that the proposed new $8,000,000 courthouse will be started in 1916 and completed in 1950, the committee of judges has been co-operating with the County Bureau of Administrative Research to estimate space requirements which will provide ade Allied nations will be honor guests, as will War Chest agencies serving their nationals. Charles Arnn, president of the United Nations War Relief Council, will address the campaign leaders celebrating Allied Nations Day. United States Employment Service's personnel manager and War Chest chairman for U.S.E.S., Mrs. Rita K.

Guerin, announced that members had increased their War Chest subscription by 52.9 per cent over the employee contribution of last year. i Dedicating their second report luncheon meeting to the Allied nations, more than 1000 campaign leaders from 17 incorporated and 17 unincorporated associated towns and cities united in the War Chest appeal for $7,613,579, will meet at the Bilt-more Bowl this noon where Merle Oberon, actress, will be guest of honor and speaker. Several divisions from associated towns and cities are expected to report an oversubscription of their quotas to Preston Hotch-kis, first vice-chairman of the Chest, who will preside. Consuls representing all the the population of, Los Angeles County by 1970 was foreseen in a progress report by the Superior Court judges' committee on the proposed new county courthouse made public yesterday. Th.

report of the committee, headed by Superior Judge Samuel R. Blake, estimated that by 1970 the present population of 3,500,000 in the county will increase to 5,500,000. Based on studies of legal filings and court records extending over a period of 40 years, the report says 78 Superior Court judges will be required to han Organist Freed on Charges of Killing Parents Courtney Fred 27-year-old church organist, yesterday was cleared of charges that he murdered his father and mother in mil when Superior Judge Thomas L. Ambrose ruled the State had failed to establish a crime. Judge' made his ruling in dismissing the jury which has been hearing'' efldnce to the fourth trial of the red-riajr'd; defendant who spent more than a year in San death row as a result of a previous conviction.

Theft Charges Remain He still must face trial on grand theft charges that he defrauded an insurance company of $1800 in an alleged fake burglary of his apartment three years ago. Yesterday's ruling came after Judge Ambrose had spent the previous week' reading transcripts from the two prior trials of the adverse action of the Am Ja Board of Supervisors. The sand would be obtained from the quate court facilities in the build- dunes at Hyperion and trucked ing for at least 20 years after completion. CLEARED Courtney Rogers who is freed of charges killed parents. to the beach.

all will be given every encour agement by John Law. No. 12 Sponsors But those who plan to sally forth equipped with bean-shooters for sniping; paper bags which, filled with water, may be used as and soap ftr marking windows, will find PROPOSITION Would creatM 1 unbearable tax I I tor our returning gr. in aervice- 00 Sued for $10, the going unpleasant, Chief of Police C. B.

Horrall promised A $10,000 suit for asserted vio yesterday. "We won't stand for vandal lation of the election law was filed in Superior Court yesterday against Chairman E. C. Kimbail ism in any form or degree," the chief warned. "Property and manpower are both too valuable of the California Committee for these days to permit any de struction- or damage." the Right to Work and the committee's executive board members and secretary-treasurer.

Sheriff Eugene W. Biseailuz and listening to arguments of announced a similar attitude. Court Revokes MacDonald Will Superior Judge Harry R. Arch bald yesterday officially revoked the will of tne late Eugene Hor ton MacDonald, war plant work er, who left his $70,000 estate to Mrs. Shannon Helen Carter, pret ty 34-year-old Pasadena real es tate operator.

Arthur T. MacDonald. father, The plaintiff is Chairman Gene E. Marcy of the Veterans' Committee in Opposition to Proposition" No. 12.

He asks for the morfey for himself as a civil penalty for the asserted violation. Marcy said the law requires making public the names of all who contribute more than $25 to a cause seeking to amend the State Constitution as does Proposition No. 12. He charged that the Kimball committee ha3 listed 10 contributions of from $100 to $1000 each from "anonymous" donors and so he asks $1000 penalty be paid him as a citizen on each of the 10 counts. Randolph Van Nostrand of the Kimball committee said: "I am informed by counsel that my report of committee funds is correct.

This suit 13 but part of the miserable and malodorous campaign of misrepresentation and character assassination that has marked opposition to No. 12. They have al and Mrs. Marion Albrecht, moth er of the dead man. contested their son's will on the grounds Dep.

Disk Atty. Arthur Veitch and Dep. Public Defender William Neeley as to the admis-eability of the asserted confessions of Rogers to the dual crime. He was charged with killing his mother, Mrs. Lilly Rogers, 45, with chloroform and illuminating gas, Feb.

10, 1911, while she was bedridden with an illness In the family home at 600 N. Gage and that he fatally burned his sleeping father, C. C. Rogers by setting fire to the residence Oct. 25, 1941.

Charge False Promises Neeley, in his arguments, contended the State had failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that murder had been committed and claimed confessions were obtained only after false promises had been held out to Rogers after he was in custody for 17 days. In the first trial before Superior Judge Clement D. Nye, Rogers was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to the death chamber. The sentence was reversed on the grounds that confessions admitted at the trial had been obtained under duress. that Mrs.

Carter and her hus band, Charles A. Carter, inftu enced the younger MacDonald to leave Mrs. Carter his estate through spirit messages. After a two-week trial, a iury voted, 9 to 3. last week to set aside the will, but Atty.

Lau rence Martin, representing Mrs Carter, filed a motion for a judg ment in her favor notwithstand ing the verdict. That motion was denied yesterday by Judge Arch bain. ready failed four times in litigation intended to prevent enactment of No. 12. We do not take MacDonald, whose estate con this suit seriously." sisted mostly of insurance policies, was killed last Jan.

11 by a shotgun blast while on a shooting party. Parents Learn Son's Heroism For two years Sgt. Bill Staple- A second trial before Superior Judge Edward R. Brand resulted in a jury disagreement. Back in the County Jail with the shadows of San Quentin's death chamber a mere dream, Rogers told reporters he probably owed his life to his counsel.

Neeley. h-mC 3.95 -CV I jC I I is- I 111 h) iMT'lvvi ton kept his parents from worrying by writing home to Altadena that he was an Air Forces ground crew member in the Southwest Pacific. But now Mr. and Mrs. Russell A.

Stapleton know that their 19-year-old son was a gunner-photographer aboard a B-24 Liberator bomber and participated in 25 missions over Truk, New Racing Effect on Workers to Be Checked DIVORCE BY MAIL AND MARRIAGE LATER HELD VOID The Mexican mail-order divorce, often under fire in California courts, again was adjudged invalid yesterday when Superior Judge Carl A. Stutsman declared the 13. year-old marriage of Richard Haflan, film director, and Rosita Harlan dancer, null and void. The pair were married March 11, 1931, two months after the Cuban dancer obtained a Mexican divorce from Karl Hugo Karlsson. Harlan charged that neither his wife nor her then husband had gone to Sinaloa, for the proceedings.

"I am satisfied that the plaintiff' (Harlan) co-operated with this woman In getting the Mexican divorce," Jddge Stutsman declared in annulling the bonds. A checkup will be made at i Guinea and Halmahera. He was Hollywood Turf Club to ascer injured in a troop raid and had received the Air Medal. Oak Leaf Cluster and Turple Heart. Sunday the parents, who live at 2452 Boulder Road, were informed by the War Department that Stapleton was lost in action when hi3 plane was shot down over Borneo.

A few days ago his last letter home said: "I'll be home pretty soon, so get me a seat on the 50-yard line for the Rose Bowl game." tain what effect, if any, horse racing has on war plant absenteeism in the Southland, H. R. Harnish, War Manpower Commission chief here, said yesterday. The survey will not be made at the track itself during the meeting which opens tomorrow, but by consulting employer records showing absenteeism on race days, Harnish disclosed. Auto Accidents Fatal for Three Two men and a boy died of traffic injuries jesterdav.

Wayne Hood, 10, of 2011 E. was killed when he was struck by an automobile while crossing Florence Ave. at Holmes Ave. on roller skates. James S.

Waldron, 23, of 7311H Holmes driver of the car, was not held. Fatally injured when he was thrown from his automobile after he had lost control of his machine, which crashed into a parked car. Byron O. Day, 30, of 6642 Ajax Bell Gardens, died 3.9S at General Hospital. The accident occurred at Santa Ana Blvd.

and Alameda Bell Gardens. Alfonso Carrasco, 36, of 1725 Seventh died at General Hospital from injuries received Sunday night when he was struck by a car driven by Dock 3W M. Maurice. 29. of 1101 W.

Ninth at Seventh and Mateo Sts. Maurice was later booked at Central Jail on suspicion of hit-and-run driving. Matricide Found to Be Mental Case Stanley J. Barnes. 35, who ad-' mittedly choked his mother to death last Aug.

12 as she was resting following a family argu-1 ment, yesterday was found to have been insane at the time of i the crime, and Superior Judge Harold B. Landreth ordered him confined to the State Hospital for the Criminally Insane at Mendocino. i Barnes called police and ad-! mltted that "a spell" had come' over him, so that he was unable to unlock hia hands from his mother's throat, according to court records. The mother was Mrs. Elizabeth Pearl Barnes.

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