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The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 27

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NOVEMBER 20, It 9 FRIDAY MORNING. Wise Bird Hints Beach Injunction BROTHER OF NIXON ASKS ACCOUNTING DIVORCE UNTANGLES BENNETTS Mother of Film Actress Freed from Marriage Thai Made Her Sistcr-in-Lau? to Her Ou)n Daughter, Alma Bennett Placer-CoUnty Man Seeks Court Action to Unscramble Millions in Estate Mrs. Dora Bennett was granted a divorce from Charles Bennett in Judge Thompson's Court yester- -day 'after an Twelve years ago Alma's mother married Charles Bennett About a year ago Alma married her step-uncle Fred, whereupon her stepfather became her brother-in-law Alma Bennett was the principal witness for her mother yesterday. She said she was bearing th a burden of the Bennett family. She declared she had to support her stepfather and brother-in-law.

who, even if he were only one person, was too many. Dora Bennett sued for divorce on grounds of desertion and nonsupport. She said she had to depend on her. daughter for her living. Attorney Daniel M.

Hldey represented Mrs. Dora Bennett in her action against Charles Bennett. He Is also representing Alma Bennett in her action against Fred Bennett. the tangled of Bennett family. Mrs.

Dora Bennett is the mother of Alma Bennett, film actress. Alma Bennett Is the step-daughter of Charles Bonnett, ind has a divorce action lending agalnnt her husband. Fred Bennett who Is Charles Bennett's -i i Pi tj" I Wi HV' JS(. 1 a Unscrambling ot the NUon millions, In part of orange lands In Riverside and San Bernardino counties and got together Vy the late United States Senator George. Stuart -Nlm of Nevada and Kate Imogens Nixon, his wife, now the divorced Countess d'Aleria of Hollywood, is aetced of a Placer-county in a complaint filed against Mrs.

Nixon by the Senator's brother, Rudolph M. Nixon pf acer county. It la asserted in the complaint, filed by Robert A Waring, Los Angeles attorney, that when Senator Nixon died he left an estate Inventoried si worth at least $2,000,000, one-half of which went to the widow and the other half into trust, from which $200 a month each was to be paid to Rudolph Nixon, Mattie J. Threlkel and Nancy Donaldson. The women were sisters of the Senator.

A Nevada bank was made trustee. Mrs. Nixon, it is declared In the complaint, organised the Nixon Estate Company, consisting mostly of Herself, and effected transfer of the trust to it: Rudo'ph Nixon asserts his brother's trust fund has been so mixed faith Incumbered properties of Mrs. Nixon that It is endangered and that the estate la In a chaotic condition likely to be lost, unless the court restores order. Some time after Senator Nixon's death, the widow was married to Fewer Women in Poorhouses There are more men In poor-houses than women, about two to one, but the women are harder to handle than the men, says the superintendent of one.

"Give a man a stick to whittle and a seat in the sun and he'll be satisfied, -but a woman never gets fully reconciled to charity. Our most troublesome Inmates among the men an organist, about thirty years her who was playing In a Reno motion -picture theater. Later a divorce was issued and still later an International detective agency sued the widow for an unpaid balance on a $9000 "shadowing" bill. KENTUCKIANS TO MEET The Kentucky Blue Grass Club la calling together all who ever Uved in the Old Kentucky Home and are now in the southland. The November rally will be held Tuesday evening the 24th in the Moose Hall at 137 South Hill street Following popular entertainment there will be dancing.

Visiting-Kentuckians as well-as non-members are wanted. are the old bachelors and the most Driftwood Sage Starts Rumor difficult to manage. They mean well; some of them are fine old fellows, but they have a different view Friends of amusement zone feeling out sentiment for court action, Pelican Pete I w. or lire than a man who has had a wife and children. They Just simply haven't got the idea of teamwork." Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph.

MacMillan Chooses "A Well-Balanced Diet Built Around Meats" Nothing developed on the trip to cause oe to revise my idea about foods which is that a well-balanced diet built around meats yields the best health results. On the way north we had fresh domestic meat from the supply taken aboard when we sailed. After we reached the North we relied upon the wild life of the region, using seal, walrus, caribou, muskox, Arctio hare, and many kinds of wild ducks. Every day we had fresh meat with plenty of fat at at least one meal and usually oftener when supplies were plentiful, and every one came through thw four months In excellent condition; in fact most of the members of the party gained weight While we often hear it claimed that eating too much meat is unfavorable to health, it is a fact that such ailments as gout, hardening of the arteries, and other disorders attributed to an excess of meat eating are quite unknown to the Eskimos who eat nothing but meat. In my own experience I have never known anyone to attempt to live in the Arctio on a vegetarian diet.

On the other hand, every Arctio explorer now- adays relies upon the native fresh meats as a sure -preventive of scurvy, a much dreaded nutritional disorder which was prevalent in earlier, Arctio ex- PETE RAILS AT VENICE BLUE LAW Municipal Bond Issues Will be Awarded Soon Six. municipal and school dis trict bond issues, aggregating $1,476,000, are scheduled to be sold In Southern California during the next two weeks, according to 1 a report Issued yesterday by R. H. Moulton Investment bankers. An Issue of $500,000 San Die-gulta water system (city of San perienoe times before we learned a lesson in diet Eskimo.

Old Pelican Says, No Dance, No People, No People, No Fish for Him Sundays By a "Times" Staff Correspondent VENICE, Nov. 19. Pelican Pete waddled out of seralretlre-ment today and amid a flock of cheers from surrounding seagulls harpooned the so-called "blue laws" of Los Angeles fore and aft as so much bunk. Pelican Pete, be it known, an ardent antlannex-atlonist, has been in a huff since the recent election and until now had refused to speak for publication. Pete Is known in the Bay District as one of the most aristocratic and best-informed pelicans In this section of the country.

Pell-, can Mike, over at Long Beach, he confided today, was only a beachcomber and could, not lay claim to any Intelligence. We found Pelican Pete perched on a piece of driftwood near the Municipal Pier, where he was alternately preening his feathers and waiting for a stray fish that nearby Nlmrods would throw his way. "You are a new egg down here," Pete said as he eyed me up and down, "how do 1 know you will quote me right?" "This election stuff has knocked me dizzy," Pete continued as he flapped a friendly wing at a ca from the ySUL Diego) .4 1-2 per cent bonds will be awarded on the 23rd and on the 24th Inst the Board of Supervisors of Orange county will award an issue of $150,000 Huntington Beach Union High School 5 per cent bonds. On the 24th Inst, an issue of $125,000 city of Orange water 6 per cent bonds will also be sold. The Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles county will on' the 80th inst award an issue of $800,000 Long Beach city school district 6 per cent bonds.

An issue of Ventura Union High School district 5 per cent bonds will be sold by the Supervisors of Ventura county on December 1. An issue of $300,000 Glendale city school district 6 per cent bonds will be awarded by the Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles county on December 7.. BOY TO HEAD CONCERT Young Harpist Among Features of Lincoln Park Program The above message from Donald B. MacMillan, the famous Arctic explorer, is of vital interest to every housewife. The MacMillan expedition carried Swiff Premium Hams and Bacon and other Swift branded products.

Swift Company hos Angeles Local Branch, 916 East First Street R. C. Campbell, Manager reening seagull. "First thing you know I am going, to have to do my own fishing on 'Sunday if they don't amend those blue laws. I'm speaking my seagull pals, too.

Understand? If them blue laws go The Sunday band concert at Lincoln Park at 1:80 p.m. will present Harold Roberts and his Golden State Band and as solo features, A. through, there won't be any danc ain't any dancing W. Simpkins, clarinet and Harry Ml ing, lr tnere there won't be any people, if geverln, boy harpist William Tell there ain't any ycufio mere won't be any fishing and if there overture by Rossini will be the second concert number by the band. aln any Ashing we don't eat un- Drink deeply of til the following Monday.

Most ia program iouows. of us are old and need helpmates. ttUffilpiSr iNow, listen, younar fellow, don Pw-ttn a. w. simnHiu.

aiirtnat uioiut imiimmmmmmmmmiiimiim twist that so It will read I need a iTh. wife. was married once. "of sSi" "tSH But -here some done." and Intmal AHa Mint its seal-brown depths cup of Hills Bros coffee Pete looked around to see If there i'resantlnt Btrrr E. Srerla.

bw hr nlolit were any eavesdroppers. "There Is going to be fireworks down here! Two of Dan" of tb. SarMWU (lullin Jlon Hunitq Due. Ntt BrthiM lioubuto Mtrch Fuw ir S(wiOd Btniur about the 24th. when consolidation 1 becomes effective, if certain men 1 don't feel assured of Dronr dance zoning after the meeting this aft-! ernoon in Los Angeles and the ban- For Exchange quet Friday night at the Ship Cafe.

They are using those meetings-as feelers and you can bet The World's fetes? Passenger Terminals your next pay check the Judges up iu i Angejes are going to have a nice little injunction Saturday or Monday if it don't look good." Pete refused to divulge the source of his information. Today Ntw Union Station, Chicago JUST to hover "over a steaming cup of Hills Bros. Coffee is experience a new and definite thrill. In all the world of fine coffees, no aroma can compare with this! And the greatest thrill is yet to' come. That indescribable taste! Wherever coffee connoisseurs reuean Fete was entertained by Miss Lucile Pirison, one of the win-ners in the Venice "Red JTnr tJSjl New Union Station Chicago beauty parade last August with yania Station New York tr-a Vj phuti a special fish supper.

LAND DEAL BC V. S. Pit. OS, SUSPECTS GIVE BAIL Pair Named as Swindlers Hours Apart on ths Famous i BroadwayLimited of Homesteaders Arrested; Mrs. Phelps Not Located Pearl Lee Holmes and her husband.

Robert Potwln Holm es of 522 West Anaheim street, Wilmington, yesterday were arrested by Deputy United States Marshal Mangarina as an aftermath of their indictment by the Federal grand Nevada Stock Ranch WANT CALIFORNIA (Will assume your mortgage) One of the best stock ranches In Nevada. Formerly owned, by the Governor. Rich, river bottom soil. All level. Every acre can be Irrigated free from Humboldt Creek which rises on and flows directly through the ranch.

Controls 100,000 acres ot splendid range land. Southern Pacific and Western Pacific trans-continental and Lincoln Highways run through Elko, the nearest large town. Ap lift their cups, Hills Bros, is known as The Recognized Standard of coffee excellence. Aroma, flavor, strength, freshness here is the Quality Quartet that makes Hills Bros, the one really outstanding coffee. Ask for Hills Bros, by name and look for the Arab on the.

can. Hills Bros. Coffee is economical to use. HILLS BROS COFFEE Over the Short Line Between Chicago and New York EASTWARD A Jury Wednesday on charges of perjury, subornation of perjury and conspiracy to defraud the gov ernment in a huge land fraud. They were taken before United States Commissioner Turney and supplied bonds of $8500 each.

praised by conservative bank and Mrs. sretnna 8. Phelps. 1845 Clear Summit avenue, mother of Mrs. oona noa8e- Pnce, JJUU.UUU.

Holmes and said by Federal m- of encumbrance. estigators to have been the in- i Will consider city Income In Call 12:40 p.a.(CT.) Lt. Chicago Uaica Stsiioa Esew4 Ar. New York fornia or the East and will assume your first mortgage. Might take walnut grove, clear for clear.

Pentjimia Statin 9:49 a. (IT.) fisssMTenaal stigator oi in. pioi oy wnicn more than ten homesteaders were deprived of sums ranging from several hundred to $1000, has not yet been apprehended but bonds have been prepared for her appearance and she will be released upon reporting to the commissioner. MUSICIAN'S FUNERAL RITES TO BE TODAY Funeral services for Harvey P. NO CASH REQUIRED! R.

SCHRAG 224 Vail Arcade MIAMI, FLORIDA lllfcf ror nservafion or further information, oddrew Frederick Webb. District Passenger Representative 123 Van Nuys Building. Los Angeles. Calif. Telephones: Vaadlke tiii.

Metropolitan liH Briggs, a musician, win be conduct-, ennsqlvania Railroad ed at 8:80 pm. today at the ehapel of the WUshire Undertakers. Mr. Briggs, who was SS years of age. died Tuesday at his home.

Mi West Fourth street At the time of hi death was a mem In lt rifial Psnrmm Pmtt mkuk. kerf i th cefer frtih. THE STAKDASD EAILROAO OF THE UXDRLD ber of orchestra the Los Angeles Athletic Club. leaves his widow and two children. liimniiiimmmimiimmmiiimmiiiimiiiiimiiiiiimmmiim.

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