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THE WEATHER IN TWO PARTS 36 PACES Port LOCAL NEWS 18 Pag TIMES OFFICES 202 Wst First Strt And Throughout Southern California 103 ANGELES AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: Uni.llUd today qpd tomorrow with local Moderate tempratur. Maximum and minimum teaipraturi lor ymterday: 5652. Complete w.athtr report on Pag 18, Part II. VOL. LVI THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 28, 1937.

CITY NEWS EDITORIAL SPORTS Nuptial Mill Uncovered TAKES VOWS ESCAPES IN EXPLOSION HURTING PAL Health Head Accused at City Hall Rift Widens 5 ON THE SIDE i Befuddled Hollywood 1 Council and Mayor in New Clash Over Mere Warnings on Traffic Pomeroy Charged WitK Inefficiency and Wast by County Grand Jury WITH 'It fit r.ijrerK ft 1 ix 1 -f -s-' 15 I ml I i ifn r' i Si -r( C. Jack Riley, playmate of Paul Black, escaped injury in a powder explosion yesterday. He is shown with "Tabby," a pet cat, and one of the indirect causes of the blast. At his right is magneto which generated spark that exploded powder. Ximes photo The breach between Mayor Shaw and the City Council, significant in this election year, was widened perceptibly- yesterday when the Council urgently re quested the Police Department abandon at once its policy of issuing written warning cards to motorists for minor traffic viola tions instead of citations.

In addition to asking this abandonment, the Council asked City Attorney Chesebro to inves tigate tne legality of warnings instead of arrests for violations tne. California Motor Vehicle Act and the municipal traffic ordinance. SLAP AT COUNCIL Mayor Shaw filed a letter with the Council on the subject, in which' he intimated that the increase in traffic accidents may laid to dilatory tactics in the Council. The warning-card system was inaugurated in a police order of January 9, and follows Point No of the Mayor's twelve-point traffic safety program of December 11, last. In his letter yesterday Mayor Shaw, said the principal item of the program was the increase of the motorcycle squad to offi cers.

This recommendation, he said, still reposes in the Council files. MANY ABSENT Mayor Shaw said the police personnel numbers fifty-seven fewer persons than it did ten years ago. More than 300 offi cers, he said, are absent from duty at present due to the influenza epidemic. Councilman MacAlister sub mitted a motion declaring that, inasmuch as the warning-card system had proved a mistake, the Council urgently requests its abandonment. There was considerable discus sion, with Councilman Lewis Notedly attacking the motion CRY OF POLITICS "It's just dirty politics!" shouted Lewis.

"I beg to be ex cused!" Whereupon he stamped from the room Councilman Hyde said the police orders obviously are being misinterpreted by the motoring public, wmich has concluded that any law can be violated twice be fore any penalty is imposed, Many references were made to the recent sharp upturn in traffic fatalities. BROAD FARCE On the vote onlv Councilman Buyer opposed MacAlister's motion. Then Councilman Thrasher introduced the investigatory motion, which was adopted, with Councilman Tate voting in opposition and Lewis still absent The session then descended into broad farce when Councilman Hyde submitted a motion asking the Police Commission to inform the Council how many Turn to Page 2, Column 1 Boys Questioned at Race -Track Most Youths Escape as Juvenile Authorities Raid Santa Anita INJURES YOUTH, TO SCARE CAT with a terrific detonation, rock ing near-by homes and attract ing scores to the As the boy lay bleeding and screaming on a back porch to which he was thrown by the blast, his mother, Mrs. Nell Black, lay near helplessness in a near-by bedroom with influenza. I Mrs.

Black went to his aid, administered first-aid and summoned an. ambulance. She then accompanied the boy to the hospital. Jack Riley, 16, of 109 South Normandie avenue, Paul's companion, was uninjured. Young Black caught the full force of the blast in his face and was cut and burned about the left side of his face and chest.

Police surgeons said he may lose the sight of his left eye. He was taken to Hollywood Receiv ing Hospital. The Riley boy said they planned to "scare" a neighborhood cat which had been bother ing he Black boy's cat, Tabby. According to the Riley boy, the two were preparing a home made firecracker on the glass- Turn to Page 2, Column 8 POWDER BLAST WHO PLANNED Paul Black! 14 years of age, of 162 North, Alexandria avenue, was-critically injured at his home yesterday when several Paul Black ounces of black powder, with which he and another boy were playing, accidentally exploded If 1:1 -'lA The former Helen Burgess, actress, has ah- nounced her marriage at Yuma to Herbert Rutherford, pianist. Helen Burgess Elopes to Yuma Actress and Pianist Make Auto Trip to Arizona for Ceremony During her film which has Just begun, Helen1 Burgess may more than once be called upon to "enact" the part of an plonins.

bride-to-be. Yesterday she played the role in real life when she became the wife of Herbert Rutherford, Los Angeles pianist, at Yuma, following, an automobile1 elopement from this The couple left Los Angeles Tuesday afternoon and sent Miss Burgess' Frank Burgess of 1257-Florine street, a wire yesterday announcing -the marriage. Miss Burgess was discovered by Cecil B. DeMille, who gave her a test after seeing her at a Holtywood cafe. A contract with Paramount followed.

Woman Victim of Asphyxiation Alone in a house 1955 Ya Addison Way, Miss Frances Christine Drummond, 31 years of age, was found dead from illuminating gas yesterday. She was discovered by neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. F. W.

Sadler, who had detected the odor of gas leaking from the dwelling. BOYS it It I to of be 8 I Couples Led to Yuma by 1 Professional Steerer BY READ KENDALL Not all marriages are made in heaven at least not all those of Southern California! In an atmosphere of ultra-modernism, across glossy cocktail bars and liquor lounges, tragic troths are being pledged which; lead to hasty marriage and, a few days later, to divorce courts or pleas for nuptial annulments. For months in Hollywood a marriage industry has been operating. Unsuspectingly vie-; tims, either by liquor the guile of the marriage manager, have been persuaded to rush into a wedding ceremony usually as a climax to some gay party. MARRIAGE MILL DUPES They may have thought they were the victims o.

their own instability or foolishness. Facts show they were the dupes of a marriage mill which has lured many men and women into wed lock in order to collect a sizable fee from all, who profit by the transaction. Such revelations were made 3resterday in the film center as a sequel to recent exposures of the marriage machine in Yuma, most popular of all Pacific Coast Gretna Greens. Plied with liquor, gullible couples are enticed to county seats in Nevada and Arizona by airplane. While still groggy they are made man- and wif by an obliging official.

THEX COMES SOBER DAWX "When the sun rises on a sober dawn their first thought leaps to annulment or divorce and so the yicious circle is completed with the entrepreneur of the scheme taking his propor? tionate cut from air who profit by the insidious set-up. The chicanery of this most recently exposed marriage industry is doubly dangerous because it is within the. law. No laws are violated, consequently there is no danger. cf Investigations.

Everyone profits except the unfortunate victims of one of the most vicious stratagems to evade the three-day marriage law imposed on romancers of California. Several cliques or rings en gaged in this nefarious trade have come to light during recent days in the screen capital Turn to Page, 2, Column 4 DRIVER JAILED IN FATAL CRASH His body mangled and broken after being carried seventy-five feet by an automobile, Robert J. Crawford, 45 years of age, of 1103 Santa Cruz street, San Pedro, died yesterday at San Pedro Emergency Hospital. Lelaiid Rice, 573 Thirty-ninth street, San Pedro, owner of the I fishing boat Sunshine and driver of the car which struck Craw ford as he was crossing Gaffey and First streets, was booked at San Pedro jail on suspicion of negligent homicide. Rice's car skidded seventy-five feet before hitting Crawford, ac- cording to Detective Lieutenant Evans.

Thomas Lilly, 50, of 1414 West thirty-sixth street, died in General Hospital from injuries received when he was struck by a machine driven by Walter Ecles, 1646 East Twenty-third street, December 18, front of 012 East Jefferson Boulevard. Wire and Sfeel Concern fo Build Factory Here Work will be begun in a day or two on a new $100,000 factory, giving employment to eighty persons, according to an announcement yesterday by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. The new concern, the Johnson Wire and Steel Company of Worcester, has purchased five acres adjacent to the Southern Pacific lines at Alameda Boulevard and Imperial High-! way. The company manufactures high carbon steci wire for "beads" in automobile tires, ca-jb'es for use in automobiles and springs for oil drilling and legging operations. E.

V. DURLING Tw7 iif uy day all through my jeans hunted in vain for the price of some beans forward, turn forward, Time, in thy fight: liable it tomorrow, just. for. tonight. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY.

At the tbp hereafter every Thursday a comic or light verse. Have you any such hid-. den in' your memory or scrap-book? Limericks, original or quoted, also welcome. And comic ballads such as Vesta Victoria's immortal torch song: There was I waiting at the church Waiting at the church Waiting at the church He left me tn the lurch My how it did ufset me! All at once he sent around a note; Here's the very note, this is. what he wrote: "I can't get away to marry you today Hy wife won't let me." COOPS "Somebody's Secretary" asks: "What is a Goop?" This term was originated by Gelett Burgess.

My understanding is a Goop is the kind of a fellow whose proudest possession is an honorary deputy sheriff's badge. His salutation is either "What's new?" or "What do you know?" At the races he switches to "How are you doin'?" He calls his wife "honey" and has a daughter named Mary Jane or Betty Lou and a dog named Pal. He thinks "The Specialist" is the funniest book ever written and calls the waitress "Girlie" and well, that's the general idea Op. 92D reports Dad son; of Horse Thief Canyon is about to become a proud pappy for the eighteenth time. Important, if true, as Mr.

Ellison is 82 years old Who knows words of Hindu poem "Our Love Is Simple as a OLD MAESTRO Ben Bemie opened his broadcast the other day: "Here we are in Hollywood, the old maestro and all the lads en- joying the warmth of the California gas-stoves" Expressing sorrow at passing of Film Director Boles-Jawski, client writes in part: "I have been a juicer at for the past three years, during which time I have worked under thirty-five different directors and have noted of all these only three were generally liked and respected George Cukor, Woody Van Dyke and Boleslawski." One couldn't help but judge from Boleslawski's book, "The Way of a Lancer," he was an unusual man "Do you remember the cartoon of Buster Brown and his dog Beans?" asks, reader. Yes, ma'ap, but wasn't. Buster's dog named Tige? PASSING BV Joe Mattson. Of the Pasadena auto' license distributing squad. For days and days Joe and the rest of the boys sat around and hardly anybody came for license plates.

Then as the dead line neared auto-ists came in droves and now they are kicking about standing in line and asking, "Why don't the government hire more help for this work?" Says Mattson sadly, "It's enough to make a fellow discouraged." You said it, Joseph, my boy Sign in South Los Angeles street restaurant window reads: "Hot Dogs Five Cents Sometimes" J. B. McCormick. Head man of the world's champion classified advertising department. I think the J.

stands for Jared or Jehoshaphat but have no idea what the B. represents, probably Bertram. Anyway when Jared or Jehoshaphat was a lad his father taught him these lines which he has never forgoteen and quotes to prospective advertisers: He who whispers down well About the goods he has to sell Will never reap the golden dollars Liije he who shows them round and hollers. Frank R. Adams.

Writer. My recollection is Frank was one of the fellows who wrote that hit song of yesteryear, "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now" Dan Tobey. Fight announcer and floorwalker. Dan was recalling other night that during the war when German nomenclature was taboo around here name of sauerkraut was changed to "Liberty Cabbage." Inefficiency and waste in the county health department are charged in a report made public by the county grand jury yesterday following an investigation into the organization as operated by Dr. J.

L. Pomeroy, superintendent for the past twenty-one years. Thorough and impartial sur vey by the Board of Supervisors and the Civil Service Commission are recommended. "This inquiry should be di rected toward elimination of waste, inefficiency, duplication of services, subsidizing of county employees by outside laxity of control of food and sanitary inspections, inefficient methods of handling mileage and many other matters the grand jury declared. ASK PAY INQUIRY The report also suggests that the District Attorney and County Counsel Mattoon investigate asserted excessive payments made to Dr.

Pomeroy and three of his employees, and that suit be instituted for recovery of the money in case the investigation discloses that it has been paid. Other accusations by the grand jury against Pomeroy and hia department are the use of public funds and personnel for per sonal gain; employment of Mrs. Pomeroy under her maiden name in the County Tuberculosis As sociation; health department employees receiving full-time salaries accept employment elsewhere and that excess payments totaling $18,136.80 have been made to George S. Kardashian, garbage collector for the Sher- man-West Los Angeles district. POMEROY'S STATEMENT Pomeroy is charged with co-.

ercing employees in his department who. testified before the county grand jury. Last night Pomeroy declared that he will have little trouble clearing himself and his department of the charges. "Relative to the charge of inefficiency, I refer the grand jurors to the recent report of the United States Chamber of Commerce which gives my department one of the highest ratings in the country," said Dr. Pomeroy.

EMPLOYING OF WIFE "The charges that I employ my wife in the Los Angeles County Tuberculosis Association are ridiculous," he continued. "The association is a private corporation which has no connection with county government. He declared the present agitation is largely the result of his discharge last summer of Dr. Frank G. Crandall as head of the Santa Monica health district.

Yesterday's sensational charges were made in the presence of the grand jury. Board of Super visors, County Civil Service Com mission, Bureau of Budget and Efficiency, Dep. U. U. Blalock and County Counsel Mattoon.

A lengthy report made by C. Earle Memory, auditor, on direction of the grand jury was. filed with the Supervisors. Support Assured for Harbor Regatta The Harbor Commission yesterday assured the Junior Chamber of Commerce that it will cooperate in every way possible toward making a success of the eleventh annual midwinter regatta at the port, from February 19 to 22. The announcement follow-ed an invitation by the junior chamber for the commissioners to participate in the activities.

The chamber reported the regatta is expected to be 'the greatest ever held in the Southland during winter months. the Federal Fruit Frost Service at Pomona, said there is not likely to be frost anywhere in Southern California citrus groves within the next two or three day. But we may get some cold weather after this cYpreLorj passes." he said. A iow pressure area extendi northward the PieiSa Turn to Tage 2, C'ulama 4 Small boys scattered like rab bits when juvenile officers de scended on the Santa Anita rac ing establishment yesterday. Complain against juveniles attempting to crash the gates, skipping high school classes and loitering about the stables stirred officers to a concentrated drive.

But the "grapevine" of youth perhaps a heritage of days when their dads tried to poke their heads beneath circus tents very nearly outwitted the law. "Jiggers, the cons," and "we gotta go to school today, boys," were warnings that quickly went the rounds. MAJORITY VANISH Within an hour after officers arrived at the track there were very few youths in sight Now and then a head popped out from behind a fence or barn door, or up from a pile of straw, but." seemed that youth had vanisnea ior me aay. One lad with a peach-bloom complexion and very little fuzz on his chin said in surly manner that he was 23 years of age and a legitimate stable boy, but Santa Anita officials declared him to be a known race-track tout. Pinkerton detectives at the track ejected the young man and he was booked at Arcadia police station as a vagrant.

He gave his name as Earl Hammerle. FEW CAUGHT With few exceptions the stabie boys and jockeys claimed to be IS years of age. With surprising alacrity, according to Capt Ed W. Graeb of the Sheriff's Juvenile Crime Prevention Bureau, the diminutive youngsters were able to "give all the answers." Less than a dozen jockeys and stable employees were caught without the work permits or cards issued by the racing board. Turn to Page 2, Column 3 4 -i if FROST PERIL TO CROPS ENDS AND RAIN EXPECTED TODAY i i 'I ju 1 Beneath a warming canopy of i clouds through which thp sun (shown brightly at times, the Southland rested last night apparently safe from for the jfirjt time in a month.

Unsettled weather with local showers is forecast for today and1 tomorrow by the United States1 Bureau. Moderate tem-; Features and eer.tle shifting' 1 winds are anticipated. Floyd Yours, meteorologist cf PLAYING HOOKEY STARTS INQUIRY Investigating complaints that juveniles ere playing hockey from school to visit Santa Anita race track, crime prevention officers visited the plcnt yeserdcy. Capt. E.

W. Grceb, extreme Ieft ond E. T. Casey, wearing over coat, are the two officers. They are questioning, left to right, John Ric'geway, exercise boy; Robert Dotter, jockey; Paul Mundy, exercise boy, end Charles- Swain, jockey.

The officers failed to break the stories to'd by the boys..