The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 28

I AUGUST 7, 1939. PART ILJ Low Death Rate Records of Past Eclipsed by City Health Department Report for Year Also Discloses Decline in Infant Mortality Figures Tax Shift Pleas Set for Today Jones and Bolger Will Seek to Invalidate Indictments in Case Ham'n'Eggers Conduct Rally Leaders Exhort Crowd at Shrine Auditorium; Programs Announced Trade Study of Area Made Four Intermountain States Held Open to Los Angeles Plants "These low rates did not mere- Legal attacks on validity of indictments accusing William report yesterday of the Los Angeles Health Department. hHOB The figures show that while there was an increase in the I 1 V. I Lje2 Max Fire demonstrates his new umbrella hat, for which he says the novel headgear permits Births in Los Angeles for the fiscal year ending June 30, last, totaled 20,409, while there were; 17,238 deaths, or 2171 more births than deaths, according to the an number of deaths over last year, which totaled ,16,673, there also was an increase in the births over last year, which totaled 127. Deaths under 1 year totaled 908 for the fiscal year recently ended, making an infant mortality rate of 44.49 per 100,000 of population compared to 47.30 per 100,000 persons in the previous fiscal year.

The report states that of the total deaths last year, 3558 were of nonresidents, while 4S85 births were to nonresident mothers. NEAV RECORDS FOR CITY Based on an estimated population of 1,450,619, the city last year broke all records since 1890 for a low death rate, according to the report. This year the infant mortality rate broke all previous favorable records since 1890, when the rate was 133.59 per 100,000 of population. I If i Angeleno Invents Latest in Headgear Umbrella Hat New Gadget Allows Wearer Use of Both Hands While Warding Off Heat of Sun's Rays Retail trade in four near-by States is open to Los Angeles industries, it was shown in a trade survey published yesterday by a local expert More than half the retail business of the vast Utah-Idaho-Colo- rado-Wyoming trade area is transacted in 16 main trading centers containing 37 per cent of the population of those States, the survey indicated. Los Angeles County manufacturers can cover the bulk of this rich market, which spends $657,000,000 annually, by penetrating Utah's Salt Lake City, Provo, Ogden and Cedar City; Idaho's Boise, Twin Falls, Idaho Falls and Pocatello; Wyoming's Sheridan, Casper, Cheyenne and Rock Springs; and Colorado's Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo and Grand Junction.

RECOMMENDATION MADE In a trade survey of the four States prepared by M. J. Brown, domestic trade commissioner of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and released to 1300 local sales managers and other interested businessmen, the chamber studies the economic background of the intermountain area and makes recommen dations for local penetration of that market. These States enjoy good economic conditions which make them a worthy market for Los Angeles County manufacturers. Mining is active and agriculture is in eood condition.

With cross- traffic between the New York and San Francisco Fairs, tourist travel is improving, the survey shows. Employment placements in Colorado alone are 36 per cent ahead of last year. Southeastern Wyoming shows a noticeable ab sorption of unemployed into prl vate industry and Utah is enjoy lng an upward trend in employ ment, It is indicated. DEMANDS LISTED The four States most heavily manH the followinc Los Ancre- demand the following Los Ange les County lines: automotive, building materials, electrical, food and hardware products. Other leaders are men's and women's wear, furniture and art and gift Wares.

Los Angeles County producers, the survey suggests, should work selectively with a few key dealers to penetrate the intermountain market Many firms have pooled interests with other firms, having a single effective manufacturer's agent represent all of them. Jobber distribution is profitable in the area, and advertising assistance should be rendered to retailers. A complete catalogue, frequent contacts, and thorough attention to complaints are also recommended by Brown to local enterprises desiring to penetrate this market. Citrus Production Expansion Told Gain Leads All Other Farming Commodities No agricultural commoditv has expanded during the last 20 years as much as citrus fruits, according to A. G.

Salter, assistant farm adviser for Los Angeles County. reports received by Salter from the United States Department of Agriculture, the world's annual production of citrus fruits now is 260,000,000 boxes, compared with a production of 98,000,000 20 years ago. The reports further indicate that production of citrus fruits will continue to increase during the next 10 years unless the standing orchards suffer from gome unusual weather condition or some form of disease. ly the report sets forth, the result: of Intelli- ''They are gent and persistent application! rt cnlmtifir mflthnHa cnrh 9c ntif forMathPrc vhpw vonr littio very about." The report cites that the scourge of typhoid fever has been almost entirely eliminated, that the death rate from tuberculosis nas dropped from 412.73 per m. 000 persons in 1800 to only 59.28 during the year just ended, and that diphtheria has almost reached the vanishing point, with less than two deaths per 100,000 in 1939.

Deaths from pneumonia were less than half the 1900 rate. The report states that the fine record has been made despite the handicap that Los Angeles is a city with a preponderance of older people. Banker's Funeral Today Funeral services will be conducted today at 2:30 p.m. at the Edwards Bros. Colonial Mortuary, 1000 Venice for Robert Freeman Jones, pioneer banker and civic leader of Santa Monica and Los Angeles who died last Thursday.

He leaves his daughter, Miss Matilda Til-den Jones, 533 S. Harvard Blvd. black uitli silver fox S. 1 'sk 1 i fir- 111 i 1 rf v. i f- Bizarre headgear may not be confined to the gentler sex if an invention of Max Fire of 2910 Victoria catches the fancy of the man of the family.

Fire has applied for a patent on a head umbrella the sort of a gadget that Neville Chamberlain might wear if he were less conservative. BOTH HANDS FREE Fire says his invention not only protects the head from the sun, but also is cool and allows full use of both hands. It is a miniature umbrella, with elastic bands attached to the end Dogs That Bile Uncle Sam Tidy Dogs about town who have been gleefully nipping at the heels and calves of letter carriers, better notice this carefully, because the next time they do it, their Uncle Sam is going to kick them right in the slats. Postmaster Mary D. Briggs said yesterday a preliminary survey showed that it cost the government, to say nothing of the pain, suffering and expense caused the mailman, exactly $004.80 from the first of March to July 1 because 41 dogs bit letter carriers.

i i 1- todav before Sunerior judge Clarence I. Kinraid Defense Attorneys fipni sre Pen- ney and Clare oolvvine announced they will file demurrers to the indictment asking that the true bill be quashed as legally insufficient. Jones and Bolger are accused in separate indictments which will necessitate their being tried separately of bribery relating to the transfer of $3,700,000 in privately owned lands to the county tax rolls while the own- retained title to tne prop- perty. In the event the demurrers are overruled, Jones and Bolger are expected to enter not-guilty pleas to the indictment today. There wasn't any good paper around so he just wrote his nianu-script on a bunch of old envelopes and stuck them in a sack.

Meet "The Man Who Invented Oz" in next Sunday Times Magazine. A y7myi I hit aioseiey jones, lormer opedKeinual of the State Assembly, and Leo Bolger. field secretary to Super- visor Roger W. Jessup, of brib- ery in connection with a recent nountv tax shift, are to be made, mm ME V. Ms Advocates of the $30-Every (Thursday Pension Plan in Cali- fornia met in Shrine Auditorium yesterday to- listen to an entertainment program and discuss plans for advancing their program.

Speeches were made by numerous leaders of the movement stressing the need of new business as a stimulant to industry. Entertainment features were announced by the organization as a new policy, with special matinees to be given as part of the Ham-and-Eggs Circus programs this week as follows: San Fernando, today; Burbank and Glendale, Tuesday and Wednesday; El Monte, Thursday; Alhambra, Friday, and Pasadena, Saturday. Bandits Get $200 in Garage Holdup Entering the Figueroa Hotel Garage at 913 S. Figueroa last night, two young bandits, brandishing guns, held up and robbed John M. Holman, manager, 1203 W.

Seventh of $200 in cash, and made their escape, according to a report to police. period rooms the second floor WJ 'Ml NEW TYPE HEADGEAR has opplied for patent. He Couple Here Wed 64 Years Big Breakfasts and Regular Meals Credited for Long Married Life Eat big breakfasts, get to your meals on time and you, too, can celebrate a 64th wedding anniversary. At 1905 N. June Mr.

and Mrs. Joseph Kaiser yesterday offered those two rules for happy married life. Both are as healthy as if they had found the Fountain of Youth. CREDITS COOKIXG "I think it's been my cooking," Mrs. Kaiser said.

"We've neither one ever had stomach trouble. jWe believe in blg breakfasts and regular meals." What does she think of men? "Well, I think a lot of my husband," the little gray-haired woman smiled. "He'll soon be 90, and I'd hate to part with him." FORMER POLICEMAN Kaiser was a Lincoln Park policeman in Chicago for 25 years until his retirement. They have lived in Hollywood for 16 years, witn Mrs. Kaiser Keeping house and cooking and her husband taking the dog for walks, Their one son, Joseph P.

Kaiser, 60, lives at 1706 Hampton and there are two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. County Farm Inmate Drowns Self at Park Walking into the lake at Hol-lenbeck Park until he submerged Charles Neal, 60, an inmate of Rancho Los Amigos, Rio Hondo, drowned yesterday. Summoned by onlookers, Radio Officer O. W. Canady, with the aid of a owboat, recovered the body which was sent to the County Morgue.

Date Set for Model Plane Tournament SAN GABRIEL, Aug. 6. Sleek gasoline and rubber-powered model airplanes will swoop over San Gabriel Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 19 and 20, when the fifth annual Los Angeles County model airplane tournament will be conducted under the joint sponsorship of the San Gabriel Kiwanis Club, City of San Gabriel and the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation. which to feed they may refuse to eat the poison syrups.

"An effective time to spread poison for ants is early or late in the year when other food is scarce. TAKEN TO NESTS 'Weak arsenicals are effective because the worker ants will take the poison down to the nests and feed it to the queens, thus preventing reproduction. Strong arsenicals will kill the worker ants eating the material thus preventing the poison from him to read while walking. Timet photo of the stays. The bands, which are adjustable, fit the head closely.

On cloudy mornings when the weatherman dishes out high; fogs to Angelenos, the headgear can be closed and carried conveniently in the pocket. GETS IDEA Fire, who is retired said he got the idea about a year ago. It was his custom to protect himself from the sun's rays by carrying a -cumbersome umbrella, and, as he walked read a book. One day Fire thought: "Why not have both hands free so I can turn the pages?" And from this the head umbrella was conceived. Postmen Cost Sum Here Mrs.

Briggs said that 37. mail men were off a fraction of a day and the other four off a total of 45 days, the time off and substitute carriers to replace the regulars accounting for the expense. At the present time owners of vicious dogs must chain them if they want mail delivered, but recommendation that the owner compensate the government for the expense caused by his dog I biting the mailman will probably I be made. And when a fond dog-owner has to pay the damages, he prob- i ably will do a bit of slat-kicking. I Miss Patricia Repath of 4624 Gould Ave.

Blocking the road with their machine the deputies leaped into the road and Pulfer lifted the frightened girl from the animal's back. Pulfer decided to ride the horse back to its stable. When he mounted the horse shied and threw him. He was treated at Physicians and Surgeons Hospital in Glendale for a fractured left thumb and skinned arms and legs. each fall collection second llocr i Officer Captures Runaway Horse, but He Can't Ride It I Deputy Sheriff L.

II. Pulfer of the Montrose "Sub-station is better at stopping runaway horses than he is at riding them. This was discovered yesterday when Pulfer with his partner, A. M. McDaniel, were detailed to find some runaway horses in the La Canada district.

They discovered the animals near 4747 Gould and riding one horse, which was apparently, running away was taking i County Farm Advisers Tell How to Use Ant Poisons 'adieu to the little girlbun jour period rooms present a revered autumn fashion, the clas to the worldly sophisticate two felts banded in sheer jersey with sic black wool coat with flattering shawl collar of silver' tipped fox a luxurious starting point for a new wardrobe fitted or swagger styles it may be impossible to secure full short streamers, from an outstanding in important colors Ants are holding the attention of members of the staff of the County Farm Advisors' Department who were flooded with calls last week from housewives and ranchers seeking methods to destroy the pests. The ants are exceptionally troublesome at this season, especially the Argentine species, according to C. V. Castle, county farm advisor. HAVE OTHER FOOD8 "People are complaining," Castle said, "that many of the poison ant syrups are not effective.

It is true that when ants have a wide choice of food they may refuse to eat very much ant gyrup, yet this does not prove that ant syrups are not effective when used at the proper time. "Practically all the syrups and other poisons will kill ants if they can be induced to eat the baits. But as long as sucking insects ate plentiful and the ants fcav plenty of honeydew on r. later at this price 95.00 MY it Deing carried to the nests. "For stinging red ants and others which have distinct nests you may use calcium cyanide effectively.

However, this poison has to be used cautiousiy to avoid accidents to people and animals. A small amount of the poison placed in the entrance of an ant colony, with the surface covered over, will result in the formation of a poisonous gas that should smother the whole colony." mm.