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CITY NEWS EDITORIAL SOCIETY THE DRAMA jiiya SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 9, 1929. Vol XLVIIi. EX-PRINCESS GOES SHOPPING "NECKING" CHARGE AROUSES ACTRESS Downtown Expedition Made in Taxicab i i It mx i i fki 1 Q. ''fit I if c' I L- II f-i'-f f. I i ancer tarry arr NE can imagine with what Christian resignation Secre tary Mellon turns over tha war with the bootleggers to the Department of Justice.

In the days of our revered ancestors, when they couldn't think of anyone else to be the goat, they piled It on the Treasury Department. AN ARTIST OF PARTS One of the finest artists who has ever appeared in motion pictures is a lean, cadaverous colored boy who appears in "Hearts in Dixie" at the United Artists Theater. He appears on the program only as Stepan Fetchlt. As the lazy coon who wanted to marry a woman who would chop the wood, his work has a reality, a finish and an artistry that no other actor I have seen on the screen has ever reached. FUTURE FOR BOOTBLACKS "Stepan Fetchlt" Is said to have been the studio bootblack.

This seems to open up a new linn of endeavor for bootblacks. There are plenty of actors I have seen who could trade Jobs with them with great benefit to the world of art. COOLIDGE AUTHOR It remained for Calvin Coolidge himself to reveal the real Calvin Coolidge. The published extracts of his first magazine article are human and pitiful. They show the agony of sorrow that lay behind that grim, Vermont-granite face.

All the old-time pioneer New Englanders are like that. There are no hearts more tender; but they can't let themselves go. Thy love you with devotion, but when they see you after years of separation they act as though you had just come from the next room. RAILROADS IN WAR The events of the Mexican revolution show that modern war a Job for a railroad man. The greatest problem of strategy has become a problem of transportation.

Generally speaking, all troops fight about equally well so far as physical courage is concerned. The riddle is to get them where they are needed with food and ammunition. IAD SPELLING am relieved to learn that a arrv FILM-INCOMES QUIZ LAUNCHED Federal Jury Begins Tax Investigation Doubtful Advice by Experts Suspected Screen Notables Summoned as Witnesses Inquiry by the government Into the reported habit of numerous Hollywood motion-picture actors and actresses to "shave down" their income taxes by employing so-called expert advisers was begun yesterday by the Federal grand Jury by the calling of twenty-four witnesses. Not more than a half dozen were called into the grand Jury room and all were instructed to return for a special session of the Jury on Tuesday. ACTORS SKITTISH During the moming the witnesses, among them several motion-picture actors and actresses, cooled their heels in the corridors of the Federal Building, but in the afternoon they were comfortably quartered in the private office of United States Attorney McNabb, who had gone home ill.

The cases are being nan died before the grand Jury by Mor ton Fisher, assistant to the Attor- nev-General. who in the afternoon occasionally came to the door of the jury room and whispered the name of a witness, who was called from the private office where all were surrounded by voluntary Doay guards. The picture persons ap peared skittish of newspaper men, and shied timidly at pnotograpn ers. LIST OF WITNESSES The investigation was directed against the activities of professional tax advisers on income taxes who are reported to have given doubtful advice. The witnesses, some business men and several investigators for the covernment include Mil dred Browne.

B. W. Brown, Anne Wakelin, Bradley King, George F. Marion, Mrs. George F.

Marlon, William Haines, Lothar Mendcs, Rod La Rocque, Mrs. Anna La Rocaue. Mitchell Lewis, Mrs. Flor ence Wise, J. D.

Power, Jasper Ma yo, W. A. Cornelius, Arthur A. Stone, J. F.

Donahue, A. C. Curtis, R. S. Boyd.

W. W. Vansil, Dorothy Maqkaill, Henry D. Sepper, D. O.

Bircher and S. H. Hajner, the lat ter being chief of the inteljlgence division of the Internal Revenue Department. POPULARITY RACE LED BY SILENT FILM "Times" Readers Urged to Vote Preference of Mute or Talkie Screen Features Two candidates are running for office. It is a question which will win.

The contest is waxing hotter and hotter. Mr. Silent Picture is leading In the early returns, but wait until all the ballots are in. Then may be a different story. At my rate, vote now while it counts.

Campaign headquarters for each party are straining every nerve every resource for public response. Is Si lent Picture to be elected or will the choice go to Talking Picture? The Times Annual Preview sur vey of views on whether motion pictures should be silent or talking, whether they should have synchronized musical scores or not. whether they should present only effects and tunes as accompaniment to the exclusion of dialogue, now is in full swing. Answers to these questions are asked on the ballot printed here with. Please mark, clip and mail to the Los Angeles Times Annual Preview, with any comments you wish to make.

Your views are important on this vital subject, because the Industry of picturemaklng Is concerned deeDlv with the pres ent status of the two mediums; The sound and the mute. Results of this polling win ne published in the Annual Preview, April 23. There will be included, too, in conjunction with this survey, the votes of Fox-West coast inezr ter patrons. As it will appear in the Annual Preview, it will be the (Continued on Pae 2. Column 8) DOUGH OVEN NOT KNEADED IN JAIL It's Cheaper to Buy Bread, Bays Jailer, Seeking to SeU Machinery Because it la cheaper to buy bread than to make it, even with convict labor.

Jailer Clem Peoples yesterday asked permission of the Board of Su- pervisors to sell $10,000 worth of baking ncniwj when the County Jail was built The machinery is deterio rating from rust, Jailer Peo pies says, and besides, wants to use the space oHipr culinary activities. he for Among the 1400 prisoners in the Jail, if is seldom that there is a skilled baker, Peoples said. AUTO BLAZE RESULTS IN LARGE LOSS Howard Company Suffers $70,000 Damage as Fire Stveeps Building Spontaneous combustion in oily rags in the workmen's lockers was given by fire department investigators last night as the cause of the fire which caused about $70,000 damage to the Howard Motor Car Company establishment at 61aT Hollywood Boulevard early yrday morning. A statement to this el-fTw made by Investigators Wolfe and Hamilton of the fire investigation bureau after an examination of the debris. The loss is covered by insurance.

Eight of the many new automobiles on display in the one-story brick building were pushed to safety by Officers Rein and Ruppers. who arrived soon after flames and smoke shot through the roof. The blaze first was noticed by Charles R. Jones, night clerk in the Regent Hotel, 6156 Hollywood Boulevard, who turned in an alarm whicn brought all of the apparatus in Hollywood to the scene. Quick work by the salvage crews and hose companies prevented spread of the fire to adlacent buildings.

A large crowd witnessed the spectacle Cactus Given Protection by County Order Southern California's fame as a land of climatic wonders was emphasized by the passage of two ordinances by the Board of Supervisors yesterday. One ordinance iorDiaa wie picking of wild flowers, now beginning to brighten the landscape of Los Angeles county. The other makes it a misdemeanor to throw snowballs. A list of plants protected memoes prickly pear cactus, but not the golden California poppies. was explained that cactus plants are being exterminated by commercial gatherers, but tnat tne poppy propagates naturally so fast in Southern California that it is practically impossible to kill it off.

Another plant not protected is the puncture vine, which annually costs the county large sums of money to control. Rain Probable Here Tomorrow Probable rains are predicted for tomorrow in Los Angeles and sur rounding territory, according to the official weather report made last night by meteorologists of the local United States Weather Bureau, Today will be cloudy and unset tled, the weather men stated. The local rain total. 8.01 inches, is more than three Inches below the normal rainfall fleure of the same date, 11.77 inches, but is nearly half an inch ahead of last season total on the same date. 7.56 inches.

Rain was reported Thursday night at Palos Verdes when .01 of an inch was registered mere. NEW SEWER PLAN ORDERED The ordinance of intention for the building of sewers on Hill Drive between Monte Monita Drive and Dahlia Drive was ibandoned by the City Council yesterday and new plans for the rork ordered. JAGOBSON GASE TRIAL DATE SET Demurrers Overruled 20th Inst. Fixed. and Seven Plead Not Guilty on Conspiracy Charge Intensive Search Made for Mrs.

Grimes The trial of five police officers and others charged with conspir ing to arrest Councilman Jacobson til a morals raid eighteen month3 ago, will be held on the 20th Inst before Superior Judge Wood, follow ing the failure yesterday of de murrers to invalidate the indict ments before Superior Judge Shaw. After the demurrers to the true bills were overruled and motions to set them aside denied by the court, Judge Shaw called seven of. the defendants before the bar and all Dleaded not euilty. Those who pleaded are Captains of Detectives Wallis and Williams, Detective Cox. former Detective Lieutenant Lucas, former Police In.

vestigator Raymond, Charles Craw, ford, Hollywood politician, and Al bert Marco, convicted vice ruler. MRS. GRIMES HUNTED During the conference on the date for the trial. Dep. Den-nison and Bush announced to the court that the prosecution is ready in nrnr.eed as soon as Mrs.

Callie Grimes, State's witness and asserted "lure" for Jacobson in the morals raid Can be located. Mrs. Grimes, who made an affidavit and testified before the grand jury that the arrest of the Councilman was a police and un- loru-nrlrt "frame-UD." tlHS DCCn miSS- lng since February 10, last, a week before the indictments were returned by the 1928 grand Jury. Tvnntv Khrriflfs who are search lng for her, believe she is in hiding somewhere on the Pacific Coast. Other police departments and immigration authorities have been given her description and their aid enlisted in the search.

She is believed to be accompanied by her 10-year-old daughter Virginia. JACOBSON EXPLAINS Immediately after the hearing before Judge Shaw. Councilman Jacobson. who was In court, accompanied Dep. Dennison to the District Attorney's office where he made several amplifications in his previous statement concerning his asserted "framed" arrest.

The demurrers yesterday attacked indictments which Judge Shaw earlier in the week permitted the District Attorney's office to amend with minor technicalities. tvio risfpn nttornevs stated to the court that the demurrers raised the same points as did those aimed at the Indictments before they were amended. Judge Shaw recognized the objections and promptly overruled the demurrers and motions. FORESTER OF COUNTY HONORED Spence Turner Again Will be in Research Council as Choice of Jardine Notification of his reappointment a a member of the California Forest Research Advisory Council was received yesterday by Spence D. Turner, Los Angeles County Forester.

The reappointment was one of the last official acts of W. M. Jardine, Secretary of Agriculture in the Coolidge Cabinet. "Your work has been most effective in developing forestry Mr. Jardine wrote, in notifying Mr.

Turner of his selection to serve again on the council. "The problems of your region have been greatly aided by your assistance and advice. We look upon the Southern California district, particularly that part which lies in Los Angeles county, as one of the foremost examples of forest protection work." Approval of Mr. Turner reappointment and his acceptance was given immediately by the county Board of Supervisors. ORGAN PROGRAM REVEALED A program of compositions by Tsr.haikowsky.

Bonnet and Guilmant will be given by Sibley G. Pease, organist or tne imks Tmnle. The lodgeroom of the temple is filled to capacity every Sunday. The audience includes not only music lovers in Southern cau fomia but also many tourists. POOR PA BT CLAUDE CALLAH "Jones always talks awful liberal, but when it's all over I find out that he's just let me be liberal with him." 1 NEW MOVE FOR KEYES RELEASE Plea for Acceptance of Bail Again in Prospect Submission of Motion Today Regarded as Likely Vigorous Opposition Planned by Fitts A new attempt will be made to bring about the release from the jail on bail of former Keyes.

convicted of criminal conspiracy to bribe and now in the County Jail pending appeal of his case. This was learned from authoritative sources last night Keyes was refused bail several weeks ago, shortly after his conviction, when he was denied a new trial by Superior Judge Butler, and sentenced to serve from one to fourteen years in San Quentin. E. H. Rosenberg and Ben Getzoff, coconspirators with Keyes, also were denied bail at the same time, although Getzoff later was released on account of illness.

The new effort for the release of Keyes. it was learned, probably will be put under way today with the filing of a motion for admittance of bail, with a hearing on the motion next Tuesday or Wednesday before Superior Judge Shaw. Fitts admitted yesterday that he knows of the new move to win temporary freedom for Keyes, and asserted that it will be vigorously opposed. It is understood that the request for ball probably will be based on the contention that Keyes needs his liberty in order to prepare to defend himself against indictments returned against him, charging that he and others conspired to "fix" a case for A. I.

Lasker, head of an automobile finance company, who since has been convicted of violation of the Corporate Securities Act. The appeal In the original Keyes case probably will be pending for several months before an opinion is handed down by the higher court. PLASTERING PLAN MEETS OPPOSITION Hearing Ordered When Contractors Fight City Ordinance Proposal Building contractors and architects appeared before the City Council yesterday to protest against the passage of a proposed amendment to the building ordinante, which would require that all exterior plaster work be done on a solid wood base or on any type of base which may be approved by the Board of Building and Safety Commissioners. The amendment was requested by that board and it received the approval of the Council's Building and Safety Committee. After hearing only three of the speakers In opposition Council decided to defer consideration until after the Building and Safety Committee has held a public hearing on it and made another report to the Council.

The date of the hearing is to be announced later. The speakers yesterday not only argued against the necessity for the change in the ordinance and pointed out that it puts too great a discretionary power in the board, but one of them also made a definite charge that members of the board intend to specify the use of a certain type of patented backing under the discretion which would be given them. Gasoline Blast Burns Woman and Daughter A gasoline explosion 'yesterday seriously burned Mrs. Alice Snowdy, 62 years of age, of 2025 Aubrey Place, while she was cleaning curtains in her kitchen. Windows of the house were blown out, and the room was set afire.

Mrs. Snowdy's daughter. Mrs. Rebla Lamb. 29.

sustained burns on the hands while beating out the fire on the dress of her mother. The latter was burned on face, chest, arms and legs. Firemen extinguished the blaze promptly. Mrs. Snowdy was given first-aid treatment at the Georgia-street Re ceiving Hospital and then was trans- ferred to the California Lutheran Hospital.

vertlsed, and the same fault on which this deed is sec aside Is evi dent in all other deeds based on taxes delinquent that year." The defect referred to is failure to distinguish on the tax rolls what amount was penalty and what wis assessment. The case before Judge Rosenkrans was that of R. J. Leonard to quiet title against the estate of William J. Farrell.

Farrell in 1920 allowed his taxes on a lot In the town of Howard, now valuable oil property, to become delinquent. The lot was bought by G. H. Clark for $4 21 and sold to Leonard for $200. The court's de-j clsion was against Leonard and tne title based on Farrcll's ownership was cleared.

Sally Phipps GIRL SEEKS TO DISCARD HER FAMILY Sally Phipps Asks Court to End Mothers Regime; Stepfather Disliked Sally Phipps, Wampas "baby" star who has not yet reached her eighteenth birthday, yesterday took a sheaf of her young troubles to Superior Court in the form of a pe tition asking that she be freed from the custody and control of her mother, Mrs. Edith Alois Beutler. Among other tilings, Miss Phipps also asks that she have an accounting from Albert S. Beutler, her stepfather; that Roger Mar-chetti, attorney, be appointed her legal guardian, and that the court grant her legal permission to assume her screen name in place of Byrnice Beutler, by which she has been known in private life. Miss Phipps, makes no specific assertions against her mother, and it appears from her pleadings that her asserted grievances are held principally against her stepfather.

Starting out to earn her own liv ing when she was 13 years of age, according to her petition, Miss Phipps reveals how she rose from the position of sales girl in a San Francisco department store at $18 a week to a "baby" star In motion pictures at $200 a week. Miss Pnipps states sne nas louna it impossible to do her best work as an actress because of the assert ed abuse of her stepfather. Beutler, the actress charges, also used his influence over her mother with the result that the latter is said to have dictated to Miss Phipps as to her manner or living. The petition further recites that Beutler is Jealous of Ins stepdaugn ter's success and has addressed her in a sullen jtnd sarcastic manner, notwithstanding the fact that she has bought clothes for him and loaned him money. On one occasion, the actress de clares, Beutler accused her of "neck ing" in an automobile parked in front of their nome.

Miss Phipps is represented by Roger Marcnetn and Russell Kuhn. Fitts Granted Additional Cash ior Secret Fund The Board of Supervisors yester day voted to allow Fitts $500 additional for the District At torney's secret fund, after the ques tion had been submitted to County Counsel Mattoon. Fitts has been allowed $10,000 for this fund since he took office December 1, 1928. The supervisors also voted $202 for the installation of a photograph and finger print laboratory in Room 675 of the District Attorney's of flee. This plant will be Indepen dent or a smaiiar laboratory main tained by the county for the Sher iff's office.

on loth Inst. memory of Frank Putnam Flint, died aboard ship In Philippine the morning of the 16th while the remains will be transferred to the family home in Flintridge for private funeral rites, with nrivate interment following in Forest Lawn mausoleum. The death of Senator Flint, while he and Mrs. Flint were aboard the liner President Polk on tour of the world as a vacation and rest closing many years of public and private acnviues, came as a dlK unct shock to all Southern Call fornia. He died of a heart attack.

Mrs. Flint was met in Yokohama by Mr. and Mrs. William R. Flint and Mr.

and Mrs. Henrv S. Mac Kay. Jr. They are returning with tne DOdy on tne President Madison.

They expect to arrive in Seattle Monday, and to come directly to Los Angeles. distinguished commission of psychologists has decided that bad spelling Is not an Indication of feeble-mlndedness. Otherwise I would be locked up right now. The spelling of words in the English language certainly is an Indication of something funny in the brain of the chap who in- vented spelling. There is no sense or reason in our system.

In Spanish, for instance, tha spelling of the word is an infallible guide to the pronunciation. Consider, in our words, how valuable an Indication is the syllabla It Is pronounced through, though, tough, sough FATAL SUGGESTION Another suicide from the Colorado-street bridge. Without douqt half of them are not intended: but are sudden and baleful Inspirations. Everyone looking dou from a height has been seized with similar impulses. Brief Guest Here and Miss Marlon Miller NEW TRIAL ASKED FOR NORTHCOTT Attorney Lists Fourteen Grounds in Effort to Save Youth from Galloics An appeal from a death sentence for Gordon Stewart Northcott and for a new trial has been filed in the Supreme Court here by Northcctt's new attorney, A.

P. G. Steffcs. Fourteen grounds for the new trial are set forth In the court document and Include acrtions that the jury received evidence out of court otner than that resulting from a view of the scenes of the asserted murders; that the Jury was guilty of misconduct, that the court erred in refusing to give instructions to the Jury as offered by the defense, that the court misdirected the jury In matters of law and that new evidence has been discovered that will prove the innocence of the condemned youth. Northcott.

was found guilty in Riverside County Superior Court recently on three counts of murder involvine the death of Lewis and Nelson Wlnslow and an unidentified Mexican youth. He was sentenced by Judge Freeman to hang on April 15, next. MASONS TO ELECT OFFICERS The annual election of officers of the Masonic Club of Los Angeles will be held Tuesday, according to an announcement yesterday by C. W. Stowe, secretary.

Polls will dc onen from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Din- npr will hp Krrved at 5:45 D.m. aiter which the annual meeting will be held in the main dining-room. Millionaire's Wife Mrs.

William B. Leeds HEN a former princess and now a millionaire's wife comes to town with her hus- husband on a flying trip, she parks the family private car on the railroad siding, gathers the few girl friends in the party, summons a taxi and rushes downtown to do a bit of shopping while her husband sleeps in the railroad yards, it was revealed yesterday when reporters tried to get an interview with Mrs. William B. Leeds. Mrs.

Leeds Is the former Princess Xenia of Greece. She and her husband, son of the late tin-plate king, were in Los Angeles for a day. Tiiey will leave this morning for New York, stopping off at the Grand Canyon. Yesterday the Leeds car wis on the Southern Pacific side track. Mrs.

Leeds, with Princess Ciiave Chaveadze and Misses M. Miller and B. Miller, members of the party, called a taxi, which drove up to the car, and went for a brief shopping tour downtown. On her return Mrs. Leeds said they had no plans in particular, but are on their way home.

They would have liked to see more of Los Angeles, but when one is in a hurry. AIRPORTS DIRECTOR'S LEAVE PLEA GRANTED The City Council yesterday unanimously approved the request of Clifford W. Henderson, director of airports, for a six months' leave of absence, effective the 15th inst. Mr. Henderson asked for leave in order to be able to devote his time to planning the National Air Races and Aeronautical Exposition, which he has been sMectcd to manage a second time.

The races and exposition will be held in Cleveland the last week of August. 4- FLINT TRIBUTE ARRANGED Talkies vs. Silent Films Please indicate your preferences by check marks in the aDnronriate squares. Then clip and mall the coupon to The Times Annual Pre-Vlew, Times Building, Los Angeles. Thanks.

Body of Former Senator Will Lie in Stale ai City Hall TAX DEEDS HELD INVALID Titles Based on 1920 Delinquencies Clouded by Ruling in Case Before Judge Rosenkranz Tax deeds based on delinquencies taken from the tax rolls of 1920 may all be set aside if the ruling of Superior Judge Rosenkamz yesterday is followed in all cases. In handling down his decision, involving a valuable piece of property acquired by payment of $4.21 at a tax sale, Judge Rosenkranz unmercifully flayed "tax sharks," as he classified pro WANTS THRILLS Our queerest criminal Is this fellow who tosses bombs into back yards and front lawns from his battered old Ford. No doubt in his childhood some one didn't gi him enough firecrackers. Or, perhaps, he is a foreigner who tm Just found out about Fourth of July and makes up for lost time. AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUTLLEN "A woman has to bear lots of afflictions, but the worst is a husband that rubs his finger on furniture to see if it's dusty." IS Prior to Riles Public respect and tribute to formerly United States Senator, water3 February 11, will be paid on the body lies in state in City HalL the who Arrangements for this closingfbe concluded by 1 pjn after which Yes I No 1.

Do you prefer talking pictures to silent ones? 2. you want silent films eliminated? 3. Do you like recorded music with pictures? 4 Do you like pictures In vhlch sound Is limited to music and effects better than talking pictures? 5 no vou like pictures that, are partly talking and partly 6. Is your interest in talkies Increasing? "7." Is your intrestTn talkies declining? fessional tax-title buyers. "These parasites who live on the misfortunes and inadvertent mistakes of others should be discouraged in every legal way," Judge Rosenkranz said.

"The law is designed to protect property owners from such leeches, and technicalities in favor of the original property owner who failed to pay his taxes should be strictly recognised. The law frowns on confiscation cf property for taxes and the court will sit aside on the slightest provocation deeds based on tax titles. 'Records show that the whole 1329 tax roll was improperly ad- service for the remains of the man who gave many years of his life to the upbuilding of California and the West were completed yesterday by a group of close friends, and with the radio consent of the relatives who are accompanying the body home. The funeral services will be conducted in City Hall at noon, after the body lies there in state from 10 a.m. Dr.

Freeman, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Pasadena, will be in charge of the religious services, and Joseph Scott will deliver the eulogy. The arrangement committee has forwarded an invitation to Gcv. Young to attend and deliver a short The public services are to Remarks:.