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8 WEDNESDAY MORNING. JANUARY 24, 1940. PART II.j Citizens1 Committee Indorses Los Angeles Transit Program Telegram Sent Governor Olson Urging Approval of Enabling Act Proposal for Improvements Council Rows Over Job Tests Thrasher Seeks Civil Service Questions, but Burns Overrules Him Social Agencies Group Meets Future Services Under Discussion at Session of Various Chest Units Actress Says Guest Was Thief Diana Brady Testifies Boxer Stole Typewriter From Her Home Nov. 18 Trap Laid io Vice Squad Attorney for Raid Case Figure Links Seizure With Client's Writings Impetus was added to efforts toward a modernized metropoli tan traffic setup for Los Angeles Future service of group work, Rumor and report about the t3rpe of examinations the Civil Illustrated en Pagt There is such a thing as carry yesterday when the Citizens' leisure time, recreational and Transportation Survey Commit ing hospitality too far, Miss Diana For the first time in her lengthy career 45-year-old Lee Francis yesterday made a court appearance tee at the Biltmore indorsed the youth agencies in Los Angeles were discussed yesterday at the Council's action Monday in reference to preliminary steps in the program. ENABLING ACT ASKED The Council, 10 to 3 asked the Governor to include in his call for the Legislature's special session a suggestion for passage of an enabling act to permit cities to issue revenue bonds to construct toll freeways.

Specifically anticipated as the initial project under the program is the Hollywood Freeway, connecting downtown Los An Service Commission has been conducting finally came to surface yesterday when Councilman Edward L. Thrasher introduced a resolution asking the Brady, Hollywood actress and en tertainer, sadly reflected yester-day in Superior Judge Thomas group work division of the Coun cil of Social Agencies. Twenty- Ambrose's court. six agencies receiving Chest funds were represented, as were Miss Brady'3 story that she In commission to give the Council vited Morton M. Lewis, 22-year- a copy of questions asked in re cent examinations.

And then only because, her attorney vehemently asserted, she was a victim of "a clear case of entrapment" by vice squad operatives, THREE ARRAIGNED Miss Francis, who described herself as retired and who has departments of the municipal recreation system, and agencies Transportation Engineering Board's recently presented transit program for the Los Angeles metropolitan area. In the first of two resolutions, the traffic-minded representatives of the metropolitan area expressed their approval of the program of parkways and express highways. APPROVAL URGKD The second resolution urged that the Council and Mayor ap old British welterweight boxer, to her home last Nov. 18, only to Council President Robert L. geles with the Cahuenga Free Burns deemed the resolution out way now under construction in of order and Assistant City At have her courtesy repaid by hU walking off with her typewriter, served to convict him of a burg Cahuenga Pass.

torney William Neal ruled that just completed the manuscript the Council has no jurisdiction over the questions asked or of her memoirs, tentatively entitled "Call House," was ar grades given by the commission. prove the report in principle outside the Chest. A report on the agency and area study committee which has undertaken a youth survey to determine the recreational needs of young adults, was presented by James McCandless, general secretary of the Y.M.C.A. Mrs. John Riddell, chairman of the division, presided.

Two honor guests were introduced, W. II. Klusmann of the national Boy Scouts, formerly connected with the Los Angeles lary charge. He is to be sentenced Feb. 5.

He was accused of stealing the typewriter and later pawning it for $13.50. Lewis insisted that Miss Brady gave him the typewriter to repay "as a basis of a comprehensive NARROW MARGIN raigned before Justice of the Teace Cecil D. Holland in Bev development subject to such Councilman Arthur E. Briggs Mayor Disapproves Fund for Project Declares City Shouldn't Enter Relief Field alterations as to detail and such erly Hills on a morals charge. appealed from the ruling of the additions thereto as from time With her were two girls an $18 cash loan.

to time may be adopted by the Marjorie Lee Roberts, 21, and Simone King, 23 arrested in the Council ana Mayor." chair and as evidence of the consuming curiosity of Council-men concerning the commission's actions the chair was sustained by the narrow vote of The committee also authorized same raid last Wednesday night in a residence in the 8000 block Pomona School Job council of this organization, and Chairman P. G. Winnett to telegraph Governor Olson the com 8 to 7. unaries Hendry, national program director of the Boys Club mittee's concurrence with the Thrasher's resolution declared Mayor Bowron yesterday disapproved a City Council appropriation of S3G0O under which 150 men working on firebreaks out of Start Authorized that Councilmen are being del of America. Hendry is in Los Angeles to fulfill a speaking engagement before the Group Workers uged with inquiries regarding the questions, complaints being Authorization for the opening the" Harry L.

Hopkins Resident Supervisors Asked Project in the Santa Monica Forum Thursday, Feb. 1, at the today of a W.P.A. project for the Mountains receive an allotment Y.W.C.A. He also will conduct made that they are too technical and do not follow requirements of Section 103 of the charter that of $8 a month. demolition of the fire-damaged auditorium and classroom building of the John C.

Fremont an institute for group workers at the All Nations Foundation Boys' Club, a Chest agency. The Mayor said that by this expenditure the city will be estab fo Back Legislation Support of legislation to establish the right of the record owner of property to become a bidder on delinquent tax deeded properties offered for sale was asked of Norton Ave. Miss Francis voiced an indignant plea of innocence of the charge and demanded a jury trial. Her two codefendants echoed her plea. ENTRAPMENT SEEN "Miss Francis has just completed her memoirs, the publication of which may be the cause of apprehension in certain quarters, and her arrest is a clear case of entrapment," Morris La-vine, her attorney, asserted.

"We demand as early a trial as possible so that my client may be vindicated and publication of her memoirs unhampered by this situation. they be "practical in character" and test the ability of the candidate to discharge the duties of the office he seeks. WANTS QUESTIONS The Councilmen, Thrasher contended, should be armed with the questions themselves to meet these inquiries. Burns suggested that Council- Lawyers to Gather "Streamlining Justice" will be the topic of Allen W. Ashburn, retiring president of the Los An yesterday of the Board of Su School, Pomona, was announced yesterday by Herbert C.

Legg, Work Projects Administrator for Southern California. The project, which will employ approximately 50 workers for two months, is sponsored by th Pomona City High School District. Federal contribution of $6517 is authorized for the work, which will involve a total cost of lishing a precedent of invading the field of relief work, heretofore in the hands of the State and county. Mayor Bowron said the city's budget contains $50,000 for supervision, transportation and equipment for the camp, the men being sustained by the State Relief Administration. No city official, the Mayor said, has promised the men the $8 a month.

FIRST COURT APPEARANCE Lee Francis, who was arraigned in Beverly Hills court, indignantly denied morals charge and made demand for trial by jury. Tlmi photo geles Bar Association, at the Lawyers' Club luncheon tomorrow pervisors by Supervisor Oscar Hauge of Long Beach. After hearing the motion the Supervisors referred the matter noon at the Rosslyn. Preceding the talk will be an open forum, to the committee of the whole men desiring to see the questions get in touch with the com John Preston, club president, of the board, which will meet Thursday. mission in informal fashion.

$SG05. mm Costly Platinum Fox Furs Go on Display Here Today Rare Pelts, Selling From $2500 to $5000 Each, Result of What Was Held Few Years Ago as Mistake of Nature "Since writing her hook she has lived an exemplary life," La-vine added. TRIAL DATE SET Judge Holland set Friday, Feb. 2, at 10 a.m. as time for her trial.

Bail was continued at $250. The court set trial date for the two other defendants as Feb. 29. A few minutes before her case was called Miss Francis accented rQf IS What was considered a mis- of the male parent, platina foxes. From that has grown a new industry which is now con a subpena to respond to a claim jtake of nature in 1933 and is bv Mrs.

Myrtle C. Armstrong for now known to Ik? a costly fur $33.50, assertedlv due on her Mil displayed in Los Ange- cleaning and dyeing account. tociay Three other women arrested by trolled by the Norges Platinare-vavlsag Breeders' Association, sponsored by the Norwegian government, composed of 320 members. Some of the best platina furs recently received in New York "Platina foxes" platinum fox furs, will be shown for several days, it was announced yesterday. The rare furs sell from $2300 to $5000 when they can be pro the vice squad Jan.

11 in the 8200 block of Sunset Blvd. also have pleaded not guilty and await jury trial before Judge Holland Feb. 27. They are at liberty on $300 bail each. were flown to Los Angeles to be exhibited.

lingerie pays compliments to crepe younger set dresses of rayon crepe accept the versatile fl3t- i tery of lingerie trim -for the office, the tailored courtesy of corded linen for the drawing room, the disarming charm of embroidered batiste 10 to 29.95 third floor cured and it has only been a couple of years since they were put on the retail market. START OF HISTORY ''V I UIM Their history started in 1933 Mayor Proclaims Rainbow Day Today will be Rainbow Day by in Aorway when two silver foxes had a litter with one curious colored cub in the lot. The breeder found the fur of this ugly little reynard to be bluish gray with white markings, not a proclamation of Mayor Bowron. Veterans of the 42nd Division, 1 the famous Rainbow Division of silver fox at all. Rasmussen Seeks Vernon Ave.

Widening First steps toward developing Vernon Ave. as a 70-foot street between Alameda St. and Crenshaw Blvd. were taken yesterday by Councilman Carl C. Rasmus-sen in introducing a resolution proposing adoption of a five-foot setback line on each side of the street.

The present 40-foot roadway, with double car tracks, is inadequate to handle the volume of traffic, Rasmussen said, and as Vernon is in the major highway category, the city may expect the American Expeditionary A businessman noticed the unusual coloring and bought the forces, are conducting State re unions today, one of them being animal for 700 crowns $175- with good "silvers" bringing from 2000 to 3000 crowns. in Los Angeles. Mayor Bowron asked citizens to do what they can to honor the veterans "who responded to mm FLOWX TO EXHIBITION The male cub when grown was mated with a silver fox and from the first litter four cubs bore the markings and colorings the call of their country in its time of need and served so faithfully and capably in the Army of tne united States." financial aid in developing the project. His resolution was referred to the City Engineer. Actress Asks Divorce From Cameraman Ordinance Aimed at Traffic Menaces Councilman Arthur E.

Briggs yesterday proposed the adoption of an ordinance which would fit to be tied 10.00 Less than 10 months since their elopement Rosalind Keith, stage and screen actress, yesterday brought suit for divorce in Superior Court against William Burglar Suspect Held for Hearing Oscar Garza, 23, of 162S N. Cherokee was ordered to stand preliminary hearing on burglary charges Friday at 2 p.m. when arraigned yesterday before Police Judge Charles j. Griffin in Beverly Hills. Garza asserted ly was found in possession of $2000 worth of property taken from the offices of Russell Birdwell, publicity agent, at 200 S.

Beverly Drive, drawstrings to your waist, a Clarence Mellor, motion -picture zipper for sleek line and ease! in prevent the construction of walls or fences or the planting of trees and shrubs near intersections to such a height that they would constitute traffic menaces by obscuring vision. Abatement and control would be placed in the hands of the Board of Public Works. The matter was referred to the Public Works Committee. cameraman. Miss Keith's brief complaint is based on the grounds of cruelty.

The actress charges that during their short matrimonial adventure Mellor treated her in such a manner as to constitute extreme mental cruelty. when arrested Monday in his! our new 17-inch" girdle of satin and lastex with light boning, 10.00 -the apartment. and net bra'150-second floor 1 A -W new spectators skted to "win in a walk" three new shoes that keep comfort and fashion on speaking perforated oxford with alligator-calf keg heel, the wedge-soled oxford with calf heel, the classic wing-tipped pump with built-up leather heel. all in white buck with navy or brown, 8.95 a pair-matching bags 5.95-the third floor iWlfilliYW mm lllfll i .1 1sJ'h III EE;.