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t' 1 I The Weather In Two Parts' t- 28 Pages V0 ANGELES AND SOLTHrSV t4LIFORMA: Fair tndar and tomorrow i modrlf mprralur. Maximum and minimum trntperalurrt FAST II LOCAL SHEET IS PAGES j-eslerdai 51'. XL1X. SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 28, 1930. CITY NEWS EDITORIAL- RADIO 'TEACHER' NEW MOVE FOR CHARLIE PROVES HE'S NO GALLANT QUIZ ON MISSING FILES ORDERED CIIIEF OF AVIATION ON VISIT TO CITY ISITS ON FENCE BEACH OIL CURB 'ic H11C6P Trained Seal Refuses to Lose Swimming Race to Girls librarians Get Facts About Wireless Education Council Group Causes Delay Power Department Mystery to be Gone Into on One of Four Permits Whether it Will Succeed or Flop Seems Undecided Property Involved Lies on Employees Ashed to Bring Evidence Before Board Surf Side of Speedway rrry JXiL.

a. rva wm tn mr rr ufSUAJ 7-- is -1 A i i it Jiarrv Carr y'n i n-. i Convention Will End Today; Other Applications, Receive Data Guarded Day and iSight Suddenly 'Worthless" SOMEWHERE around Los An-gcles the fountain of youth has "been discovered. Pone de Leon looked for it in the wrong State. I attended a dinner' given by th past presidents and directors ot the Chamber of Commerce.

Many old friends were there like Fred L. Alles, who gave me my very first Job; John Mitchell, Senator Bulla. George Parsons, who originated the campaign to sign the water holes in the desert; W. B. Washburn It happens that I know that several of these men are more than 70, and one or two are nearlj 80.

Not one of them seemed more than 60, and some of them looked to be mere children of 50 alive, keen, alert, interested in everythingquick on the trigger, mentally. It is astonishing. TOKOX Unusual Contest Held In Pool Here lasted longer than other fair contestants in competition with sea animal. LASKY SEES EVIDENCE OF PROSPERITY i I It I -5- MaJ. Clarence M.

Young SUCCESS OF AIR TRAVEL DISCUSSED Ma). Young Speaks on Traffic Gains and Tells of Netv Problem Aviation companies have won halt the battle; They have sold air transportation. Such Is the opinion of Maj. Clarence M. Young, assistant Secretary of Commerce, who is in Lo5 Angeles on a business trip, stopping at the Ambassador.

He is in charge of aviation for the Department of Commerce. Vast increase in passenger volume on air transport lines has proved that people are not afraid to travel by air, the visitor said. Now, however, the question arises as to whether increased volume at the reduced rates will make it possible to operate profitably or whether tariffs must be revised. New regulations pertaining to air mail will make available to air transport companies between and $18,000,000, Maj. Young said.

If the appropriations are equitably distributed, he continued, the new measures will bring an extension of air mail service to places not now receiving it. Council Dazed as Committee Returns Funds The day of miracles has not passed, it was remarked feelingly by Councilman Martin yesterday when a letter was read to the City Council from a citizens committee which had obtained an appropriation of $500 of city funds and which tiformed the Council that all the money had not been used and the remainder was being returned to the city treasury. The $500 appropriation had been voted to the 1930 Memorial Day Committee of All Veteran Organizations of American Wars to aid in covering the cost of its Memorial Day observance. The letter that the committee sent to the Council said that, because of the fine co-operation it had received from numerous citizens, it had been necessary to expend only $295.32 of the city's appropriation and the remaining $204 68 is being returned with thanks. OUSTING OF MARRIED WOMEN BY CITY URGED The dropping from the city pay rolls of married women whose husbands are also employed by the city is recommended in a resolution adODted bv the Mpn'R Ttrnrhpr.

hood of University Christian Church wmcn was received by the City Council yesterday and referred 10 its Efficiency and Personnel Committee. The resolution also suggests that in filling the positions which would be made vacant, hv such a step preference should be Eiven to persons with families dependent on them. Features Arranged Radio an educational lnflu-a mlddle-of-the- tnce occupies tence position' right now, Levering Tyson, executive director of the National Council or Radio Education, told delegates to the flfty-second American Library Association convention In the third general sslon in the Sala de Oro.at the Blltmore yesterday. "Whether It will Decome an in tellectual spur to the vast listening audience or this country or turn out to be a horrible fiasco will depend on verv little pressure one ay or the other, and when we consider that the 1930 census will show approximately 13.000,000 radio seta In this country, It Is evident that the way it turns is a matter or Importance," he said. "Personally, I am optimistic enough to feel confident that radio broadcasting can be developed, to a certain extent, as a useful mechanism In adult education.

It daggers the imagination to realize what the future holds, what with broadcasting, television wired radio nd who knows what next, Just around the SPROUL SrEAKS Robert G. Sproul, president-elect of the University of California at Berkeley, told of the $260,000 to be spent at Berkeley and $127,000 at University of California at Los Angeles this year for library pur- poses alone, in order to keep pace with the demands of both students and graduates. That there are Indications of a growing tolerance, a search for truth nd a renewed vitality of religion In this countrv, was the opinion expressed by Chaplain Frederick K. Howard of San Francisco, as a result of a study he has made of the religious books in demand in the California libraries. Demands range, he raid, from the Bible to the works of Hsnry L.

Mencken and Harry Elmer Barnes, and Includes selections both for adults and chil dren. The works of Bruce Barton lead in popularity, he said, with those of Stanley Jones running a close econd. Lewis Browne, Fosdick. Papinl, Ludwlg. Mary Baker Eddy and Ralph Waldo Trine loilow not far behind.

The Koran and the Book of Mormon, also are listed among those frequently in demand. WOMAN ELECTED Announcement was made yesterday of the elections of the American Association of Law Libraries at which Miss Rosamund Parma, University of California Law Library, was elected the first woman president the association has had In its twenty-fi-e years of existence. Other off.3ers are S. D. Klapp of Minnesota Law Library, first vice-president; Thomas W.

Robinson, Los Angeles County Law I'brary, second vice-president, and Arthur S. McDaniel. New York tion of Law Libraries, secretary and treasurer. At the same time the California Library Association announced the officers for the coming year as Miss Mary Barmby, Alameda Coun ty president; Willis Kerr. romona oonege, vice-president, and Hazel Gibson, Sacramento, secretary and treasure-.

Delegates to the convention journeyed to alos Verdes la'e yesterday afternoon to attend the dedication of a new $90,000 library and art gallery. Andrew president of the A.L.A. was the principal speaker. Final sessions of the conference will be held Wday, when announcement of election of officers. al and several add.3sses will be the features before adjournment.

REPORTS SUBMITTED Members of the School Library Association competed their round of activities yesterday with a business meeting in the Biltmore ballroom, where papers touching on several phases of their work were read. Clara E. Howard of the library school, New Jersey College for Women, New Brunswick, N. gave a report of the education commit- tee. Eleanor Witmer of Columbia University, spoke on a five-year training program.

The trustees of the American Library Association were the guests at an informal dinner given last night at Casa del Mar clubhouse in Santa Monica. NEW PALOS VERDES LIBRARY DEDICATED PALOS VERDES, June 27. (Ex- Continued on Page 2, Column 2) POOR PA BY CLAUDE CALLAN "I don't know what that waitress will think of me. I left her a quarter tip on the table, but -Ma. picked it up an' Paid it was time I was beginnin' to tip mv wife-." (Otfyrllht, FubUibm 8nlu-tto i I Unanimous Approval Another attempt was made by several City Councilmen yesterday to place some limitation on the granting of permits to drill for oil in the Venice beach area, but the stand of the opposition served only to delay passage until next week of one of the four applications which reached the Council yesterday.

Three of the applications were granted unanimously, but the fourth, from Josephine M. Kent, did not receive the unanimous vote necessary for immediate action, Councilmen Williams, Jacobson and M-irtin voting against it. If the same vote of 11 to 3 is cast when St comes up again next Friday it will he granted. OPPOSITION STAND The objection of these three Councilmen is based on the fact that the lots on which the applicant wishes to drill are on the ocean side of the Speedway, and they regard drilling on that side of this thor oughfare as the beginning of a dangerous encroachment on the beach area. It is their wish to make the Speedway the west limit of oil drill ing, but unless the majority of the Council changes its mind within the next week no such limitation will be put into effect.

Two resolutions were introduced in the Council yesterday which were induced by the Venice oil boom. One, by Councilman Randall, points out that an opinion rendered by City Attorney Werner February 24. last, rules that the city may impose a license tax on the production of oil within the city and asks that an ordinance placing such a tax be prepared. The matter was referred to the Council's Finance Committee and the Bureau of Budget and Effl ciency. SHEATHING URGED The other resolution, presented by Councilman Barthel, whose dis trict Includes Venice, states that, ow ing to the skeleton construction of the oil derricks, there is a danger of spraying oil over the neighboring property, and asks that an ordinance be prepared requiring the inclosing of the derricks with corrugated sheeting at a reasonable time prior to the coming in of the w-ell, as di rected by the inspector of oil wells, The resolution was referred to the Council's City Planning Committee.

MOTHER OF FRANK FLINT SUCCUMBS Mrs. Danskin, Resident of Southland Forty Years, Dies in Pasadcnq Mrs. Althea Louise Danskin, a resident of Los Angeles and Pasadena for more than forty years, died at the Pasadena home of her late son. United States Senator Frank Flint, yesterday at 90 years of age. Mrs.

Danskin was born in North Reading. and came to Southern California with her first husband, Francis Eaton Flint, and their two sons, Frank and Motley H. Flint. During many years of her life In Los Angeles Mrs. Danskin was prominent in the club activities of the city and maintained an active interest in civic affairs.

Private funeral services will be conducted this afternoon in Pasadena from the funeral chapel of Turner Stevens at 2:30 o'clock, and following the service the body will be sent to Oakland for interment in Mountain View Cemetery in that city. EMPLOYEES WILL PICNIC Two thousand employees of the Western Union Telegraph Company, their families and friends, and visiting employees will hold their fourth annual picnic tomorrow in Griffith Park. The program, starting with a golf tournament at 6 a.m., will include athletic events and other entertainment. The afternoon feature will be the annual baseball game between the combined traffic and plant departments against the commercial department. have a search made for flnownrint.s Several imprints were found and photographed, Miller said, but they are almost worthless unless other clews are found.

The only alternative would be to take fingerprints of every male student in the. school; and this plan hardly seems feasible, he said. The according to Principal Foley, was locked from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. and it was between those hours that the havoc was wrought.

Detectives said a padlock on the stage door apparently had been opened 'with a duplicate key and expressed hope that this fact may lead to identification. They are convinced. Miller said, that there were at least two engaged in the work of destruction. Detective. Lieutenant Heitzelman spent several h6urs yesterday in conference with Principal Foley and other members of the'' faculty and intimated late in the afternoon that he had obtained information which may lead to the arrest of several suspect A thorough Investigation into the dlsapparance of records from an of-flee of the Department of Water and Power during the recent water bonds campaign will be conducted by the Board of Water and Power Commissioners.

President Haynes announced at the conclusion of yesterday's meeting of the board. "For the good of the city, the Department of Water and Power and its faithful employees, as well as for the good of ourselves, we believe this investigation should be conducted," Dr. Haynes said. "The findings will be given to the public." WHAT'S MISSING The records in question included precinct maps, lists of names of employees of the department counted upon to aid in bond-campaign work, lists of names of citizens, other election data and a valuable series of power-load studies made for the Bureau of Power and Light. They were removed from Room 511 in the Board way Building of the department on or about the night of May 8.

Burdett Moody, business agent of the Power Bureau, stated to reporters for The Times that he had the records reported missing removed or destroyed. He said they were worthless. Although no date for the opening of the investigation was announced it was intimated that it probably will be gDtten under way Monday. Dr. Haynes said that any employee knowing anything about the records and their disappearance will be invited to come before the board and tell it.

EMPLOYEES IMMUNE When asked whether employees would not only be invited generally but would be summoned individually in certain cases to appear before the board under assurance that no reprisals will be permitted against them for talking, Dr. Haynes said the board will see to it that employees can talk freely without fear. Chief Electrical Engineer Scatter-good had stated the day. previous that employees would be permitted to discuss the matter with the reporters. The public disclosure of the disappearance of the records through the columns of The Times produced widespread comment, particularly throughout the ranks of the 4600 employees of the Department of Water and Power.

CHANGE OF VIEW Moody's explanation that he had the records destroyed because thyy were "worthless" and he needed the room was the subject of discussion in view of the fact that extreme precaution had been taken to guard the records from inspection or theft. Some employees had quoted Moody as saying that under no circumstances was anyone to be permitted in the room where the records were kept, outside of employees assigned to handle tnem, nor were any of the records to be let out of the room. Further, two truck drivers took turns staying in the room all night with the records. Then came the sudden order sending Maurice Scott, in charge of the records, up to Owens Valley on the afternoon of May 8 a mission he had never been given before. That evening Alex Pettlbone, as sistant to Scott and the compiler of most of the records, was requested to turn the key to the room over, not to the truck-driver guard he had been giving it to, but to Tom Mullen, in charge of transportation for the bureau.

MULLEN NAMED "Mullen asked ma for the key himself," said Pettibone in discussing the incident yesterday. "He also asked me for all fhe keys to the filing cablnete in which the records were kept. He stepped over to the cabinets, pulled out a few drawers, asking me what they contained. Mullen had been in and out of the room, having been designated as assistant to Scott in file campaign work. "I left the room that night with Mullen and the truck driver in charge.

When I came back next morning the door was locked, as usual, and as I had been doing, I knocked. There was no answer. I knocked again and again. I real- (Continued on Page 2, Column 8) Carnegie Institution of Washington. likan and Dr.

Scherer, the second Gypsum Cave expedition will be conducted Jointly by the Southwest Museum and the California Institute of Technology, all expenses being borne by th Carnegie Institution. Cal'fornia Institute of Technology is assuming responsibility for collecting animal remains in the cave, while the Southwest Museum Is specializing in the discovery of human artifacts. Dr. Scherer is of the opinion that about two months will be required to exhaust the possibilities of Gypsum Cav. He stated that the Carnegie Institution's grant came at a time when the museum's funds for the purpose were depleted.

Before the discovery of campfire ashes fin Ice Age geologic strata scientists commonly believed that man was a relative newcomer in this country. Paramount Magnate Bases Prediction on Box Office Record of Late The nation is about to enjoy an era of prosperity, Jesse L. Lasky, vice-president of Paramount-Pub- lix Corporation, predicted yesterday in discussing the business outlook as he viewed it on his recent trip to New York. Theater box offices, he said, serve as an excellent gauge of the financial condition of the people, which, of course, reflects the situation in business and industry. "The news we thus learn is good." he stated.

"There is marked improvement in all lines of industrial endeavor and the country is swinging into a thoroughly healthy condition." Lasky arrived Thursday to co-operate with B. P. Schuiberg. general manager of West Coast production, in launching the new sea-son'sschedule. Sixty-five features are to be produced in the Hollywood and New York studios and seventy-two, each in six different languages, at the company's plant at Joinvllle, near Paris.

Trio to Conduct Annual Jubilee Three masters of ceremonies, Fred Niblo, Benny Rubin and Charles Irwin, will contribute wit, wisdom and wise cracks at the annual Hollywood midsummer jubilee at Hollywood Bowl Wednesday night. All are graduates of the vaudeville stage, though now members of the screen colony. Niblo was headlined as monologist in his pre-Hollywood days. Rubin became a master of ceremonies when de luxe pictures adopted revues. Irwin proved his talents as master of ceremonies when Paul Whlteman's first picture, "King of Jazz," was presented.

LASKY Beatrice Owens (third from left) STEWART'S WILL NAMES HIS FAMILY Size of Oil Mans Estate I'ot Disclosed as Widow, and Children Share It The entire estate of William Lyman Stewart, president of the Union Oil Company who died last Saturday, is left to his widow, Mrs. Margaret E. Stewart, 790 San Gabriel Boulevard, Lamanda Park, and four children, according to his last will and testament filed for probate yesterday. Although it is known that the oil man was possessed of a large fortune the papers filed yesterday only state property valued in excess of $10,000 consisting of stocks, bonds and real estate. Mrs.

Margaret E. Stewart, the widow, is named executrix, but she waives the appointment in favor of a son, William Lyman Stewart, and a daughter, Sarah Arnold Ben nett, and asks that they be ap pointed. Under the provisions of the will Mrs. Stewart is bequeathed the family home, valued at $50,000, and its furnishings. The will further creates five trust funds of the residue of the estate to be divided equally among Mrs.

Stewart and the four children, William Lyman Stewart, Sarah Arnold Bennett, Adelaide and Arthur Stewart. They are to terminate for the children when they reach 35 years of age. Ihe document was drawn by the oil operator on April 1, 1923. Dolling Up River Bed Considered As the result of suggestions which have been made to Mayor Porter tnat something should be done to improve the appearance of the Los Angeles River bed along which rail-load lines run, bringing many visitors to the city, the Mayor conferred yesterday with the Board of Public Works. Nothing definite came of the con ference except the giving of verbal cssurance to the Mayor by several of the Public Works Commissioners that they will investigate to see if there are any steps the city can take.

SCHEDULE OF PLANES TO BAY CITY CHANGED C. W. H. Smith, general traffic manager of Western Air Express, announced last night that beginning Sunday the schedules of the northbound and southbound, planes between Los Angeles and San Francisco will be changed to one hour later. The northbound plane leaving here will depart at 5 p.m.

instead of 4 p.m. and the south bound will leave Oakland at 5:10 p.m. Instead of 4:10 p.m., he said. HIGH-GRADE ORE The Mitchell family ht panned out about as well as any I have ever known. Mow Mitchell Is considered to be one of the most brilliant men In the commercial service of the government.

Standish is the executive head of the Automobile Club of Southern California. Ruth Comfort Mitchell (now Young) is one of the shining lights of the literary world, and the youngest boy, Douglas, gives every promise of great success. Stan and Mow Mitchell were both football stars. I remember a high school football game in which a boy was hurt. Stan Mitchell clapped him on the shoulder and said he was a good player.

"Gee," said the little boy, bis eyes filling with tears, "I'd get busted up any old day to have Stan Mitchell say that to me." Then, as now, Stan was accustomed to chatterbox along at the rate of about one word every eighty-four hours. His words meant something. SMUTTY MAGAZINES As to this wholesale arrest of news dealers for selling magazines that are spotted morally It is highly probable that many magazines that are sold ought not to be. But it 'would seem thai the retail dealer is Justly entitled, to have some legally established! standard whereby to govern hla business. Drug store clerks are a funny court to be ereoted for the protection of public morals.

The place to stop unclean magazines is at the printing press. Incidentally, after all this free advertising there Is going to be a hot market for magazines publishing the pictures of young ladles alleged, averred and asserted to be artists' models. RURAL TRADE When Coulter's Dry Goods Store opened an uptown branch Mr. Coulter was so afraid of his own revolutionary optimism that he kept the old downtown store going until he could give the women time to get educated into going to the rural districts to do their shopping. The rural store was located at the corner of Spring and Second street.

THRILLS The gentleman who lived tot the attic and is now being tried on a charge of murder had his exciting moments. Sometimes, as he sat there In the dark, he was thrilled to hear them calling the cat. WIND The Senate Is about to purchase for the government a collection of old books worth 000. It's O.K. If they will put in (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILtN "I was so mortified when I noticed I'd walked into prayer meetin' without spiftin' my gum out, but I swallowed it before anybody noticed." (CorjriiJit.

1930. roMW.ttl SyndlnW 3 J-" "-V- A EXCELLENT seal but a poor press agent is Charlie. he competed in a swimming match against five girls in the Ambassador pool. Every one of the girls is attractive. Beatrice Owens, 20 years of age.

particularly, has some professional distinction in this respect, having won the beauty prize at Ocean Park recently. Before Charlie undertook the swimming match his manager cwears he took him aside and had a heart-to-heart talk with him. "If seal beats a girl." said the manager, "there's, no news in it. But if a girl beats a seal well, figure it cut, Charlie, for yourself." And what did Charlie do? The girls were hardly started across the pool before he had reached the other side and returned. Charlie, who is performing at the Theater, can do a tap dance," stand on his head, balance things on his nose and-sing.

LATE RAINS INCREASED FIRE RISKS County Foresters Finding Hazards Made Greater by Grotvth of Weeds Late rains this year. Instead of lessening the fire hazard in Los Angeles county, increased it, according to the County Forestry Department. "While the late rainfalls we had this year made the fire-hazard season later, the extra moisture caused a tremendous growth of grass, weeds and brush which are now getting dry and which will create more of a fire hazard than ever," said L. S. Percey, assistant fire warden in charge of construction.

"In some places," he added, "the grass Is more than a foot high. This is drying out now making it extremely dangerous and extremely difficult to handle when once fired." Percey added that campers and autoists driving along the highways will have to be more careful this year than ever because of the heavy, dried undergrowth. The assistant fire warden has just completed about ten miles of firebreaks adjacent to the boundary lines of Glendale and Altadena. June Weather Not "Unusual" Another day with a temperature top of 78 deg. and a bottom of 59 was recorded here yesterday by the local weather bureau.

Continued foggy weather close to the coast is predicted for early mornings, but clear a few miles inland. The humidity was close to the average for June. At 5 a.m., it registered 83 per cent and at noon it had fallen to 52 per cent. Normal humidity for June is 88 per cent at 5 a.m.: and 58 per cent at noon. BE REPAINTED trash cans on the downtown streets for United States mail deposit boxes, and the fact that they are very similar in color to the mail boxes is largely responsible for this fact.

It is believed if some distinctive marking could be used for thesa trash Can3. indicating they are for waste matter only, or if they could be painted some color different from that of the mail boxes, that the difficulty would be more or less overcome." Tills letter was not, however, the first indication the board had had of the situation, for it was brought out during their discussion that refuse collectors had reported the finding of hundreds of letters in the trash cam. SCHOOL VANDALS SOUGHT Search Under IV ay After Discovery of Damage in Excess of $1500 at Hollywood High A few fingerprints, admittedly of little value, gave Hollywood detectives their only clew yesterday to the identity of vandals who caused damage- estimated at more than $1500. Thursday nisrht at the Hnllvu'rwl SAVANTS ON ICE AGE TRAIL Carnegie Fund Grubslakes Institutions Here to Renew Search of Gypsum Cave, Nevada By a "Times" Staff Correspondent PASADENA, June 27. Excavations hi Gypsum Cave, near Las Vegas, which already have pushed back human history in North America at least 20,000 years, will be resumed in November when a second cave expedition will be financed by the TRASH CANS GET LETTERS, Announcement that the Carnegier.ient between Dr.

Robert A. Mil- High School auditorium. The havoc was discovered by Principal Foley shortly before the hour for the opening of the annual commencement exercises and police were The occurrence was not made public until yesterday morning. The intruders virtually wrecked the stage portion of the auditorium, emptied the acid contents of two fire extinguishers into a grand piano ana aesiroyea a numoer ot potted plants. Hundreds of chairs which had been arranged on the stage for the graduating class were thrown into the orchestra pit.

I wo kettle drums, valued at more than $100 each, were wrecked. The piano, the principal said, was ruined by the effects of the acid on its mechanism. instrument was valued at approximately $1000. Capt. Miller of the Hollywood de-I tective bureau assigned Detective Lieutenant Heitzelman to the in vestigation and his first step vu to SO THEY'LL The color of waste paper cans on the city streets is to be changed from green to battleship gray, it was decided by the Board of Public Works yesterday, but it was not esthetic considerations which caused the decision.

It was because mail boxes also are green and it lias been found that many a letter is being deposited in the waste-paper cans under the impression that they are mail boxes. The fact was 'called to the atten tion of the beard by Postmaster O'Brien, who said in a letter to Public Works Commissioner Mc-Guire: "It is found that many per- kous mistake the vtjtv serviceable Institution has. made an extensive grant of money to make possible the completion of excavations was made last night by Dr. James A. B.

Scherer. director of Southwest Mu seum, Los Angjies, in me course of his introduction of a speaker who addressed men.bcrs of the Univer sity Club of Pasadena. The grant followed a recent in- sp "tion of the cave by Dr. John C. Merriam, president of the Car negie Institution, who characterized the discovery that men were roasting gror.r.d-sloth steaks in this vicinity 25.000 years before Co lumbus made hu? voyage as on? of the most important finds in the history of American archeology.

Through a co-operative trrangi.