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MONDAY MORNING. 2os ngclccasctChrtcs SEPTEMBER 25, 1939, i A FISHING BARGE DASHED ASHORE BY GIANT COMBERS NEAR SANTA MONICA A A i Ms i 1 3 to hour gale, the aftermath of the unprecedented heat wave craft, small and large, battered off the Southern California coast by heavy seas which followed a 60-mile-an- BOWS TO GALE The 247-foot fishing barge Minnie A. Caine, which was washed ashore off Sunset north lasting all of last week. of Santa Monica yesterday. Her crew of six members was rescued.

The fishing barge was only one of many Gales Batter Coast Ships; 29 Lives Believed to Be Lost WHAT GOES ON? Continued from First Page By Chapin Hall Hi Hall and Eiysian Park quarters broke clown. The Pasadena police transmitter facilities were used momentarily until that station broke down. Then the Los Angeles emergency truck transmitter was used successfully. At Bon-Air Hospital, 351 W. 111th lights failed during the storm and.

with five or six babies A MORNING THOUGHT Sabotage? What have we done about the vicious agitators who feed off our pay rolls? The greatest menace to America today lies in its enrmies who arc boring from within. Thin issue must be met squarely before it is too late, The Detroiter, published by the Detroit Board of Commerce, expected to be born hourly, a call was sent to police for lan becoming pretty well fed up with organization interference with steady work at peak pay- and DETROIT, Sept. 21 Detroit is Los Angeles' closest rival industrially, commercially and that, in his opinion, If the un above picture taken during yesterday's storm ot the south terns. Police supplied the hospital with candles to meet any emergency. Los Angeles police received a complaint a minute regarding fallen wires.

Burglar alarms ions do not get "wise" to this! FURY Sea whipped by gale thunders on beach at Balboa hurling foam and spray higher than pier as shown in from the standpoint of poputa tion. coast city. TlmM photo growing resentment they will the new 327-foot cutters John C. Spencer and Samuel D. Ingham to Point Magu, together with the patrol boat Hermes, TWO DROWNED Raymond Bernhardt, 4211 Sixth and Donald Rupert, 08 1 S.

Oxford were drowned when the 37-foot cruiser Rarotonga was battered against the breakwater at Los Angeles Harbor, The engine failed on the craft, returning from Santa Catalina Island, and huge breakers hammered it onto the breakwater, A whaicboat from the U.S.S. Argonne saved the other four pas.sengers.John Carroll, 9057 Nemo West, Hollywood; Beverly Wygant, 719 Benton Way; Mary Hyde, 827 S. Hobart and Lucille Hagclie, 8564 W. Olympic Blvd. Carroll suffered an arm injury, WOMAX PERISHES Mrs.

Dorothy Sterling, 35, of' 727 Palm, Burbank, was drowned when the 33-foot cruiser Jollv Tom cansized at the iettv Southland Rain Totals 5 Now that she has the battle of find their control slipping. the giants (Joe and Bob) behind' There were, as of Sept. 11, her the going became easier and! 22,451 Detroit families on welfare busy executives were once more! relief as against 22,407 a year willing to discuss such common-j ago. In Wayne County (Detroit) places as business and politics. I there are 33,305 W.P.A.

relief The picture is an encouraging1 workers as against 91,258 on the one. same date a year ago. In the past Detroit is fully to the two weeks several thousand em-fact that Los Angeles is closely! Payees have been called back to on her heels. Almost everyone I work and these figures are, therewith whom I have talked thinks I subject to another sharp Following is the rainfall, In inches, reported from various Southern California points up to Trains Delayed by Downpour Rains Near Kingman and Indio Hinder S.P. and Santa Fe 9 p.m.

yesterday with the exceo- rang throughout the city as the howling gale shattered plate glass windows. A water main broke near 43rd and Vermont Ave. PIERS DAMAGED The churning seas and thundering rain tore half of San Cle-mente's 1200-foot pier away. The Newport and Balboa pier centers collapsed and the end of the Huntington Beach pier was ripped away. The Doheny Palisades pier was crippled.

Typical of the desperate battles with the mountainous breakers was that of 40 lifeguards who tion of Los Angeles where an unofficial reading was taken at Heat Wave Ends in Hard Rain Southland Drenched After Record Hot Spell; More Moisture in Sight Continued from First Page crops, preferring to wait until thoroughgoing checkups had been concluded before issuing damage reports. Moderate temperatures prevailed yesterday throughout Southern California. Pasadena, a 12 midnight; Redondo Beach. Reseda Rialto San Bernardino. San Clemente San Dimas San Fernando Santa Anita Sta.

Ana Canyon Santa Barbara Santa Maria Sierra Madre Temple City Torrance Tujunga downward. her next year. Biorm ,69 ,75 .03 .7 .49 .12 .08 .32 .58 .10 .48 .46 .09 .15 .93 1,08 .29 .44 ,29 .63 .63 .52 2.20 1.39 .09 .10, .14 .43 .43 .06 .41 .41 .10 .40 .67 .69 ,01 .21 .22 .07 .47 .06 .01 .43 .21 .73 .06 SOUTHLAXD AMONG BEST CUSTOMERS Lust Yfur .01 .07 MEXACIXG CLOUD OX IXDt STRIAL HORIZON Los Angeles l.fit Altadcna ,70 Anaheim 10 me ouuook in me automotive entrance of Newport Harbor. The most menacing cloud over industry, except for the labor The. raging sea crashed the Heavy rains near Kingman, and Indio held up Southern Pacific and Santa Fe trains yesterday afternoon for several hours.

Last night the Southern Pacific had the main line open the industrial horizon is the an- dissensions mentioned, is highly Arcadia Azusa Baldwin Park Upland .31 .31 Barton Flats .93 after three trains had been held Beaumont parent determination of organ- i encouraging. The 1910 cars are ized labor to squeeze the coming from assembly lines ultimate drop from the cup very mair Plant reports sustenance cumulative interest and accumu- The current drive is to force orders. This leads to an the use of parts: tools, Ppak higher than in manufactured in vears after the shows have Vista Yucaipa .12 .13 ,95 .55 .45 .15 T. .15 .92 .24 .29 several nours ai inuio umu uie Rurbank rain subsided. .39 .24 .07 .05 Khous and a series of strikes are uren neia ana ine advertising Carpinteria Claremont Colfon Corona At inuio nve jncnes 01 raiu fell in seven hours, flooding the streets for the second time in three weeks.

Damage was esti- COn AAA nvA under way to this end. 1. rescued six men from the 217-foot fishing barge Minnie A. Caine. SHIP DRIFTS ASHORE The ship broke anchor and drifted onto the shore two and a half miles north of Santa Monica, near Sunset Blvd.

Red distress lights soared. Lieut. Bob Butt and Capts. George Wat-kins, Myron Cox and H. E.

Walker headed the combined police and lifeguard crews. They struggled into the sea with a lifeline, but the barge, lying broadside to the shore, threatened to lurch sideways onto the rescue crews. Guards' feet were cut on the sharp rocks, but the passengers ere rescued on the line. The 110-foot palatial yacht Paragon, owned by William H. Mercury's Retreat From Peak Shown Here's the way the temperatures ran yesterday, Saturday sioies.

As the storm swept Info Arizona, washouts closed traffic on the Santa Fe line between King T. .52 Duarte 35 El Segundo SR Etiwanda 32 Gardena R4 Glendale 1.02 Glendora 1.00 campaigns get under way. Here again Southern California looms large as the industry's best customer. In the eight months ended August 31, last, which marked the end of the 1938-39 selling season, United States auto production totaled units, an increase for the year of 52 per cent. From present indications this will be materially greater during the season now impending.

In one particular Los Angeles If these are successful it may bring about a serious situation in big production plants through sympathetic strikes or forced Fhutdowns. Every optimistic forecast is tempered by fear of this sword of Damocles. FEELS STIMULUS OF WAR ORDERS Detroit, and the industrial area of which it is the hub, is already beginning to feel the stimulus of war orders. When Scison 1.70 .75 .40 .42 .13 .95 3.03 1.38 .15 .38 .21 1.31 .81 .56 1.11 .35 .68 .47 .85 1.04 1.00 .73 .52 .86 .74 .27 .22 '28 .87 .63 1.26 1.57 .62 1.63 .42 .38 .71 1.14 .95 .56 1.85 man ana Needles, wasnouts also closed Highway 66 for several hours and Highway 93 vessel to pieces. It was owned by Tommy Davidson of 5526 Northridge, Reseda, who was not aboard.

Six passengers were rescued by John Lugo, Newport Beach lifeguard, and Ralph Dawson of Santa Ana, who pushed paddle-boards through the treacherous seas. Breakers flew over the lighthouse and the Gillette mansion near by. Three persons were missing from the 28-foot cabin cruiser Nina owned by Abraham Taylor, 35, of Pomona. The craft capsized in a heavy sea while passengers were on a fishing cruise near Point Fermin. The howling seas smashed it into the breakwater off Cabrillo Beach.

BOYS FEARED LOST Also reported missing are three small boys, names unknown, seen in the water hanging to a skiff oil White Toint, near San Pedro, in early afternoon. Flash floods roared down Santa Monica and Rustic canyons, causing a sudden danger to homes. The uncompleted $500,000 storm drain at the mouth of the converging can- T. from Kingman to Boulder City and last Wednesday, hottest day was closed until morning. "hot spot" during the eight-day heat wave, reported a 79-degree maximum; San Fernando, 85 degrees; Duarte, S3; Glendale, 82.

Warmest yesterday were Santa Ana and Whittier, with comparatively mild 86-degree readings. BEACHES CROWDED Despite the threat of high waves, rain and tide rips, tha beaches north of Manhattan re-maiBed, thronged. The Malibu-Del Rey sector, until the full fury of the gale struck, counted about 200,000 holiday seekers; another 65,000 lined the Hermosa-Redondo sea-front area. Long Beach was closed to bathers all day. Even cooler conditions were forecast for today by the United States Weather Bureau.

More rain accompanied by thunderstorms reach L03 Angeles and the Southland, Federal meteorologists also predicted, along with possible high winds. This was the full prophecy; Hawthorne Hermosa Highland Inglewood of the year; ll .52 .35 .74 and unre- bor were overdue far outstrips Detroit: that of La Canada ported but harbor officials be if these grow to their ex-building activity, and especially peted magnitude this city and home building although a local .01 .11 .05 .29 .10 T. .01 Yct.fr-Hour dr 5 a.m 80 6 a.m. 80 7 a.m 78 8 a.m 76 9 a.m 77 10 a.m. 81 11 a.m.

79 increase of 14.6 per cent is pride-fully referred to. Freight car loadings are up 17 per cent over IjOS Angeles will derive the greatest benefit because of their automobile and airplane output capacity, plus steel, canned goods last year before the new busi- Sulur- Wfdiifs- tUr dar 86 81 86 83 84 86, SS 94 97 98 95 102 98 105 98.1 107.2 97 104 99 101 100 101 96 98 94 98 85 96 Laguna ,10 Lancaster 25 La Verne 62 Lomita 61 Long Beach 1.25 Lytle Creek .25 Manhattan Beach .62 Mill Creek 40 Monrovia .12 Oceanside T. Palo Verdes .71 Pasadena 1.10 anct other products necessary tojness referred lieved they are staying at sea for safety. BOAT OVERTURNS The storm loosened foundations on five Long Beach homes in the Alomitos Bay peninsula area and undermined five others. These are on the south side of Ocean Blvd.

between 53rd and 55th Place. With about six men aboard, a to really com the conduct of a belligerency. Imenced to run Bartholomae millionaire Alaska mining and Southern California oil man, was knifed by a giant wave at entrance of Newport Harbor. YACHT SIXES Bartholomae was one of 16 persons aboard, returning from Santa Catalina Island. The craft hugged the east jetty when a thundering wave tore out its side.

The yacht was wheeled forward to harbor safety but she soon sank in 20 feet of water. Passengers were rescued and unhurt. Joe Hiribarn and Paul Chantry' were reported sending A Board of Commerce official who has recently returned 1 -u- the Coast told me today that in'AXD BAXK CLEARIXGS 78 78 76 75 69 67 58 12 noon 1 p.m. 2 p.m. 3 p.m.

4 p.m.' 5 p.m. 6 p.m. mir nwn innncrnni arna Mo fori mi in thic rlicrrtft nro, .39 .01 .01 .10 67 shore boat from the destroyer Pomona Lower temperatures, moderate-to-fresh southerly winds growing stronger off the coast. Puente 09 Red lands 30 Recorded at 11:50 a.m. U.S.S.

Winslow overturned off West Beach' near Long Beach. Before lifeguards at Long verv much at home because so 'operating virtually at capacity p'ls vas camming ine many Michigan concerns are rep-! as compared with 67 per a temporary highway bridge resented there, some of which bid capacity a year ago. Bank ciear.jncipert oar tne racing water from likely to over-top the parent ings are running from $25,000,000 jnowlnS 10 lfle ea- Highway plants. jto $30,000,000 ahead of last year's fdlTted JT" In September, so far, the in-'corresponding weeks. Spared to dynamite construction dustrial employment index here! Retail trade is brisk, provide an escape enan- Beach could effect orders pro hibiting swimming in the breaker-ridden, tide rip-menaced wa flares three miles off San Cle- Police Broadcast System Breaks Down During Storm RrlUSIC COUPON Coast Guard headquarters were! niente.

ly average of 100 per cent in! in advance of last year. Nevvs- flooded with distress calls! The Lnited States Heet flag- sylvania reported the ho eiliv a Pond in,) hammer i throughout the day and night, ship Penn ters in their territory, two deaths by drowning occurred. RESCUES TWO One of the victims died a hero. He was Ralph Galvan, 22, of eenng gear temporar- Vr rA' the gale force reached 65 electric st Police calls during the height, truck, which was parked at the bn one destroyer. Af? .1 Thorn id t-ia I 01 -J" Ol, v.iocj.tu dropping IU 11, IC JlIUV.ll HIV.

City Hall of yesterday's storm were halted Claude C. Bloch. commander-in-1 but an auxiliary steer 7.7f t'V matter with Detroit IF the labor chief of the United States Fleet. I insr sear was olaced in onera-i Corpus visiting Messenger were dispatched tvivw Vlrt. rr linn Anmnlilnt momentarily when the radio friends at 729 Clover Los In 1932.

UXIOXS MAI' I-'IXD CONTROL SL1PPIXG There i agreement that the peak ia wages has been reached. Angeles. When two young girls appeared to have been caught in granted permission to captains of 100 Navy ships in the harbor isKVEX BOATS CAPSIZED to go to sea if they felt safetv 4 I Seven small boats capsized in unions will quit their fighting and their dog-in-the-manger tactics and give their own membership and industry the co-operation to which both are entitled. i.l No-193 broadcasting un.t in the City Hall to firoadcar Matthew IC Mur-broke down. jray, who broadcast the calls to When the transmitter, the main transmitting station at the Police Department asked' Eiysian Park, which rebroadcaSt Pasadena police to handle over the police network.

a tide rip, Galvan dashed to their iwroor and shoved them ashore. I OU EL LINLs DAMAGED their 11 passengers were res-j But, unable to swim, he him-Throughout Southern The Mind battered someseif was trapped by the trench- I based on current costs, and if there ti a recession it will be uflr- br-cause thort-sighted labor de-JutIand Her0 DieS niandP, impossible of LONDON, Sept. 21. calls, but within a few minutes fXl SS'N6 LOS atlJJClfS CfltlCS nsa. telephone, telegraph and'yaehts at the Los Angeles i aehtlerous waves.

OAILV FOUNDED DEC. 1S1 Phon MAitiiiui tht rasadpna 11 nil u-pnt nut trvn r. -Rear ipmver lines were damaeed. uuo at uminizton. boats Admiral Barry; Bingham, 5S, who! Manv cities were without ihrown against thf beach The Los Anceles denartment! cabbies riiiorm, nian, hni.

onn. $1.30 per irmit! Gregory IS. of 110 S. Sonora also met death Jn a Long Beach tide (rip. Life- lone n.

One local in a pOSl- won the Victoria Cross at trio for Innir nrrirv1c Thciaf Lamina Roai-h anr! nno at observer, thm rnorithf. 11. 56l Ita mflnih. il.nn, na mr. fill nihjty Jlratas 1 ftft men put into service its held emergency unit, a portable broad POSTACt PREPAID.

Entirtd MtaniJ.elaH mautr 0. it th Poitomu li Lsi Anm, Cl undr lh Act Marth 3, int. guards saved his brother, inn in know nnercoi r.e fpeaKs.i lana as commander of the 13th Los Angrier pnlk-c radio trans-'Huntington Beach. iaid that the man on the job is Destroyer Flotilla, died today. jmLsioa line between the City! Ssx boats due at Newport liar- casting system housed on monoav mornimo, liPIlMlIU JJ, 1l I.VIII, :3.