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News-Pilot from San Pedro, California • 2

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PAGE TWO NEWS-PILOT SAN PEDRO CALIFORNIA' THURSDAY EVENING JUNE 28 T927 Re-Named on Harbor Board Co mm ission iff rrfel BEAUTY ABOUNDS FOR ESTATE NY Stock Markets Only Four Replacements Will Come Before City Council LOS ANGELES June 28 JP Coincident with his departure this morning for a week-end automobile tour of his mining properties in Nevada Mayor George Cryer made public his appointees to 17 municipal commissions 1 The 13 commissioners whose terms of office expire July 1 were reappointed leaving only four MW: ftf'N i a jjjg 111 'fiss By Wall Street Journal NEW YORK June (UP) Stock market prices today again resisted the stiff money rates incident to mid-year settlements Call loans ruled at 7 per cent the highest figure in seven years Case Threshing Machine featured in point of gain soaring more than 30 points General Motors spurted above 183 for a gai of 4 points while Curtiss Aero DuPont Radio Montgomery Ward and a long list of other industrials swung upward Railroad issues were less prominent today but prices held firm Richfield Oil improved following the announcement that A Talbot its president had been made chairman of Pan-American Western succeeding Do-heny United States Steel recovered a point loss and rose late in the day helping sustain strength in the list asm mj fjs PK More views of the picturesque summer estate Cedar Island Lodge near Brule Wis where President and Mrs CooMdge are spending their summer vacation They show left above the rustic bridge leading from the lodge across the stream the Brule river to the dining hall right a view of the lodge on the island and below left one of the pine trails near the lodge and right a deer reserve on the estate The property was owned by Henry Clay Pierce pioneer Texas oil man who died a year ago It consists of 6000 acres in the heart of trout and timber district Awarded Medical and Hospital Casts For Injuries ft In a decision just announced by the United States circuit court of appeals for the ninth district Stephen Romich Point Fermin park restaurant operator was awarded medical hospital and other costs incident to his injury nearly three years ago the sailing yacht Talayha owned by Lazard Lippman San Pedro merchant The affirmed decree of a federal district court wins for Romich a sum of approximately $2000 Romich was Injured aboard the Talayha when a fire broke out jn the galley Through attorneys he brought suit against Lippman in civil court The decision was in favor of Lippman Later Romich brought action in admiralty before a federal district judge Here he was awarded the costs of his medical and hospital attention Then Lippman through his attorneys appealed the case to the circuit court of appeals The circuit court review before Justices Rudkin Dietrich and Hunt affirmed the decision on the federal district trial judge They also pointed out that the case was of a nature which could be properly brought before either civil' or admiralty courts Throughout the case a hone of contention was whether Romich was aboard the yacht as a guest or as a seaman At the present time the Talayha is in Hawaii Lazard Lippman having been an entrant in the recent California to Honolulu sail-ing race Public Utilities Spent $15900 in Indiana Report WASHINGTON June 28 (UP) Expenditures of Indiana utilities to influence state legislation were disclosed today at the federal trade investigation of the power industry Payments totalling $15900 to lobbyists and checks for $1500 to obtain copies of bills were verified in testimony of John Mellett Indianapolis utility publicity man CHICAGO June 28 Jack Kearns and Clyde Hudkins were suspended indefinitely and their licenses revoked by the Illinois boxing commission today for infractions of the rules coaching and creating disturbances in their respective corners at last middleweight "championship here between Ace Hudkins and Mickey Walker An additional charge was lodged against Kearns for failing to produce his boxer Champion Mickey Walker at the proper time before the bout The com--mission requires fighters to appear at the ringside two hours previous to the scheduled time for their meeting Similar penalties were meted out to the seconds Teddy Hayes and Billy Bloxton for Walker and Chick Lewis and Sol Gold for the Ohio Chief 80 Plans Calls on Europe Firemen CLEVELAND' June 28 (JP) George A Wallace 80-year-old fire chief' is going to Europe for a vacation He plans to have a visit with his friend tlte chief of fire department and say hello to the chief of the Paris fire department and he hopes to see a good blaze while he is away Wallace entered the Cleveland department in 1869 and became its head in 1901 He is acquainted with many of the fire chiefs of European capitals and is looking forward to renewing friendships as he travels "That Dublin chief has a red he said can swear more eloquently at a fire than any man I ever met chief of the Paris department is a mighty nice fellow I remember he asked me how we fed our men at a fire I said there was no trouble about that He wanted to know if they were allowed to go home for their meals whether there is a fire or not 1 suppose they work in relays Any way find out" Transmitting rooms of the broad casting stations at Eiffel Tower Paris and at Warsaw have bees placed under the ground Death Cuts Wide Swath in Party of Excur-s sionists DARLINGTON DURHAM Eng June 28 (JP) Death cut a wide swath in a party of nearly one thousand happy north country excursionists returning from a holiday at Scarborough when their train collided almost head on late last night with an engine shunting freight cars in the yards here When the tangled debris resulting from the terrific crash and the telescoping of two crowded coaches had been searched it yeas found that 22 persons many of them women and children had been killed and 47 Injured of whom 28 are still in the local hospital some in serious condition A large percentage of the victims were women and children Comparatively few men were in the mid-week excursion party So badly mutilated were many of those killed that It was not possible this afternoon to identify all of them Rescue parties worked all night under the everchanging light of flares and the railwaymen who struggled desperately to take those injured from the wreckage said that they had never known a crash that presented more difficult or harrowing rescue efforts In one compartment six living and six dead were found the living and the dead tumbled together in the smash Baseball Results PHILADELPHIA June (UP) Babe Ruth hit his 29th and 30th home runs of the season here this afternoon His first homer of the day came in the first inning of the Yankees-Athletics game off Rube Walberg Philadelphia Southpaw with Koenlng on base In the eighth Ruth led off with a long drive over the fence in right center Earnshaw was pitching Last year 30th came on July 12 so he is a full two weeks ahead of his record season NATIONAL At New York 1 Phila 000 000 4 001 001 OOx 2 4 Benge Willoughby and Lerian Schulte Genewich and Hogan Chicago at poned Tain Cincinnati post- AMERICAN At Cleve 010 000 7 2 Chicago 100 610 Olx 3 8 1 Uhle and Sewell Blanke-ship and Crouse First Game At Boston Wash 101 020 000- Boston 111 000 000- Jones and Kenna and Hoffman Settlemire Second Game At Boston Wash 000 104 Oil 7 13 '3 Boston 021 030 02x 8 14 0 Hadley Marberry and Kenna MacFayden Harris Morris and Berry Heving At 320 002 15 1 Phila 002 010 4 10 1 Pipgras and Grabowski Collins Walberg Earnshaw and Fox At St Louis 000 300 13 2 Detroit 002 000 9 2 Gray and Manion Smith Stoner and Woodall El III EFFECT WASHINGTON June (UP) Six tax features of the new tax reduction bill passed in the last Congress go into effect at midnight tonight Most important of these is the exemption of all theatre tickets up to $3 and from the 10 per cent admission tax The previous exemption was 75 cents Reductions in the club dues tax on steamship tickets wines and tickets sold by brokers and repeal of the cereal beverage tax also become effective tonight On July 1 reduced tax on the narcotics licenses and increased taxes on foreign built yachts are to become effective Business failures In Hungary most of them In the extile trade total 260 so far this year as against only 256 for the entire 1927j replacements to be made subject to the confirmation of the city council The council referred the appointments to its several committees who have ten days in which to report favorably or otherwise The four replacements were Kimpton Ellis an attorney to succeed William Schreider on the civil service commission Yeatman to succeed Bert Clogston on the park commission Mrs 0 McColloch to succeed Mrs A Weir on the playground commission and Oscar Cummings an attorney who replaces Thomas A Walsh on the public utilities commission ALLEN RE-APPOINTED The commissioners who were reappointed were listed as follows: Prank McGinley building and safety commission Rex Laws fire commission Walter Allen harbor commission Pontius health commission Mrs Wells Smith library commission Parkinson municipal art commission Irving Hell-man pension commission Donald Baker planning commission Edward Delorey public works commission Miss Therese Levy social service commission and John Richards board of water and power commissioners The mayor did not Intimate whether or not he Intended to reappoint Mrs A Weldon to the humane animal commission Her term of office expires with the others on July 1 No indication was seen in the council today relative to that attitude toward the appointments MONTREAL Que June 28 (UP) The trans-Atlantic airplane North Star in which Flau-lein Thea Rasche hopes to fly to Germany was slightly damaged today when the German girl attempted to take off from Cap de la Madeleine for Newfoundland an official of the Fairchild Avia' tion company at Grand Mere Que informed the United Press The German girl and her crew hoped to complete repairs immediately LEAVEFORDG LOS ANGELES June 28 (UP) Art Goebel winner of the Dole air races to Honolulu last summer will leave here tonight or early tomorrow by ylane for Washington to receive the distinguished flying cross awarded by Congress Edgar Heaton Lomlta youth arrested on Terminal Island on May 27 Sn connection with an automobile accident in which two men were killed is scheduled to go on trial tomorrow in the Long Beach superior court on two counts of manslaughter He was held to answer to the higher court in a preliminary hearing held in San Pedro on June 6 Harry Pothoff and Donald Garrison arrested In San Pedro on May 21 on suspicion of robbery charges also go on trial tomor row in Long Beach PHARMACEUTICAL BODY HOLDS MEET SAN DIEGO June The twenty second annual convention of the California Pharmaceutical association got under way with its first business session yesterday Approximately 600 delegates from all over the state are in attendance Fulton of Long Beach president appointed committees on resolutions nominations and time and place for the next convention ACTRESS BANKRUPT LOS ANGELES June (UP) Barbara Bedford screen actress ha3 3500 and owes 36485 according to her voluntary bankruptcy peti-mt file today Sgs Puts on Weight to Make Title of Loughran Safer NEW YORK June 28 Armand Emanuel San Francisco light heavyweight drank three glasses of water before weighing In today for his match with Tommy Loughran light heavyweight champion in Madison Square Garden tonight and just managed to scale one-quarter pound over the 175-pound limit Loughran weighed 174 Vi The title will not he at stake Contrary to the usual custom Emanuel had to put on weight rather than shed it to make title safe for Philadelphia Substituting for Jimmy Slattery of Buffalo the San Francisco barrister had agreed to come in over the class limit after the boxing commission had decreed that Loughran must make the weight The match is scheduled for ten rounds WIMBLEDON STADIUM Eng June 28 (UP) Two American stars Wilbur Coen and George Lott passed out of the singles in the all-England championships today as the field at the end of the third round narrowed to sixteen Young Coen went out after a game fight before a young Briton Austin It took Rene Lacoste the great French player to eliminate Lott and even then it took him four sets to win While the Frenchmen breezed on through the singles partly at expense two French girls faded out before Miss Helen Wills and Miss Elizabeth Ryan Miles and Gallay Wilbur Coen the American boy and Norma Brookes Australian veteran started off with a victory in the first round of the doubles defeating Cooper and I Rodger Great Britain 6-1 6-3 6-3 28 CARRIER PIGEONS BRING SCOUT NOTES SANTA CRUZ June (AP)-Twenty eight carrier pigeons bearing messages to as many California cities were released last night from a camp of boy scouts in the Santa Cruz mountains 16 miles north of here Cities to which the birds were destined included Santa Clara Fresno Santa Rosa Redding Sacramento Los Angeles Merced Oakland Yreka Eureka San Diego and San Jose "Miss America of Miss Fay Lanphier of California has joined the ranks of beauty contestants who have married since winning pulchritude laurels She is the bride of Sidney Spiegel Jr of Chicago Their engagement was kept secret for a year Late Wireless Reports NOON THURSDAY Balboa for San Pedro 90 miles south SUGILLENCO Baiboa for San Pedro 232 miles south Balboa for San Pedro 455 miles south BROAD ARROW Balboa for San Pedro 941 miles south CHILSCO Tocopilla for San Pedro 1487 miles south ABRON Balboa for Ban Pedro 945 miles south ALISTAN Balboa for San Pedro 884 miles south LARRY DOHENY Balboa for San Pedro 1010 miles south HUGUENOT Balboa for San Diego 482 miles south of San Diego PATRICK Cebu for San Pedro 444 miles west SUCARSECO Balboa for San Pedro 549 miles south TAKETOYO MARU Balboa for San Pedro 240 miles south 8 THURSDAY HAGOOD Balboa for San Pedro 209 miles south WILLBORO Balboa for San Diego 802 miles south of San Diego 8 AVednesday Koyo Maru Yokohama for San Pedro 1025 west Petricola Orient for San Pedro 800 west Satanta Hangkow for San Pedro 400 west Point Judith Balboa for San Pedro 234 west Collegian Balboa for San Pedro 1702 south Sidney Hauptman Balboa for San Pedro 2144 south Boren Balboa for San Pedro 1659 south Charles Christensen Balboa for San Pedro 1200 south LUCKENBACH Balboa for San Pedro 778 miles south FOLGER Balboa for San Pedro 1349 miles south BROAD ARROW Balboa for San Pedro 1203 south PACIFIC CEDAR Balboa for San Pedro 1127 south SAN MELITO Balboa for San Pedro 799 south SUCARSECO Balboa for San Pedro 789 south WILLBORO Balboa for San Diego 1070 south San Pedro ABRON Balboa for San Pedro 1171 MALISTAN Balboa for San Pedro 1080 south LARRY DOHENY Balboa for San Pedro 1277 south CHILSCO Tocopilla for San Pedro 1738 south MANCHURI Balboa for San Pedro 1482 south San Diego FRANK LYNCH Balboa for San Pedro 607 north of Balboa DINTELDYK Balboa for San Pedro 2370 south DAVID RlciD Balboa for San Pedro 1921 south WILLIAM A McKENNY Balboa for San Pedro 1236 north Balboa DRYDEN Balboa for San Pedro 985 south PATRICK HENRY Cebu for San Pedro 700 west NEPTUNIAN A'ancouver for San Pedro 315 north YANKEE ARROW Shanghai for San Pedro 2691 west JAVA ARROW Shanghai for San Pedro A Stock Exchange LOS ANGELES June 28 Stock Exchange (Trading up to 11 am) BANKS: Bid Ask Bank of Italy 187 189 A-F 118 118 Mer 185 188 Security 511 620 INDUSTRIALS: Cal Packing Corp 1st pfd 6s com 14 Goodyear pfd99 99 Goodyear Tex pfd Moreland Mot pfd do com PUB UTILITIES: A pfd 1st pfd do com TRANSFER II OAKLAND June 28 Erna Janoschek 17-year-old high school girl was transferred to the jurisdiction of the juvenile court here today after her arraignment in police court on the charge of murdering Dianh Lilliencrantz one-year-old baby of her employers She eat with immobile countenance during the arraignment before Police Judge Edward Tyrell The girl will next appear before one of the judges of the Alameda county juvenile court There it will be determined whether she is to be hound over to the superior court for trial or held by the juvenile court for delinquency A murder warrant has been sworn out against her by the grandfather of the baby who was strangled to death The only witness at the arraignment was Mrs Marie Janoschek mother who testified the girl was horn In Watts Los Angeles county Jn 1911 and was 17 years old The young girl is charged with strangling to death the baby of Mr and Mrs Eric Lilliencrantz Miss Earhart and Companions Sail For America Today SOUTHAMPTON Eng June 28 (JP) Miss Amelia Earhart Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon fresh frOm the cordial welcome given them in Great Britain after their flight across the Atlantic from Newfoundland sailed for home today 1 SUSPECT IN LOS ANGELES June 28 (JP) With the death today of George Priest 58 of 2719 Carson street Torrance Harmon Temple 35 his son-in-law will be charged with murder police of Signal Hill reported to the sheriff Temple is alleged to have shot Priest In the former's home at Signal Hill on June 20 after Priest is asserted to have told Mrs Temple tales of her alleged activities with other women The defendant claims he fired in self defense The trio recently moved to Signal Hill and Torrance from El Centro FINAL APPROVAL BERLIN June 28 President von Hindenburg gave his final approval to the new cabinet list submitted today by the Socialist chancellor Herman Mueller MARSEILLES France June 28 (A5) A hue and cry has been raised throughout France for Jerome Prat alias Camile Gaii-lard 61 charged with murdering at least five fiancees and probably many others Police investigation showed that Prat operated along the same lines as the notorious Henri Desire Dandru getting in touch through'" matrimonial advertisements with women of more years than discretion who had a little capital Suspicion was first aroused on Sunday when Mile Elise Foce the owner of a villa which Prat wds known to have just purchased was found strangled with a piece of wire jPrat had disappeared In the course of their inquiries police searched another villa which Prat had leased a year ago They found fragments of the bodies of two women buried under the cement floor of the chicken house The bodies were identified as Jeanne Ebel and Jeanne Bonnet both more than 40 years old France Puts Air Brakes on 250000 New Freight Cars PARIS June 28 (JP) France is finally getting around to air brakes on freight trains ten years after Buch a program was written into the peace treaty Some 250000 cars half of the French rolling stock will he equipped partly through German reparations French industry fought the plan to order from Germany equipment that will cost $64000-000 during the next six years It has been agreed two-fifths of the business shall go to French manufacturers and three-fifths obtained from Germany as reparations An American type of brake is to he used PARIS June Alfred Fronval most famous stunt pilot was killed today at the Villa Coublay landing field when his plane crashed and burned Fronval held the world's loop-the-loop record with 1100 consecutive turns until March 17 when Charles Holman of St Paul Minn looped 1433 times do 6s pfd Joaqn com So Cal Edison pfd do 7s pfd do 6s pfd do 6s pfd So Cou Gas 7s pfd A Invest Co OIL STOCKS: Bolsa Chica A 72 Cal Pet com Gilmore Oil Holly Develop Co Midway Northern 39 Rep Pet 63 Rich Oil pfd WOW 23 do com 43 Shell Union com 27 of Cal 67 Union Oil of Calif 5S Union Associates 49 Oil Royalties 15 MINING STOCKS: Big Jim Mines 29 Black Range 2 Gold Dust 3 Katherine Extens 2 Tidewater As com 16 Tidewater As pfd 49 Tom Reed 159 Security 127 United Eastern 74 64 23 43 27 67 48 60 16 23 1 3 1 3 16 45 161 132 MASONIC LODGE TO INITIATE TONIGHT Members of San Pedro Lodge No 332 A will assemble at 7 tonight in Masonic Temple 233 Sixth street for third degree work which will be given a number of candidates.

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