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LOS 'ANGETAFA EvENTNG EXPRESS SATURDAY MARCH 9 19 Z9 4 Policemen 'MISS AMERICA' WINS DIVORCE ON CHARGE BODY OF FLINT TO LIE IN STATE PAIIL SHOUP Is HONORED BY LEADERS 'MbndayAg i 'Chkes-toBeH' Against I -I ity Case Aims to Attorne inBate Brutal- tal- i FAMOUS ADOBE ONCE 0CK T0N i I I Halt! '''All 'Buck sin 4 '-e-- i tiitiVE-YEAR BATTCE 1 STOCKTON QUARTERS STOCKToN QUARTERS US ADOBE ONCE 9 FAMOUS A I Public Will File Through City Hall Rotunda To Pay Last Tribute Huge Public Tribute to SP President Who Began as Shop Helper FOR JUSTICE TOLD Br tefted Prem RENO Nev March 9--Fay Lanphier "Miss America" of 1925 was granted a divorce here from Spiegel Jr of Chicago who she charged thre things at her and slapped her A large crowd which waited in the courtroom to hear the suit was disappointed her hear ing taking place in the seclu sion of a judge's chamber Mips Lanphier was hurried into and out of the courthouse through a back door This couple had been married less than a year Miss Lan phier said in her petition for divorce that Spiegel threw books and electric light bulbs at her and that on one occasion he slapped her with a wet towel Details of these incidents were denied the crowd due to the private hearing Suspension of Officers a 7 Mho Beat Up Victim Demanded in Action BEING RESTORED RESTORED BEING 0919 1 --9v- 9 I i 7cA 1040 'P'' 4z 11 0 d'j 4 4: i 1 Vi i'' 4 1 1 44:: :::0 14 4 eWI71 ::110 4 44 1 C'" 14414 ix'511 i 0 711 2'''' 7t40-- --7777 77 ::77 '7'777: 4 7::: Ir 1 S- it I 1 4e' 0 lu 1 i--' 41 0 4 rit ''S -1-etik'' 444::4: :7 41: :) 7'1 77:: 4::::: Ld ir 11 1 To Frank Putnam Flint former United States senator from California who died while on a world tour aboard ship near Manila February 11 will be accorded the honor of being the first Los Angeles citizen whose body will lie in state in the rotunda of the neiv City Balt Arrangements for according the public an opportunity to pay tribute to the former civic leader an statesman were completed today with the announcement that Mr Flint's body will lie in state at 10 a In March 16 'The funeral services will be conducted in the City Hall at noon with Dr Freeman pastor of the Pasadena Presbyterian Church directing the services Joseph Scott lifelong friend of the former senator will deliver the eulogy Gov Young has been invited to deliver a short address The public services are expected to be concluded at 1 after which the body will be taken to the family home in Flintridge for private funeral rites Interment will be in Forest Lawn mausoleum Mrs Flint who was with the senator when he was stricken Mr and Mrs William Flint and Mr and Mrs Henry MacKay Jr are returning to California with the body on the President Madison The ship is expected to dock at Seattle Monday and the party will leave immediately for Los Angeles according to present plans SUPER-STATION BODY ALARMED '0- By MICHAELSCHINDLEFi With the avowed intention of se luring action instead of "buckiassing" Attorney Thatcher Kemp In the name of Mrs Minnie Bates file a long list of sensational 4harges Monday against four Los '1Arige1es police officers demanding that they be suspended and brought 'to trial before the Police Commission it was revealed today Is The officers William Jolln James Jester Carts and a Ruppers are accused of hay-almost killed James Bate 'it Negro deputy sheriff on the night of September 19 192 Officer Lewis was named with the rest 'but has since left the department f- 4 a ea at Lie Independent gasoline service station owners met last night at 1329 South Hope street under the auspices of the Independent Super Station Association to find ways and means to end the present "gas" war The Independent refineries and service station owners will face ruin if the situation is not relieved soon it was brought out during the meeting Within a short time the association will introduce its oliwn brand of gasoline and every member will be expected to have one pump of this brand on hand A dealer however can handle as many more brands as he cares to it was an-flounced during the meeting The body represents hundreds of Independent dealers in Los Angeles city and 'county and is affiliated with similar organizations all over California 1 'ART' STUDENTS LAND IN JAIL JACOBSON CASE TRIAL MARCH 20 IA 1 1 I JUDGE HITS AT TAX DEED SALES Tactics of 'Parasites' Denounced Operators Afar ned by Court IJUDGE HITS AT 1 rs r4 i SLAYER SHOOTS HIS WAY OUT OE DOOMED CELL Crawford Others Face 1 1-0 More than 750 of the city's civict and business leaders gathered last night In the Sala de Oro of the Biltmore Hotel to pay tribute to Paul Shoup presidetv of the Southern Pacific railroad and one of the outstanding residents of California whese rise from a humble machinists assistant to the highest Position within the gift of his great organization marks him as one of the most colorful figures In the history of railroading It was a memorable event The reception and banquet formed the most widely attended affair of Its kind in the history of South- ern California Not only was this true as to the number who attended but in the type of men who gathered to pay tribute to the industrial leader whose every activity in the past has been for the advancement of his state TRIBUTE TO VISION It was a tribute to vision courage and determination Maynard McFle former president of the Chamber of Commerce and one of the honored guest's closest personal friends introduced Shoup Shannon Crandall was tostmaster McFle in introducing Shoup touehed the personal note He carried his hearers over the career of the man they bad gathered to him first at the workman's bench in the San Bernardino shops of the Southern Pacific carrying them along through a story which might well have delighted the heart of Horatio Alger until he placed his former friend In the chair of the president of one of the nation's greatest rail systems Through that long succession of advancements Shoup Ilea always remained of the boys" to every Southern Pacific employe' MeFie declared McFie said: "Paul Shoup stands today as the first citizen of California and the ambassador of good will from the Golden State to the rest of the world God grant him many years of a firm grip on the throttle of the great organization he represents and aid him in guiding the star of California and the West" The speaker said that "much of the change in attitude of the general public toward large corporations the good feeling that now exists between the people and big business that has come about in the last 30 years is due to the foresight and methods of men of the type of Paul Shoup" In a brief reply the honor guest concluded: "The future of the Southern Pacific is bound in the future of California The prosperity of both are entwined and the Southern Pacific wants to take part in all activities to make a greater state" AT SPEAKERS' TABLE Seated at the speakers' table besides Shoup McFle and Crandall were: Mayor Cryer McClellan Pontius Ballard William Bonelli Etter Harry Chandler George I Cochran Edward A Dickson Henry Robinson William May Garland Knickerbocker George Young John Bullock Dr Frank Barham Chapman Benjamin Bledsoe John Austin Manchester Body George Kuhrte Stubbs Dyerm I Copley Gen Sherman Teague and It Harbison of San Bernardino Philip Fay of San Francisco Frank Belcher of San Diego A Buffum of Long Beach and Henderson of San Francisco Two students who tried to include the study of art in their curriculum at the expense of the Blitmore Hotel were arrested early today and now are studying penology In The course In art started when Robert A Cameron 19 of 718 North New Hampshire avenue according to the police report tried to take the bronze statue of a Greek soldier valued at $250 out of the Biltmore lobby 3 Manning house detective saw the act and caught Cameron at the end of a 1 00-yard dash Cameron possibly thinking It was a class rush gave battle and was aided by another student William Constable 20 of 1962 Wellington road In the fracas the Greek soldier was wounded to the extent of a broken arm and a Ohlimed base but Manning hung on until police arrived and put the two youths under arrest on a charge of suspicion of grand theft 4ss )014: i' :::::::::::::40 lt: 4 1A o- 0::: -n Iii 1-e 1 1 4' ee 4 -t nlt- 4 4 1) ::7 -)41 At qg 4 1 ifit 4 7 0 1 1 at)L A 1 Alt 04 0 i 1 i 1 1 10 i 11 1 41 ei ''''k 44 1r 'Frame Up' Charges Before Judge Wbod Charles Crawford self styled "Lone Gray Wolf" of Los Angeles politics and his six asserted companions indicted for conspiracy in a morals raid "frame-up" against Councilman Carl I Jacobson are to be tried before Superior Judge Walton Wood on March 20 Trial date was set yesterday by Presiding Superior Judge Hartley Shaw who declined to grant demurrers of defense attorneys Crawford Albert Marco "cry baby" vice baron and five police officers entered formal pleas of not guilty yesterday WANT CALLIE AT TRIAL By Associated Press POTTSVILLE Pa March Elveres Miguel 28-year-o1d slayer shot his way to freedom from the Schuykill county jail today A guard Roy Reeves received a bullet wound in the leg Miguel a Cuban was under sentence of death for killing Louise Jacks 9 his one-time sweetheart in February 1928 A stay had recently been granted and his case was to come before the State Board of Pardons within a few weeks Armed with a pistol Miguel demanded that Reeves hand over his keys Reeves lunged at Miguel and in the struggle the guard dropped with a bullet in his leg Advancing to the door Miguel overpowered another guard and fled SET FUNERAL OF So CAL PIONEER Former Nicaraguan Rebel Jiron Is Slain Setting aside of all tax deeds based on t3e1inquencles taken from the 1920 tax rolls wag considered possible today if the ruling of Superior Judge Rosekranz in one of the test cases is upheld Prefacing his decision in a ease Involving a valuable piece of property acquired by payment of $421 at a tax sale Judge Rosekranz referred to dealers in tax deeds as "parasites' and warned such operators that the tactics are "frowned upon by the law" "These parasites who live on the misfortune of others should be discouraged in every legal way" the court said "The law is designed to protect property owners from such leeches and technicalities In favor of the original owner who failed to pay his taxes should be strictly recognized" Judge Rosekranz's ruling came In the suit brought by I Leonard against Attorney DeWitt Atkins executor of the estate of Farrow to acquire title to a lot in the town of 1-toward Farrow had owned the property a number of years and in 1S20 per mitted the taxes to become delinquent 11 Clark purchased the lot for $421 at a tax sale and resold it to Leonard for NO Leonard brought Ault when he learned the Farrow estate etill claimed title Judge Rose 'trans ruled In favor of Farrows estate in holding that the tax sale was not legal because the tax collector In advertising the tax to be delinquent did not state the amount of the tax due eds om red su- of a 0P- 421 re- as er- ned Restoration work on the famous Avila adobe holise on Olivera street once the headquarters of General Stockton the conquering American leader in the occupation of Lou Angeles in 1847 has been made possible and within the next few days this noted structure which figured so prom inently in the early history of this city will have been saved from ruin Above the Avila house as it appears today following a little preliminary reconstruction work and below Senora Encarnation Avila who fled from what was then a mansion as the American soldiers entered the city 0 1Noted Avila House in Olivera ti 'FIVE-YEAR FIGHT 4 For five years Attorney Kemp cl- saiti today Mrs Bate has sought action that would result in justice A is 4 -m June 1925 after hearing a civil he isult for damages brought against he the officers by Bate through the 't ty sate John Kemp Superior Judge Ao Charles Burnell called the police officers "cowardly contemptible '''vermin" and awarded Bate $2515 damages Two months later Bate died He had been a sick: and l'broken man since thebeating his 3 friends claim City Attorney Jess Stephens who 11 the five officers appealed the case and at last the supreme court on February 15 last upheld 2Tudge Burnell saying the officers were guilty of an "unwarranted Cs inexcusable and cowardly assault" 1 kipon an innocent man ve i But in spite of the decision of ihe two courts a scathing resolu- ion adopted by the Board of Supernt at the time and another re burning document drafted by Wil4 )1d Aim Bonen! president of the City Council the police and fire committee of the City Council and a I Ake Police Commission itself is still ''marking time" As 0 MEETING TUESDAY When asked yesterday what he Intended to do Councilman gnapI 4 per Ingram chairman of the police and fire committee said be didn't know Bonelli's resolution was ret 'yferred to Ingram's committee for action with the expectation that a rtecial meeting would be called in atime to have the committee report returned to the council before the Police Commission's next meeting 11 nuesday "There are too many angles in this matter to rush it through" said Councilman Ingram "We mustn't be hasty Let's give these boys a chan'ce Let's be fair" i i Ingram indicated that his cornmittee would meet on Its regular late to have 11 tits report placed before the council and the Police Commisaion on Tuesday The other members of 'the committee are Councilmen nri i Douglas Foster and Arthur Albert of 1 At the same time the constitu- Les IS: 'rotional rights committee' of the Los 1 Angeles Bar Association awaited a reply from the police commission- :2" ters to their letter which called the vs ltention of the commission to the at supreme and superior court de4 rclalona in the notorious case 3ITI I ALL 'NEWSPAPER TALK' for wre 1) When Commissioner Tg Thorpe 3 ge sought to have his colleagues take no official action last Tuesday Frost- st dent of the Commission Dell Shwelizer reSuf fed him with the 12 i remark that "it was all newspaper Ise )011c anyway" tut The sordid details of the brutality Ott vela were first exposed in the colas 4 'limns of this newspaptr a few days ago Briefly they are: Old Jim Bate as be was affec tionately called wax an active man in the servioe of the county his lodge and his church in spite of his I 4 So-odd years In appreciation of his ervices and his long and honorable 11 record the Board of Supervis6ris go presented him with a handsome engraved deputy etheriff's badge to weer instead of the regulation int I signia He had both badges the eight that the five officers sought to arrest him without the evidence shown declaring their own Identity I PUNCHED IN FACE Bate having more than MOO of lodge and church money on his la person and thinking them bandits I refused to get into their automobile showed his own then fell beneath their blows the evi) dence declares They kicked him blackjacked him and punched him full in the face witnesses said Then they dragged him into their machine and TlY rushed him to Central de where he was mauled again an- rt- other witness testified They threw vi- t' him on the into a cell ite Fifteen minutes later he was Fe-le- leased and told to foget it he He Is now dead I TIA But four of the five officers are I I still collecting salaries from the i taxpayers of Los Angeles and are pie actively employed under the earn- 'in nand Of Chief of Police James Ed- :20 gar Davis jg he isult ne the Into officei damal 3 4' larokel friend City ct court 1Tudge were CO inexct 3 kloon ve But the ion a nt 'visors rm 'hurnit 4 )1d Iim City fon Ahe 'marl( 1M BE-I Intend I 4 iper Ir and lerred action it 'specie kime return lf need "Ti this said' mustr boys i frig tnitte( 0 tits re and Tuesd a- )the Dougl of At Les os: tional I Angel I reply 27 lers tc tre lattent 'supra rete1011 1 fo Lola re h94 Win sough no of tick tat tint l2 I remar talk Oil The OLd rose' as umns ago Old tionat In th lodge 6(1-0di tcrvic rccor( presel pogra vier signia night to arr showl tity PUN( Bat lodge persoi retort( show( 'fell donee The him face dra gg melte i hen rt- other him ite Fine( Isa lease he He But TIA 1 I still I mans Ph' active mend 2 0 gar I APPEAL IS FILED FOR NORTHgOTT nnr I yin ru rn fly Associated Preis MANAGUA Nicaragua March 9 papers today said Gem Manuel Maria Jiron former San-dint) insurgent leader who has been In the custody of marines for the last month has been executed by members of the Nicaraguan volunteer constabulary Jiron accompanied a volunteer patrol promising to lead it Into a location where he said the insurgent leader Augustin Sandino could captured Instead members of the patrol foInd he was leading them into ambush The leader of the volunteers placed Jiron under arrest tried him by court martial and ordered him shot Los Angeles civic and commercial leaders today sent letters of condolence to the kin of Charles Wier Southern California ploneer business man and an outstanding ligura in the development of Los Angeles harbor Wier died yesterday at his home at 901 South Manhattan place Funeral services will be held Monday at at Bresee Brothers' funeral parlors 855 South Figueroa street Bruce IL Grigsby a nephew announced the funeral arrangements and said that the body would be cremated and laid to rest in Forest Lawn cemetery Passing of the pioneer cast a cloud of sorrow over the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce in which Mr Wier had been active for many years tt nd or ch nd or vertli Street Will Be Saved From Destruction as Landmark Dons and senoritas the few who are left may again dream away the sunny hours in a patio of the City of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels as the dons and senoritas did 200 years before them for with the restoration of the old Avila adobe house on Olvera street the identical patio prominent in early Los Angeles history will be avail able Few passing the more or less drab exterior on Olivera street would Imagine the picturesque patio In the rear of the house now being restored by native workmen to its former appearance HISTORIC PATIO Deputy District Attorneys Dennison and George Bush tip pointed by District Attorney Buren Fitts to prosecute the asserted "framers' announced it would be "vital to the interests of the came" to have Mrs Callie Grimes missing "key witness" on hand for the trial Mrs Grimes indicted with Crawford Marco and the others has been mysteriously missing since February 10 The woman confessed "lure" in the Jacobson raid told the grand Jury Crawford "inspired" the frame-up against Jacobson because of the councilman's vice crusade activities Tacit admission by the district attorney's office that Mrs Grimes' testimony was necessary to convict the seven accused men led to an intensified search for the woman today District attorneys investigators and deputy sheriffs unaided by city police are hunting for her REFUSES DISMISSAL Yesterday Judge Shaw declined to dismiss indictments against the "Lone Gray Wolf" and his cohorts after taking nearly a week to hear arguments of defense counsel The accused men represented by a battery of high-powered attorneys contended that entrapment was not a crime in California unless the person trapped proved his innocence of wrong doing following the raid and arrest Judge Shaw assigned the trial to Judge Walton Wood who until a short time ago was in cnarge of criminal calendar court Both defense and prosecution are to he pre-' pared for trial on that date it was indicated today Police officers indicted along with Crawford and Marco in the asserted "frame-up" include Detective Captains Hubert 'Wallis and Williams Patrolmen Frank Cox and Richard Lucas and Harry Raymond resigned Southern California Telephone Co Fourteen specific grounds and the general assertion that the jury received evidence out of court are listed fp an appeal on file today in superior court in behalf of Gordon Stewart Northcott convicted boy-murderer of Wineville ranch who Is in a death cell at San Quentin The document seta thrth that the Jury was guilty of misconduct that the court erred in refusing to give instructions to the jury as offered by the defense and that new evidence had been discovered that will proved the condemned youth innocent Northcott was adjudged guilty by a Riverside county jury on three counts of murder growing out of the deaths of Lewis and Nelson Win-stem and an 'unidentified Mexican youth Superior Judge Freeman set Northcott's execution for April 15 The execution is automatically stayed by the filing of the appeal roved the condemned youth inno- ent Northeott was adjudged guilty by Riverside county jury on three ounts of murder growing out of the eaths of Lewis and Nelson Win- and an 'unidentified Mexican Superior Judge Freeman et Northcott's execution for April 5 The execution is automatically tayed by the filing of the appeal Ex-Billiard Champion Hurt In Auto Mishap Christmas Seal Mail Robbed Is Discovery By Associated Press WATERBURY Conn March David McAndless 35 of Chicago former national and junior billiard champion today suffered two fractures of the skull in an automobile aCcident He was taken to St Mary's Hospital Ills wife was less soriously injured Louis Police for mer Connecticut pocket billiard champion and driver of the car was arrested -'1-iti-41Z4714t111l ti ii il "1 i' 114 4 '1 111 A i 4 01'il 1: 414 1 IP 'A 411 1 i- 1' r''' k7L----141 V4'' iil --7 7e -04? -1 i 'n ici(N s- -1 'LAI''' 1 4 'i o104----'''''''''''4-r'-----41 t't- 1 s1144 1 7' -t'1a4or-44 1': A1L -Al 4t 1 )p It 1ti --t le t-- 41044 1: i iy 4f ilt cC'-0 7VtirN 744 4::: 'VI I tr vt tailkAg Lt 71 tztvlt 41 By Afiseisted Press SAN FRANCISCO March 9-- Postal authorities here reported yesterday to the San Francisco Tuberculosis Association that Christmas seal mail carrying thousands of dollars in public contributions to the fund for the fight against tuberculosis had been stolen during the period from December 2 through December 24 last Extent of the loss was said to be unknown The thefts wore revealed postal officials said in an Investigation which followed reports by some 40 subscribers to the tuberculosis association that their checks had not been returned through the banks 3 AT FUNERAL BUT 30 FLOCK TO SHARE WILL 1 AT FUNERAL- BUT 30 FLOCK TO SHARE WILL Fingerprint System For Fitts' Office Begin Arguments On Disbarment Appeal Yet the process of restoration will include the patio with its old pump and fountain so that it will appear practically as it did when the hole served as headquarters for General Stockton the conquer-tom ing American leader after the ocuth eupation of Los Angeles The old house now almost the only original adobe house of early Los Angeles still standing 7 belonged at the time of Stockton's yw too 11 tnhoer ae tc atrhnea tat opn preach of the "gringos" She left a native servant in charge but the servant intrigued by the blare of the band and the uniforms of the conquering Amerifir Associated Press eanos deserted tho house and CHICAGO March went to the nearby plata and Gen-were only three persons at the era! Stockton noting the UT1OOCUfuneral of the Flynn brothers in pied dwelling immediately took 1926 but there were 10- times possession for his headquarters that number at the Flynn es This was on August 13 1846 late hearing in probate court EARLY SETTLERS yesterflay The Flynn lived In a shack Donations of materials and near Park Ridge like hermits money are making possible the John who was 72 died of pnisu rapid restoration of the house and mania James two years patio so that the Angelenos of the younger shot himself future may have a genuine ex-Under the decaying floors ample of the habitats of the early tucked behind boards con settlers of California who flour-seated In holes was found a in the "golden days of the fortune in gold and Dons" about rs quarter of a Milian MARRIAGE LICENSES TOPIC dolla Thirty persons yesterday were Determined to keep the three-day represented at the initial hear provision in the marriage license ing to determine disposition of regulations the eugenics group is the estate Most of them of prepared to submit exhaustive re-fared family Bibles in proof of ports on the subject at its next their relationship to the Flynn meeting to he held Monday night brothers In the Anita Baldwin Children's Decision was withheld Clinic 1401 south Grand avenue EARLY SETTLERS Donations of materials and money are making possible the rapid restoration of the house and patio no that the Angelenos of the future may have a genuine xample of the habitats of the early settlers of California who flourished in the "golden days of the Dorm" MARRIAGE LICENSES TOPIC Determined to keep the three-day provision in the marriage license regalations the eugenics group Is prepared to submit exhaustive reports on the subject at its next meeting to be held Monday night In the Anita Baldwin Children's Clinic 1401 south Grand avenue 1VELL ANYHOW The district attorneys office will operate its Own fingerprinting and identification bureau in the future as a result of the action of the Board of Supervisors in appmpriating $202 for the installation of equipment in room 875 of the district attorneys offilre This plant will work independently of the one now in operation in the sheriff's 5 Arguments on the appeala of Howell Richardson and Benjamin Eleonin local attorneys recently disbarred by the State Bar Association will be heard by the sdpreme court Monday at 2 rti The attorneys who figured in the late ball-bond Investigation contend the association had no jurisdiction to act in cases of offensescommitted prior to the state bar act ROOSTER WON THIS BAT LE First find the dealer in your Buyer's Guide Your Buyer's Guide those useful yellow pages of buying information carries lists of local dealers in many nationally advertised products as well as most local businesses and services "WHERE TO BUY IT" m-7 Ittizas1 kictupt 1 230-142 Form BILL STRIIIET By Associated Press SARASOTA Fla March 9 Which would win in a fight between an eagle and a rooster? Well Ed Zwingii a dairyman is having the Pe mains of an eagle mounted as a trophy and is attending to a wounded Plymouth Rock And he has his wiife's eye witness tettimony to the battle She stopped it The eagle was six feet one inch from tip to tip Home delivery 400 per month Re mail 60e a month Three moth 44a0 Sus months 4126 One year $t154 FUNERAL FOR FLIER fly Asgoeinted Press SAN DIEGO March cervices were held tor lieut Hugh de Itois Smith army flier drowned yesterday by crah of his plane over the ocean near the California-Mexican border Tbe body of Private Melvin A Ulm his companion on the (light had not been TELEPHONE BUYERS GUIDE There Is real service in the used ears offered by the new-car dealers In today's classified The ears In to Pamira mall SubocriP1100 r11110 011 00plicat ton Alt cherke should be moult psythh to Los Angeles Even Ms Express covgred I 11 7 '-'x mm --00 PE MEMMM.