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Growth Shown by Permtis Total permits for $469,848 Total permits for $1,219,482 VOL. 8, NO. 176 Pasadena Telephone, Our City comment discussion by F. F. RUNYON School Money Easy and Plentiful TUST at this time when men and women of intelligence are concerned over the mounting tax rate, when they meet in groups and discuss the matter seriously and profess to see a menace in this almost wanton recklessness of spending, it is astounding to see the board of education reduce the superintendent of schools to the position of deputy and raise his salary! the last week I have WITHIN several discussions regarding the seriousness of the expenditure of public funds as they relate to the schools.

The whole educational system has been held up as visionary and not bringing the results that the school of the old days brought. The vast expenditures for athletics, the money outlay for small classes in the night school--these and other matters have been criticized. THE recent action of the Chamber of Commerce in requesting a survey of Pasadena schools by the California Tax association may have been brought about because of these discussions. Taxpayers see only the outward sign of expenditures. The enclosing of the Benjamin Franklin school grounds with a high wire fence has been cited several times as one of the visible extravagances of the school authorities.

IT MAY be an extravagance and it may be a necessity. That is not for me to discuss here. It is mentioned as merely one of the things which have made taxpayers wonder just how much money is being expended on "education" of this sort. Before me as I write is a communication calling attention to the fact that the people's money is being spent by the school authorities on a research department. The cost is said to be staggering.

HERETOFORE content the board of work edu- In behalf of the people without remuneration, but money has been SO free and apparently SO easy that a short time ago the board voted to pay the members of the board (themselves, of course) $50 per month for their services. This pay, however, has not started as vet, but it won't be long, now. The resolution has been passed. The start of the payments is consequently not far off. THE sooner experts get busy looking into expenditures from the viewpoint of the taxpayer, the better it will be for the whole system of public education.

Heretofore, the big thought has been to direct the expenditure of money from the viewpoint of the school master. This might, in some instances, be the correct viewpoint, but the taxpayers of Pasadena are fearful that such is not the case. hear more men and women argue today that they believe the school of the old days, when the three R's were accentuated, turned out brighter boys and girls. And men and women today stand aghast when they, learn that transportation is furnished children who have to go a half mile 01 So to attend school. Many a taxpayer in Pasadena trudged over miles of country road to get his education.

A AND the education he received is what tended to make him the successful man who can today pay the taxes for this new system where a half mile walk is considered too strenuous for the city youth of the present. When we view expenditures from this angle they take on a different aspect. We need to know more about the present school system, cold, hard facts. Theories have had time to prove themselves by this time. Masons Will Hear Address on China Prof.

W. M. Crawford, for 23 years professor in the East China Union university at Cheng Tu, will speak on conditions in China at luncheon meeting tomorrow of the Masonic luncheon club in the Civic Center cafeteria. He returned from abroad last June and is considered well qualified to digeuss the question. H.

L. Dixon of the club states that all Masons and visiting Masons of the city are invited to hear this forceful speaker. RETURNS TO FIRST LOVE Associated Press GREENWICH, March 21. -After 32 years Mrs. Frank Brodsky, 52, is again wearing her first husband's wedding ring.

The Brodskys were re-married by a justice of the peace in an elopement from New York. The bride has been divorced from another after divorcing Brodsky, who is 60 and a New York real estate sperator. PASADENA MEMBER OF Evening Terrace 7111 Post PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, No Mistake Here at All, as Woman Needed Operation You can call it a mistake if you want to, but it appeared the Herkimer (N. Evening Telegram, and the good friend who sent. it in did so for the pure enjoyment that he knew the Pasadena Evening Post readers would get out of it.

Here is the item: "Mrs. Alvin McKeever has been removed to the Memorial hospital, where she will undergo an operation. Her gasoline will be closed indefinitely." Mistakes which, like the above, appear in newspapers outside of Pasadena, are submitted readers of The Post and theater tickets are awarded as prizes. Just simple mistakes, misspelled words a are sought. The mistake must have some twist or turn that makes it interesting.

The above is a good example. GEST PLANS TO PRODUCE DRAMA HERE Noted Director Heaps High Praise on Community Playhouse Heaping high praise upon the Pasadena Community playhouse, Morris Gest, one of America's leading producers, whose most recent success is seen in the recent of "The Miracle," yesterday announced that he would introduce "Chauve Souris," famous Russian production, to Southern California on the playhouse stage on February 24, 1928. "I have chosen the Community Playhouse as the of the first experiment in Southern California because that theater is starting on the same path the Moscow Art theater took," said Gest, just before he left for New York, where he will soon sail for Germany to produce "The Miracle" again on April 14. "I have found the Community Playhouse that seed which will grow into something bigger than even those whose vision is developing it realize," he stated. First presentation here will be sponsored by a committee headed by Mrs.

Milbank Johnson. Other members of the committee are Mrs. Charles P. McCullough, Mrs. J.

C. Gripper, Miss Eleanor M. Bissell, Miss Louise Crawford, Miss Elizabeth Connor, Karl A. Kisling, Mrs. H.

C. Barrows, Mrs. (Continued on Page Nine) Seek Recovery of Taxes on Liquor By Associated Press LOS ANGELES, March Suits have been filed in the United States district court by Assistant United States District Attorney Doherty against Francisco Cambanico and John Doe Baldridge, seeking recovery of $17,000, taxes and penalties on 2000 gallons of alchol, alleged to have been found in possession of the defendants upon which no tax had been paid. Cambanico was lessee of a ranch belonging to Baldridge, located near Glendale, where federal officers located two 500-gallon stills last week. Pasadena Artist, in Mid-air Crash, Hurt as Plane Falls In a freak mid-air accident yesterday, Edwin McTier, with death and escaped with "Silver Phantom," eight-passenger' airplane carrying four passengers, went into a whirligig descent and crashed into another plane parked at the Eagle air port.

McTier, who has his studios at 261 East Colorado street, suffered only a slight injury to his arm. C. J. "Jeff" Warren of Los Angeles was piloting the large ship when the accident occurred. While several feet above the landing CHAOS GRIPS SHANGHAI AS TROOPSL LAND Rioters Pillage in Native Quarters, Armored Cars Protect Foreigners U.

S. MARINES ON GUARD Refugees Seek Shelter in American Settlements as Crisis Looms By Associated Press SHANGHAI, March -Chaos reigned in Shanghat tonight after fall of the city to the Cantonese this morning. Rioters ran loose in the native quarter all today and tonight a band of Chinese troops, presumably attached to the retreating northern army, broke through the barrier to the north of the international settlement and began looting. A British armored car rushed up in response to a police call for aid. The car was subjected to continuous machine gun fire.

Lieutenant Newman, Corporal Ainslie and two soldiers were wounded. Savage guerilla fighting was going on in the native district of Chapei tonight between Shantungese (northerners) including white Russians and Plainclothesmen of the Kuomintang (Cantonese). Troops Revolt ported killed. The fighting was Several of the latter, were reaccompanied by the outbreak of serious fires at three points in the native city. Approximately 10,000 northern troops in the Shanghai area have gone over to the Cantonese.

One hundred white Russians (Continued on Page Nine) OPTIMISM NEEDED, DR. DEXTER SAYS Asserting that all development in the United States has passed through three stages, necessity, convenience, and luxury, and that the man who has discovered this has discovered the secret of controlling human conduct, which is the secret of successful advertising, Dr. Walter C. Dexter, president of Whittier college, addressed the Pasadena Advertising club at the Green hotel today. The well known educator gave a human and penetrating talk on business, and its requisites for success.

He declared that optimism is indispensable, and that the man who has lost the ability to smile often has lost one of his most valuable, possessions. Marshall, representing the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance company, gave the sales talk of the day, presenting convincing arguments to James M. Wilson, telling why the latter should take out a policy with the Massachusetts Mutual in order to assure the fulfillment of his life plan. John W. Eberle, president, presided at today's meeting.

over the Burdett flying field Pasadena commercial artist, flirted only minor injuries when the field, engine trouble developed, the "Silver Phantom" slipped into a side drift and then into a whirligig and crashed into the top of a jenny ship. McTier, Warren and the two other passengers were able to climb from the wreckage of the big plane. McTier was taken to the home of F. E. Geer in Los Angeles and later was able to re(turn to his home here.

Aged Botanist Dies Suddenly on Doorstep of Friend's Home Charles Spring, 72, botanist and plant collector, who for the past 20 years had made his home in a cabin near Cheney's camp in Millard's canyon, died suddenly at the home of a friend, Sidney Cray, 75 Foothill boulevard, a few minutes o'clock in the Wendell P. Cabot after he arrived there Saturday night, walked from the funeral parlors. home another friend, Paul B. Mr. Spring, a native of Ohio and Magee, 74 West Ventura street.

for many years a resident of KanAlthough he had been in perfect sas, leaves a large circle of friends health for years, Mr. Spring was in this city, whom he often visited feeling well until within a few and who often called upon him in minutes of his death. No inquest his mountain home. There are no will be held. Funeral services will living relatives.

Mr. Spring came be held Wednesday night at I to California about 80 years ago. EVENING THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1927 WOULD GIVE SUPPORT TO LEAGUE MEN Candidate Gordon Tells His Supporters He Favors Major N. J. Shupe LEAGUE MEN ARE HEARD Gives Thanks for Support and Ask That Help Be Further Extended Pledging themselves to strict economy in the handling of the city's problems, if they are elected, April 7, the seven candidates for city directors sponsored by the Modern Movement league, today united in issuing a statement setting forth the problems confronting the next board.

Wallace Gordon, who was defeated at the primary election as a candidate from district No. 1, in a statement asked his friends to devote their energy to the election of the league candidates. Other statements of appreciation have been issued by Marinus Petersen, district No. L. P.

McLaughlin and Guy V. Frank, trict No. 4, and O. D. Hunt, district No.

7. Mr. Frank pledged his support to J. M. Hartley, one of the two successful candidates in district No.

4. Following is the statement by the seven league candidates: "We, the undersigned, wish to the people of Pasadena who favored us with their votes at the recent primary election. We wish here to assure these citizens and others that we deeply appreciate the confidence reposed in us as individuals and as a group. "We believe in law enforcement and we assume the other candidates do also. Law enforcement is not an issue, for in Pasadena this is a matter in which we are all in accord.

"We believe that the development of an additional water ply for Pasadena is one of the most important civic matters confronting the new board. The fact of its importance is, however, not an issue. "We believe that the municipal light plant should have the support of the board, but this is not an issue. "We believe that the question of disposing of Tournament Park should be decided by the people. But this is not an issue, for the proposed law now before the legislature provides that park land can not be sold unless the people vote in favor thereof.

"These are not issues, but are problems to be solved to the best of our ability. "We believe that the city should be economically administered, but this fact is not an issue. The people of Pasadena should understand that the city charter limits the tax rate $1 on the $100 of assessed valuation and the people at the recent primary election emphatically stated that they did not want the limit raised. No matter who is elected to the new board of directors, there can be no increase in the tax rate, for that (Continued on Page Nine) ROBINSON NAMED GENEVA DELEGATE Henry M. Robinson, prominent citizen of Pasadena, will be one of three Americans to represent the United States at a conference in Geneva, when an attempt will be made to level the tariffs the entire world.

Mr. Robinson, who will serve as chairman of the American representatives, had no comment to make today on his appointment by President Coolidge. Robinson served with Vice President Dawes as a member of the Dawes reparations committee in 1924. He is president of the First National bank of Los Angeles, the Pacific-Southwest banks and many other institutions. He is considered one of the financial leaders of the world and has been the recipient of honorary degrees from a number of colleges and universities.

His residence is at 195 South Grand avenue. Post Advertising Brings Huge Crowd to New Store Here Holding crowds from the store for three hours, the SamPortress, Raymond and Hat avenue, shop, at this 11 morning presented a wonderful example of the value of dena Evening Post advertising. Using this newspaper exclusively, H. A. Karsch told the people of Pasadena of the derful bargains he would offer this morning.

He stated prices and described his goods in detail. As a result the store was packed for hours and did a business that proved the result of using this newspaper when you have something to offer the people POST NEW YORK CITY SOCIAL LEADER VISITS CAPITAL ARRIVES IN Among the recent arrivals in Russell, New York social leader, spend the remainder of the winter Mrs. Borden Harriman. GLOBE ENDS CIRCUIT AS SPRING BOWS Sun Focuses Hot Rays on City to Mark Start of New Season Celebrating the completion of its yearly circuit around the sun, Old Sol today focused brighter rays on Pasadena and all the southland and made for the first day of spring a near record in temperature for the year, 76 degrees. Spring officially started at 6:59 o'clock this morning and the reason for this exacting beginning of the season is explained today by Science Service in a dispatch to the Pasadena Evening Post.

de derings The of answer the is sun. found in Unlike the wan- the stars the sun does not remain in the same part of the sky from one end of the year to another. The sun, and the stars as well, rise and set daily because the earth revolves on its axis. The earth turns from west to east, but as it is not realized that this motion taking place, the and other heavenly objects, seem' to move across the sky from east to west. But the daily turning of the earth is not the only motion of the globe.

Once a year it makes a circuit of the heavens around the sun. However, just as people are unaware of the daily motion of the earth and interpret ait as a motion of the heavenly bodies, so are people unaware of the yearly motion of the earth around the sun. It seems as if the sun itself moves among the stars once a year. The path of sun is the same as that of the planets, and is called the ecliptic. This is one of the imaginary lines which astronomers have placed in the heavens for their convenience, and another is equator, which is directly over the equator of the earth.

CARROLL GOES TO JAIL By Associated Press WASHINGTON. March 21. Earl Carroll, theatrical manager, must serve the sentence of a year and a day imposed upon him for perjury as an outgrowth of his famous bathtub party. The supreme court today refused him a review. He may delay commitment by asking a rehearing, but such requests seldom are granted.

Baseball Results NEW YORK WINS St. PETERSBURG, March R. H. E. Cincinnati Reds New York 2 9 0 Batteries: Rixey, Nehf, Kolp and Picinich; Ruether, Hoyt and Grabowski, FORT MYERS, March 21- R.

H. E. Boston (N.) 3 6 2 Philadelphia (A.) 9 12 0 Batteries: Genewich, Mills and Taylor; Grove and Cochran. TARPON SPRINGS, March R. H.

E. Brooklyn (N.) 2 8 1 St. Louis (A.) 3 12 Batteries: 'McGray. Elliott, Ehrhardt and Hargreaves; Jones, Gaston and Schang. (Twelve inpings).

Pasadena Bank Comparisona-1926-1927 Bank clearings today. $905,300.77 Same date year ago. THE WEATHER: and Fair tonight tomorrow. SEA TRAGEDY ROBS WOMAN OF HUSBAND Pasadenan Rushes to Meet Ship; Hears Story of Mate Lost at Sea SWEPT AWAY BY WAVES Eyewitness Saw Engineer Drop Picture, Reach Out and Die Instead of the smiling face of her husband, news of his tragic drowning was waiting for Mrs. William S.

Cherry, 1285 North Mentor avenue, Saturday, as she ran happily up the gangplank of a South American steamship, expecting to throw herself into the arms of her husband, marine engineer, from whom she had received a letter asking that she be at the wharf to greet him upon his return from a long voyage. Body Never Found The anticipated pleasure of spending the week-end with Mr. Cherry, who had been cruising in southern seas since Christmas day, gave way the numbness of despair after the captain of the vessel had told her that he who was dearest had slipped from the deck of the vessel during a storm north of the canal zone and had perished in the waves. Although the officers of the ship immediately lowered a life boat and took their own lives in their hands as they searched the heavy seas for more than 13 hours, they were unable to recover the body, they reported today. Sees Victim Fall A deck band stated that at sunget about a week ago, he saw Pasadena man walk out of the deckhouse of the freighter and catch bold of the rail a8 he watched the waves breaking over the prow of the ship.

After looking for a moment at the water, Mr. Cherry was seen to take what appeared to be a picture, but as he looked at it, the hurricane tore the picture from his hand and deposited it outside the railing. "I mustn't lose that!" he was heard to cry, but as be leaned far over the rail to recover it, a wall of water rolled the boat so that he lost his hold and plunged headlong into the sea, according to the eye-witness. It is reported that the failure of the ship's radio to function was responsible for the failure of the captain to notify Mrs. Cherry until the boat docked Saturday.

Mr. Cherry is said to have been an old resident of this city and to have been well known as the donor of many rare curios to local museums, gathered in the course of his travels over the waterways of the world. Besides his wife, he is survived by two sons, Stuart, a student at U. S. C.

Dental college, and James, who is attending Northwestern university at Evanston, Ill. ANNOUNCE FINAL COUNT OF VOTES Canvass today of votes cast at the city directors' primary election failed to change the standing of the candidates, although the successful candidates' majorities were changed. Five of the present board of directors this morning checked over the totals by precincts. Following ahe official returns: N. J.

Shupe, 3824; William Easterbrook, 2280; James A. Elms, 2165; Paul W. Fox, 713; Wallace Gordon, 645; Thornton S. Heskett, 402, and J. Stanley Lowe, 146, district No.

1. James T. Jenkins, 5497, and Ward W. Albin, 4092, district No. 2.

Carl G. Wopschall, 4502; Frederick J. Loomis, 3091; Charles B. Murphy, 1049, and Marinus Petersen, 1318, district No. 3.

Dr. Paul W. Merrill, 4545; J. M. Hartley, 2473; Charles W.

Covell, 803; Philip Dlott, 533; Guy V. Frank, 931, and L. P. McLaughlin, 653, district No. 4.

Irving S. Monroe, 4519; H. P. C. Besse, 2174; George H.

Beasley, 666; Mrs. Louise R. Hoocker, 1784, and F. W. Kobbe, 808, district No.

5. Robert L. Daugherty, 6274, and Dr. Odell T. Fellows 3106, district No.

6. Clayton R. Taylor, 4390; Franklin B. Cole, 1911; 0. D.

Hunt, 1298; WilJ. Kelly, 274; Carl S. Newcomer, 1840, and Jesse R. Oastler, 366. Browning Decision Handed Down Today By Associated Press CARMEL, N.

March 21. Edward West Browning, wealthy New York real estate man, today won his separation suit against his wife, the former, Frances "Peaches" Heenan, decision handed down here today by Supreme Court Justice A. F. Seeger, FORKS SITE FOR DAM IS ADVOCATED Engineers Present Report to County Supervisors After Surveys DOES NOT AFFECT CITY Morris Declares Verdict Will Not Bar Project at Pine Canyon WASHINGTON Washington are Mrs. Harriman and her children.

She plans to in the capital with her mother, THIEVES CUT WIRES, HOLD AGED VICTIM Gunmen Get $2000 Loot in Three Daring Week- -End Raids in City Two holdups, in which the victims were confronted in their own homes, and one burglary, netted desperadoes loot valued at more than $2000 over the weekend, authorities today stated. Holding John Moody, aged occupant of house, prisoner, after jerking the telephone from the wall and disconnecting wires, bandits searched the home Mrs. Mabel L. Mills, 1090 Mendocino (street, Altadena, Saturday night, and escaped with three valuable watches, it was reported. Looks Into Gun Mr.

Moody is said to have looked into the muzzles of two large automatics when he answered the door bell about 9 o'clock. He was backed into a (Continued on Page Nine) Approval of the "forks" site as the location for a proposed dam on the San Gabriel river today was reported to the county board of supervisors by a committee of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce named to investigate several proposed sites, according to Assoclated Press dispatches to the Pasadena Evening Post. It is proposed to spend approximately 000,000 for the project. Water Supply Safe The report to the supervisors was prepared by Charles H. Paul, F.

H. Fowler and Charles D. Marx, engineers engaged to conduct the investigation. Decision of the special committee of engineers to place the county flood control dam at the Forks site will not hinder or greatly delay Pasadena in its plans for a huge dam in Pine canyon, Samuel B. Morris, chief engineer and superintendent of the municipal water department, said today on learning of the engineers' recommendation.

"We were not connected with the county in any project to get water, and the city will get the same amount of water no matter where the dam is located," he said. "It is up to the state water rights division to determine how much water shall be allocated to Pasadena. Belief Still Firm "We plan to get that water without the county's aid by building the dam in Pine canyon. We objected to the Forks site for one reason because of the plan 1.0 build a low -line railroad through Pasadena's site. We believe the Granite dyke site is not only better, but the dam could be built cheaper." Guggenheim Grants Honor Caltech Men Three California Institute of Technology professors and students, and four other Californians are included in the list of 63 Guggenheim scholarships, according to an announcement received here today.

Dr. Carl Henry Eckert and Dr. William Vermillion Houston of the institute received the award for the first time, and Dr. Linus Carl Pauling, also from the institute, received a renewal award. Dr.

Pauling is a graduate of Oregon Agricultural college. Other awards were given to Dr. George Ernest Gibson and Dr. Victor F. Benzen, University of California, and Roy Ellsworth Harris, Covina.

The awards call for research and creative work abroad. Widow Admits Philanderer Killed Mate in Love Plot By Associated Press NEW YORK, March serted in a statement to the now under arrest in Syracuse, Albert Snyder, 45, art editor of a magazine, in order that he might marry her. Press dispatches from Syracuse said that Gray was in that city last night. According to the alleged confession. Mrs.

Snyder said that Gray was concealed in their home in Queensvillage, when she, her and their 9-year-old daughter, Lorraine, returned early morning from a card party. Gray, according to the confession, beat Snyder to death and then wound picture wire around his throat. After the murder Gray bound Mrs. Snyder in order to throw an aspect of burglary over the crime. Police said Mrs.

Snyder had told them she had known Gray for two and one-half years and that she wanted her husband out of the way in order that she might marry him. GRAY DENIES GUILT By Associated Press SYRACUSE, N. March Henry Judd Gray, 31, of East Orange, N. corset salesman for a Rochester firm, was arrested at the Onondaga hotel here early today in connection with the murder of Albert Snyder, an art editor in New York yesterday. Gray was arrested after the Syracuse police received a long distance telephone call from John J.

Gallagher of the Long Island police district. When detectives went to Gray's room he was found sitting fully clothed. Gray denied any knowledge of the killing, saying he had been in Syracuse since Friday, Ruth Snyder today aspolice that Henry Judd Gray, 31, had murdered her husband, The Weather FORECAST Fair tonight and Tuesday; mild temperature; gentle variable winds. TEMPERATURES The following temperatures from representative points throughout the United States, taken at 8 a. m.

today, eastern standard time, were given out by the government weather bureau: Boston 36 Chicago 34 Denver 18 Des Moines 26 El Paso 38 Helena 40 Kansas City 28 Los Angeles 52 Minneapolis 24 New Orleans 64 New York 40 Pittsburgh 58 Salt Lake City. 34 San Francisco 50 Seattle 44 Tampa 72 PASADENA TEMPERATURES Minimum temperature, 43 deg. Maximum temperature, 67 deg. Temperature 7:30 a. 49 noon, 62 6 p.

58 deg. Relative humidity, 2 o'clock, 22 per cent. Yesterday Minimum temperature, 39 Maximum temperature, 72 deg. Temperature 7:30 a. 50 noon, 68 6 p.m., 58 deg.

Relative humidity, 2 o'clock, 18 per cent. Today Minimum temperature, 42 deg. Temperature 7:30 a.m., 57 deg. M. S.

JONES, Spec. Meteorological Observer..