Los Angeles Evening Post-Record from Los Angeles, California • 1

The Los Angeles Record Five One Cent Five One Cent Sixteenth Year MONDAY JANUARY 29 1912 Number 10533 WOMEN AND CHILDREN SUFFER IN RIOTS OF STRIKEBREAKERS GRAND JURORS ARE READY TO REPORT DURING THE DAY WOOL 1 WORKERS CART LIVE ON PAUPER WAGES VICTIMS OF SCHEDULE STRIKE AT REDUCTION BUT DIVIDENDS HAVE DOUBLED IN YEAR IS GAS COMBINE TRYING TO GRAB 3 PIPE LINES? Some interesting and startling possibilities in connection with the application of the Midway Gas for a franchise for the laying of a system of pipe lines to bring natural gas from the Midway oil fields to Los Angeles were point- INQUISITORS PROBING BRIB- T- ERY SCANDAL THOUGHT TO HAVE TRUE si to the board of u-BIILS DRAWN FOB RETURN "Eft The practical certainty that at had a time with the in- toard Monday morning qufSitors that he had answered all the queries propounded to him least one IncPiotment is to be returned by the eounty grand jury but thas he dld not know whether competing con Monday afternoon is the occasion or not the information that he fflhs said Hanna 1 he applioa-fpr the most intense interest in divulged will be of any conse-r'ou (l ibe franchise siiecifies the work of the inquisitorial body quence three separate pipe lines Who No intimation Is given as to the Id A MS NOT QUESTIOSEU can but that the three gas name or names of those against! The probe Monday is in charge companies have combined that whom the papers are to be return- of Asst Dist Atty Ford and Dep be only one but on the ed bat that indictments will be Dist Atty Keetch I ljams a forthcoming Ndring he afternoon venireman at the McNamara trial Is true beyond question of a doubt who was summoned to appear all me Nfhpduloi in tariff were hn well balanced hr NcheaBtf wool It would be (he moat remarkable document next (o the eon-fttftution of the lotted Staten that the human mind hn ever Raid Wm Wood president of the Amerienn Woolen at a banquet in an 1)1 hr ton attended by 35 standout senator nod representative and two members of Taft tariff board Keb 1 1011 Thirty thousand wool and cotton operatives most of them Wood employes went on strike Jan 1PI2 because they deelared they could not Jive and aoppjit a cut la wgrR averattrfna 22 cents a week Their pot erty was boor demonstrated by the fact that 1500 were I Ivina free soup 10 tiny after their strike started The average yearly wage of these wool workers is around 500 and the cotton operatives S416 Of the strikers 500 were children and 10000 women After an exhaustive in vest ijeat Ion recently Ida Tarbell proved the followlna of the tariff tat: 1 It had put woolen loth-Ine out of the reach of the working classes who now wear shoddy or cotton t2 Woolen clothes cost nearly twice as nm -h here as In England (3 Wood's wool trust makes enormous profits The I nderwood-ln oilette bill to revise Schedule was passed Aug 15 1811 Pres Taft vetoed It the following day Monday morning before the grand way they could shut out ail eom-jurv was excused without being petition in the bidding and the questioned (county will get practically noth- On good authority it was report- a franchise that will in a IX was intimated that the probe had been centered upon but one man whose name was withheld Atty LeCompte Davis attorney for the McNamaras was the only witness to appear before the grand jury Monday morning He remained in the chamber from 10:55 until 11: 25 DAVIS IS URBANE He came out with an urbane smile and declared that he had few years be a most valuable pos Arty Haskins for Ih Midway Gas Co filed an amendment to the origiual petition specifying the route more definitely and providing for a route around the towns of San Fernando and Burbank in case those latter towns refused to grant them a franchise Hanna in making his report on the matter which had been re-! ferred to him at a previous treet-j ing stated that there was a report circulated tha tthe other gas companies of Los Angeles were fight First news photograph from the scene of the great mill strike in Mass showing mill guards defending a bridge in front of the mills Rioting was caused when a mo-j With the arrival of the police ble forced a car bearing strike- Fre LAWRENCE Mass Jan 29 women and children at Special to Th Record LAWRENCE Mass Jan 29 In this wretched strike-paralyzed militia garrisoned American city seekers after truth can today find a weird reflex of increased cost of living problem Those who of higher prices of shoddy of cotton where there should be wool to protect human flesh from winter chill 3hould know all about Lawrence because Lawrence is POSITIVE PROOF OF THE BIG DOUBLE-JOINTED PO- Despite the fact that a captain 1 THE ALAR jUl LUKD 1 of tne militia sustained an injury Listen you who are familiar to his face from flying glass he! wIth the cheerful jargon of big did not order the troops to inter- I businees and standpat political icie the militia confining their interests regarding the merits of efforts to guarding the bndges protective tariff They bave led ed Monday morning that Clarence Harrow chief counsel for the McNamaras was In conference with Earl Rogers the noted criminal lawyer whom Darrow is said to have retained in case his name is mentioned in the report of the county grand jury didn't want it around longer and brought nation live to a high standard smd our manufacturers must be probfecLed against the European employers of pauper labor You should not kiqk at paying $150 a yard for serge which retails at 78 cents in London SOUNDS WELL If the wool trust didn't hawea protective tariff on serge tha! cheap English product would sent here and what oh what would become of serge weavers of New England? Sounds reasonable it? Listen again: This article is being written at a window lacing the main street of Lawrence a city of 85892 people drawn from all parts of the world mainly from Southern Europe Fringing the curb of the streets are flies of militiamen in khaki shouldering rifles with bayonets fixed In tho (Continued on Page 3) WHY CAPT HAUPT DO YOU PLAY POKER IN YOUR HOME? MERCY! breakers through the procession By I sited Placing (he head of the line and under the in refusing to negotiate with the workmen proteetion of American flags 15-ing the granting 7)f he franchise strikers sang the Marseillaise I dren The male element of the an-an to stifle rommuttlon here Monday ns they paraded in strikers then attacked the car zero weather as a protest against Before the police could interfere the operators of the textile mills the window of 16 Trolley cars He offered several changes in the wording of the franchise as knocking down women and chil- set when returned I that the company would be oom-was room of the property pelled to sell the gas to con-suite property clerk sumers along the route: that the around headquar- work had to begin in six months shake-up is due and and that at least S2000t0 had expected Tues- to be expended within the first THOUSANDS ARE THRILLED BY TEACHINGS OF GIPSY SMITH The mysterious disappearance and reappearance of a gambling ayout from the property room at ji entral? st-ation as leared up Monda5 when Capt Haupt of cen-itral division acknogledged the outfit 5for three weeks- The poker set is mahogany with brass fittings and has room for a full set of chips and two packs of cards It is very handsome and was confiscated on the Chess Checker and Whist club in the Delta building a year ago Under the law it should be held as evidence until the trial and then officially destroyed CAPTAIN EXPLAINS understood the gambling ease was all settled up before I took the thing said Haupt Mcfiulay Rose was also anxious for it and asked me if he could 'have it on several occasions Jt always told him I wanted it -my- police officers self Ater I- took it home it was property held decided I the house any it The poker put in a of the It is rumored ters that a several transfers day Haupt story of the divulged by in the HAUPT SAYS SEBASTIAN TO TAKE ANY MATER He also says is in confiscated ciubs and their high lay-outs alleged wheel and Chief Sebastian will make GREAT ENGLISH EVANGELIST AROUSES GREAT THRONGS TO HIGH PITCH OF RE LIGIOUS FERVOR Three great meetings at all of mistreated anti suffered 'Now to intimates that the gambling outfit was somebody concerned shake-up THAT CHIEF DOES NOT INTEND ACTION IN THE the police department the habit of loaning gambling outfits to other institutions for Among the loaned is a roulette full equipment said Monday: an investigation If are taking home In the property rooms I want to know ITALY'S SEIZURE OF BRITISH BOAT MAY RESULT IN TROUBLE which the large seating capacity of the great Shrine Auditors was taxed to the limit and enthusiasm and response on the part of the audience marked the start of the local revival campaign of Gipsy Smith great evangelist GREAT SUNDAY MEETING Perhaps the greatest crowd oi the three meetings was that of Sunday afternoon Long before the appointed time for the opening of the afternoon meeting every seat in the auditorium was taken and thousands surged around the doors Many begged and pleaded with the ushers just for a nance to slip through the doors and stand in the aisles PRESENT-DAY RISTIA MTV New Testament declared Gipsy Smith more than the average twentieth century professor of it realizes Religion is theSgreatest tiling the most profound tNing in the world And yet the average person has to pay so litp for it now days It used to leNrd to be a Ghris-pan It used to mean that one lost his standing was scoffed at was By Inf ted Pres LONDON Jan 29 Serious clause that the company to which trouble between England and Italy I the franchise was granted should became a possibility Monday as a dispose of the gas directly to the result qf the Italian Red sea consumer The Midway concern he flotilla seizing a British launch said was a carrying company near Hoheida off the Arabian I only and it intended to sell it to coast the Southern California Gas Co In notifying the government1 of and other concerns for distribu-tfie seizure which he says was un-j Unwarranted the British consul at This latter matter occasioned a Hoheida urged the government to great amount of discussion and latter vigorously opposed the submitted by the company's attorneys The changes provided six months after the granting of the franchise The franchise further provides for a $25000 bond which shall be declared forfeited if these requirements aro not complied with He also suggested that the board should look carefully into the value of such a franchise before final action is taken on the matter It should not he said be sold to any corporation for vhe purpose of speculation but oitly it the pubnFMntAresf anr xveTTgfe demanded such art enterprise He laid particular stress upon the application being made fof three pipe lines and said that! it whs big jump from no pipeline to three In order to provide against any combination on the part of the gas concerns in order to prevent competition in the bidding be suggested that a franchise for one pipe line only be sold at this time and that a stringent provision be attached suggestion that the franchise should contain a provision against Its transfer or any part of it to another concern met with approval but the at noon time the matter was taken under advisement until 2 The representatives of the Midway Gas Co will go before the trustees of the town of San Fernando Monday night and before the officials of Burbank Tuesday to make application for a franchise through those towns During the course of the discussion before the board of super-j visors the suggestion of waiting until the new utilities law comes into effect so that the state railway commission should have its say was not made by any of the supervisors LABOR CASES CONTINUED A Tveltmoe Anton Johann-sen A A'lancy California labor leaders and Munsey of Sait Lake whovere due to appear in the federal district court Monday morning to enter pleas to the second and third indictments charging them with the illegal transportation of explosives did not plead Instead their case were continued for one week till 10:30 next Monday when ail the demurrers will be argued Demurrers to the second and tlQrd indictments were filed by thtir attorney Job Harriman who made the application for the continuance of the cases 3 Dist Atty McCormick and Asst Dist Atty Regan were in the courtroom and made no objections to the continuation New York Cutting his throat because of disappointment Chas Harvey a sculptor whose group for a French cathedral had been rejected ended his life in Bronx park Sunday had been smashed and the occupants forcibly ejected be a Christian is a picnic Now it is a nice sociable time a little party Now it is an ice-cream supper Now we bave prostituted It now we have disgraced it but the Bible is just the same Now it is: up here and shake hands and make you a memter of the WHAT IT MEANS could make you a member of a religious club I could sprinkle you but it takes the Holy Ghost to make a true Christian out ot you In speaking of his conception of Heaven Gipsy Smith declared that when he got to the piace of eternity he wanted hia tent his little old tent he used to live in when he was a Gipsy boy I think of he said think of my mothei next to Jesus Christ When I go there are three things 1 want to see I want to see Jesus I want to see my mother and I want to see my little HUNDREDS RESPOND Influenced by the appeal of Evangelist Gipsy Smith Sunday 300 TO SING AT BIG LAND SHOW That fully 300 well trained voices will compose the great chorus to sing during the flst twro weeks of the land show at Fiesta park in March appears certain to Director Thoe Taylor Drill Director Drill says that the best musical talent in Los Angeles will co operate to make the chorus work et successful The second rehearsal of the chorus will be held Wednesday right at the Egan school Majestic theater building Singers in the chorus are being enrolled daily and some of the members of the executive committee of the land show are urging Director Drill to secure 400 or 500 voices Vancouver Wash bride got cold reads a note attached to a marriage license issued to Avan Dow and Edna Buley of Portland which was returned to the county clerk here The license money $4 will not be returned nevertheless leading to the mills night several hundred men women and children of the immense audience declared themselves determined to atone for their sin or weakened Qt the past and to seek strength and comfort in the teachings of Christ The singing of the choir consisting of 600 male and female voices under the direction of Prof Stout was a revelation The director beautifully rendered a solo Song of the CONNERS JUROR STILL VERY ILL CASE HALTS Because of the continued illness of has Cahoon juror the trial of Bert Conners union labor man charged with an attempt to dynamite the hall of records Monday morning was continued by Judge Willis of the superior court till 10 Tuesday in the hope that the juror will be able to attend the hearing CITYTOSETASJDE $2500 FOR FIESTA The finance committee Monday recommended to the council that an appropriation of $2500 be set aside for expenses of the fiesta which is being planned in conjunction with the conclave in May Zhnndelaar w'as present Monday tef make the final appeal for financial aid The original request w-as for $5000 but Zee finally decided to compromise by asking for of the sum Councilman McKenzie moved that they recommend that $2500 be donated Chairman Whiffen acquiesced Councilman Bet-kouski the third member of the committee was not present GRAND JURY INDICTS ALLEGED SMUGGLER QUEEN Mrs Ethel Hall alleged of the Smuggling and her husband Ed Hall were named Monday in a federal grand jury indictment charging smuggling Federal officers are searching for Hall The woman is held in Los Angeles Three other indictments were returned by the federal investigators Two related to the sending through the mails of obscene matter The fourth concerned a counterfeiting charge SLOP ACi'OCNt CtlLLECTkfi NICK HARRIS L'OLLSCTOItS Main 37S3 a3o Byrna Bide F400J Pur ease comfort ami durability wear Lrlelnaf Slkskin Shoe 468 is Spring you to believe that all right for you to pay high prices for your wool and cotton cloths because we are a very prosperous INSANE HOSPITAL SCANDAL GROWS AS LIES PASS By Culled Pre SACRAMENTO Jan 29- A scathing answer to allegations that he broke faith in making public hia report of investigations into alleged corruption and incompetence in the management of the Napa State hospital for the insane was made here Monday by John Neylan of the State board of control Neylan declared that Dr Slone superintendent of the asylum when he asserted that he was promised Immunity statement says Elmer Stone is a confessed embezzler and perjurer and after a career of crime is leaving the public service in disgrace He without honor is cunning and crafty and is now endeavoring to save himself from the penitentiary "I have no desire to sink further into the mire than he has put himself I had hoped that his declarations to me that he was through with lying and criminality ior all time were sincere I hope that he may ypt get another streak of conscience and retract the ridicu-kais lies concerning third and of tvhlch he has issued would the public know anything about the facts if I had agreed to suppress them? ever heard of a crock cooperating in the work of laying bare his thefts and infamy? how could I suppress a public document? statement concerning third degree methods are so ridiculous that they fall of their own weight He made his confession in the board of room at the Napa State hospital secretary and two stenographers were in the next room Furthermore think of possibility of degree' on a man who had bull-dozed an entire In sort Dr record is as follows: Dr Stone is a confessed embezzler Dr Stone is a confessed perjurer having sworn to the false claims against the state Mr Belcher declaresin his published statement that Dr Stone lied to him Mr Dozier in his statement declares Dr Stone lied to him Mr Phillips declares Dr i3tone lied to him Mr Bush declares in his sworn testimony Dr Stone lied to him He lied to me innumerable times until he realized that I had the evidence and knew he was lying He lied to and would have ruined one life-long friend whose name I am not at liberty to make public at this time Dr Stone makes a liar out -of himself in his statements to the press What a complete record he has and what an appropriate ally he is for those who are endeavoring to use him to traduce an honest administration of the state gov-erment Lomax tor HsTniltcr watches "veata 461 Sprlmr HOLD WOMAN SUSPECT IN BOLD CRIME Police Capture Alleged Burglar and Female Be lieved to Have Perpetrated 84th St Robberies -v- Held in the city jailon suspicion a man giving the name of Frank McPherson is detained pending investigation into his w-hereabouts last Wednesday night and last Friday night The police are confident he is the thug-who bound and gagged Geo Gagnon at 127 Eighty-fourth st Friday night and took goods worth $10 00 from the house Thfej also believed he bound and gagged Wm WilUs at 833 Eighty-fourth st last Wednesday night and robbed him Detectives Home Hawley and Carroll made the arrest Hawley got the clews the other two assisting in the apprehension of the suspect McPherson was arrested in his room on Third st A vgdise identified by Gagnon as his property was found behind the bu reaiu initials had been partially scraped off one end Jean Jackson who is alleged to be eccorhplice is also under arrest In her possession it is alleged was found dresses silks ami laces identified by Mrs Carl Abies as her proi- erty and watches Identified by Carl Abies as his The Abien family resided with Gagnon vnd were locked in their rooms during the robbery When Gagnon was asked to point out the man who robbed him among a crowd In the office it is said he indicated McPherson without hesitation Williams is also alleged to have identified the man INDICTED KILLING HI BHEi STL By fulled Pri CHIC AGO yTahT 29-Mrs Rett Morrow who disappeared Saturday after being indicted on rst degree murder for the killing of her husband was Monday surrendered to the authorities by her attorney Erbstein and lodged in jail Chas Morrow her husband an aed inventor was found mysteriously murdered His -wife and a young automobile salesman who Jived in the Morrow home were suspected Atty Cuthbert Potts lifelong friend of the murdered man gave the police information against her HOW IT IOIJKS TO THE HATH Eli MAN: For I os An it vies and vleliiKv Fair Monday ntttbt and Tuesday variable winds TEMPERATURES 5 i4 in 68 6 a SO ll a tn 7 a ni 151 8 a 8 a- 85 Low MONSIEUR PILCER IS A CHILD SAYS GABY STILL HEART WHOLE By Untied Prew PARIS Jan he is nice ys but Monsieur Pil-cer is a mere child We are not saijd Gaby Des-lys when she arrived here Monday full of denials that she had forsaken the primrose path Gaby refused to explain how her New York friends got a cablegram which said that Pilcer had captured the one-time favorite of King Manuel shall return to America in Gaby continued have signed a rontract there netting me more than ever before Americans are fine New elegance eclipses Paris With the money I make in America I should build a theater here modeled andnanaged along American lines kept about three weeks when I TAKES RAP AT BUSINESS' A meeting of the bridges gas light and water committee of the council was held Monday to discuss the proportion of the cost of street ligbtingwhieh the city will pay under the new contracts All of the present lighting contracts will expire thisi year and the board of public works requested the committee to determine the amount the city will assume At present the light bill amount to about $260000 a year Councilmen Reed and McKen-zm of the conaraitttee stated Monday that the general public benefit of the street lighting in theii estimation amounted to more than one-eighth of the cost of the portion now borne by the eity RAPS Andrews who as present at the meeting de dared that the property holders were the ones who received the benefits and they should be the ones to pay the bills board of public works is always-nervous when It is afraid it is going to step on the toes of big business In season and out of seagon there is an attempt foist something on the declared Andrews No action was taken The piatter was continued until Wednesday morning at 10:30 when Bet-kouski the ihird member of the committee will return to help thresh out the problem MAY SUCCUMB HIS WIFE IS ALSO ILL RENO Net 29 -Grave is felt here Monday for Geo Wingfieid the millionaire mining man who is critically ill with malignant diphtheria Mrs Wingfield formerly Maude Murdock of San Francisco also is ill- Wanted Ambiitious young man not over 22 for stenpie bookkeeping position moderate wages with every opportunity for rapid advancement: good place for young man wanting to learn newspaper bksiness Apply at once cashier's department Record fi -1 if J' j- 1 1 I fi If i 1 1 1 1 1 if I hasten in dispatching a cruiser to the scene of the seizure Quick action according to the cable message is over a necessity for the protection of British interests as the Italians threaten to bombard Hoheida threatening the lives and property of many foreigners 10 PERSONS SAW AERIAL CIRCUS The first aviation meet of 1912 closed Sunday afternoon at Dominguez field after a successful run of nine days The final day's exhibition was witnessed by a crowd of 10000 No accidents occurred Sunday Gen Man Dick Ferris estimated Monday that 200000 people witnessed the perilous feats of the daring birdmen and Frew of the executive committee estimates the total receipts at $100000 Of the total amount 55 per cent is to be divided among the birdmen and the residue goes to the management after expenses are paid Phil Parmelee the Wright aviator and Lincoln Beachey the Curtiss flyer were the stars of the air Sunday as they were throughout the meet The aerial circus was marked by one fatal the death of Rutherford Rqjge on the third dry and one seriotre accident in vhieh Howard Gill the St Louis aviator was badly hurt He will be in the hospital perhaps for a week In addition to Parmelee and Lincoln Beachey the aviators who made good records are: Kearney Clifford Turpin Glenn Martin Wm Hoff Farnum Fish Weldon Cooke Howard Gill and Hillary Beachey (PARK WORK IN NEED OF FUNDS The finance committee Monday granted $1000 to the park commission to continue the road work in Griffith park Sqpt Shearer declared that it would require in I a- a fs ci the neighborhood of $7500 for the work within the next 00 days or that the working force would have tc discharged 1 hursuay if funds were not provided The committee advised him to make formal request for the balance Shearer also applied for the payment of $10000 for the Sixth District Agricultural association The city contract is for $100000 payable in 10 yearly installments The present installment has been appropriated and the association wants an advance of $10000 more The wall for the sunken garden has been started and those in charge are anxious to finish the work at this time -a.