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TUcker 1121 Call this number when you want to order The Record delivered or need a classified ad The Truth A crisp daily report of the news of TOD A supplemented by colorful feature articles drty-Third Year Entered as aecond-class matter April 1895 at the poatofflee at Los Angeles California under the act of March 187 LOS ANGELES WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 13 1929 Published Dally Except Sunday at Record Building 612 Wall Bt Subscription Price by Mall 18 a year Inside Page One EDITOR'S "rat Kelley butcher boy convicted for the hang they know all over then But for the mothers and the IBEAUTIES RACE FOR BABY STARDOMiTEXAS GUN GAL TO LEARN FATE Whether pretty 21-year-old Ru-dell Heath dangerous gun gal from Texas must go to the state penitentiary en forgery charges or be permitted to enter the state insane asylum will he determined today by Superior Judge Walton Wood Alienists were to ftiake a full report to the Judge following observation of the girl in the psychopathic ward of the General hospital Within a few short months the Texas miss has tangled with the law in a series of wild escapades including shooting at a slamming a taxi driver over the head with a milk bottle and finally cashing forged checks to the amount of $65 She was admitted to the psychopathic ward at the request of her counsel 8 Hahn who told the judge he Relieved her mentally afflicted She was returned from Oklahoma to answer to the forgery charges after forfeiting ball bond in another court here 1 Dead in Butte Train Collision BUTTE Mont Nov One trainman was killed another was hurt perhaps fatally and at least 10 passengers were injured when Great Northern passenger train No 237 collided with a helper engine 20 miles east of here last night The wreck occurred at a highway crossing as the helper engine was backing down the grade from Basing toward Elk Park to meet a freight train The passenger Train was bound for Butte and was proceeding at a moderate speed up the steep grade Both engines were demolished but the passenger coaches remained on the tracks Great Northern railroad officials said today a formal investigation would be made to determine JUDGE REFUSES PDRTER WARRANT NEW YORK Nov Another tremendous trading day on the stock exchange found price today in a fresh downward rout with new lows established on many issues There was nothing of spectacular nature however Drops were orderly despite the further sags from lows there was a confident tone prevailing The opening was on the remen- done scale that has characterized markets ever since the downswing started a fortnight ago At the end of the first half hour it was found that trading had been at the rate of 18000000 shares for a full five-hour day By closing time trading had eased down somewhat but the day found more than 7000000 share traded United States Steel again led In the action There was support given Stel during I he morning to which the market reacted But there was lack of support for Steel later and the whole market slid down American Tel TeL dropped below 200 to 198 where it was off 5 points from the previous close and high The low is 1934 made on January 8 Radio Corporation hit 2854 off 154 points net and within 254 points of its low record for the present shares Bethlehem Steel broke to a new low for the year at 7854 off 354 from last price New lows for the year were made at 11:40 by Anaconda 7054 off 644 i American Can at 8954: General Electric at 17554 off 954: Consolidated Gas 8154 off 354 Texas Cow po ration at 50 off 154: Sears Roebuck at 8154 off 754 0 10 off 454: Columbia Graphopbone at 1854 off 354 and International TeL 6 Tel at 55 off 554 The market swayed back and forth on the way down but the decline was resumed after each attempt to bolster up prices Steel met support at 151 and osmo back to 15454 around noon Other pivotal shares were slightly above their Iowa Around noon tickers were nearly an hour late families never over My mother was very brave throughout all my troubles She never lost faith in me I am sure although things looked pretty dark ail the time JVTY mother knew that just because a man is in prison no sign guilty She knew and I knew about men who had been arrested and later had proved their innocence It just seemed that it was taking me longer to prove mine I had left her after a party in the Los Angeles county jail before I went up to the Death House In such cases a man's family must say farewell in thfc county jail and not at the train Even when she came up to the prison to see me she was hopeful although the way things were it sounded pretty bad for me then She had been sitting in at the sessions when the supreme court met in Los Angeles ail fine she told me been watching them and I know do what is HAD other visitors too and one that surprised me greatly He was an attorney who had been sent there by Clark Lewis and George Lewis the brothers Mrs Melius The brothers and Mrs Melius mother had been making investigations after my trial was over the at -torney told me He wanted me to tell him what I thought of It all 1 am I repeated and I told him my story 0 Then he told me that Mrs relatives believed me now too More evidence had come to light he said and they were investigating farther I told him I would certainly be glad to help in every way possible to find the real murderer Later they went to Huron Fitts with their evidence That was after I came to Los Angeles again to wait for a new sentence But after a few investigation the matter was dropped again although I am sure it would have come to something if they had continued it A MONG the other visitors I had while in the Death Row there were several priests who were attached to the prison They were fine men all of them Father Valle was very well liked Everybody was sorry when Father Kenney was transferred to San Francisco Father Mills is extremely popular too These men come up and try to force religion on anybody who wnt it When I first arrived one of them said time you want to talk about religion say and then he talked about othen matters The priests cheered us ail up every time they came around They gave us what news of the outside world we were allowed to hear (To be Continued) slaying of Mrs Myrtle Melius his married sweetheart spent 13 months Condemned Row at Ban Quentin penitentiary ills sentence was reduced by the state supreme court to one of manslaughter on an appeal made by his attorney 8 8 Hahn His own story of the time he spent in the shadow of the noose appears here as told to Peggy Ballard) By LEO KELLEY fPIME didn't move along any too fast for me in Death Row It was mostly the same routine all the time Breakfast Dinner Read Go out in the and then sleep Then breakfast dinner and the same routine the next day More men came into the Death House now and then waiting their urns to die Iflakland and Bos Angeles it PHpned seemed to be racing to see which city could send the most men up to hang San Diego and San Francisco send as many Their convicted men more often get life termsC ThV Death House is spacious and If business is good in that line even more persons can be accommodated there than are there now fPf The newer men became more or less used to their surroundings Just as the rest of us did Some played seven up or dominoes with their cellmates the others read during the long hours QNE thing about San Quen- tin there' no gambling there except of course the gamble with the days when you bet yourself you are not going to hang The men have no money to use for gambling There is no use gambling for tobacco because we can get all we want of that So there's really nothing to gun or lose in games of chance During this time when was slated to be hanged the supreme court had met several times Every time they met without ruling on my case my hopes went up higher I had several visitors during those lonths and you realize per-how a convicted man rejoices when word is brought that somebody has come to see him JOHN McN AMARA cell-" tend retake us over to Captain office when such red-letter days appear McNamara is the man there by that 1 mean he's been in San Quentin the longest He ha been inside those walls for 18 years Anyway McNamara took me over I to Captain Carpenter's office to meet different visitors at various times There was my mother to see me 1 1 certainly was glad to see her It's the mothers and the families I of prisoners who suffer the greatest penalties for this capita! punishment The prisoners of course Ihaving any picnic But if they do been Imported from the New York stage All are under contract to various studios except Miss Byron who is free lancing Carol Lombard who started In pictures on the Mack Sennett lot several years ago is now under contract to Pathe During the past year she has appeared in seven productions at that studio and is touted by executives as one of the most promising prospects in some time MARION BYRON made her debut in filmland as Buster leading lady in Bill Following that picture she signed a contract with Hal Roach At the termination of that contract nearly a year ago she started free lancing and has Quiz Witness In Davis More than a dozen witnesses are to be haled before the county grand jury by district attorney investigators to tell wbat they know about the asserted underworld plot to besmirch the character of Police Chief James Davis it was announced today Questioning by District Attorney Buron Fitts of Odette Bachelard young French dancer who originally revealed the alleged in which shejsald she had been persuaded to participate decided the issue Fitts said NEW RIOTS IN MEXICO MEXICO CITY Nov The bloodiest clash which has occurred since Sunday In various sections of Mexico took place at Tulancingo with eight persons being killed and an unnamed number wounded in political clashes over the coming presidential elections TRAIN TRAIL LOST IN MAZE OF CLUES The board of governors of the Los Angeles stock and curb exchanges today voted to close both boards here Saturday and to restrict trading today tomorrow and Friday to the hours between 8:30 and 11:30 a The action was taken It was sail to make the Ijos Angeles markets confirm with markets fa other major cities WASHINGTON Nov Pres-ident Hoover conferred with Secretary of Treasury Mellon and Undersecretary Mills at the executive offices early today Inquiries concerning the possibility that the stock market situation was discussed were parried by officials with the statement there was nothing for publication Mi '7 mmmm G-M about a year ago and since then has played innumerable large and small roles in quite a number of pictures Lillian Roth was becoming quite a famous singer in Manhattan when the articulate movies came along and lifted her right out from behind the footlights She still is quite a newcomer in this picture racket but her work In 'The Love stamps her as a very potential young star Dixie Lee is another of the New Yorkers whose standing out here ia largely on the strength of her reputation along the Atlantic seaboard However she was good enough to grab off a contract with Fox and her performances In her first two pictures have drawn considerable comment BRIDE MURDER SUSPECT MOVED John Bolton partially recov-vered from a bullet wound in the shoulder which he says was inflicted by the same bandits that killed his 20-year-oid bride of a few weeks was in the county jail today Bolton is being held on suspicion of murder According to his story he and his wife were driving through TopangO canyon Friday when they were approached by another car Two men in the car Bolton says robbed him and his wife and then fired three shots at the head Bolton says the fourth shot wounded him But powder bums on the head do not bear out story Captain William Bright of the sheriffs homicide squad says The gun which killed Mrs Bolton was held only a few inches from her face whpn it was fired Captain Bright says The grand jury Is expected to review the circumstances of Mrs death Bolton was moved last night from the prison ward of the general hospital to the county jail NEW RADIO PLAN TOLD WASHINGTON Nov A proposition has beeq laid before the federal radio commission to make available 10 more cleared channels by narrowing the spacing between regional and local wave lengths made remarkable progress During her free lance term she has played featured roles in five big talking productions Talking pictures still were somewhat of a joke ground make-believe village when Kathryn Crawford bought her first make-up box and started playing in at Universal She has been under contract to that siudlo ever since but now she Is a featured actress and has developed one of the best singing voices in Hollywood MARY DORAN who is a A direct product of the New York stage has been oqt here longer than either of the other two Broadwayites Mary was brought out here by M- scribed the wreck in every detail Frith said Special agents of the Southern Pacific under Daniel conferred with deputy sheriffs yesterday in an effort to sift the clues then being considered A $5000 reward for each train wrecker found and convicted is of-fered by the railroad company Officers could not explain how a half-crazed man could have covered his escape so cleverly and outwitted half-a-hundred trained deputies Although passengers and train crew described two different bandits seen at the place of the wreck a description of lone Is being broadcast from the sheriffs office 71 on Trial as Mafia Killers CATANIA Sicily Nov 13-One of the last chapters of Premier campaign to wipe out the mafia secret organization In Sicily reached its climax here today as the prosecution ended an eight-day presentation of evidence in the trial of 71 persons The defendants face long prison sentences on charges of abetting the bandits Raptearda Romano Leotta Avellino and Stissi Giarrizzo In murders and robberies before the mafia was wiped out A verdict is expected late Qiis month 1 Kathryn Crawford de veloped one of the best singing voices in Hollywood and promises to star in the talkies 2 Marion Byron made her debut with Buster Keaton and has since played featured roles in five big talkies 3 Carol Lombard started as a Mack Sennett bathing beauty and just look where she is now! 4 Dixie Lee another one of those New Yorkers who has carried her success with her to Hollywood LQilian Roth she was becoming famous as a singer" when the talkies lifted her from behind the footlights 6 Mary Doran another product of the New York stage who appears to be on the path to movie stardom By DAN THOMAS getting along about A that time of year when among other things Hollywood turns its attention to the coming crop of Wampas Baby Stars and this year for the first time in history the ability to sing is going to play a prominent part for the talkies have made it so It will be another month yet before nominations will bo in order for the group of gtrls from which the lucky 13 will be selected But that keep everyone from extra girls to the largest stars and executives from trying to figure out who these 13 girls will be The extra girls are interested because all live in the hope of some day being included among that select group Stars are interested because many of them are Baby Stars of former years And executives are interested because they realize the value of the honor which will be bestowed upon girls whom they are trying to build Into box office attractions However the most vitally interested of all are the young actresses who are just getting a firm foothold In filmdom because it will be from their ranks that the will be chosen A you probably know the 13 Baby Stars are the young actresses selected each year by the Wampas as having the best opportunities of attaining stardom Nearly all of them have vocal attainments Like In previous years there are about half a dozen girls who are outstanding for their work and practically certain to be among those chosen They are Carol Ix)m-bard Marion Byron Kathryn Crawford Lillian Roth Mary Doran and Dixie Lee Of these three are strictly screen players and three have Flapper Fanny Says: If INCA Investigating a carburetor leak with a match is one way of finding out how far you can go on a gallon of gas IPANTAGES TRIAL NEARS VERDICT Admitting they have been outwitted by the wrecker who plunged the Southern Pacific limited into the ditch north of Saugus Sunday night deputy sheriffs under Captain Frank Dewar today continued an intensive search in the vicinity of Los Angeles While a dozen clues were announced and discarded the real bandit was making his getaway Only a torn gray coat remains to remind the 50 officers working on the case that a lone man or a gang wrecked the West Coast limited and held up a dozen passengers in the rear coaches The coat is still believed to hold the secret of the wrecking and robbery The latest tale issuing from headquarters at the sheriffs office concerns a dope-crazed ranch hand who might have loosened the rails ahead of the train This theory Is advanced In the face of positive reports issued yesterday that the culprit was an ex-railroad man out for revenge Only a former rail man could have so expertly turned the trick it was pointed out Tom Frith 1828 Dorris Court avenue Burbank furnished deputy sheriffs with their latest He told of picking up a disreputable looking man and driving him into Los Angeles two hours after the wreck The man who was coatless de The ease against Harold Doiley private detective and former prohibition agent charged with attempted tampering with a Witness subpoenaed in the Alex Pantages trial was expect -go to a jury in Judge court today Doiley is charged in a grand jtiry I Indictment with an attempted in-Itimidation of Ivan Samsonoff who subpoenaed by both the prose -leutlon and defense In Pantages Ltria1 which resulted In his conyic-ion on an attack on Eunice Pringle Miss Pringle and her mother Mrs Lou Irene Pringle were spectators in the courtroom yesterday but were not called as witnesses Samsonoff Ihe sole prosecution witness declared that Doiley asked him to change his story Doiley admitted calling on Samsonoff in connection with his work as an investigator for Pantages but denied trying to gfl him to give false testimony Carl Seawald corroborated Dol-ley's story by stating that he went to Sam son offs apartment with him Ambition The United States is the Land of Opportunity in the breast of every citizen there seems to be implanted the ambition for greater attainment the reach ing upward for Success If the individual is constant and consistent saver has been a wise and judicious spender when opportunity knocks he is prepared He then controls circumstances During the Silver Anniversary New Business Campaign ask at any one of the fifty-six branches for a free copy of "Saving and the budget book developed by California Bank assisted by the Home Economics Department University of Southern California California Bank HEAD OFFICE 62 3 SOUTH SPRING LOS ANGELES California Bank Group COMBINED RESOURCES OVER HUMAN HAND TEACHES HOW TO HOLD RUPTURE When a rupture is held with the hand the weight of the intestines is instinctively lifted and the edges of the opening rought together This action can not be obtained by any russ pads as they all gouge into the weakened region but Dr human hand support yhich is a softly padded aluminum plate held so as to exactly duplicate the action of the hand does not gouge into the region of the rupture Not only is the support more secure and more comfortable a truss but its use by avoiding concentrated pressure benefits the health in many ways A worm can be kept in a can with a hole in the bottom if the can is placed on methinfc flat so can the intestines be kept from protruding the lower part of the abdomen is held flat There is no eed to gouge in or use any severe pressure The fact that Dr business has grown to be the argest in rupture retention devices in the State of Cali-ia proves that his support meets the demand for a better hod of holding ruptures Eminent medical men and peo-in all walks of life have whole-heartedly praised the sup-rt for its ingenuity comfort and security fail to ct it Drs Poole 11th Floor 706 Hill Adv ONE OPINION A Card of Thanks THE editor the dirty bum lost a couple weeks of my copy recently and told all you folks that I went on a vacation old alibi kid I never went on a vacation in my whole life I require to I loaf perpetually and write my when I discover a stray half hour with nothing more intriguing to do BUT drat him said editor always has plenty copy if he will ramble dver the dump and query the office boy I might be lazy but I cover the chore always BUT drat that editor here is what was nice lots of folks that I never heard of wrote me post cards and letters in the delirious interim saying you quit agree with you always but would miss you a nice to know that you Registered way back in the crowd that encourages a fool idealist to keep trying -Jf I have no illusions of grandeur I am just an ordinary old reporter living in the hills and writing about cats and trees and various other topics that insist on intruding All I do in this corner is write a bit of a letter to you folks and as it happens I write to readers of The Record personally more words every week that I write in this corner and buy my own stamps and stationery that's what I think of you drat ya But what I started out to say was that the editor lost a couple copy and been helping the stoopid out by writing some special local copy for the bimbo maybe you've seen some of it rully I ken the town jfj.