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

Los Angeles Record mAKE it your favorite JYl pastime to call Circur lation Manager if you do not get The Record deliv-ered promptly TUcker lltl TAKE it your favorite If A Taetimt to call Circur lation Manager if you do not get The Record delivered promptly TUcker lltl Tnside Page One Published Dally Kxerpt Sunday at Itecord Building Wall Street WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 25 1925 Knlered at I Anpeles potofflcn a ee niid-elHs mail under act March 3 179 Inside Page One hontIIitsTn SOIL CAR LOOT OF TOUCH HOLDUP TO END HARBOR CHAOS PLAN PROBE Of STATE FINANCE IMPROVING IT New Witnesses Called In Rich Orphan 9 Inquest rfi" Forced by a youthful bandit to drive to a deserted place on lang Beach boulevard Lawrence Manic collector and driver for Swift Company was robbed Monday afternoon of $250 of the money Manie was met by the bandit as ie started to re-enter liis truck at 7u03 Santa Fe avenue The robber forced hitn to drive to Seventy-first street and Long Beach boulevard and then held him up and robbed lira of all the money in his possession The holdup of Manie is the third Company collectors in that district in the last two months By DON RYAN I ELROSE avenue is being improved Melrose avenue that was distinguished among the barren streets of Los Angeles for its growth of trees Trees are scarce enough in Los Angeles If we except the palm slattern of its kind and an infrequent pepper tree the only growth is eucalyptus And Melrose avenue carried aloft two lines of stately eucalypti trees that ennobled the ugliness pf the regulation bunga-low-drugstore-gasstation -grocery architecture of the street In summer these noble trees made of Melrose avenue a pleasant lane a relief to the eye a shady loitering place in which I have often lingered when in the region to dream awhile Action which may reveal startling irregularities in the harbor department was to be taken by the harbor commission Wednesday City council has approved the employment of the American Appraisal company to appraise all of the harbor properties at a cost of $25000 The harbor board is scheduled to formally vote the contract Several times during the past few years the grand jury has investigut-j ed the harbor books but was forestalled by their chaotic condition The last grand jury reported that the books were in such shape that it was impossible to tell who was responsible The appraisal is expected to form the basis for a new audit so that efficient bookkeeping may be installed According to Commissioner Walter Allen the correcting of the books may show the inside of several deals of a questionable nature The new appraisal and audit Is expected to result in a revision of many harbor leases It has been claimed that some favored persons or firms have been getting use of harbor land at unexplainably low rates following the daring hold-up on Harbor boulevard Tuesday afternoon in which Julian Ok! company collectors were robbed of more than in cash and checks police and special detectives arc scouring the city in an effort to locate the car used by the three bandits The machine described as a large black touring car was damaged In the collision which preceded the robbery and the marks of the impact with the description ob tained of the unmasked robber are the clues by which police hope to apprehend the bandits Ben Wetmore and XL Smith cashier and collector left Julian City with $6000 in cash and $10 000 in checks Keeping a' slight die tance behind them a large black car followed them Then began a race of several miles The bandit car at last overtook the other and crashed into it driving it off the road Two armed and masked bondit-s ordered Wetmore and Kmitn to hand over the cash The other bandit armed with a shotgun kep in the rear Wetmore and Smith were then driven back to Los Angeles where they w'cre droppef at Thirty -third and Los Angeles street All the bandits were Americans Wetmore states and appeared tgd be between the ages of 30 to 35 CALL MITCHELL CHIEF OF SERVICE Washington Feb 25 Friendly enemies what General William Mitchell and Admiral Long of the navy have become since the present aircraft investigation began how is the admiral of the obsolete General Mitchell greeted Admiral Long on the street came the retort is the general of the hotair i ci FOR tlie first time in months I found myself again in the vicinity of Melrose avenue There was some affair of no importance to transact with Joe Jack-son press agent de luxe for Rudolph Valentino My errand took me to the United studios where Valentino is at work I arrived at the Melrose and Western avenue Intersection expecting to drive through to the studio which is at the farther end of Melrose It had been raining The scene overwhelmed me suddenly with the force of a dream I thought I was looking again at the scarred and muddy battlefields of France The twin lines of giant eucalypti had all been leveled as trees were leveled in those evil days by heavy and constant artillery fire Craters from which the stumps of trees had been dug up stared evilly along the road resembling gaping shell holes half filled with innddy water and the mangled remains of the trees I almost expected to see dirty garments fragments of human flesh and skulls grinning among the wreckage By United Pre Sacramento Cal Feb 25 With the return to Sacramento of Hay Riley slate controller the assembly committee on governmental revenues and expenditures will start its probe of methods used in conducting state business Assemblyman Frank Coombs of Napa chairman of the body announced today Little is known about this committee which was created this session at the request of Assemblyman Coombs Riley will be called up before the committee and asked to explain the workings of his department immediately atfer he returns from the east He will be asked to go into every detail as to how the state collects its revenues and to make suggestions as to how the present methods might be bettered Coombs said- If the committee finds ways through which the efficiency of the department can be increased legislation to this effect will be introduced explained Other state officials will be asked to appear and answer similar questions and the public will be kept informed Highway Problem As the second day of the final session opened today the legislators seemed determined to dispose In short order of measures before them Highway financing still held first place in Interest today with two methods suggested Following the announcement of Senator Hurley that he would propose a $50000000 bond issue it was learned that Senator Roy Fellom of San Francisco is working on a similar plan calling for a $75000000 bond issue Senator Arthur Breed author of the gasoline tax increase proposal announced he would bitterly oppose any attempts to substitute a bond issue Reapportionment Members of the "cow county" delegations will meet tomorrow night for a caucus on reapportlonment and other measures pertinent to their own Interests Definite decision as to which of two reapportionment plans intended to throw the control of one of the houses to the farm delegations will be supported by them was expected to be the outcome of the caucus The farm delegates are opposed to reapportionment along lines dictated by the constitution FREE SPEECH DISTRICT IS BEGGED FOR CITY ELROSE avenue was impassable I drove around and reached the studio gate wondering what catastrophe had fallen this rare and pleasant street I could think of nothing else when I encountered Joe and my first question tfas if he had heard what had happened to Melrose avenue Yes he had heard They were improving it Joe smiled cynically He understood my excitement- He had been that way at first He also wondered what in the world possessed the minds -of whoever has such matters In hand When the oxmen arrived and the sawyers when the chips began to fly and one could hear the intermittent crashing as of guns while one trunk after an- other was laid low yes Joe had become excited himself and had made some inquiries He was told that they were improving it ISut why did they think this this murder of trees improvement? Because Joe explained wearily they wished to widen the street It seems that an incipient real estate boom is on along Western avenue A desire to make the most out of property in the vicinity But one would think those trees were the most valuable asset this property could have No the Improvers did not think so They wished to make the street wider Nice wide streets a phrase of that sort was on their tongues They did not feel the charm of European cities with narrow winding shaded streets Streets wide and treeless straight and smooth mechanical speedways for the motors that was their idea And that idea they have carried out DISINFECT JAIL To prevent the spread of disease city council authorized expenditure Wednesday of $151)0 for a fumigating plant at Lincoln heights jaiL All prisoners suspected of carrying germs wall be thoroughly disinfected Their clothes wall be fumigated as well Several weeks ago several cases of disease broke out in the jail and action was taken to forestall any epidemic in the future JUDGE MAY KILL SELF San Francisco Feb 25 Judge Jolrn McGee of the United States district court in Minneapolis wrote a letter to United States District Judge Bourquin of Montana saying that he was contemplating suicide because his court was forced to try so many petty prohibition cases have no intention at all that wr feny court shall become so crowded" said Judge Bourquin who is on the bench here temporarily am not going to kill KELLOGG RETURNS HOME New York Feb 25 'Frank Kellogg retiring ambassador to Great Britain who becomes secretary of state March 4 has returned to New York on the Berengaria Kellogg refused to discuss the fu- lure policies of the department of state He praised the Dawes plan saying it had much to do with the stabilization of the currency of WATER STAND BY CITY EXPLAINED Views of (he public service department with regard to the controversy between tlie board and the Owens valley ranchers are contained in a pamphlet issued by the board Taking the position that the board haa always acted in good taith and that the ranchers case is without merit the pamphlet defends its policy The board contends that Owens valley has been made more prosperous since the aqueduct was constructed and that values have increased instead of diminishing Charges that the city has acted through secret agents that coercion has been used and that buying has been employed were denied The report of State Engineer McClure in which he ehowed that the ranchers had been mistreated was criticized HELD BY BOOTLEGGERS New York Feb being held on a ship This Is the sixth note managed to throw into the ocean some thing be done to free me?" This Is the note picked up in a bottle from Benjamin levy 46 who disappeared four months ago Police are Investigating RIVER OVERFLOWS Toronto Ont Feb The River Don overflowed its banks causing damage estimated at Factories were closed and trains held-up ASKS jit for accounting of profit of the booK Our -was tie-gun in superior court yesterday by Helen Salisbury against Josephine A Jackson co-author of the book mm WfM- wm Miss Isabelle Pope fiancee of William McClintock whose death probe has been reopened testified that Shepherd foster-father of her lover kept them from marrying by telling her that both parties had to be present when a license was secured She found this to lie untrue too late to wed McClintock she says Below Judge Olson who asked the probe is reading a love letter written by Shepherd to Miss Estelle Gehling a nurse which the latter turned over to the court BEGIN TO PAY PHONE GOUGE Telephone service for city business has cost the city more than twice as much in February as January a report of Horace Ferris secret ary r4f the board of public works showed Wednesday The telephone raise will cost the taxpayers $12000 additional a year it is estimated Under the old rate the city hall exchange paid $61222 a month Under the new rate which went into effect February 1 the city will pay an average of $141552 a month Identify Headless Body By I nitrd Press San Francisco Feb 25 The headless and mutilated body washed up by the sea at Pillar Point near Half Moon Bay hns been identified as lit Of N'i Ison Crincle 21) drowned when his fishing boat floundered on the rocky coast several weeks ago Continued pounding on the rocks Is believed to have decapitated the body mm By United Pres Chicago Feb 25 New alleged suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of McClintock youthful millionaire orphan were given today by Taniis Kies man of all work for Mr and Mrs William Shepherd foster parents of the youth at the inquest Kies emphasized that the Shepherds disliked Miss Isabelle Pope North Shore society girl who was engaged to McClintock her fare they treated Miss Pope like an angel Kies testified to her back they were like poison AROUND THE WORLD AROUND THE CLOCK BERLIN The folkist leader Henning has petitioned Ahe reichstag to 1 remove former Chancellor immunity so as to be aide to sue him for libel Henning alleges Stresemann called him a liar during the last election campaign So seriously do the English take their soccer football schools will be closed in the towns of Blackburn and Blackpool that children may attend the team match which will put one of the towns in the finals of the national tournament MUNICH Three young ski jumpers were killed when an avalanche overtook them In the Bavarian mountains LON I K)N The free zone of Salonika has been handed over to Serbia and officials of that country are taking charge says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Athens The government has decided to submit a bill to annul confiscation of the property of the late King Nicholas as decreed by the parliament at Cettinge when Montenegro was annexed to Jugn-Slavia Under the terms of thei proposed measure the property would foe restored to the sovereign's heirs among whom are Queen Helena and her children LONDON A Central News dispatch from Brussels says that the wife of the mayor of Hassell died of fright when a slight earthquake which did little damage was felt in that city LONDON Regular wireless telephone service between New York and Lottdon is now practically certain according to post off ice engineers quoted in the Dally Mail A trunk connection to New York would be made within five minutes after the call is received the engineers believed Cyclone Causes Loss Ardmore Okla Feb A cyclone which swept the Graham and Fox oil fields in northwest Carter county caused damage of more than $100(KK to homes and oil rigs BURBANK GROWING Burbank Feb UG-- The population of Burbank fnTfhsed from 2913 in 1920 to 11500 in 1925 according to census enumerators dry agent tried Sacramento Feb 25-Trial of Walter Greer ousted federal pro-Hibitum i 1 1 i 1 1 'tart i Greer hi eousiii on bribery charges begun today Both pleaded not guilty to the charges ENGAGE TYItOLKK William Tyroler for 13 years assistant conductor of the Metropolitan opera house in New York has been engaged by Los Angeles Grand Opera "HI Oil duotor (UT Joe but Joe any of the property owners protest? Joe raised an eyebrow Well there was one he had heard Yes one A crank A queer old codger who lived in a sort of a shack on a small place It seems this old fellow made a scene He wept And he embraced the two tall trees that stood before his door Embraced and kissed them Sentimental old devil Make a good scene for a movie Joe has thought of working it in or into a play Yes Then the axmen came and they had to drag him away so Joe had heard Nutty And away behind the times according to the verdict of the improvers Joe smiled again more cynically thaii before Clinton Taft American Civil asked city cou aside a new ar free speech ma Taft pointed out that the Pla: tvhere free-speech meeting! are now permitted is getting too congested and that a larger space is needed He recommended either a portion of Exposition or Lincoln parks for this purpose BALL ATTRACTS MANY The charity ball and reception which marked the close of a three-day patriotic celebration of Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus last night attracted 2000 persons to Ambassador auditorium MADE POSTMASTER Scammel has been appointed postmaster at Mar Vista of the ttertJeeunion set privilege of PACIFIC FLEET IN MANEUVERS At 9:30 a in Monday Marrh 2 the battle fleet will steam southward for 10 days of maneuvers with the Atlantic scouting fleet This was announced from the flagship West Virginia Tuesday After maneuvers the fleet will anchor off San Diego March 12 and will return to Ia)s Angeles harbor March 12 to prepare for on March 16 The fleet will undergo a overhauling before sailing for Hawaii -via San Francisco April 8 It will return here September 28 BEATS BABY BECAUSE SHE DISTURBED SLEEP By United Press Redwood city cai Feb 25 Because his seven-months-old daughter cried and he could not sleep Wilson a barber beat her into Insensibility with his fist He will be sentenced today Police Surgeon Is Married Police Surgeon Norman Dorn and Miss Angela Eberhart 5308 Sunset avenue were married at the church of the Blessed Sacrament by Father Stack yesterday The wedding plans were kept secret so that only the police and fire departments and a few hundred friends managed to get wind of them A amzJI army was on hand at the church at 4:30 to give the pair a send-off Dr Dorn has been surgeon at the receiving hospital for ten years PREPARE GREETING FOR RETURNING FILM HEADS Culver City is with colorful decoration in preparation for the joint celebration of welcome to be tendered Cecil De Mille and Joseph Schenck tomorrow afternoon at 3 The celebration is being held under the auspices of the Culver City news bureau and board of trade the official chamber of commerce of that municipality and the co-operative forces in the program include the Warn pas and their Baby Stars in addition to representative of practically every motion picture studio in this section of the country The Hollywood American Legion band Universal City band and Culver City band have been called upon Catholic services will inaugurate the program today The schedule for the first series is Episcopalian Thursday Lutheran Friday: Pres- byterlan Saturday Congregational Tuesday Baptist Wednesd a THE RECORD Delivered: By carrier in city 43c per month By agents outside city 4oc per month By mail (strictly in advance) 1 month 55c 3 mos $166 6 mos $305 I year $600 Published daily except Sunday at 012 Wall st Phone TUcker 1121 Entered at Los Angeles Postoffice as second-class mail LOCAL TERRORISTS PILE UP SCORE OF 5 DEATHS 1 BOMB STUDENTS TO SEE SHOW Business college yells will sound through Ambassador auditorium when the First National Business show opens March 9 This was assured Wednesday when the show management an- nounced more than 500 business students have applied for tickets" Many more tickets it is expected wiil be Issued as students will be welcomed the first day 1 DRY SONG URGED Sacramento Feb 25 Round the dedicated to the eighteenth amendment and the enforcement of prohibition will foe I sung in the public school if the Christian Temperance union has its way Officers of the organization highly recommended this song to the state board of ONE OPINION Five unsolved murders and one bombing outrage during the past year is the record of local terrorist gangs a check of records in the district office reveals The virtual abandonment by officers of any hope of solving the lat-est crime the murder of Vossalo Southgate fruit dealer has directed attention to the bloody record of so-called criminals in Los Angeles county Spectacular Attempl HURT FEELINGS JAM HALL PLAN Failure of city council to SENATOR TO MARRY Washington Feb 25 engage- i the murders because of the prominent of Senator Thomas Sterling of inence of the victim was the at--outh Dakota and Mrs Mayme i tempt to kill Torchia with a McCasim of this city has been an- nitroglycerine bomb Christmas day Far more spectacular than any of properly recognize the dignity of the hoard of public works may cause a further delay in getting plans for the new city hall Seized with a sudden desire to do something after fiddling for many months council agreed among them BROADCAST LENT CHURCH SERVICES Broadcasting over radio of noonday Lenten services by eight denom selves to employCurlett and Beel-1 uu1ons thi3 year w111 begin Wed-mati Los Angeles architects to de-i ne'S( av: sign the hall I Services uil! he broadcast daily Whereupon the board of public i Sunday and Monday through- orks rose in its wrath end demand-1 1 om by arrangement with the Wurlitzer studios 814 South Broadway works rose in its wrath and demand ed to know forthwith and by what reason life council went ahead MAYBE at the horse show you have seen those hackneys that strutted those bob-tailed dappled plump beasts that arched their necks and lifted their feet so high ut looked as though they would rap themselves on the jaw at every pace Well I have a rooster that is five-gaited too a long-legged stiff-necked Rhode Island rooster that lifts his awkward feet seven inches off the ground every step and has a queer trick of standing in one spot for minutes at a time and shaking his head as if utterly discouraged with the entire universe If there is a baby chick anywhere about this splay-footed fool of a rooster will blindly step on it and then stand on the squirming chick and blandly twist his silly head and wonder where that cheeping can be coming from A rooster that can crow in seven keys for seventy minutes at a time and who prefers to come to the back door of the shack and do his stuff about the time I am trying to devise a neat finale for an Opinion! A rooster that refuses absolutely to roost on a pole but insists on going into the nest boxes and hovering like a sitting hen Though I have gone forth night after night and lifted hini to the perch though I have thrown him out into the cold wet winter dark and left him to hover under the eaves yet he persists in going to bed on a nest And do you bust in on his back-stoop crowing with a billet he merely crow-hops away twenty feet and then stands and shakes his impecile head and squawks and shrieks lor half an hour steady Oh an utter idiot of a rooster! He has been on the very verge of sudden death a score of times at my hot hands but 1 guess he will finally die of old age After three years i have become so accustomed to his ugly red carcass that the place would seem too quiet a bit too deserted without his squawk and his crowing his clowning and his general nounced Senator Sterling is 75 years of age and has been married twice before 50 FREE Theater Tickets for Record Readers to See State a Goes California Rag Alhambra Gets Tally's Redeeming Miller's Thief of Solve the want ad crossword puzzle every Tuesday on the want ad page Torchia a wealthy attorney is said to have recovered enough to be back at work but Ills home is watched by armed guards Vossalo was found in a deserted ranch house his head hacked from his body and badly burned by kerosene Frank Renaldo and de Lisi whose deaths were connected to that of Vossalo by suspicious circumstances were found in an automobile near on the Harbor boulevard Jufle 16 Renaldo had seven bullets in his body Silence Baffles Although deputy sheriffs and district investigators worked for weeks on these crimes the tml-versal silence with which members or the local Italian colony greeted detectives have effectively blocked all efforts to solve the mystery of the crimes Connected by circumstance with the deaths of these men are two unidentified corpses An Italian was found shot to death under the Avenue Twenty-six bridge fast march and another unidentified Italian found pierced with bullets in Mint I canyon near Newhaii November without consulting the board There was much feeling Council tried to make good by extending to the board a belated invitation to join in the conference over the architects At this conference held 11 Tuesday the lwd jnu asked to consult Curlett and Beel man to see if the firm would be ac- cepiable to the board As soon as this firm or sonic other architectural firm is named which is satisfactory to both council and the board the contract will be awarded and work on the actual plans can I commence Temperatures I ull- tonight (id Thnrw-dj Amthji1 SO IIottrHt sot N-ilIps 0 olcJst irii M'K I FAMILY OF 30 IN A Los Angeles is well on the road toward its second million population The nidi1 brothers Maggio and their families" totaling 30 persons arrived yesterday on the Bout hern Pacific Golden state limited at Arcade station They are from Wier-ton Hancock county Va Uncle Uarl Maggio local fruit merchant will give the brother" jobs in his business The children range from mites in arms 10 grown ltoys Society Woman Drowned Palm Beach Fla Feb The body of Mrs Fulton Bagiev New York society woman was recovered from the ocean off Breakers' pier gfcuams i during flic night an i thi probing the possi- i at.