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Los Angeles Evening Post-Record from Los Angeles, California • 3

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SAURDAY SEPTEMBER 1 TO CALL WOOLWINE AGAINST DOINGS OF THE DUFFS i'll 5 im ovei3 To That raft uwotR wATee AMO Conic 6ri-s 50 0 SEE CHANCE FOR 5-CENT LOAF' Ited Press By United Press THOUSAND-POUND CAKE AT DANCE BIRTHDAY PARTY Dist Atty Thos Lee Woolwine will subpoenaed as a witness against his own office in the case of Vincent Gelcich charged with passing a fictitious $5 check when the case is called in superior court Tuesday Atty Griffith' Jones handling case said Saturday Jf Gelcich was campaign manager in the last election and was arrested on the order of the district attorney's office Woolwine will be asked says Jones why the matter 6f a $5 check should be handled by the district office According to Jones it has been many years since the district office has issued complaint bn a HIGH SCHOOL PUPIL EARNS AS HE LEARNS A vocational school where boys and girls may learn practical trades and at the same time be free to go outside and earn enough money to finish their education is the plan of Jefferson High school Students in the last two years are encouraged to do practical work outside of the school and are given credit for this work according to Prof Theodore Fulton principal of the school boy who is taking the woodworking he said encouraged to go out to do practical finishing or carpenter "work the boys who are working in the automobile shop are being fitted and can at the conclusion of the course take down an automobile and' do all the necessary repair work In fact a machine was taken apart last year and entirely rebuilt in this is a course in cookery and girls who take millinery and sewing are placed shops where they receive a compensation for their work and receive school credit at the same time It is Quite a problem to arrange pro-grame scr that this may be done but we feel that it is worth With a 1000-pound cake as the principal attraction the second anniversary of the founding of the Penny Dance de Luxe by Fred Solomon will be observed during the coming week starting with a Labor day ball on Monday night Wednesday Sept 5 Is the official birthday of the institution On that occasion the monster birthday cake will be cut and slices presented to the guests as they pass around the center of the hall in the grand march check for less than $50 He says cases involving checks for less than $50 are handled by the city office Jones also said that the check is alleged to have been in the hands of the district attorney since June 19 and that Woolwine will be asked if that is the case why he shouldTiold up arrest until Aug 3 0 Jones says he will attempt to show the complaint against Gelcich was issued because on Aug 24 Woolwine received a letter iu which Geleich asked payment of $695 alleged due him for eervices as campaign manager Gelcich immediately after his arrest filed suit aginst Woolwine to obtaip the $695 FIRST VOTE IS AGAINST WEALTH TAX By United Press WASHINGTON Sept 1 Wealth conscription forces lost tlieir first big battle in the senate Saturday Au amendment by Sen Johnson California to the revenue bill providing SO per cent tax on war profits was defeated 17 to 62 The fight however has only begun The determined group is intent upon making the rich pay their fair dues in the war There still remain amendments scaling down to 50 per cent of war profits to be fought for by Johnson Those voting for the big profits tax were: Ashurst Borah Brady Gore Gronna Hollis Husting Johnson (California) Johnson (South Dakota) Jones (Washington) Kenyon Kirby Ia Follette McNary Norris Thompson and Vardaman In a scathing attack on the senate finance committee Sen Johnson California Saturday declared plans of computing war profits put a premium on the ability of great corporations to hoodwink and exploit the He spoke on his amendment taxing war profits 80 per cent "The committee has said to us pause hesitate before taking so much of the war profits of the great business concerns' he said the great profit-making corporations want is that we shall wait until the war is over After they have stowed away their swollen profits until the government can no longer touch them specious is the plea that by conscripting war pro-fits up to 80 per cent we'd be injuring business! allow every business in the country every dollar of Its peace profits but we'd take the highest possible amount of (he profits made from disaster fioin the sorrows and sufferings of a world at war the committee first presented its bill we were told by its chairman that $620000000 additional war profits taxes it levied was the very limit of safety a few days later the committee added $500000000 to the war profits taxes want war profits only protect normal busings normal profits normal industry thhs-war is made unpopular the finance bill will have made it Johnson continued way to make it a popular war is to make the line behind the trenches the line here in America a contented unified line where everyone is sure no injustice has been done him ot his RELIGION TO FITs LATEST is merely a matter of chemistry and says Mrs Margaret LeGrange woman minister who conducts services Sunday mornings in the Fricfray Morning club temperaments need different kinds of philosophies of life and in my church we try to fit religions to dispositions instance a nervous excitable woman calls for stoicism whereas a moody individual should be encouraged to adopt a mechanical religion The cramped mentally and those with an inhibited outlook need a dose of Epicurian-ism of us have failed to realize the importance that the laws of physics play in our everyday life If we make a mistake and in consequence fail in a business undertaking that is due to our ignorance of physics All of our likes and dislikes are due purely to chemical affinities In speaking of her school which is for the primary and grammar grades Mrs LaGrange said try from the very beginning to make the little ones realize the close synthesi in all matter is organized I tell them never be afrkid to try Best Set (none better do matter how much you pay) guaranteed lo yeara 0700 Bridge Work 0400 Gold Crowns 0400 Porcelain Crowna 0400 Gold FilUnga 0100 up Gold Inlays 0100 op Synthetic Porcelain Fillings 0100 up Cement Fillings 60c up Silver Fillings 60c up Teeth Treated Me Nerve Removed (painless) 0100 Teeth Extracted (painless) 60e So charge for painless extracting when plate or bridge work Is ordered ONE PRICK ONLY The Only Private Dentist in the City Doing Work at Such REMARKABLY LOW PRICKS NOT A DENTAL PARLOR A private high-class up-to-date SANITARY dental office with sterilised Instruments and gentlemanly operators whom you Will not be ashamed to recommend to your frlenda EXAMINATION FKEI Uonrt 8:30 to 6:30 1IK FAIRFIELD SOI -304 Pontages Theater Bldg 636 South Broadway Both Phone DRH SHORES SHORES Catarrh Deafness Asthma Rheumatism Eczema Epilepsy and other Chronie Diseases of Nerves Skin Heart Blood Lungs Bowels Stomach Bladder Kidneys and Liver a Specialty for 34 yeara Examination Free Rooms 603-4-5 Llss-ner Bldg 634 Spring St A Hours: 9 to I Evea 7-3 Sun 10-13 BONDS Government Municipal Real Estate Descriptive Bankers Bond Washington Bail WASHINGTON Sept Th' food baker com mittee announced Saturday the! best the housewife can hope for is a 16-ounce loaf of bread for 8 cents Master bakers here conduct the -fight against the chet declare is absolu chance for a 5-cent loaX wheat at CONGRESSMAN I SAN FRANCISCO Sept Seriously ill from an acute atta of stomach trouble Congressma John Nolan Saturday was rushed from Boyes Springs to a hospital here Nolan suffered a se- vere atick in Washington six weeks ago while attending con gress RUPTURE Can Be Cored Dr Joseph Fandrey European Specialist cures all curable rupture permanently no matter how long standing nor the age without operation or Injection nor detention from business or hard labor For farther ln- veetlgatlon call at my office 1421 Santee St Los Angeles Cal Phone Bdwy 4214 Hours: to aivjinjexcepSunday SAMPLE COPY YOMINCi Oil News Free The only publication in the "West devoted exclusively to the oil Industry Gives authentic up-to-date information about various oil in Wyoming greatest oil reservoir Telia I what Midwest Ohio Elkhorn Big Indian Glenrock Petroleum Hall Merritt-Great Divide Northwest Wyoming Apex "Wyatt Out West Midway Midland Petroleum Oil Fields United Petroleum and various other companies actually are doing Trial subscription Free Write WYOMING OIL NEWS Denver Colo-ratio WYOMING OIL FORTUNES are being made by those who keep posted orr actual developments In tha producing fields The Profit Clipper Is 1 read by thousands of oil investors Who Investigate before they buy SAMPLE COPY FREE on request A penny postal may save you many dollars Just send your name and address on a postal to Editor of THE PROFIT CLIPPER Quincy BuOd-ing Denver Cole Send Today for Freei BIG MUDDY MAP Showing Horseshoe OH Gas Company leases adjacent to big producing welL Our Community Well No 1 going down to oil fast OH beginning to show In sump No 2 starts in few days No 3 will be ready in 30 days Buy Horseshoe today Advances September 15th Five great Wyoming leases 32000 buyer 1000 shares if you act quickly HORSE- SHOE OIL GAS CO Mercantile Bldg Denver Colo 7 32 Years in Business 1237 South Flower St The cake is six feet high and ten feet around the base It is one of the largest cakes ever made in Los Angeles It is exceedingly ornate and in the center has a dance floor with orchestra showing couples dancing Five thousand pennies have been baked in the cake Bo that everyone who gets a piece is reasonably sure to get a penny also A staute of Mercury tops off the cake while the slogan on the cake is First" It was baked by Albert Cohn It is now on exhibition in the lobby of the Penny Dance de Luxe PRIVATE SERVICE FOR WAR VETERAN OAKLAND Cal Sept 1 The funeral of Gen Geo Vernon civil war veteran and former commander of the California national guard will he private it was announced by the family Saturday Gen Vernon died here Friday TO HOLD CARD PARTY For the benefit of the Red Cross the Robert Lee Chapter of the I) is planning a card party for September 2 6 at thef Hotel Alexandria Prizes will be awarded all proceeds to go to the Red Cross Mrs Warden will be hostess of the CITYBRIEFS Bean day to be celebrated in Oceanside under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce of northern San Diego county Monday Atty Adolph Danziger charged with grand larceny and embezzle-mnt exonerated in Justice court Modern dances and the attend ant high life blamed by Everett Beausejour for his suit for divorce against his wife Decree granted Superior Judge Gavin Craig is now presiding judge succeeding Judge Frank Finlayson Announcement made in connection with the semi-annual shifting of departments of the court effective Saturday Increase of $15000000 shown in bank clearings for August over same month In 1916 This August clearings aggregated $120094-40691 Estate of Harrison Gray Otis does not exc(d $45000 in value according to petition for appointment as administrator filed Friday insuperior court Mrs Margaret Armstrong Howell formerly of Spokane restored to competency Figured in strange romance when she married Geo Howell widower whom she afterwards divorced claiming he exercised hypnotic influence over her Has estate of $30000 Bert Self 8 starts alone on journey to home in New York Harbor telephone companies to consolidate The Pacific-company will take over the Home both in turn to be taken over by tho new Southern California Telephone Co Dr Byron Stookay receiving hospital surgeon is ordered to report for immediate military service at San Francisco Dr James Beggs replaces Dr Stookey at hospital Tony Oeba Jack Kohovich and Stebe Cusalo arrested by federal officers on charge of opium smuggling Drug worth $10000 seized A meeting of the Big Sister league of this city will be held Tuesday at 2:30 o'clock -in the Broadway auditorium Dr Frank Barton of the moral efficiency commission will speak on Work of the Big CARELESS BURGLAR WASTES LIGHT Awakened by his landlady who objected to his sleeping with the electric light turned on Hogan of Pomona who had rented a room at 452 Main st found that his room had been entered and $100 in jewelry and money had been taken The burglars had gone away leaving the light burning Dancing Carnival Tonight and Labor Day Ball Monday Majectic Dancing Academy 15th and Main Streets The One Bright Spot Los Angeles Cal 606 MAJESTIC THEATER BLDG PHONE FftHOU i 'W A i HOSPITAL CHARGE DECISION SOON A decision in the matter of the charges of inefficiency against Chief Surgeon Gilmer and his staff of the receiving hospital is expected in two weeks the public safety committee which concluded its hearings of the charges Friday will report to the city council RED WORKERS SEE WAR FILMS At a private view Friday afternoon Red Cross workers representing all countries saw- the official government war films that have been the sensation of London Canada and some large eastern cities These pictures are being shown in seven weekly installments at the Alhambra theater They show actual conditions on the battlefields The men under fire infantry charges and the first-aid given both where the shells are bursting It is thought these pictures wiil be a great stimulus to local Red Cross work As the rental proceeds from these films go to war sufferers they have a double purpose ARIZONA BANKER IS SUED BY WIFE Suit for separate maintenance against Emerson Milton Williams president of th First National bank of Clifton Xriz and owner of extensive property interests at El Paso Tex and Globe Ariz was filed Saturday in the superior court by his wife Margaret Lee Williams WEATHER FORECAST Saturday night and Sunday fair except cloudy or foggy Moderate westerly winds Railroad Public utility and to Net as High Circulars on Request and Mortgage Company ding 0636 al 1 7 CLIENT SUED BY LAWYER FOR $50000 Suit for $50000 damages for malicious prosecution was filed in the superior court Saturday 'by Adolph Danziger well-known Los Angeles attorney against Fred Beck and Max Adler Danziger claims that his business and reputation were seriously injured when Beck sued him several montfcp ago for alleged embezzlement and grand larceny Beck who is a German claimed that Atty Danziger had represented to him that the government would confiscate the property of alien enemies and that he was thereby induced to turn over all his property to Dan-i ziger who refused to return it on demand Danziger was acquitted of both charges July 31 JANE GREEN IS COONOLOGY QUEEN MISS JANE GREEN In Jane Creen the Portola I Cafe has an entertaine who ranks as one of the cleverest and foremost cabaret performers on the coast Possessed of a strong contralto voice her conception of the raggy melodies of the coloreu folk has earned her the name of the of Miss Green is supported by a galaxy of cabaret artists whose faleqt is responsible for the excellent review now showing at the Portola Cafe Dr Beach Dentist 410 Mum bid Ith and ltd wy Entrance on -fbu i Gar reft Company PJsJI F-3533 UNDERTAKERS Superior Service Reliable Prices ARRESTED ON OLD MURDER CHARGE PENDLETON Ore Sept 1 Eleven years after he killed Newell Itlppey in Surrey county North Carolina Logan Vernon is in jail here awaiting the arrival of North Carolina officers who will take him across the continent to face trial Vernon has made a complete confession and told local authorities he would waive extradition TURKEY TO MAKE SYMPATHETIC REPLY BERIIN Sept 1 A sympa-thetic answer to the peace appeal will be delivered in a few days by Turkey together the replies of the other central powers reports from Constantinople stated Saturday The AUTO CLUB OF AMERICA the world' national and fantrwt row-ing auto club In order to obtain 10- 000 member In the city of Los An-gele which 1 their goal want to enroll a member "every mule and female citizen of 'the Cnucanlan race between the airen of ji ukd 6ft owning and running their car for pleas-tire The memhernhip fee for the next 60 day will he $1500 which pay all due for one year Including initiation fee The benefit deri vh from thl memhernhip include the To bind together In one Imrmoni-oun body In the Interest of good road and leglnlation beneficial to au-tomobillHt nerve a your bond anywhere in the United State entitle you to a reduction at many plucen of 1 cent per gallon on gaoline a din-count of from IS to lift per cent on auto nupplie tire etc and In many laces reduction of 2S per cent on otel hill furnishe you also with legal advice and the service of a physician also map and detailed road information al all times as well as the social benefits of the dull Auto Club of America 137 West Adams St South 270 OPEN DAY AND NIGHT LEARN THE AUTO TRADE The National School of Engineering 14 years in Los Angeles train men in the automo bile business It will help you becomeexpert in the fastest growing industry today Better join our thousand of successful graduates by enrolling now Get our fine free catalogue it describes our courses including Repairing Driving Starting and Lighting Vulcanizing Blacksmith and Machine Shop Work We help our students earn board -and room while training Classes start every day Evening classes start after Labor Day National School of Engineering A HARBOR TO BE FREE PORT Los Angeres harbor is to become a free port open to all railroad lines in Southern California on an equal basis This is the agreement entered into Friday at a joint meeting of representatives of the city the Wilmington and San Pedro chambers of commerce and officers of the railway companies held in the harbor commission rooms The decision removes all obstacles in the way of the Santa Fe railroad entering the harbor district FOREST FIRES AGAIN THREATEN PORTLAND Ore Sept 1 Menacing fires on the western slopes of Mount almost at the outskirts of Portland Saturday threatened a nunroer of the best known mountain resorts Vacationists homesteaders and ranchers are fleeing from the woods Rescuers are hunting for nine me nbelieved to be surrounded by fire A ONCE RTS Concerts will be gien at Echo Park Sunday evenings and at Westlake Park Saturday evenings by jazz quartet During the recitals solos will be given by I McVea on the tango-banjo and by Hestor Weather-bird Chicago tenor 807 -t)-l 1 South Figueroa Street DAVIS MUSICAL COLLEGE Prepares pupils in repertoire of Orchestral Instrument Clauses In Theory Harmony History of Music will be organized Saturday morning at ten and Saturday evening at seven-thirty o'clock September 15th Sight Singing Tuesday night seven-thirty o'clock September 18th Orchestra practice will be resumed at three Saturday afternoon September 15th and Wednesday night at seven-thirty o'clock September 19th New teacher added to this year's Faculty enables the school to offer unexcelled advantages to anyone desiring the best of instruction Students may enter at any time but It Is desirable that they enroll with the beginning of the year to secure all the perquisites of the thorough course presented Prompt attention will be given all requests for further lnforriLation catalog etc Address: Ir Eugene Davis Pres DAVIS MUSICAL COLLEGE Office 606 Majestic Theater Building Voice Culture Plano Organ and all.

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