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Daily News from Los Angeles, California • 4

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ILLUSTRATED DAILY NEWS, LOS ANGELES, CALIF. Sets British Flying Record Stores Prepare For Downtown Dollar Day in order to tempt the fastidious tastes of Southern California men and women, said Tom May, executive vice president of the May in discussing the event. "Dollar Day is the culmination of months of planTom May ning merchants," by local he Saturday will bring to the people of Southern California greatest shopping day of the Spring season- -Downtown Los Angeles Dollar Day. "All stores are concentrating upon offering the most especially seasonable merchandise attainable May said. "Huge amounts of merchandise have been purchased from local manufacturers which has greatly increased the payrolls of Los Angeles.

In addition 11,000 extra employes will be engaged by the various stores to properly serve the record-breaking Jail on Top New U.S. Building Planned A Federal jail atop the projected new 16-story Federal Building received tentative approval of W. P. Hammock, assistant director of the Bureau of Prisons, upon his arrival yesterday from Washington to confer with local Federal officials. Hammock's purpose was to inspect a site for the jail and particularly to visit Terminal Island, which already had been tentatively selected as the site.

Hammock said he would wire Washington officials to revamp plans for the Federal building, after Marshal Robert P. Clark and United States District Attorney Peirson M. Hall pointed out that it would be necessary to transport prisoners to and from the island daily at heavy expense. Plans for construction of the new Federal Building are nearing completion, Federal architects said. FREE CLASSES zine and newspaper advertising Free classes for adults in and circulation will begin tomorrow at 7 p.

m. at Belmont Evening High School, 1575 West Second street. Watch! The May Company DOLLAR DAY SATURDAY See this paper tomorrow for Dollar Day extra Values! VOL. 13 Thursday, Feb. 13, 1936 NO.

141 daily flews 123 East Pice Los Angeles, Calif. Manchester Boddy, Publisher Telephene PRospect 2131 Entered as second-class matter, April 10. 1929, at the postoffice at Los Angeles, California, under the Act of March 3. 1879, published daily except Sunday. Member American Newspaper Publishers' Association, Member Audit Bureau of Circulation.

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1936 son The BY MANCHESTER BODDY (Continued from Page 1) adequate money has sent business statistics into higher brackets. Why not take a full step? TN WHAT direction should the step be taken? Well, we have gone into that manv times. If you are still interested, visit the neighborhood theater that is showing a picture of a recent experiment by the General Electric Corporation. There you will see an elec-1 tric motor driven entirely and exclusively by light. Nothing more.

You will hear the voice of a G. E. scientist explaining that perhaps light alone will some day furnish power to automobiles, airplanes, factory. engines, etc. Suppose that day should come.

Upon what would the United States base its money? How could a man get it? we have progressed WELL, way toward such an objective. We do have the automatic machine and electric power, both of which, to a certain degree, are what "free" power light will be when the G. E. scientist's ultimate day arrives. Let's get our money formulae working now--so living conditions for humans can keep pace with science and industry! If we do, we won't need half the present tax burden.

Cult Splits Pair, Husband Asks Divorce With respect to cults, there are in general two kinds of people, those who can take them and those who can leave them alone. John R. Thomason was one of the second category, while his wife, Mrs. Marie Belle Thomason, was one of the former. She, he said in a divorce complaint yesterday, predicted that he would come to no good, end by refusing to join a cult with which she was associated and whose object was to establish a colony "where Satan could not enter." "You're headed for hell and perdition," were Mrs.

Thomason's words, according to her husband. The couple have been married 18 years and have three children. 3 INCLUDING DAYS ONLY DAYI DOLLAR FLIGHT LIEUTENANT TOMMY ROSE of the Royal Air Force, recently broke all records in flying from London to Capetown, South Africa, in three days and 17 hours. The lieutenant 1s shown above with cup emblematical of his championship speed over the Photo. policy and his "defense of the night by Josephus Daniels, former the President's representative at cific International Exposition.

Using Abraham Lincoln as a text, Daniels declared the world stood of "emancipation" from a "slavery more general than the chains of any one race." Referring to' the Civil War President as "the symbol of emancipation, not only in his day but in all times and in all countries where there is slavery in any form or species," Daniels quoted Lincoln saying: Labor is prior to and independent of capital; labor is superior to capital and deserves much higher "If Lincoln were living today and repeated that, he would invite denunciation as a Socialist, Communist or Bolshevik," Daniels said. "We need again, to hear and heed words uttered by Lincoln, for the -feudalism of recent years has forged chains, wherever there exists sweatshops or child-labor or slums, or wherever there is a denial or just division of the rewards of industry." Daniels referred to the exposition as "an object lesson of the good results of recovery and the perpetuation of the spirit of comradeship and unity in all PanAmerica." rights of labor" were extolled tosecretary of the Navy, speaking as the reopening of the California Pa- Daniels Speaks for Roosevelt at Fair CA DIEGO, Feb. Roosevelt's "good neighbor" Judge Lewis Last Rites Today Last rites for former Judge Charles L. Lewis, 85, will be held today in the Little Church of the Flowers, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale. Judge Lewis died Tuesday in a Los Angeles sanitarium.

From 1900 to 1912 he was a justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. He practiced law in Los Angeles for the last 15 years. He is survived by his widow of 819 North June street, two sons, Charles L. Lewis of Los Angeles and William M. Lewis of Haddonfield, N.

and two daughters, Mrs. Margaret L. Sees of San Fernando and Mrs. Laurel Lewis Buckle of Minnesota. Thursday, Friday, Saturday Ring Diamond Wedding Band or Men's Illinois Waltham or Elgin Watch $75.00 VALUE BLUE WHITE 8 AND DIAMONDS THE WATCH ALL 3 FOR ELGIN 75 38 NO Bring This Ad With You INTEREST OR EXTRAS Factory Guarantee with Every Watch Written Guarantee ONLY with Diamonds! PAY Those who know values will be quick to grasp this amazing special obtainable only at WEEK sible National only Jewelers because and of made National's A OR MONTH practically unlimited buying power.

The Diamond Rings carry BY be exchanged at any time and for may the THE our Written Guarantee full $45.00 value. Factory Guarantee with each watch. Actual $75.00 value 3 days only at $38.75. NO (MONEY DOWN NATIONAL NO MAIL OR PHONE ORDERS 814 South Broadway OPPOSITE THE MAY COMPANY Capone 'Mouthpiece' To Help Hauptmann YORK, piece," who NEW tonight that he Feb. Samuel Leibowitz, the "great mouthhas saved 112 men from the electric chair, announced was going Into Trenton state prison death house to "get the whole truth" from Bruno A great criminal lawyer-defender of Al Capone in the lush days of prohibition and chief counsel in the famous Scottsboro casesLeibowitz said he would join the Hauptmann legal staff if the pale prisoner in cell No.

9 at Trenton "comes clean" about the Lindbergh baby kidnaping. He said that as the result of 8 visit today from Mrs. Hauptmann. She came to him on this holiday when most downtown offices in New York were closed. Leibowitz's was open, and for an hour he listended to Mrs.

Hauptmann, who talked to him rapidly and earnestly in the knowledge that her reprieve would expire Saturday and that the shadow of the electric chair again was long and dark across his life. Then Leibowitz came out, and, that full-throated voice, tamiliar in every New York courtroom where men go on trial for their lives, said: "Persons of great prominence and standing have sought to enlist my aid in the Hauptmann case. have just had an extended conference with Mrs. Hauptmann. I have made it clear to her in plain English under what conditions I will consent to be identified with her husband's case.

"I do not propose to enter this case in order to play a game of legal chess to save Bruno from the chair. Any person with the least bit of discernment can place little credence in the fish stories told in Bruno's behalf from the witness stand in the Flemington court- Richard Hauptmann, room. By the same token, there was much produced by the prosecution that smells to high heaven. "The best advocate that Bruno can retain at this crucial moment is Bruno Richard Hauptmann, himself. He must make up his mind to tell the truth and all of it." SPECIALIZING in Eye Examination and the making of fine glasses.

Harry E. Morley And Associate Optometrists BULLOCK'S Broadway Hill Seventh BILTMORE BOWL Democratic Club Will Hear Daniels Tomorrow Escorted by a committee of United States ambassador Mexico, will be brought to Los Angeles tonight from San Diego, where he has been taking part in opening ceremonies of the 1936 exposition. Tomorrow noon, Ambassador Daniels is to make his main appearance here as speaker before the Luncheon Club in the Biltmore Bowl. In the committee which will drive to San Diego to pick up Ambassador Daniels are Mr. and Mrs.

William Jennings Bryan Mrs. Eleanor Banning McFarland, J. Ray Files, David H. Williams, Louis Cruickshank, Mattison B. Jones, Robert Clark, Baron Long, Sam Lindauer and Sheriff Eugene Memorial Hospital To Be Built A memorial hospital will be built in Beverly Hills under terms of the will of the late Mrs.

Nellie Euretta Taylor on file in Probate Court yesterday. Out of a $1,500,000 estate, the will sets aside $150,000 for construction of the hospital, which will bear the name of Mrs. Taylor's late husband, George Wesley Taylor. WENT TOO FAR MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 12.

John Donlin didn't mind when her wrestling fan husband tried half-nelsons and armlocks on her. "'But when he tested' body slams I decided to get a divorce," she told the court today. SIX RHYTHM RASCALS OVERNITE Sensation Society Swings in Line! CHOLLY ANGELENO Examiner "The swing band at the Bowl has created a sensation." LA Herald Express "Grier offers sweet music the Rhythm Rascals swing and the crowd dances continuously." 7 CHATTERBOX Times "You've never seen the like of it -the way the stay-up-laters are swinging it at the Bowl -a great nite's JANE FRANCES MULLEN Parade "They parade two bands and two floor shows before you at the TRUDY Bowl and before you know it WOOD it's one o'clock." 'Winning, all hearts' And EVERYBODY agrees: "The floor show is phenomenal." Featuring the Three Radio Rogues, Fritz Jean Hubert, Tom Betty Wonder, Fred Scott, Marie Hollis. SPECIAL VALENTINE PARTY FRIDAY, FEB. 14th FRITZ.

JEAN HUBERT SURPRISES "Watch Them GALORE! Swing" DINNER $150 Cover $100 Sat. $150 Attendants take and return no charge. COCKTAILS A QUARTER.

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