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vmn-jSSU tii itsvtrs 10 Cents A Month Delivered To Your Home To Order Your want ads; Call AD-6221 I A Vol.30 No. 96 I 2 3 1016 Wsst Vernon, Los Angeles 37, California Sunday, November 28, 1948 is a onm a cart on la nee no hthly Chamber Board Adopts Motion On Harbor Freeway Local Furniture Store Burglary Investigation Leads To Two Arrests Staking everything on the outside chance that the one bit of material evidence left by the suspects would solve the crime, University division detectives last week wound up investigation leading to arrest of two men in connection with the recent 81900 burglary of a furniture store at 5252 South Broadway. And Shopping Too! City Will View Feasibility Of New Plan IT IS becoming increasingly clear that the dty ant county leash laws are no workable, and that unreasonable injustices are being perpetrated against the dog owners who really care for their-pets. As in so many other instances of law ienforcemen: our so-called humane depart-cold in ments blow hot and their activities dogs will run the streets in droves for months citizen complaints will -go unanswered; for al purposes there is no such thing as a leash law then suddenly the dogcatchers swing into action and the bag is a heavy one. The point that appears to be lost on our city animal regulation department and the county pound system is that leash laws were designed to require owners of dogs to confine their pets to the premises on penalty at the law.

Why take it out on the dogs? TWO MOVES seem indited by results of the re-tent election; one an overhauling of our pathetically outmoded electoral college; the other, the rearrani of voting privileges for the residents of the District of Columbia. Unusual crime occurred on November 8 when burglars broke Into the local furniture store through a back door, removed large quantities of radios, household appliances, and clothing, then used the companys own delivery truck parked In the rear to cart away their loot The truck was found the next morning parked on East Forty-sixth stick, and University Dets. W. C. Hull and H.

W. Seager were called Into action. Isnjp bit of evidence found either on the seme of the crime or in the truck was a spindle from a record player lying In the back of the company vehicle. Dismayed at the lack of evidence but 'determined to make the most of what they had, the detectives, working with Capt W. G.

fiaird of the local detective unit, cheeked manufacturers and found that only one company In the dty sold such a record spindle. The detectives decided -the suspects eventually would try to re place the spindle that had dropped out of one of the stolen record players, and arranged with the company that distributed spindles, a epneern on East First street, to help them. The concern readily agreed to cooperate with the detectives, saying that few persons purchased any of the spindles, which are almost unbreakable. It would be easy, to check on any person purchasing such an item from them, company nfhriait said. On November 15, a Negro man tried to purchase a spindle from the East First street concern.

An alert- attendant told him he would have to give the model number of the radio, since the spindles were of varying design. Unsuspecting, the man procured the model number of thfe radio, gave his name and address, then left with the spindle. The attendant hastily conferred with the detectives, who discow (Continued on Page t) Aal Bodies of Southwest Couple Still Lose Lives When'Automobile Plunges Down Embankment Into Reservoir Bodies of Mr. and JIrs. John (Jack) McLaurin, young Southwest-couple killed early last Sunday when their auto-ged do ea early mobile plungecf down a 125-foot embankment into a Mexican The junking at the Colonial days electoral college system of electing our President is so clearly indicated it reeds no further support We rhould do away with it as we did away with the lame duck congresses.

The voting privileges residents of the District of Columbia merit similar attention. In the early days, when the population of the nations capital was minuscule compared with the rest of the nation, the system of depriving the citizens of a vote as far as District matters went but giving them the right to vote in their home states was reservoir, have not yet been recovered, but United States embassy officials report the search by navy divers still is underway. Councilman Hahn Makes New Anti-Polio. Move Anot important. Ni Now, however, Body Votes Approval To Speedway Plan Official cognizance of the approaching Harbor parkway was taken by thd board of directors of the Southside Chamber of Commerce at Its Tuesday meet lug when the board went on record as favoring the construction of the artery planned to connect the downtown area with the harbor.

Promise to collect data on the speedway and its possible effects on life in the Southwest was embodied in the motion concerning toe huge project City permission to construct the freeway already has been given the state in the area between the 4-level multiple freeway connection under construction hear Sunset boulevard and Olympic boulevard. The artery currently la planned to cut across the Southwest between Broadway and Figueroa streets. The resolution: "That toe Southside Chamber of Commerce is definitely In favor of a Harbor freeway, and that the chamber is now engaged in developing the facts of the proposed Harbor freeway as to the location, the character and type, advantages and disadvan-eages to property owners, established business and industrial interests, through and local traffic, pedestrian traffic dealing wjto housewife on her dally shopping tours, or children going to id from school, etc. A list of questions definitely affecting these many Interests is being compiled which data when assembled will be sent into dty engineers office, who answer toenvand when toll Information Is received a public meeting will be called to acquaint business and property -owners of different factors involved. "This information should prove invaluable in assisting city and state officials, business and prop-y owners in designing the type freeway most suitable and determining Its most advantageous location." Golden Wedding Date Marked Thanksgiving Day Event Enjoyed Mr.

and Mrs. Albart Reed, Southwest residents for more 25 years, observed their golden wedding anniversary with Thanksgiving Day dinner at home; 1915 West Seventy-itreet, with their immediate family. The couple was married 50 years ago on Thanksgiving day in Rocky Ford, Colorado, where Reed first met his wilt. Reed, retired building contractor, and his wife, Frances, came to Los Angeles in 1911 to make their home. Alley Paving Improvement of the second alley west of Broadway between Seventieth and Seventy.

first streets by construction of concrete pavement and by grading is before toe dty council. statement of regular passenger service jf required for toe future. The line was constructed in 1875 by the Los Angeles and In-depent Railway company as a single-track, standard gauge steam railway between Los Angeles and Santa Monica, then the port of Los Angeles, where the company owned a fine wharf extending some 2100 feet out Into the ocean. Ex-Senator John P. Jones of Nevada; F.

P. F. Temple, R. S. Baker, and J.

S. Slauson, of Los Angeles, were among the original stockholders and dlrearors of the company. Southern Pacific Railway company acqulred the line on May 4, 1888, and in late 1891 and early 1892 extended it to the ao-called long wharf, which reached approximately a mile from shore and was famed as one of the longest wharves In. the The automobile which carried the to their death In the waters of Rodriquez reservoir, south of Tijuana, was recovered Tuesday by divers. Two other Southwest residents survived' the accident.

Mr. and Mrs. Floyd L. Ryle, 1243 West Ninetieth street; were traveling with the McLaurins on short motor trip into Mexico. Mrs.

Ryle was talking to Me-Laurin who was driving the car, when McLaurins head slumped to his chest Mrs. Ryle shouted warning, but McLaurin failed revive, and the automobile swerved off the highway to plunge down into the reservoir. Ryle was thrown free when a door was ripped from the automobile, and the vehicle rolled over hlm on its downward path. Mrs. -Ryle went down into the Advice Of City Health Officer To Stop Plague Menace Sought Missing waters in the car, somehow escaped, and swam to the edge of the reservoir, where her husband pulled her out.

The two climbed the steep embankment and walked to a nearby army outpost. After more than an hours wait, they were taken to Tijuana. Ryle suffered cuts, on his legs with severe abrasions and shock, while Mrs. Ryle sustained sever, bruises over her entire body. McLaurin was graduated from George Washington high school, and until recently had been employed with Vermont Plumbers, where Ryle now is employed.

The McLaurins have three children, Joanne, Joan, and John, 4. McLaurin is survived by his mother, Mrs. Gertrude Sharp. Their home was at 852 East Eighty-fourth street May, 1947. CITY'S OLDEST Sea Last Excuse For Freeway Go Glimmering Possibility of converting Flf- Ito If ueroa and Hoover streets into way, north-and-south thoroughfares, similar to Fifth and Sixth streets downtown, will be studied immediately by the dty at the request of Eighth District Council num Kenneth Hahn.

Successful operation of ths two streets as 1-way traffic arteries was seen as removing even the most visionary need for the costly, community disrupt-ing Harbor freeway. Under provisions of a resoln- -tlon to be Introduced in the dty council tomorrow or soon after by Hahn the dty engineer and the. chief traffic engineer will be asked to determine the feaslbllt- ty of a plan that would place hi effect the following: Conversion of Figueroa Into an exdusively southbound traffit artery between the downtown area and 120th street. Similar classification of Hoover street as a northbound -trafr fla lane. Cutting through of Hoover street from Santa Barbara over to the junction of Figueroa and Flower streets and construction of -aver or underpass to link Flower street with Hoover street Routing of Hoover street traffic north on Flower street with similar 1-way traffic restrictions to apply on Flower street as far north as First street Emphasizing that his resolution was tor the purpose of obtaining the most painstaking -Investigation of toe possibility of best using existing local thoroughfares, Hahn pointed out that If the city's study showed the proposal feasible, motorists could be provfiedLwlto six lanes of unimpeded street surface on Hoover street and six or seven oa Figueroa.

Cost of constructing an ovar or underpass linking Flower with Hoover street would be Insignificant compared with the cost of construction of even a small part of toe Harbor freeway between Broadway and Figueroa streets; the local councilman pointed out Under tentative plana the present Figueroa bus service would, be routed south cm Figueroa and north on Hoover and Flower streets. Only a small portion, of Exposition park would be needed to permit a diagonal roadway to be cut through In place of the sharply-angled and narrow street now permitting Hoover street traffic to swtog-4iround over to Figueroa street south of Flower, street. Hu resolution Hahn plans to Introduce will' ask studies be made by the city engineer, the chief traffic engineer, the public utilities and transportation commission, and the city recreation and parks department Yard Surfacing will be received until p.m. tomorrow by the board of, education for asphaltic concrete' yard surfacing at Slxty-eighto Street school, 612 West Sixty-eighth street A SPECIAL. SERVICE TO OUR READERS DISTINCTIVE CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING AT LOW PRICES THE WAVE PUBLICATIONS The Southwest Wave 1016 W.

Vernon Avol AD-6221 The Southwest -Topics-Wave 1014 W. 84th PL 1H-41SS The Southwestern Sun 1014 W. 84th PL TH-418S The. Southeast Wave-Star 7126 Compton Am Eighth District Councilman Kenneth Hahn last week kept up his persistent efforts to prod the city council and responsible city agencies to trite serious steps to combat the growing toll of dead and crippled victims of poliomyelitis. Undiscouraged over Indifferent chairman of the councils public health and welfare committee, had Introduced "resolutions regarding toe opening of schools and mora sanitary handling of garbage cans by city collection New Quarters For Fire Station Seen In Future New quarters for Fire Station 64 will be built, possibly about two years, on a new lot recently acquired adjacent to the present site at 118 West 108th street as part of a forward-looking expansion project of the Los Angeles fire department.

Under the building and expansion program directed by Harold sible by the $4.6 million bond Issue approved by the voters in Loyalty Oath Firings Upheld Supervisors Backed In Dismissal Of 1 6 Taking action after two months of study, the county dvil service commission last week Upheld toe board of supervisors In recent firing of 16 county employes because of refusal to sign a loyalty 'teat affidavit The group of 16 was ousted on technical grounds of "insubordination in tllat members refused to sign the loyalty oath after ordered to do so by jheir department heads. Legality of the order was upheld two weeks ago by the district court of appeals. An additional 73 county workers face discharge because of refusal to sign Section 4 of the loyalty affidavit although they complied on toe first three sections. Section 4 jleals with membership in one or more of 142 organizations alleged subversive. Beside the 16 discharged, another worker refused to sign the affidavit because he Is member of a -religious secti His case still is undecided.

Later tip wharves, together with the warehouses which had been constructed, were condemned and torn down. In 1893, a branch line was built to Saw-telle Soldiers home. After a brief period of operation by the Los Angeles Pacific company, toe line was acquired by the Pacific Electric in 1911- Passenger rail service on the line has been curtailed drastically during the past decade, the line being used chiefly for freight and near the University of Southern California and Exposition park exhibition gur-poses. Few those who travel along or across Exposition boulevard in toe morning or evening hours when the car made its dally trip, probably were aware that there -still was Iona round-trip Monday through federal patronage is istadli that the absentee vote of the capitals residents can and has swung dose elections in the largest states in the land. Yet these vital votes may have been cast by persons permanently residing- in Washington, D.

CL Every American has and always should have the right to some red termites in our midst would beguile us into accepting the slavery of the Communist-dominated lands. Still, one American vote should not have more weight than, another. Permanent residents of Washington should be given the right to cast a vote for their district officeholders and representatives, as well as for President, not as absentee voters of the 48 k. states, but in the district it-Jielf. Signal Ready Newly-installed traffic signals at Fifty-first and Hoover streets will be turned on as soon as the department of water and power connects the power, Councilman Kenneth Hahn has announced.

Papers On Sale Wavs Publications. Including Ths Southwest Wavs, The South-wsst Topics-Wove Ths Southwestern Sun, will bo on solo Sundays and Thursdays at the following ctorcci Cacti Pharmacy. 7211 kouth Western avenue. H. L.

Park and Son Drugs, 1111B South Main street (Thursdays only). hart's, 82SS South Broadway. Loan Nawa Stand, Santa Barbara avsnua and Figu irsa street (Thursday! only). QrianCs Drugs. Savonty-aixth traat and Western avenue.

Suroway Drug, Manchester and Varment avenues. Waits Pharmacy, Santa Barbara 'ind Varment avenues. Vsmon-Varmont Pharmacy, Vernon and Vermont avenue. Heath Drug Star, 1133 South Western avonua. attention paid two previous resolutions introduced by toe chairman of the councils health and welfare committee, Hahn last week moved that toe dty health officer be Instructed to advise the council what could be done to stop the ever-growing plague of polio -in Los Angeles and to wipe out sources of possible infection.

Despite toe steadily growing list of dead and ailing the figures stood at 114 dead and 2460 'afflicted last week no official legislative body has done more than send polite commendatory messages to physicians, nurses, and others futilely trying to stem this years disastrous outbreak. Previously, Hahn, acting Saturday-until the board action last week. More and more frequent delays in freight were being caused by the operation of passenger service over the circuitous and largely single-tracked 19-mile route, company, officials said. The line bears heavy freight serving the Southwest, Culver City, Palms, Santa Monica bay district, Inglewood, West Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, and Hollywood. Round trip that was made dally Monday through Saturday for toe benefit of an average of 39 week days and 9 on Saturdays has proved an increasing financial burden for many years, with a cash loss of more.

than $6000 expected toe 1948, the eompany Local Transportation Era Ends crews. Nationally -known entymol-ogists have credited the nations worst polio outbreak to flies, and various cities, including Santa Monica and Gardena, have inaugurated comprehensive campaigns to eradicate flies and insanitary conditions conducive to fly-breeding, but Los Angeles city and county to date have taken no Important similar steps. Following a Wave Publications expose of toe record infestation of flies last summer, the county health department did credit manurecontaminated straw piled on open acreage near Hollywood Turf club as a major Southwest source of flies after the racing season had dosed. Suit Attacks Ban On Crime Book Sales Alleging that their constitutional guarantees'of freedom of speech and' freedom- of the press are being infringed upon, members of the Pacific Wholesalers association last week brought suit in superior court to invalidate the recently adopted county ordinance prohibiting sales of 'crime periodicals to children under 18. The association asked the court to prevent toe county from violation of which brings criminal prosecution.

Association members in the suit admitted they sell periodicals featuring stories and about crime to persons under 18. Johnson, assistant chief, 16 new stations will be constructed, six will be rebuilt, and land has beat acquired for six more. Plans call for construction of two stations in the Westchester district, one at the airport and another near Manchester avenue and Sepulveda -boulevard. The latter will relieve station 66 at Florence and Western avenues, which now serves a portion of the area to be covered by the new station. The new site for station 64 the lot east of the present building at 118 West 108th street.

Facilities are adequate at present, and it probably will be couple of yean before any definite construction work is started, a department spokesman said. One of the first stations reconstructed under the expansion program" houses-Station 22 at 4356 South Main street, adjacent the former' quarters. The new building was occupied recently, and formal dedication will be held In the. future- Expansion has bean mads pos Ending a- memorable era in local transportation history, the city's oldest interurban passenger service stretching from Exposition boulevard to Santa Monica was suspended last week by the board of public utilities and transportation 'in answer to a request by the Pacific Electric company. Known as toe Santa Monica Air line, the passenger service consisted in recent days of one round trip daily Monday through Saturday, beginning at Exposition boulevard and serving many points en route to the beach.

Unprofitable operations and interference with freight traffic were reason given by- toe- company in requesting toe city board to authorize suspension of the passenger service. Application provided, however, for emergency or special passenger service as needed, and lor life- weave blWWWilW must' WH.