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NUMBER 25. 1 llll^JCj . O\J \JlliVi JL O rEB MONTH
PLANS COMPLETE
FOR RECEPTION OF
THEODORE A. BELL
Democratic Candidate for Gov
ernor Will Arrive in Los An
geles Today
ARRANGE LIVELY PROGRAM
Mass Meeting at Chutes Park
Will Be the Big Event
of the Evening
HOW BELL AND SPELLACY
WILL PASS DAY IN CITY
Theodore A. Bell, Democratic nominee
for governor, and Timothy Bpellacy,
nominee (or lieutenant governor, will
arrivn In Loa Aniteles at 8:16 a. m. to
day
At 10 o'clock Mr. Bell will address the
2000 students of the Folytechnlo high
■ohooL
At 7:15 o'clock this evening Mr.
Bell will address the citizens of South
Pasadena.
At 7:1."> o'clock this evening Mr. 801 l
nn.l Mr. Spollnry will address the cltl
zons of Highland Park and the mem
bers of Old Hickory club In Miller's
hall. Highland Park. At 8:15 o'clock
they v ill speak in fonaty hall, Daly
street and North Broadway, and at 9
o'clock tonight they will address a big
mass meeting to be held at Chutes Park.
The chairman of the I)emocratlc coun
ty central committee rcuuests that ev
ery Democrat who owns an automobile
and who deßlres to accompany Mr. Bell
be at the Hollenbeck hotel at 8:30
o'clock a. m.., Friday, October 28. to go
with him tm the. trip to Qlendora, Mon
rovia. Pomona, Covlna. Puente and El
Monte. The party will return at 4
p. m. to Los Angeles.
All owners of automobiles who desire
to accompany Mr. Bell and Mr. SVell
acy on their trip next Monday to Sol
diers' Home, Lankershlm, Qlcndale, Hur
l>ank nnd San Fernando, are asked to be
at Fifth and Hill streets at 1 o'clock
p. m.. Monday.
Arrangements were completed yes
terday for the reception to be ten
dered to Theodore A. Bell, Democratic
nominee for governor, and Timothy
Spellacy, nominee for lieutenant gov
ernor, who will arrive in Los Angeles
at .8:15 a. m. today. The two standard
bearers will confer with the leaders of
the local Democracy immediately after
their arrival. Mr. Spellacy will b« at
his office in the Citizens National Bank
building for several hours during the
afternoon.
In the evening at 7:15 o'clock Mr.
Bell will address a mass meeting in
South Pasadena. At 7:45 he will ad
ylress the citizens of Highland Park in
Tililler's hall, 6760 Pasadena avenue,
where a reception has been arranged
by the Old Hickory club. At 8:15 Mr.
Hell will address the citizens of East
Los Angeles at a meeting to be held
in Conaty hall, North Broadway and
Daly street. He will speak at 9
o'clock at a mass meeting which will
be held In Chutes park, Main and
Washington streets.
The meeting at Chutes park will be
the bis event of the evening, and at
its close Mr. Bell will meet and shake
hands with his many personal friends
and admirers in this city. The people
of Pasadena, however, are not to be
outdone, and have made plans for Mr.
Bell's rpea"h at South Pasadena that
will make that meeting equally im
portant.
PASADENA CLUB IN UMI
Dr. Z. T. Malaby, Richard B. Blow,
C. MacClaln, W. S. Windham, W. H.
Hubbard, Benjamin Folsom, Charles
Grimes, J. B. Coulston, Rudolph Schiff
man, . Dr. I. H. Fisk, Jacob Weigel
and, many other prominent Repub
licans and Democrats of Pasadena or
ganized a Bell-Spellacy club in that
city last Monday, and the members
and officers of this club will be present
to assist in the reception which will be
tendered to Mr. Bell in South Pasa
dena this evening. .
A Dr. S. Y. Van Meter, Charles John
son, Dr. Charles Cummingß and a
number of other Democrats and Re
publicans of Highland Park have
charge of the program for the meet
ing in that suburb tonight. The lead
ing Democrats of Gar\anza, Eagle
\ Rock, Annandale and Hermon, as well
as nearly all of the college boys from
Occidental, who are warmly support
ing the candidacy of Lorin A. Hand
ley, Democratic nominee for congress,
will take part in the Highland Park
reception and mass meeting. Rich
mond Plant, John T. Gaffey, J. B. Bro
kaw, Harrington Brown, Oscar Parish,
Robert M. Lusk and other prominent
Democrats will be in charge of affairs
at the big " meeting to be held in
Chutes park.
A number of prominent Democrats
of Eaot Los Angeles have taken charge
of arrangements for the meeting -in
Conaty hall, . which will be Mr. Bell's
last meeting prior to his speech in
Chutes park, and they have promised
that it will be largely attended, for
they f declare that East Los Angeles
has become "almost solidly Demo
cratic."
Tomorrow morning Mr. Bell will
meet Dr. Z. T. Malaby of Pasadena at
10 o'clock and remain his guest until
noon. At 12:15 p. m. Mr. Bell will ad
dress an open air meeting in Pasadena,
at which time all those who are not
able |to attend the meeting in South
Pasadena tonight will be enabled to
hear and meet him. At 2 o'clock to
morrow . afternoon Mr. Bell will leave
Pasadena and hold a brief reception
at the headquarters in the Hollenbeck
hotel. At 7:45 tomorrow night he will
address the citizens of Redondo Beach.
rnOTERABY CROWDED
Mr. Bell will go from Redondo «fc-*:3O
to address, the Venetians. Friday
morning at 10 o'clock he will address
the citizens of Monrovia, and at 11:10
a. m. he will apeak at Glendora. The
noon hour will find him at Pomona,
KJoiitinued uu Page Three) 1
LOS ANGELES HERALD
INDEX OF
HERALD'S NEWS
TODAY
FORECAST
For Los Angeles anil vicinity: Fair Wed
nesday, light, north wind, changing to
south. Minimum temperature yesterday,
83 degreed) minimum temperature, 64
degrees.
LOS ANGELES
Woolwtno delivers speech at Redondo
Beach, repeating charges against Fred
ericks. PAGE 1
Complete plans for reception of Theodora
A. Bell, who arrives In Log Angeles to
day. <• PAGE 1
Special grand Jury of nineteen men selected
by Judge BoMwall to probe explosion at
Times building. PAOB 1
Constitutional amendment No. 1 Is opposed
by city council. . PAGE 4
Belasco manager accepts new play by Leila
Burton Wells. PAGE 4
Attorney Fred 11. Thompson and wife In
dicted for connection with case of Or
lando Altorre, sentenced for embezzle
ment. ' PAGE 5
Eronzo tablet bearing name of. President
Tal't placed at Polytechnic high school art
building. ; PAGE 8
Alameda storm drain proceedings may be
abandoned In spite of mayor's veto. PAGE 8
Hunger causes apparent outbreak of Insur
gency at council meeting. PAGE 8
Mrs. Daisy Krnuss, charged with shooting
Franklin Griffith, held to answer In su
perior court. PAGE 16
Boy on probation eludes officers and es
capes through courthouse skylight. PAGE 4
Mayor Alexander advises appointment of
seven men as city and county consolida
tion commission. ' PAGE 9
Those Interested In children's hospital will
meet Thursday at chamber of commerce.
PAGE 9
Judge Willis officiates at wedding of Ven
tura girl and baseball player of note.
PAGE 1
Theaters. PAGE t,
Society and clubs. ' PAGE 5
Personals. PAGE D
Mining and oil. PAGE 13
Real estate. PAGE 13
Market* and financial. PAGE 7
News of the courts. PAGE 4
Municipal affairs. PAGE 8
Editorial and letter box. PAGE 10
Politics ■ PAGE 11
City brevities. ■ PAGB 11
Sports. PAGE 13
Marriage licenses, births, deaths. PAGE 13
Classified advertising. PAGES 13-15
SOUTH CALIFORNIA
Long Beanch freeholders name subcommit
tee to draft skeleton of commission plan
charter. PAGE 16
T. E. Gibbon addresses Long Beach Ebell .
club on "Building of Panama. Canal."
■ PAGE 16
San Bernardino police make futile effort to
connect Pat Powers with Highland bank
robbery. PAGE 18
Three persons file charges against Ocean
Park chief of police. PAGE 16
Aetna Indemnity company answers Santa
Monica's suit for Ralph Bane's bond by
ordering draft for full amount, PAGE 16
Autos used for travel to churches at Pas
adena block streets. PAGE 16
COAST
Court denies 1000 warrants asked for invest '
of occupants of Seattle "vice district."
■-, PAGE] 4
Ltssner's prediction of Johnson's vote Is
. ridiculed by Bell. PAGE S
Capital punishment may be excluded from
constitution of state of Arizona. PAGE 2
EASTERN
Aviator Johnstone wrests American high
altitude record made by Drexel at Bel
mont Park. PAGE 1
Interstate commerce commission at Chicago
postpones hearing on proposed rate ad
■ vance. - . . PAOE 3
New York campaign marks passing of old
time methods. PAGE 3
Announce quarterly earnings of United :
States Steel corporation at f37.305.187.
• PAGE 3
Federal supreme court hears California
water case Involving question of rights to
stream flowing through two states. PAGE 9
Suspension of "hazers" causes students of
Colorado university to strike. PAGE 9
East St. Louis police refuse to turn "Candy
bandit" over to Chicago authorities. PAGE 2
Inhabitants of Ten Thousand Island, swept
by hurricane, appeal for aid, PAGE 2
FOREIGN
After* brief trial Jury finds Ethel Claire
Leneve not guilty as accomplice of Dr.
Crlppen. ■ . PAGE 3
Socialists In French parliament champion
cause of railway strikers. ijAGE 2
Belief is extant In Canada that Aeronauts
Post and Hawley are In fastnesses of
Dominion. - PAGE 1
DAVID STARR JORDAN BACK
FROM HIS EUROPEAN TRIP
Head of Stanford University Re
turns from Lecture Tour
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Oct. 25.
—After an absence of five months,
President David Starr Jordan has re
turned to Stanford university from his
European tour but will remain on the i
campus only until November 4, how- i
ever, when he will leave for Toronto
in the interest of the International nsh
commission.
Dr. Jordan spent most of his time
while in Europe furthering the cause
of international peace delivering lee- j
tures on the subject in Berlin. Pars
and London. He also attended ses
sions of the International Zoological
society in Gratz.Austria, and spoke on
the subject of "Fur Seals."
On his retirement from the presi
dency of Stanford. President Jordan
pxpects to devote all of his time to
the peace movement.
DISCIPLINE WEST POINTER,
SON OF U. S. SENATOR CLAY
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25. — Cadet
Frank D. Clay, first class, U. S. Mili
tary academy, a son of Senator Cl:iy of
Georgia, has been court-martialed and
sentenced to dismissal from the acad
emy without pay and allowances until
August 28, 1911, and then to join the
then lirst class.
The sentence was commuted by Pres
ident Taft so as to require Clay to be
Spnflned to barracks until May 31. 1911,
and during that period to undergo dis
ciplinary toun every Wednesday and
Saturday.
Young Clay was found guilty of ab
sence from his tent between tattoo and
reveille and going 1 beyond cadet limits.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 26, 1910.
JOHNSTONE FLIES
7303 FEET; LIFTS
AMERICAN RECORD
Manbird in Wright's Team Takes
Cloud Laurels Recently
Won by Drexel
RIVAL BEATEN BY 66 YARDS
Belmont Park Aerial Contests
Enlivened by Latham's Peril-
ous Swoop from Sky
(Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Oct. 25.—The American
altitude record that J. Armstrong
Drexel proudly brought down out of
the clouds yesterday in his Bleriot
monoplane was snatched from his grip
by Ralph Johnstone today in a head
less Wright climber.
Drexel reached 7105 feet, but John
stone topped him today by 198 feet,
with a new mark of 7303 feet. He
came down chilled to the bone and
his goggles rimmed with frost.
For half an hour he battled with a
snow storm above the clouds, seeking
still higher levels.
Grahame-White was first out in the
hourly distance trials. Hubert Lath
a.m was his competitor. When engine
trouble forced' White's Farman biplane
off the field it looked aa if Latham,
in his Antoinette, would have the event
to himself. White saw that the scan
tiest score whatsoever would bring
him second place, and late in the hour
tinkered up his colllcky engine to last
two rounds, and took down the easiest
$100 of the tournament.
Hoxsey and Johiistone both went up
for altitude. In the haste of the mo
ment Johnstone started without a bar
ograph. When he came down he had
nothing to show how high hu had gone
and was left unplaced.
Count de Lesseps pointed up much
later than the two Wright pupils, but
caught them both, and, soaring above
them, brought down the prize for the
first hour.
WHITE FAILS TO FLY
The second hourly distance event
was a pursuit nice. Grahame-White
tried his Farman again, found it un
reliable, took it off the field for re
pairs. During his absence the lead he
gained was cut down by speedier ri
vals who started later. White took out
his fast Bleriot monoplane. He gained
steadily on McCurdy in a Curtiss bi
plane, but the latter finished first with
a lap to the good. McCurdy fouled
two pylons in trying to cut the cor
ners fine, however, and the rorlelt
cost him first place.
Hoxsey and Johnstone went up for
altitude again, accompanied by Lath
am, in his Antoinette. Latham's ma
chine began to caper like a buck and
wing dancer. The history of the An
toinette, however, is Latham's history.
He boasts that he has broken every
part of It at least twelve times. Once
he fell 1600 feet, perfectly helpless, but
his planes parachu.ed and saved him.
The crowd thought Latham was only
doing somersaults to please them, but
he was not;'he was in real peril.
He had started to descend when he
felt the rain and was caught in a wind
□aw. Tossed to one side and the other,
first up and then down, he tilted his
planes and shot down in a steep swoop.
In a matter of seconds the rush of
his descent had eaten up the half mile
between him and earth and he was
hidden behind a clump of trees.
LATHAM IS UNINJURED
Ely in a Curtiss biplane went out to
reconnoiter and found Latham with
nothing worse than a punctured wing
and a broken skid.
The last event of the day was full of
uncertainty and suspense. F. W. RatU
ley of the British team flashed over
the line in a Bleriot and vanished into
the east before it was known to any
but the Judges that he had started in
the cross country race of twenty miles
to a captive balloon ten miles east of
the course. Radley made the twenty
miles in 19 minutes 48 2-5 seconds.
Molssant in a passenger-carrying
Bleriot started almost as Radley fin
ished and was shortly followed by Mc-
Curdy in a Curtiss biplane and Drexel
in a Bleriot, at intervals of approxi
mately one minute. All three of them
got lost and Drexel and McCurdy never
finished.
Much interest attached to the first
appearance today of the new Wright
racer. With Orville Wright in the pi
lot's chair, it was given two tryouts.
Garros, of the French team, caught its
time for one lap in the morning trial
at lm 265, and hi the afternoon trial
at lm 28s.
The unofficial figures are to be com
pared with those given out by the
judges today for the fastest lap made
yesterday by Aubrun, in a Bleriot,
lm, 443.
Tomorrow the first elimination heats
in the trials for the Gordon Bennett
international trophy will be begun.
First hourly altitude: First, De Les
seps, (Bleriot) 6391 feet; second, Hox
sey (Wright) 5796 feet; Johnson forgot
his barograph and was unplaced.
Second hourly altitude: First, John
stone (Wright) 7303 feet (new American
record); second, Hoxsey, (Wright)
4882 feet; third, Latham, (Antoinette)
3772 feet.
First hourly distance: First, Lath
am, (Antoinette) 19 laps, penalized one
lap for fouling a pylon, time 54m, 36
3-ss; second, Grahame-White, (Far
man) two laps, time 6m, 37 2-ss; no
third.
Second hourly distance: First, Gra
hame-White, (Farman) 14 laps, 34m,
16 3-ss; second, Mars, (Curtlss) 13 laps,
penalized two laps for fouling pylon,
28m, 20 l-ss; third, McCurdy, (Curtiss)
12 laps, 21m, 43 l-ss.
Totalization of duration: Hoxsey,
(Wright) and Johnstone, (Wright) tied
lor first place with two hours; third,
Latham, (Antoinette) one hour.
Cross country: Won by Radley,
(Bleriot) elapsed time 19m, 48 2-ss; sec
ond, Moissant, (Bleriot) elapsed time,
58m, 265; Drexel and McCurdy did not
finish.
MAKES NEW AERO RECORD
DARMSTADT, Hesse, Oct. 25—Aug
ust Euler established a German avia
tion record today by flying 3 hours 6
minutes and 11 seconds In a military
aeroplane of his own construction. •
Prosecutors Who Will Aid Grand Jury and (Below)
Strange Diagram Found in House Near San Francisco
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FASTNESSES HOLD
LOST BALLOONISTS
Sky Ship "America II and Pilots
Are in Canadian Wild
erness
OTTAWA, Ont., Oct. 25.—The black
fastnesses of the north tonight still
held the secret of the lost balloonists,
Alan R. Hawley and Augustus Post
of New York, and their sky ship, the
America 11.
What appeared to be a promising
clew developed early in the day, when
a dispatch from Huntsville stated
that Richa"rd Cole, a guide, and a
hunting party had seen a balloon
Thursday twenty miles north of Bisco,
Ont.
Later in the day, however, it was
learned from Dr. C. Myers of Toronto,
a member of the hunting party, that
the guide was mistaken in the day.
The balloon was seen Wednesday, ac
cording to Dr. Myers, and might
therefore have been either the Isle de
France or the Azurea, which have
landed in that neighborhood.
A second report that a balloon had ■
been seen Thursday in Ihe district im
mediately north of Georgian bay
reached here late today from the pro
vincial police at Toronto. Some doubt
also is cast upon this story. It is fig
ured that the America Thursday would
have been either several hundred miles
to the north or to the northeast of
Chapleau.
A third report came from Quebec,
but it is regarded as the least prom
ising. Peter Brown, a constable of
the provincial force, sent word that
he had seen a balloon over Lake Kip
awa Wednesday. Both the Germania
and the Dusseldorf II passed through
tiii.s territory, and it is possible that
it was either of them that Brown
saw.
Opinion Is divided as to the possi
bility of rescuing the men, even if
they passed safely over Lake Huron
and Georgian bay in the vast wilder
ness of northern Ontario and Quebec
or the Ungava districts, still further
north.
Some officials, Including Sir Wilfrid
Laurier, who is taking a keen inter
est in the search for the lost men, be
lieve they will come out all right, es
pecially if they landed south of the
new lino of the Transcontinental rail
way.
HEAD OF SEARCHING PARTY
STARTS TO FIND AEROISTS
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 25.—Lewis Spindler,
representative of the Aero Club of St.
Louis, in the search fo> Alan R. Eaw
lew and August Post, the missing pi
lots of the balloon America 11, one of
the contestants in the international
balloon race, tonight started from To
ronto to Chapleau, Ont. He tele
graphed the local officials that John S.
Rogers, chief of the Ontario provin
cial police, had assured him that the
report that the America II was seen
at Chapleau Tuesday night, October 18,
was authentic.
It is probable that the idea of hav
ing St. Louis yon Phul and Joseph M.
OReilly, crew of the Million Population
club balloon, start from Sault Ste.
Marie, Mich., In tho St. Louis No. 4
as a relief party in search of the New
Yorkers, will be, abandoned.
There is wide divergence of opinion
concerning the practicability of the
plan. Yon Phul tonight said he was
preparing for the trip.
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DISTRICT ATTORNEY C. C. McCOMAS;
DEPITY W. J. FORD. BELOW DIA
GRAM SUPPOSED TO SHOW TIMES
BIIUDINIi, ALLEY IN WHICH DYNA
MITE IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN
PLACED AND SAN FRANCISCO AND
WI'INITV.
CUPID PLAYS BALL,
MAKES HOME RUN
Judge Willis Officiates at Wed
ding of Ventura Girl and
Big Leaguer
A young girl of Ventura, who never
had seen Judge Willis of the Los An
geles- superior court, but who bore
the same name, although no relative,
yesterday appeared before him in his
chambers, with her husband-to-be, and
asked him to make them man and
wife— or perhaps, In this case, it
should bo woman and husband.
Always kindly, the jidK*l granted
I the request and duly performed the
ceremony in the parlors of the An
gelus hotel last night, later partaking
of a wedding supper with the bride
and groom at tho Delmonico restau
rant.
There ho discovered the bride, who
formerly was Miss Marie Willis, 19
years old, had accepted her husband,
Edmund Hearne, 22 years old, also of
Ventura, who is a baseball player of
note, although fairly young in the
prnfessioned playing of the national
game.
After only a few months' perform
ance in a hush lea.ipie ut. Bakers
lleld, Hearne was eagerly grasped by
the Boston Americana, where he has
played as an extra man In the last
season. He still is under contract with
that team, but may play In the we t
next season if the Sacramento aggre
gation can tind a way for him to bo
n lease I from his eastern obligations.
The young couple frankly told their
plans to Judge Willis, telling him of
their Intention to take a wedding trip
to Coronado, where they started list
night, and then to live quietly i" Ven
tura until it is determined where the
husband will toss the horsehide sphere
next season.
FRENCH HONOR DICKINSON
PARIS, Oct. 25.—President Fallleres
save a luncheon at the Elysee palace
today In honor of Jacob M. Dickinson,
the American secretary of war.
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WOOLWINE HURLS
VERBAL GRENADES
Defies Fredericks in Redondo
Beach Speech to Arrest
Him for Libel
Thomas Lee Woolwine carried his
campaign for district attorney into
recognized Fredericks territory when
hi- spoke last night in the pavilion at
Redondo Beach. But there wero many
voters of the beach city who listened
with an interest that showed they ap
preciated the facts as he drove them
r home.
\ Mr. Woolwine told again the story
' of the King will case forgeries and
' how Fredericks bad made $12,1i00 in
' private fees in the case and concsaled
■ the forgery. He invited, even dared
; Fredericks to have him arrested for
i criminal libel, and he admitted that if
ills stories were not true he la Rullty
of an offense that would put him in
jail for a year.
In part Mr. Woolwine said:
"If he is correctly quoted, the dis
trict attorney has said numerous times
in' late in his public addresses that the
speaker has abandoned the charges
against him, with the exception of
the King will case. This assertion is
so palpably false and astounding as
to fill one with wonder that he should
make the remark, for the reason that
In every speech made by me the many
charges have oeen reiterate! and the
public is still waiting for some satis
factory an3wer to each and all of them.
"Walter Parker lias for yean been
in control of the district attorney's
office. Walter Parker is the same man
who engineered the riverbed steal, and
lie is the same man who attempted to
bribe Harry Lelande in the Alexandria
hotel to sign an ordinance giving
away that riverbed property.
EXCUSES nx GI'ILT
"Mr. Fredericks' wholesale fabrica
tions in this entire controversy, hi?
'■quivocations and falsehoods, have
only served to absolutely fix upon him
his certain guilt. He disclaims all af
filiations -with Waiter Parker and dis
owns all influence from that source.
"it seems that bis versatility in
avoiding the trutli has entirely for
saken him, for after being confronted
With the fact that Walter Parker was
In his office consulting- with him con
tinuously during the Harper grand
jury whitewash, he admits that Mr.
Parker was there a few times, and
| then, when confronted with the af
fidavit of Adolph Berliner to the ef
feot Berliner went to Parker for the
purpose of securing a position in the
district attorney's office, and that Par
ker gave him a card with the magic
letters '(). X. 1 on it, and this card was
uted to Fredericks, and Berliner
was immediately given employment—l
when 1"' was confronted with this
charge lie made no attempt whatever
to answer it, either by explanation or
otherwise.
"His attempts to justify his Inac
tivity in the matter of the various
wrongs that the "Solid Three" have
trated upon the county are piti
ful in the extreme, can any sane man
doubt this proposition, that if tho
■Solid Three" had not known in ad
vance that they were immune from
all punishment and all interference by
the district attorney, would they have
ila red to attempt to dispose of tlie good
roads b.mils at an ultimate less to
the county of MOO.OOO, according to fhs
Mayor Alexander, who
'■in a supervisor?
"His connection with the 'solid three,'
however, is a matter that seems to
(t'onlluucU nil I'uge l-.latw* 1
2, CENTS
NINETEEN JURORS
GATHER TO PROBE
TIMES EXPLOSION
City and County Officers at Pre
liminary Proceedings in
Judge Bordwell's Court
STRICT SECRECY ENJOINED
Twenty Foreign Subpoenas Im
mediately Filed After Mys
terious Conference
GRAND JURY THAT WILL
PROBE TIMES DrSASTER
J. E. Carp, clerk, 621 Broadway.
Thomas B. Chapman, farmer, Rivera.
John Bloeser, sr., carpet cleaner, Imb
Angeles.
E. J. Vawter, capitalist, Santa Monica.
R. H. Da Garmo. fruit grower, El
Monte.
F. E. McCollum, capitalist, 731 E.
Ailums street.
.1. H. Lfnkletter, lumber dealer, Whlt
tier.
Samuel W. Pyle, capitalist, Pasadena.
Charles "Wier (foreman)« lumber deal
er, 5049 W. Sixth street.
J. M. Tlbbets, carpenter, 129 South
Avenue 21.
S. G. Tyler, retired, 856 E. Twenty
eighth street.
Jacob Swlgart, farmer, Norwalk.
Elmer E. \\"i>:t retired, Pasadena,
J. H. Cavanah, real estate, Redondo.
.1. -L. Mathewa '(secretary), newspaper
man, Covlna.
E. A. Lloyd, retired, Long Beach.
A. R. F"ra«er, capitalist, Santa Monica.
Samuel E. -\)lin, civil engineer, Pa.-a
dena.
John Scott, farmer, r>uarte.
A special f.;nmd jury of nineteen men
elected _ yesterday morning by
Judge Bordwell in the superior court to
probe tin; explosion and flre that on
October 1 destroyed the building of
the .Los Angeles Times. Charles
Wier, president of Charles Wier &.
Co., wholesale lumber dealers, was
named by the presiding judge as
foreman of the jury and J. L. Math
ews, a newspaper man of Covina, was
agn e<l upon by the jurors as secre
tary,
'■nt at the selection of the grand
jury were District Attorney Freder
icks, Deputy C. C. MeComas, Deputy
\Y. J. Ford and EJarl Kogers, the four
men who will have the most important
part in shaping the evidence to be In
troduced before that body.
Immediately after being sworn and
organizing, the Inquisitorial body ad
j' urned until tomorrow morning to
await tin; serving of subpoenas on Wit"
nesses, both in this city and north
ern California. The scope of the in
vestigation to be taken up tomorrow
was briefly summarized in the judge's
instructions to the grand jury as fol
lows:
You will not assume that it (the
Times explosion) was the work of
human agency, but you will de
termine that question from such
evidence as is obtainable. Ami If
from such evidence you conclude
that any person or persons inten
tionally placed explosives in or ad
jacent to said building and caused
the same to be exploded for the
purpose of, and which resulted in,
.■such destruction of said building,
then such act constitutes the crime
of murder, and also the. crime of
arson. And you will direct your ef
forts to the ascertainment and iden
tity of all persons concerned in
said crime, whether as principals
or a> acci isorles. And if the evi
dence which may be presented to
you, unexplained or uncontradict
edi would, in your Judgment, war
rant conviction by trial jury of any
person or persons of such crime,
then it is your duty to find indict
ments against them.
IAW RBOAMUMQ COXSFIBACV
All persons concerned In the com
mission of a crime, whether they
directly commit it, or aid and abet
in its commission, or, not being
present, have advised and encour
aged its commission, are principals •
in any crime so committed.
All persons who, after full knowl
edge that a felony has been com
mitted, conceal it from the magis
trate, or harbor and protect the,
person charged with it or convicted
thereof, are accessories.
Almost before the grand jurors bad
left the building, following adjourn
ment, the district attorney app
before Judge Frank R. Willis and
made application for the issuance of
twenty blank, foreign subpoenas. These,
subpoenas were issued with the names
left blank to be filled in by the dis
trict attorney. Immediately upon se
curing the blank subpoenas District At
torney Fredericks and liis deputies
went Into secret conference with At-
torney Earl Rogers and the subpoenas
were filled out.
Rogers was sworn in as a special
deputy sheriff and took last night's
Owl train for San Francisco to sub
poena the men whose names went in
on the foreign subpoenas. There is
little doubt but that included in this
list of witnesses are O. A. Tveltmon,
Anton Johnnnsen and two or three
other men prominently identified witli
labor unionism on the. coast, whom
Rogers desires to have questioned be
fore the grand jury. Rogers di
yesterday afternoon that he would bo
sworn in as a deputy district attorney
to appear before the grand jury.
A number of John Doc subpoenas, Is
sued by Coroner Hartwell, also will bo
used to bring witnesses to Los Angeles
to attend the inquest, and later these
witnesses will be subpoenaed by the
district attorney to appear before the
grand Jury.
In calling together the Inquisitorial
boily yesterday Judge Bordweii made
a bri. ent particularly enjoin
ing the members ti> absolute secrecy
concerning anything that transpired In
the Jury room. Referring: to their
duties and powers ho dlrecttd thorn to
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