Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 59, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 July 1927 — Page 1

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BARS POLITICS s IN MANAGER FORM VOTE Judge Dunlavy Rules Out ■i Election Commissioners, Wi Bans Partisanship, TWO STAY IN OFFICE Decision Seen as Blow at> Plans Attributed to G, V. Coffin, Freedom of the city manager commissioner election, scheduled for next November, from open political party control, was insured today by a ruling of Superior Judge William O. Dunlavy. He ruled that Ira M. Holmes, Republican, and Frank P. Baker, Democrat, city election commissioners can not act under the city manager law. This leaves William H. Insley and Fred Connell, non-partisan election commissioners, appointed for the referendum vote on the new form of government June 21, in office for the coming election. Judge Dunlavy’s ruling was given when he denied an intervening petition filed by Attorney Thomas C. Whallon for the city commissioners in an injunction suit brought by Edward L. Snyder, a taxpayer, against the commissioners to prevent holding the election Nov. 8, of this year. Claim They Hold Office Holmes and Baker averred they hold office rather than the new com/missioners, because Connell and Insley were without jurisdiction after notice of results of the referendum vote was given. "Purpose of this law by the Legislature was to have a nonpartisan election, which can not be had with politically appointed commissioners,” Judge Dunlavy said. “I am • of the opinion that the Legislature l intended a non-partisan board. I also sm of the opinion that the intervening petition has no legal status in this court and will be denied.” This throws out of gear the reported plans of George V. Coffin, Republican county boss. It has been rumored in local Republican camps that Coffin "laid off” the vote in June to clear the way for obtaining four of the seven commissioners. Bigger Stuff Ahead A former office holder said Coffin “needn’t play with the referendum vote when there is bigger stuff fthead.” Whallon said a lawsuit, to determine “who the election commissioners are,” may be filed by Holmes and Baker. L. Ert Slack, representing Snyder, dismissed action as to City Controler William C. Buser, Connell, Insley and William A. Boyce, Jr.,’ city clerk and ex-officio member of the election commission, were named. All payment of election expenses is handled by Buser. Buser had filed a motion for change of judge, which was dropped when the dismissal was obtained by Slack. Slack based his arguments against the election this year on the ground that “it will cost taxpayers more than SIO,OOO. which will be taken from the city funds, thereby raising taxes.”

NEED SILENT POULTRY City Ordinance Puts Penalty Upon Cackle of Hen, By United Press SPRINGFIELD, 111.. July 19. Hens that won’t cackle, geese that won’t honk, and. turkeys that don’t gobble were sought by poultry owners here as the city commissidn prepared an ordinance assessing - fines of from $lO to SIOO against persons possessing noisy fowls. The fines will be assessed when the birds keep neighbors of the owners from sleeping. $5 PAYS FOR COLLEGE Girl Borrows Sum; Only Debt In Entire Four Years. JACKSOVILLE, 111., Four years ago, Lita Holla'day borrowed $5 from her family and came here to go to college. She has been washerwoman, waitress, maid, librarian and cook, earning enough to carry her through to a degree. The original $5 is her only debt. TOO DEEP FOR AMERICA Hollywood Producer Tells Germans Frivolous Films Are Wanted. BERLIN, July 19.—American mov-ie-goers want light entertainment that will not tax their patience. So says Ernst Lubitsch, Hollywood producer now in Germany, in explaining the general unpopularity of German films in America. Films made here are inclined to be too ponderous and involved in plot, he declared.

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Noses Rush in Where Warrants Fear to Tread

Guard well your home brewery that no odors escape therefrom. Otherwise police may find a way around the new barriers placed by a Supreme Court ruling upon issuance of search warrants for residences. Patrolman Elmer Branch followed his nose to get into an unoccupied house at 1357 Addison St., Monday night after he had been refused a

NAVAL PARLEY PEACE REPORT DENIEHY U, S. Issue Is in Initial Stage of Discussion, Says State Department. BY LUDWELL DENNY United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. July 19. Reports that a tentative agreement has been reached by the British and Japanese, or by those delegations and the Americans, on a compromise naval limitation plan at Geneva were denied by the State deparment today. The entire issue is still in the initial stage of discusison, according to the department spokesman. Secretary Kellogg, Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, Admiral E. W. Eberle, chief of naval operations, and other experts conferred for two hours today on reports of Ambassador Hugh Gibson, head of the American delegation at Geneva. France Sees Collapse BY RALPH HEINZEN, United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, July 19—French official circles today watched anxiously the United States’ next move at the Geneva arms conference, convinced that American acquiescence in the Anglo-Japanese proposals would mean complete victory for Great Britain and nullification of the results of the Washington conference of less than six years ago. The French pointed out that at the Washington conference Great Britain sacrificed her alliance with Japan to obtain America’s friendship, while at Geneva the roles are reversed. Now America is finding England and Japan allied against her in the first step toward a political rapprochement of those two years, observers here said. New Plan Before Parley BY HENRY WOOD United Press Staff Correspondent GENEVA, July 19. Another meeting of the executive committee of the naval arms limitation conference was scheduled for today to give the British and Japanese spokesmen oportunity to explain the latest Anglo-Japanese plan for limitation. The plan was understood to allow Great Britain and the United States a cruiser tonnage of 500,000 against 315,000 for Japan; place Japan on a parity with Great Britain in submarines, and restrict guns on all except a specified number of cruisers to six-inch caliber. It was believed here that the Americans are willing to give the conference until the end of the week to break the deadlock. If nothing happens by that time, they will admit impossibility of agreement at this time.

VAN NUYS REFUSES Former U. S. Attorney Not to Sit in Collins Trial. Frederick Van Nuys, former United States district attorney, today refused appointment as special judge to try City Purchasing Agent John J. Collins on a charge of soliciting a bribe. Van Nuys was the second judge to refuse the appointment, Judge W. H. Parr of Lebanon being the other. Van Nuys told Criminal; Judge James A. Collins he was too busy with his private practice to sit in the case. Collins announced he would present three names of other attorneys or judges to the defense and State for selection of another candidate at 9 a. m. Wednesday. LOCOMOTIVE RUNS AWAY *■ _*• ’ Two Hurt When Big Engine Goes On Rampage By United Press DUNKIRK, N. Y., July 19.—Two men were injured and scores were forced to flee in terror from the path of a runaway locomotive today. The engine, a big Malay locomotive, being built by the Brooks Locomotive Works here for the Denver, Rio Grande and Western Railroad, broke loose from the stalls in the car shops and rushed out on to the tracks. The engineer applied the stopping apparatus, which failed to work, the engine continuing its flight past the Union Station in the business center where it hit a derailer and was thrown from the track.

search warrant. He broke open the door and discovered brewing and distilling apparatus and about 2,000 gallons of mash. Deputy Prosecutor John Caylor defended the patrolman's act. He declared that a patrolman may see a bottle of what apparently is liquor in a window of a home and may not

New Here; Watson on Way; Battle Forecast

Maneuvering of Politicians Seen as Postmasters Open Convention. Postmaster General Harry S. New came to Indianapolis from Washington this noon and immediately became too busy greeting postmasters here for their tri-State convention to talk the politics which his friends had said was the principal magnet which drew him here. “Absolutely no politics whatever,” declared New as he got off the train and shook hands with the postal reception committee. “I came here upon a promise made months ago to these postmasters and expect to enjoy myself and profit by an exchange of ideas.” New went to the Columbia Club, where he will have headquarters until Thursday when he goes to Detroit. New is in favor of an Indiana delegation to the Republican national convention of 1928 instructed for renomination of Calvin Coolidge for President. Watson is in favor of almost anything else, his friends believing that with a delegation he could control he might be in position to let “the lightning strike” in case the convention got tied up. In the background hovered United States Senator Arthur R. Robinson, uneasy over his own fortunes. Robinson will be up for reelection in 1928 and former Mayor Charles W. Jewett of Indianapolis is becoming a formidable opponent. Jewett and New have been the closest of friends for many years. Jewett also is rallying the support of a number of minor Republican factions, the whole developing into an anti-Watson-Robinson move- i ment. Watson, who has been touring the State, was expected from Michigan City by motor. Watson was expected to establish a camp in the Claypool, where the postmasters are meeting. New was to stay at the Columbia Club, his habitual headquarters when in his home city.

CONVICT ‘BLUE BIRDS' Seven Youths Get Sentences for Robberies. “The Blue Birds,” a bandit gang of seven youths, flew their last today when Judge James A. Collins sentenced them to prison for robberies. Ulysses Tomey, John Sweeney and Marion Quiller were sentenced to one to ten years in the Indiana State Reformatory, and Earl Cox was sentenced to one year on the Indiana State farm for breaking into the M. E. Howard machine shop, 314 S. Senate Ave., June 26. Tomey, Sweeney, Quillier and Leon Chielders received like punishment for breaking into the property of George Cohen, 245 W. Morris St., July 14. The sentences will run concurrently. George D. Yeager and Alfred Louis were sentenced one to ten years each for second degree burglary in connection with the robbery of Abe Aziz’s junk shop, 3701 Massachusetts Ave., July 13, when auto accessories were stolen. The name of the organization originated among themselves after the “first flight,” the boys told the court. MRs7RiODLE IsTbURIED Funeral Services for Indianapolis Woman Held at Home. Funeral services for Mrs. Martha Jane Riddle, 80, who died Sunday morning at her home 1010 St. Peter St., were held at 2 p. m. today. Burial was in Mt. Jackson cemetery. Mrs. Riddle leaves two sons, Franklin and Arthur Riddle, and two daughters, Mrs. Mary Stader and Mrs. Flora Scott, all of Indianapolis. bund woman Injured Mrs. Blanche Lee, 68, Falls Down Flight of Stairs. Mrs. Blanche Lee, 68, of 2136 Columbia Ave., who is totally’ blind, was injured Monday night when she tumbled down a flight of stairs into the cellar. She told her daughter, Mrs. Lulu Wood, with whom she is\ living, that she had thought she was going out into the back yard. Motor Policemen Heller and Pollard took her to city hospital, where she was treated and sent home. She had severe cuts and bruises* around her head.

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obtain a search warrant thereupon, because he cannot be certain that the bottle's contents constitute law violation. But, if the patrolman smells a boozy odor he may march right into the premises, because the stench of a home brewery or whisky still is unmistakable and the officer may swear he positively knew liquor was being made.

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United States Senator Jamet E. Watson (above) and Postmaster General Harry S. New, whose appearance in the city today was the signal for renewal of the battle for control of the Republican State organization.

SIX DIE from poison San Francisco Doctors Baffled by Strange Mussel Malady. By United Press SACRAMENTO, Cal., July 19. A strange malady, induced by the eating of poisoned mussels, which has resulted in six deaths in the San Francisco bay region, caused alarm today. The State board of health issued a quarantine order last r ight prohibiting sale of the shell fish until the exact cause of the poisoning has been determined. SIX NABBED IN RAID Marion Shoots Tires Off Auto. By United Press MARION, Ind., July 19.—One of the largest liquor rings to operate in this part of northern Indiana was believed broken up today with the arrest of six men by Sheriff Jacob Campbell, deputies and Federal agents. Those under arrest are Wilbur Bailey, Herbst; Russell Leonard. Gas City; Grant Maple, Swayzee, Cal Stevens, Jack Trowbridge, Gas City, and Orville Amos, of Sweetser. Leonard will be held for arraignment in Grant Circuit Court here while the others will receive preliminary hearings before U. S. Commissioner Dan Stroud at Kokomo. Bailey and Leonard were declared to have attempted a getaway in an automobile when they say they had been trapped, but shots fired by Sheriff Campbell blew the tires from their automobile and stopped them.

‘Big Jack'Jackson Pays Visit to Mayor Duvall Among callers upon Mayor John L. Duvall today was William H. (Big Jack) Johnson, Negro editor. Jackson admitted several days ago that two of D. C. Stephenson’s checks, one for $320 and another for S6OO, were given to him for publicity in his paper and for Negro workers for Governor Ed Jackson in the 1924 campaign. This* was at the time when the Ku-Klux Klan was espousing Jackson’s cause. The purpose of Big Jack's visit to the mayor was not disclosed. Walter Bossert, a prospective candidate for Republican nomination for Governor, who succeeded Stephenson as grand dragon of the Indiana Klan, and Charles Orbison, for a long time State attorney for the Klan> called on the mayor Monday afternoon. “Mere social calls,” said the mayor. "Charley drops in every once in a while.”

Branch poured the huge quantity of mash from barrels out of an upstairs window onto the ground, to the delight of a crowd that gathered. Police hauled the seized equipment to headquarters in a truck. Arrests have ljot been made, because police have not discovered who ran the place. A bed and chair were the only furnishings.

BYRD PREPARES FOR HIS DASH TO SOUTH POLE i Plunges Into Task as Soon as Reception Is Over; No Time to Lecture. | By T'nited Prct* NEW YORK. July 19. Comi mander Richard E Byrd, back from i his flight with his three companions ito France, today already had reached the point where plans for his projected south Pole flight were gaining as much of his attention as the achievement just completed. He spent the morning at his hotel, attending to personal maters, and this afternoon will attend the ball game here, winding up the day with a banquet tonight. “I will be too pressed for time to engage in any lecture tour,” he toldi newspapermen. His only immediate literary activity, he added, will be the writing of a 6.000-word article for the National Geographic Society. The end of the week he will go to Washington and will return here to open headquarters for the South Pole flight and to devote hiffisclf to it almost exclusively. ROOSEVELT HOPEsTo LEAVE HOSPITAL SOON Burns on Knee From Camp Fire Are Not Serious. By 1 nitrd Pron NEW YORK. July 19 Col. Theodore Roosevelt, who Is receiving treatment at the Harbor hospital for burns, told the United Press today that he expected to leave the hospital In three days. Colonel Roosevelt suffered painful bums on his right knee while cooking over a camp fire during an outing with his children. Infection followed the burn. “It is queer that an experienced camper like me should be unable to handle a small pan of grease over a children’s camp fire.” he remarked.

TEST STINSON PLANE I, 000-Mile Non-Stop Hop Planned Before 4,200-Mile By United Press DETROIT. July 19—With Paul Redfern as his passenger, Eddie Stinson, president of the Stinson Aircraft Corporation, will set out from Detroit within ten days or two weeks on a 1,000 mile non-stop flight to Brunswick, Ga., to test out a monoplane for the longest flight ever made by man. The flight will be made from Brunswick to Rio de Janeiro. The distance is approximately 4,200 miles. Redfern, who built and flew an airplane before he was out of high school in Rochester. N. Y., will make the Rio flight Alone. The plane will carry 1.000 gallons of gasoline, more than twice as much as was carried by Col. Charles Lindbergh on his epochal flight to Europe. INJURED IN CAR CRASH J. L. Splain. Wife and Two Children In Hospital Here. J. L Splain, 42, of Cincinnati, his wife and two children were in Methodist Hospital today suffering from injuries received in an auto accident east of Greenfield. It was reported at Indianapolis police headquarters that a woman, more seriously injured, was left at Greenfield. Quake Rocks Greek Island By United Press ATHENS, July 19.—Slight earth shocks were felt today on the island of Serifos, Grecian Archipelago.

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100 PLANES WILL RACE ACROSS II.S. Greatest Air Derby on Record Scheduled for Three Days in September. NEW YORK TO SPOKANE $28,250 Posted as Prizes i for Event; Two Classes of Ships to Compete. By Jjiitcd Pros NEW YORK. July 19.—An airplane race from New York to Spokane. Wash., in which it is expected 100 planes will participate, will be held Sept. 19. 20 and 21, it was announced here today. The race will be held under auspices of the National Aeronautical Association. John T. Fancher, commander of the Forty-First division air force. Washington National Guard, who made the announcement, is leaving New York today for Washington, where he will confer with Government officials on race plans. Cities Furnish Gas, Oil The race will be preliminary to the Pulitzer cup races in Spokane Sept. 23 and 24. If it draws 100 entries, it will be the largest event of its kind ever held. Major Fancher based his estimate of at least 100 entries on the speed in which he has been receiving applications. Already twenty-seven planes have been entered. The event, to be divided into two classes, will be open to any one. Craft of 100 horse-power will comprise one class and 200 horse-power j machines another. Barnstormers and free lances can enter as well as large companies, | Major Fancher pointed out, due to I the fact that free gas and oil will be furnished by cities along the route. Starts at Roosevelt Field The race will start at Roosevelt Field. N. Y.. the entries in class A, 200-horsepower craft, being sent off In groups of ten at intervals of five minutes. The machines will begin to take off at 5 a. m. September 19. Class B. for planes of 100-horse-power, will take off after class A. All class A planes will be required to make their first halt of not less than five minutes at Cleveland. The second five-minute stop will be made at Chicago and the planes will spend the night in St. Paul. The second day the planes will complete the Journey to Spokane, stopping at Aberdeen, S. D., Miles City, Mont., and Butte. First Prise is SIO.OO 0 In addition to control stations, Major Eancher said intermediary fields will be established at Bellfont, Pa.; Bryan. O.; La Crosse. Wis.; Lemmon. S. D., and Billings and Missoula. Mont. Class B planes will stop at Bellefonte, Cleveland. Bryan, and Chi- J cago the first day, spending the night in Chicago. The second day will take them to St. Paul, Fargo. N. D., Bismarck and Glendive, Mont., where the second night halt will be made. The third day leg for this class will be to Spokane via Billings and Missoula. Prizes for class A are: first, $10,000; second. $5,000; third. $2,000; fourth, $1,000; fifth. SSOO. Prizes for class B: first. $5,000; second. $3,000; third. $1,000; fourth. $500; fifth, $290:

NEWSBOY SLAPPING CASE SET FOR FRIDAY Muncle Officer Accused in Dearth Impeachment Echo. Bn Times Special MUNCIE. Ind.. July 19.—Ira Pittenger, local police officer, will go on trial in Delaware Circuit Court on a charge of slapping Johnnie Raines, newsboy, an echo of the impeachment proceedings against Judge Clarence W. Dearth of the court before the Indiana Senate. It is alleged that while the boy was selling copies of the Post-Dem-ocrat, paper of George R. Dale, who was sentenced for contempt of court by Judge Dearth, he was slapped by the officer who seized copies of the paper on the judge's order. AIR GIRL QUITS TEXAS Flying Teacher on Way to San Diego for Sea Hop. By United Press EL PASO. Texas, July 19.—Miss Mildred Doran, Flint (Mich.) school teacher, who hopes to be the first of her sex to fly across the Pacific to the Hawaiian Islands, hopped off from here today for San Diego, Cal. Auggie Pedler, her pilot, and W. F. Molloska, financial backer, accompanied her. Miss Doran said the plane might make one stop between El Paso and San Diego, but she did not indicate where it would be. The plane, however, was •fueled for a nonstop hop to the coast.

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William H. Armitage. former Republican county chairman, who informed Prosecutor William ff. Remy today he had “something” he wanted to disclose.

BIRGER MURDER ORDER QUOTED Youth Testifies Chief Told Him to Slay Mayor. By United Prct BENTON, 111.. July 19.—Harry Thomasson, a pale and nervous youth, today told from the witness stand how he murdered a man he did not know "because Charley Birger told me to do so.” Thomasson has confessed to killing Mayor Joe Adams of West City. Birger. Art Newman and Ray Hyland are on trial for complicity in the murder. In the murder he claims to have been aided by his brother Elmo, who was killed when Birger's roadhouse was bombed. "We have picked you two boys to kill Adams because they will never suspect boys.” Thomasson testified Birger told him. “When Gus Adams answers the door start shooting and answer no questions.” The youth said he was prepared for his murderous task by a question asked him by Art Newman, Birger's chief lieutenant. “Art asked me if I had ever killed anyone before and I told him ’no’.” Thomasson said. It was shortly after that when Birger announced the boys had to kill Adams. Thomasson testified. Connie Ritter, sought in connection with the murder. Newman and Birger were together when the boys were instructed to murder Adams, he said. Ray'Hyland was selected to drive the motor car on the eventful trip, Thomasson said.

LOUISA FLETCHER DIES End Comes for Former City Girl in West. Indianapols friends of Miss Louisa Fletcher, 24. daughter of Stoughton A. Fletcher, former Indianapolis banker, today awaited details from Los Angeles of the death of the former Indianapolis girl. Word was received here Monday night that Miss Fletcher was dead. No explanation of the cause of death was given. A dispatch merely stated that she had died in a Los Angeles hospital after a lingering illness. Her father has gone to Chicago to await the arrival of the body. Born in Indianapolis, Miss Fletcher attended school in the East and made several trips abroad, last visiting Indianapolis in 1925. The Fletcher family gave up Laurel Hall, its home here, in 1921, shortly after the suicide of Miss Fletcher's mother. During the past year the family has been living in California. YES, IT'S ‘REAL" STUFF’ Champagne Empties Are Sought in France by U. S. Bootleggers. By United Press , RHEIMS, France. July 19 - Empty champagne bottles, provided they bear the proper label, are valuable in the United States. The Veuve Cliquot Company received an offer from a Detroit bootlegger of $30,000 for 10,0000 "empties,” to be shipped to Montreal. The firm refused the offer. CRASH VICTIM IS DEAD Henry Walters Succumbs to Injuries at Hospital. Henry C. Walters, 17. of 320 E. Forty-Sixth St., died today from injuries received in an auto accident last Friday. \ Methodist Hospital* attaches said Walters received a fractured skull and internal injuries. The crash was at Millersville Rd. and FortySixth St. /

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PARLEY WITH REMY ASKED BY ARMITAGE Former County Chairman of G. 0. P. Indicates He’s Ready to Talk. MAY TOUCH OFF BOMB Politician Refuses to Turn Light on Information He Wishes to Give. i William H. Armitage, former Re- | publican county chairman, today | disclosed that he has something he wants to tell Prosecutor William H. Remy. Armitage is the brother of James E. Armitage, who is under sentence of three months in .tail and fine of SSOO for attempting to bribe Claude Achey. former grand juror, not to ! vote for indictment of Mayor John ; L. Duvall. William H. Armitage has been be- ; fore the grand Jury a number of : times during the political corruption | investigation, but it is understood he always neatly sidestepped giving any definite information. Armitage has been close to the Indianapolis political situation for years. Wants to Talk Today, however. It was Armitage l himself who took the lead. He went j to the courthouse and waited outside Remy's office tor the prosecutor to appear. Atfer waiting a while, he left word for Remy to telephone him at his office. An hour later, Remy called Armitage. Armitage said he has something lie wants to tell the prosecutor and arranged to go to I the prosecutor’s office to talk with I Remy anti Special Prosecutor j Emsley W. Johnson this afternoon, j Before the trial of his brother | James. William H. Armitage was very friendly with Mayor Duvall and others of the present city administration. His friends declared at that time that he had dreams of regaining the prestige at city hall he lost when the Shank administration went out of power. Bitter Toward Mayor Since his brother was embroiled in the trouble growing out of the ; alleged effort to aid Mayor Duvall. William H. has been bitter toward the Duvall administration and upon several occasions has given Indication of a desire to unburden himself. Armitage would not discuss what he intended to lay before the prosecutors. Deputy Prosecutor William H. Sheaffer indicated that Armitage would not be taken before the present grand Jury at this time. He reiterated the statement of last, week, that the Jury has so much routine' business to transact that It will not delve into political corruption until September, after the month’s vacation in August. Will Return Indictments The grand jury is expected to return about a half dozen murder and other indictments In routine cases this week. Sheaffer talked *'*; telephone with a witness in the political corruption matter who the prasecutors have been trying to reach for three days. After the conversation Sheaffer refused to tell who the man was. He said the man would not be called in. "I can’t permit, the names of witnesses to be published before they appear," Prosecutor Remy said. “During the investigation last fall this occurred and the witnesses were talked to before they came to the grand jury rooms.” •

AIMEE HAS BEST CROWD Evangelist Lures Thronr From '•Dancing Girls to Gospel. By United Press ALTON, 111., July 19.— Competing for her audience against a revue with "thirty-five dancers straight from Chicago,” Almee Semple McPherson, famous California evangelist. is drawing larger crowds nightly to services in her tent tabernacle here. According to present plans, Mrs. McPherson will return to California by airplane next week. STUDY HOSPITAL PLAN Health Board, With $1,700,000 to Spend, Meets Friday. The building program of city hospital, involving $1,700,000, will be considered by the city board of health Friday evening, fk Herman G. Morgan, chairman, said today. Dr. William Doeppers, superintendent of city hospital, and Clarence C. Hess will meet with the board. General policy will be decided. and questions as to which buildings should be erected first will be discussed. A bond issue for the building was approved by the city council Monday night. Hourly Temperature* 6 a. m 67 10 a. m 77 7 a. m 69 11 a. m 79 8 a. m 73 12 (noon) ... 80 9 a. m 75