fH/fl(P! %4& JL. FORECAST TEMPE RATI' RES ftt and mud tonight sad Bond.,; cloudy on coast tonight; f.nUe. wwUrlr Bl BANTA MONICA wind.. Hi.h tt tow M OCEAN TIDES TOMOB-OW W OTH-R CITIES Boston 88 Lc linkl II Hl«h I Low Chicago . * 44'N.w Oriwin W 1:*° ***•*—' Ml l.a*a|—:» ».m.; 11:41 p.m. Denver 40 New Tork . S3 Des Molnea . 40'Plttsburan tt SUNEISES I SUN UTS EVE LOOK Kansas City 13 Salt Lake City . 33 1:16 o'clock | 6:21 o'clock I Devoted to Developing the Great Bay District Established October 13* 1875 VOLUME LV NUMBER 109 SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1930 PRICE TWO CENTS VENICE POLICE KILL BANDIT SUSPECT IN FIGHT Claim Operation Seek Warrants Seek Blonde Secretary to Broker Involved in 'Pete' Study Petition On Wrong Child Second Man to For Hundred in Crash as Holding Key to Mystery of Bursian Death In Damage Suit For 00 Drilling Parents Name Hospital Face Attempted for Unnecessary Uie Julian Inquiry In Large Sector of Knife Murder Charges OAKLAND. Calif., April 19. UPS— Fitts Off on Secret Air It seems that Billy Meredith, eight Planner* DIM to Take Up months old, got an operation that Shooting Affray Ends hi Trip With Destination Document Officially at wasn't coming to him. Complete Victory j. Unannounced Billy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Monday Meeting R. Meredith, yesterday filed suit for Officers LOS ANGELES, April 19. against the Humboldt hospital of (CMS)—In a wholesale round­ A petition, purporting to Albany, Calif., and two nurses and VENICE. April 19. — One up of aU those who partici­ represent 2000 Ocean Park a physician, asking liooo on «£| bandit suspect died early to* pated ln the orgy of graft, property owners and asking ground that they operated on bribes and high finance which the city commissioners to wrong baby. The only good it did day of gunshot wounds and allegedly linked Spring street pro­ zone a large section of land Billly, then four days old, the par­ another was takep Into cus­ motions and state offices, providing there tar oil drilling purposes, was ents assert, to that maybe it gave tody several hours later as aa him something to talk about In the aftermath of a desperate gun battle the ground ta which the Julian before the Santa Monica planning distant future. Pete, debacle was rooted, a blanket ocmmission today and to scheduled fought between two Venice police Indictment naming ts hundred per­ to bi considered by that body at officers and the suspected pair toil sons wfll be sought from the county its meeting Monday afternoon, ac­ night. grand Jury next week, It was reliably Tbe dead man to Raymond Mid- reported today. cording to the secretary, Harry W. Strangman. Expect Traffic dux. 2001 Orange avenue. Long fifteen Signers Beach. Bl died at the Santa Monica Flies North The petition is signed by Anthony hospital at 12:05 a m., today, ap­ This startling development came Jurich of 2511 Fourth street; J. B. proximately four hours after he wai with the report from reliable sources, O'Neil et 3121 Third street; O. W. wounded. The other suspect, Chaa, that Buron Pitts, district attorney, Victim to Live E. Row of tbe same addresi, Is be­ Valiant of 2115 Third street, aat and Robt. P. Stewart, Ida chief aide, thirteen others. The territory which ing held by the prim oa a charge had departed late yesterday by air­ tba petitioners have asked to haw of assault to commit murder. plane for a secret destination, fol­ Release Driver Held ia Reports Quailime lowing up one of the major leads in eoned for oil drilling to bounded as tba Julian Petroleum Investigation. follows: Fatal Crash; Inquest The gun fight bad III beginning On the southeast by the south­ at tha corner of Washington and In another airplane a deputy dis­ easterly city limit; on tha west by Set for Monday Venice boulevards shortly before I trict attorney was reported to have tho Inglewood division of tbe Pacific o'clock la the evening; when Offi­ . lift Los Angeles at midnight last Electric right-of-way; on tbe north­ Mrs. Evely Carroll, 42. of 131 cers A. 8. Reeves and & Bt Holler night tar San Francisco to follow west and northeast by the Southern South Palm avenue, Beverly Hilto, win informed by a gas station at­ another "hot tip" in the Inquiry Paclfle 100-foot right-of-way, com­ who was injured early yesterday tendant that tea suspicious men into another ot the stock promotions monly aUaQWa as the Airline, aad morning when tbe sedan she was operating la a Ford roadster, hid which has come before the prose­ on the northeast and ant by the driving collided with a Pacific Just passed the station. The officers cutor's office. northeasterly and easterly city limit. Electric train here, was still ta a immediately started In pursuit et **h It* Warrants Seeks Exception serious condition today but waa ex­ the roadster. Mich was headed di­ The blanket Indictment of one The petition requests tbe city pected to recover, according to re­ rectly towards tbe new Venice po­ hundred persons, it was reported, commissioners and members of the ports from Bt. Catherine's hospital, lice station. When opposite the tall, Will be the result of a new interpre­ planning commission to make excep- where she to being treated. one of tbe policemen in the par- tation of the law. which legal au­ Mrs. Carroll waa said to ban suing machine called to the sus­ thorities have declared will make it (Continued on Page 3, Col. 3) •offered concussion of the brain pects to halt. possible to name all of the suspected and Internal Injuries. participant! on charges ot conspir­ The speed of the roadster In­ Reported Better creased. Officer Holley leveled bis acy to violate the corporate securi­ The injured woman's ion, Lee ties act. Tin new indictment, if M calibre Colt at a rear toe ef tba Carroll, II. and another youth, machine and find. The passenger voted by the grand Jury, it was de­ Huge Arson Ring Richard Boyden, 15, of 303 North clared, probably will take precedence to the suspects' machine turned ant Beverly drive, Beverly Hills, who fired a shot St the pursuing officers. ever tba previous tne bill on the wen ln the sedan, alio van re­ same charges which named ten de­ District attorney's investigators are still at work on tbe theory that Robert Bursian, special Julian case Investigator, was murdered, and The chase continued. Holley grabbed today they seek a third woman in his life, one wbo is said to have kno wn much of a certain angle of the can. Traces of poison were found ported to be recovering from their a shotgun from tha rear aatt aad fendants. la a glass In the wrecked car af Bursian (Mt Inset with bride), wbo W as kiUed as the automobile plunged off the road near Pacific Palisades hurts. Young Carroll was said to Heading aB the rest in tba saw Angle in Murder peppered the rear of tin roadster, Just a few hours before bl was to have appeared before the grand Jury. J. H. Roth (upper right) and C. C. Julian (right) founder of the com­ have had several fractured ribs. indictment, tt voted, lt Wis learned, which turned up a Bdl street and pany, who gave testimony ln Los Angeles leading to the indictment of Jack Friedlander, former state corporation commissioner, and others Martin Conway, 13007 Ayres ave­ attempted to circle back to the spot will be the name of a promoter fa­ In the revived probe. -**»• nue, West Loe Angeles, who was mous In Loe Angelea stock-selling Oesterreich Cass) Probe when the suspects were first seen. Injured ta toe accident here yes­ Vehicle Slope history and not named in the pre­ May Result in L. A. terday morning in which Sidney L. vious indictment. New Lead Comet From Witnesses at Inquest Ross. 38, Sf Lexington avenue, Suddenly the smaller car stopped Others Named Mail's Indictment Hollywood, was fatally hurt, was ta front ef 709 Bocaccio street. Both In the previous bill charging con­ Held Yesterday; Tells of Going removed to hto home today from Holley and Reevea jumped from spiracy to violate the corporate se­ Father of Noted With Investigator to House Williamson Bill LOS ANGELES. April IS (CNS)— Banta Monica hospital, where be their ear and as the bandit suspects curities act were named 8. O. Lewis, Hints of a "million dollar" arson wot treated, according to reports. sought to escape, they win nut E. H. Rosenberg; Jacob Berman, ring, nation-wide in its operations. Mm* Gibson with a hail of toad. Maddux dropped Motley H. Flint, R. M. Reese, Chae, LOS ANGELES, AprU 1ft (CNS)—The pretty blonde secretary of a wen seen today as a new test Spring street broker was sought today as the third woman In the life of to tbe ground, a bullet bad itxuok Reese, I. L. Rouse, Henry D. McKay, Film Chief Dies strange development ta tbe already A. E. Olbson, 31-year-old clerk, tbe side of hto bead aad thru Alvin H. Prank and Adolph Ramish. Robert Bursian, district attorney's undercover man, and also as tbe solver Given Approval weird Oesterreich murder case, with of 1307 Tenth street. Santa Monica, et toe death riddle bequeathed authorities when Burstan's broken body othen had penetrated hto chest. the possibility tbat a local man wbo WSS arrested by local police The man wbo waa later identified was found In his wrecked car off Beverly boulevard, near Pacific Palisades.