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KING PREPARES TO QUIT GREECE
ATHENS, Dec. 19. — King George II, Greece, who was ordered to leave the country by his government, prepared today to depart on the Greek ship Daphne for Roumania at 6 o'clock this evening.
It was expected a British warship would accompany the Daphne.
Aomiral Coundoritis is assuming the regency of Greece.
The republicans are jubilant over the turn of events.
LONDON, Dec. 19. — Conflicting reports were received here from Athens today regarding the departure of King George and Queen Elizabeth.
One dispatch said the couple would leave for Roumania at 6 p.m. Another said they had departed for Constanza.
An Athena 6 patch to the Evening Standard said the royal couple left Piraeus for Bucharest this morning.
The couple were said to have left Athens secretly for Piraeus (the port of Athens) ahead of the hour announced for their departure.
KELS SPINAL FLUID TEST IS PLANNED
SACRAMENTO, Dec. 19. — Indicating that the analysis will be made within the next two days, preparations were started early today for holding the Alex Kels spinal fluid test.
Following his action last night in announcing that he would meet the demand of the state board of prison directors and conduct the test, Warden Smith notified Dr. Stanley, San Quentin physician, who will supervise the test, to proceed at once with his plans for the examination.
Whether the condemned "hay-stack slayer" will be examined for insanity, is dependent upon whether the spinal fluid shows taint.
In announcing he would con-
Following his action last night in announcing that he would meet the demand of the state board of prison directors and conduct the test, Warden Smith notified Dr. Stanley, San Quentin physician, who will supervise the test, to proceed at once with his plans for the examination.
Whether the condemned "hay-stack slayer" will be examined for insanity, is dependent upon whether the spinal fluid shows taint.
In announcing he would conduct the spinal test, Warden Smith said that he believed it unequivocal.
"I recognize that the state board of prison directors is the governing body of the state prison and my appointment is made by such board," he stated in giving his reasons for ordering the examination.
COOTE RESUMES TESTIMONY TODAY
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19.—A. W. Coote, bankrupt stock broker, on trial on a charge of embezzlement, resumed the witness stand when court opened today, and told more of his business methods.
Coote denied there were any fraudulent transactions in his office that he knew anything of. He said that if there were shady transactions, that he did not supervise them and knew nothing about them.
The specific charge against Coote is that he failed to purchase certain stock for E. A. Parkford after receiving a check for $24,000 to do so.
Coote is on trial on seven counts of embezzlement. He is said to have gone into bankruptcy owing between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000, leaving about 4000 clients with financial losses.
GET RIGHT OF WAY
Application by the city of Orange for right of way along the south line of the county farm to lay a sewer line connecting with the joint outfall system of the four major cities was granted by supervisors late yesterday.
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MOTHER OF EIGHT GIVES BIRTH TO QUADRUPLETS
Mrs. George L. Wittig with her newest treasures, the quadruplets.
a few days ago Mrs.
L. Wittig of Baltimore,
presented to husband
of children at eight diffices. When the stork
arrived just before Than_sgiving
he brought four at once—three
boys and a girl. All are healthy
and normal, physicians say. The
boy is the heaviest and weighs
five pounds. The lightest, the
girl weighs four pounds. Mrs.
Wittig is thirty-seven. The
father is forty-four. They're now
finding four new names.
IL FOOD UP,
HOLESALE DOWN
INGTON, Dec. 19.
Retail food prices jumped
per cent in November, as
with October, there was
one per cent in wholeies in 404 commodities,
the department of labor announced today.
During the year ending Nov.
15, retail food prices increased
4 per cent, while wholesale prices
decreased 21-2 per cent. For the
ten-year period there was an increase of 44 per cent in retail
food prices.
REV. JOWETT DIES
LONDON, Dec. 19. — Rev. Dr.
John Henry Jowett, former pastor of the Fifth Ave. Presbyterian
church in New York city, died today. From 1918 to 1922 he was
minister at Westminster chapel,
London.
CLAIMS HUSBAND
WOULD SELL HERE
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19.
Charging that her husband, Eliae
La Male, film director and the
atrical manager, tried to sell her
for $500,000 to a negro, Mr.
Helen La Male, of Long Beach, thaday filed one of the most sensutional divorce complaints on record in local courts.
In her complaint Mrs. La Male
names Mrs. Mary Howe Heldewidow of an El Paso, Tex., baner, as correspondent. She alasks a share of La Male's assestance $400,000 estate.
The negro named in the complaint by Mrs. La Male as t
man with whom La Male is seto have bartered his wife, is L.
H. Baker, wealthy gambler a
central figure of the Juarez, Meco, underworld, it was revealed.
La Male is declared to be wwknown in Texas and Oklahoma a
special circles. Besides writing scenal popular screen plays, orgizing motion picture company
and conducting several theatre
La Male conducted a drama
school in El Paso, his wife setoday. La Male is also declaration to be well known in the Los A
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ANGELES, Dec. 19—
long that her husband, Elsie
film director and themanager, tried to sell her
$0,000 to a negro, Mrs.
La Male, of Long Beach, tod one of the most sensadivorce complaints on reccional courts.
Her complaint Mrs. La Male
Mrs. Mary Howe Helder,
of nu El Paso, Tex., bankcorrespondent. She also
share of La Male's asserted
no estate.
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conducting several theaters,
Male conducted a dramatic
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and booking agent.
Driven to desperation because
of the asserted efforts of her husband to sell her to Baker, for
which transaction she claims she
was to receive $150,000, Mrs. La
Male said in her complaint that
she contemplated committing suicide, but was persuaded by friends not to do so.
Poverty and fear of death unless
she went to Baker in Juarez
prompted Mrs. La Male to legal action and the divorce complaint followed.
Mrs. Holder is now said to live at 3512 Rose-ave., Dallas, Texas.
TWO WOMEN HURT,
MAN SWINGS AXE
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19—Two women were today in the receiving hospital suffering with severe wounds inflicted with an axe, and James Postorino, who is said to have run amuck and attacked his wife and mother-in-law and threatened several of the neighborhood children with a deadly weapon, is at the general hospital under observation for his sanity.
The women are Mrs. Lizzie Postorino and mother, Mrs. Mary Spinelli. They were struck repeatedly with an axe as they ran to shield the children.
U.S. WOMAN GETS
DECREE IN LONDON
LONDON, Dec. 19—Mrs. Alice Rudd, an American woman, today was granted a decree restoring her conjugal rights. This is the first step toward a divorce in the British courts.
The husband, H. M. Rudd, has been granted a divorce in the courts of the state of Washington. He is now living in that state, where he remarried.
The British courts held that the American divorce was not binding because the wife had not been notified of the proceedings.
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