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feet 11 inches tall, weighing 159 pounds, dark complexioned and dark haired. TEXT OF MESSAGE One side of the blackhand note read: "Warning to postmaster: We will be in Sunday for business. Keep your trap shut." It was signed with Murphy's full name. And in one corner a crude figure of a man had been drawn, with a sketch of a gun appended. Arrows indicated the word "shoot!" The other side of the note was more menacing: "We will kill you on Monday if you tell the coppers what we are doing. Fair warning. Keep your trap-" That, too, was signed. The fingerprint appeared on that side. AGENTS ON JOB Rowe immediately notified Capt. J. W. Hanby of the Lancaster Sheriff's substation, who broadcast the warning to the Federal postal authorities. Hanby believes that if Murphy really was responsible for the planting of the threatening note, the sight of the poster seeking his arrest may have discouraged the actual robbery attempt. The message, Rowe said, was probably left in his office before a Lancaster constable locked the building for the night about 10:30 p.m. last Friday --- Delinquent Tax News Broadened --- Los Angeles county's delinquent tax list this year will be published in forty-two community newspapers instead of in one, as in years gone by, it was learned yesterday when the Board of Supervisors ordered the publication of the list. The new procedure is in accordance with a State law adopted by the Legislature last year, which requires that the lists be published in the communities where the delinquent taxpayers reside. The cost of publication will be approximately $80,000. There are 250,000 names on the lists this year whose delinquencies total $7,974,389. --- EARLY FLYERS RECOUNT AIR THRILLS AT MEET --- Pioneers in American aviation, several of whom as early as 1905 defied gravity in contraptions known as flying machines, gathered for dinner last night at the Clark Hotel, a California branch meeting of the Early Birds, whose membership of 325 includes most aviators who made solo flights before December 16, 1916. EXCHANGE YARNS Yarns were swapped of thrilling voyages into the clouds in captive balloons which tore loose from their moorings. Tall stories were told of rough rides in ancient Jennies and early day dirigibles. None of the nineteen story tellers was discredited, however flighty his narrative might soar, because, as Walter Brookins, pioneer of pioneers, declared: "Anything might happen to you those days, once you left the ground." Among the guests of P. G. B. Morriss were Ruth Law Oliver of Beverly Hills, one of the first of women pilots; Hillery Beachey, who in 1905 took off from earth in a captive balloon and was flying a heavier-than-air craft in 1910; Walter Brookins, hired by the Wright Brothers to test their freakish planes as early as 1910; Joseph A. Blondin, one of America's pioneer balloonists, and Mrs. Hilder Smith, another veteran aviatrix who made her first flight in 1912. EARLY FLIGHTS Morriss, the host, left the ground for the first time in England in 1910. He was the first president of the Early Birds, organized in 1927 in New York City. Unable to attend the meeting last night, E. W. Scripps of Detroit, president of the society, sent a message of good wishes and happy landings. Others who attended the reunion were Waldo D. Waterman of Santa Monica, Otto W. Timm of Glendale, Edwin C. Parsons of Hollywood, Lieut. Esten B Koger, Thomas E. Springer, Floyd Smith and Lawrence W. Brown of Los Angeles, Carl B. Batts and George E. Barnhardt of Pasadena, G. G. Budwig of Burbank, Anthony Sadlman of San Francisco, H. J. Webster of Venice and Joseph L. Cato of Downey. --- Walter A. Brown Named Head of K.C. Council --- Walter A. Brown was re-elected Grand Knight of Los Angeles Council No. 621, Knights of Columbus, at the annual election in the council hall, 850 South Bonnie Brae avenue, last night. Dr. John A. Schwamm, State deputy, presided. Other officers elected were Deputy Grand Knight Gerald C. Riley, Chancellor Walter Pyne, Recorder T. Sullivan, Treasurer B. A. J. Lyndes, Advocate Leo J. Neeson, Warden Robert J. Knitscher, Inside Guard Ernest T. Steegers, Outside Guards Leonard J. Ross and Charles H. Bridgeman, and Trustee Vernon V. Garvey. In addition to Deputy Grand Knight Riley and Trustee Garvey, James Barrett, James Armstrong and Frank Keohane were chosen delegates to the Southern California Chapter. --- TAX EXPERT TO SPEAK Jame Mussatti, executive secretary of the California Taxpayers' Association, will talk before the Los Angeles Athletic Club tomorrow at 8 a.m., on "Taxation-a Modern Frankenstein." Mussatti is an authority and author on taxation and government. --- They Flew When Planes Were Novelty [[image]] [[caption]] "Do you remember when-?" Six pioneers in American aviation last night laughed at dangerous minutes spent in the clouds astraddle the seat of an ancient Jenny Standing, left to right, are Joseph A. Blondin, Hillery Beachey, P. G. B. Morriss. Seated are Ruth Law Oliver, Walter R. Brookins and Mrs. Hilder Smith. Times photo
