Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-11-06
MURDERS REFLECT
Los ANGELES SIZE
City Can Claim UnsoIved Rec
ord Exceeding That
of New York.

BY Consolidated Press.
Los ANGELES, Calf. November g.
This city. which boasts 20 more
square miles of Incorporated terri
tory than New York, and therefore,
according To the local Chamber of
Commerce viewpoint is bigger than
Americas premier city. can also boast
superiority in a couple of other lines
than that of great open spaces.
1t has more mysterious murders
and unexplained deaths of unidenti-
fled persons. Also. it's tally of auto
mobile fatalities this year may cx-
rccd that of greater Gotham by a
couple of dozen.
The finding Of Il mysteriously slain
man of evident prosperity in Logan
Park with a siIken cord tied tightly
about his throat has just brought to
light the fact that since the first of
the current Year IS unidentified per-
sons have met with violent deaths in
Los Angeles and that in the same
interval there have been u murders
which the authorities never have
been able to solve. In the SAME pc
Rod there have been $50 automobile
fatalities. approximately half of
them pedestrians. with present indi-
cations that the years total will pass
the 100 mark. ON their present
record, Los Angeles motorists Kill a
fraction better than one person every
day and cripple something like five
every "A hours. Not even New York
and Chicago can equal such mark.
Clues Always Missing.
Some few of the % unidentified
persons meeting violent deaths here
since last January / have been sui
cides. The greater proportion, how
ever, have been murdered or killed
in accidents. Five of the unidenti-
fled dead have been bandits or burg
lars slain in gun battles with the
police, fact which attests the
bravery and craftsmanship of the
Los Angeles minions of the law.
Five of the same list of unidentified
dead have been babies or small chill
dren, all of them victims of foul play.
clues never have been found to their
slayers.
In addition to its long list of un-
solved murders, Los Angeles also has
several hangover slayings of out
standing sensationalism from past
Years. For instance, the murderer
Of William Desmond Taylor never has
been apprehended; neither have the
killers of Earle Remington, scion OF
Il wealthy Eastern family. who ap-
parently was shot to death by boot
leggerS. 1t is Il statistical truth in
the development of great cities that
the steadily increasing number OF
morguc cases is irrefutable evidence
of municipality rapid growth. On
the score of automobile deaths. muir
ders and other fatalities ALREADY
tabulatcd here this year. Los Angeles
is growing by leaps and bounds IL
TACT, one of the excuses offered fol
the heavy toll of automobiles already
recorded this year is that the vic.
TINS are mostly newcomers from
farming communities of the East an6
Middle West who are unfamiliar with
crowded city streets and the intensive
traffic problem which Los Angeles
faces with the greatest automobile
registration outside of New York
city itself
Consider Auto Tests.
SO serious has the automobfl.
fatality program become, however
that the authorities are considerins
making every driver pass an exam.
nation composed of combining psy.
"hoanalism and mentality grading
test somewhat similar 20 that applied
10 the police here u year ago, and ir
which 40 per cent of the city's fines,