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Show PANTAGES IS UNDER FIRE Multi-Millionaire Theater Man Faces Charge In "Slave Mart" Probe SAN DIEGO. Calif., March (L'.P) Alexander Pantages, who became be-came a multi-millionaire in the chain vaudeville theater business, faced arrest today for the second time on a charge involving a minor girl. 1 Pantages was named in two complaints issued by the district attorney's office accusing him and Jesse Shreve of oHenses against Alice Blake and Helen Livingston, both 17. It was charged that Pantages and Shreve met the girls through William Jobelmann and Mrs. Olive Clark Day, accused in Los Angeles i of having made a business of introducing in-troducing young minor girls to , wealthy men as party companions. Included in the complaints were the names of Jobelmann, Mrs. Day and John Mills, wealthy real estate man, who once was a partner of Pantages and Shreve. Mills had been arrested in Los Angeles earlier on a charge of an offense against Claiice Tauber, 16. whom it was said he met through Jobelmann and Mrs. Day. Pontages was at liberty in Agua 7aliente, Mex. Shreve had gained liberty under $25,000 bond and his hearing set for March 30. Pan tages sent word e would com'j . across the border to San Diego aa soon as he obtained a jockey to ride- for him in place of one just suspended at the Caliente race track. Mills and Mrs. ay were at liberty liber-ty in Los Angeles under bond in the Tauber case. Jobelmann was in jail there. The complaint Issued here charged charg-ed that Pantages had secured the company of the Blake girl, and Shreve of the Livingston girl, for immoral purposes. The girls were in technical custody today in Los Angeles. |