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Show SCANDAL IN LOS ANGELES Millionaires of City Alleged to Have Lured Girls to "Protected Resorts" 41 Girls Under 21 Will Be Witnesses Los Angeles. April 21 The names Of fort v -one girls all under 21 years of age, and most of them not yet past 1$, were given to the county-grind county-grind jury today when it was asked I to investigate white slavery charges In which a number of millionaires are said to have lured girls systematically system-atically from home and placed them In "protected resorts." Affidavits of four of these oris already hae been obtained, and ac-eordlng ac-eordlng to the allegations contained In their sworn declarations, ihe millionaires mil-lionaires Involved, had a complete organization for ihe trapping of girls Then- were cadets in their employ and a well-known attorney who. besides be-sides being involved In the actual enslaving of the girls also is alleged al-leged to have spirited away one of the young women, who revealed the alleged facts of the case, after she had been threatened with prosecution prosecu-tion for attempted blackmail Tell of the White Slavers It Is said that the lender of the i white slae ring was known to his victims only as 'the black pearl." a name given him because of a peculiar scarf pin, but the names of most of I his alleged fellow slavers are in the I hands of the police Katherine Phillips. Helen Barker. I Myrtle Adair and Marie Brown arei the names of girls who have told of their relntions with the alleged mll-I mll-I lionaire white slavery crow. Detectives are in San Bernardino today to bring back Marie Brown, who. it is claimed, was taken lo that city by private detectives employed by the white slavers to prevent her telling what she knew. Girls Were Well Paid. The first Information of the case came to the police and the district attorney when Katherine I'hllllps was arrested for alleged blackmail. On j intormatlon furnished by her. Mrs Josle Rosenberg ;i woman giving the name of Mrs J. Badger, E. J. Davis and h'raiik Copeland were arrested; and charged with being procurers Mrs Rosenberg was keeper of the resort in the downtown business section sec-tion at which "the black pearl" Is al- i leged to have met his victims and introduced his friends Mrs. Badger. Davis and ( opeland were alleged to be her assistants. The girls were gathered by the procurers from department stores, calelarias and restaurants. Several of them were well paid Recording to the police. Miss Brown, for whom search was made In San Bernardino today Received $4kiO just before she disappeared ' Mrs. Rosenberg and hor friends will be arraigned Wednesday. "The black pearl ' Is summoned as n witness wit-ness in that case. Most of the girls who are alleged to have been procured pro-cured for him also are summoned; to testify |