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Show DESERTERS IN A BIG UNION Los Angele 23 Ray Whit ing who according to his own confession confes-sion made to the police in the city jail last night following bis arrest, is a deserter from the United States battleship California, started the police po-lice on a chase which may end in the most startling series of arrests ever made in Los Ansreles According to Whiting somewhere in Los Angeles near the outsikrts in a fhree-tory house more than 200 deserters from the I'nltd States navy and army are living without fear of the police A oeerl a the police were able to learn from Whiting, deserters up and down th Pacific coast have es tablished healquarters in this city Every day new deserters swell the ranks of the union Money turned in to the union from a hundred different differ-ent cities, mostly seaports, all comes to Los Angeles, sav the police, and here Is placed in the general fund. Looking for Deserters' Union. Ten detectives have been detailed on the case and within the next twen tv-four hours the officers say they will havp rounded up the pang The outskirts of the city are being combed by the police and the work of trying to locate the mysterious house will, they sa be finished today. Officer Hook, who made the arrest ar-rest of Whiting last night, is the one to whom the credit of first learning about the gang belongs After Whit ing had heen placed in a cell he a.-sk ed to see Hook and then told the story of the "Deserters Union." and also made a full confession of his own case According to Whiting he Is the son of a wealthy Bostonlan. He refuses 'ci L'ive his father's address and also' says that Whiting is not his right name He told the police that he had injured his head In a football game a number of years apo and that three years ago he was placed In an Insane asylum from which a short time later he escaped Deserted at San Dego Coming to the Pacific coast Whiting Whit-ing said that eighteen months ago he enlisted In the navy, and up to the time of his desertion about three months ago h served without thought of running away In San Diego while ashore with some other seamen Whiting heard about the "Deserters' union' in this city and sa s that he thought it would be a good thing to join United States officials will be no titled by the police todav and may be asked to assist in the case |