oc-plain-dealer 1922-01-10

BISHOP COMMENDS KIWANIS PRINCIPLE That the progressive spirit which animates the Kiwanis club of Anaheim is highly contagious was made clear here today when Malcom Fraser, secretary of the Anaheim C. of C., received a letter from Bishop W. Bertrand S. Stevens of Los Angeles, in which the Rev. M. Stevens warmly commended the club. Bishop Stevens, who was formerly a resident of New York and more recently of San Antonio, Texas, has had extensive experience in connection with Kiwanis and Rotarian activities, and his services are constantly in demand by these and other organizations. Recently Bishop Stevens came to Anaheim at the invitation of the Kiwanis club and delivered the principal address at a noon lunchcon at the high school. He was given a hearty welcome and told the Kiwanis club members, among other things, that the fundamental principle of Kiwanis is unselfishness. In the same breath he told the assembled guests that the fundamental sin of the world is selfishness. Yesterday, the Bishop wrote Secretary Fraser, thanking him for newspaper clippings of the Bishop's speech which the secretary had mailed him at his home in Los Angeles. In concluding his letter, Bishop Stevens said: "Thank you for your kind letter. It was a great pleasure to be with you. The Anaheim Kiwanis club has unusual enthusiasm and 'pep.' It can teach some of these older clubs many things. Sometimes, I hope to come again." PROHIBITION GAINS STATISTICS SHOW CHICAGO, Jan. 10.—Prohibition is effective in at least 75 pct. of the U. S. Outside of the larger cities, from 85 to 90 pct. of the area of the country is dry. This is the situation after two years of national prohibition, as pictured by Bishop Thomas Nicholson. Village Gossip Disclosing what is declared by City Marshal J. A. Porter of Newport Beach, to be a method of smuggling narcotics, an innocent-appearing piece of wood a bit larger than a baseball bat is today the center of mystery and conjecture at the bay city. Inside this piece of wood is a linen and wax-lined compartment giving forth a sweetish sickening odor like the odor of opium. Fred Beck of Newport Beach discovered the piece of wood. He picked it up on the beach. Its shape attracted his attention. It looked like the end of a mast, one end being tapered. He threw the wood down in his yard, and there it remained for several days. Then he decided to make a base ball bat out of it. A saw was applied in order to shorten the wood. Imagine Beck's surprise when he saw into a compartment. Examination disclosed the fact that the wooden compartment was plugged and pieces of the wood were cleverly glued together so that when heat was applied the compartment could be opened and the contents removed. "It looks as though it had been used," said Porter, "for bubbles showed where heat had been applied." Porter's theory is that smugglers used this and similar pieces of wood in plying their nefarious trade. The sticks could be carrigd on a boat and none would suspect them of being other than a part of the boat's equipment, or they might be thrown from a boat with the expectation that they would float ashore and be picked up by a confederate. Superior Judge Z. B. West and Court Reporter Lester Slaback were rescued Saturday from a mud hole near San Onofre, where they spent most of the day, instead of hunting quail, as they had planned. Their ear became mired in the mud hole at 8 o'clock in the morning, and they PROHIBITION GAINS STATISTICS SHOW CHICAGO, Jan. 10 — Prohibition is effective in at least 75 pct. of the U. S. Outside of the larger cities, from 85 to 90 pct. of the area of the country is dry. This is the situation after two years of national prohibition, as pictured by Bishop Thomas Nicholson, president of the Anti-Saloon League of America, in an interview today. "Prohibition is rapidly gaining in the U. S." Bishop Nicholson said. Reports of operation of an increased number of stills and of the increase in the manufacture of home brew, he said, were propaganda spread by the wet interests who seek to have the people repeal the act. "The investigation recently made showed that the consumption of liquor is rapidly decreasing," he said. "Outside the larger cities we find very little effort to evade the law." According to the bishop, reports from all parts of the country, since prohibition became effective, indicate large increases in bank deposits and savings, shorter delinquent tax lists and a large decrease in arrests for drunkenness. SHIP AND TROLL COLLIDE AT BRIDGE LONDON, Jan. 10. — Refuting the suggestion that the North Atlantic steamship companies had circulated propaganda against the American laws restricting immigration, a statement has just been issued on behalf of these companies to show that they had on the contrary evolved a system to cooperate with the American authorities. The steamship lines have established bureaus in all the principal European emigration centers. Here the flow of passengers is watched and the number kept within the prescribed quota. "Exempted" classes of passengers, is pointed out, cause much trouble be cause the final decision rests with America. To completely regulate the flow, also, is impossible, the statement says, because the quotas are on the basis not of departures from Europe but of arrivals in America. It is not to the advantage of the steamship companies to get undesirable aliens into the country, the statement points out, because when such aliens are detected the company must bear the return expenses. AUSTRIAN EXCHANGE MAKES SWISS FRET GENEVA, Jan. 10. — The Austrian exchange rate is causing considerable perturbation to the Swiss unemployment authorities in districts within easy distance of the Austrian sticks could be carried on a boat and none would suspect them of being other than a part of the boat's equipment, or they might be thrown from a boat with the expectation that they would float ashore and be picked up by a confederate. Superior Judge Z. B. West and Court Reporter Lester Slaback were rescued Saturday from a mud hole near San Onofre, where they spent most of the day, instead of hunting quail, as they had planned. Their car became mired in the mud hole at 8 o'clock in the morning, and they were unable to extricate themselves until 3 o'clock in the afternoon, according to their admission on reaching home late Saturday. F. G. Barnard, rancher, residing at San Onofre, south of San Juan Capistrano, had today failed to locate the thief who escaped with two gold watches, a gold chain, an amethyst brooch and a pair of shoes from his home. But he didn't suspect John Brown, a colored man, who happened to be in the vicinity at the time. Barnard encountered the negro along the Santa Fe railroad track north of his ranch, shortly after the robbery. He challenged the ragged vagrant to account for himself. The negro not only did so, but went further. He assisted Barnard in searching two other tramps in the neighborhood. When Barnard first accosted the negro he was met with a ready alibi. "I see John Brown and Ah hahn't been near y' house, no sah. Ah didn't come from San Diego. Ah came from Santa Ana. "What's mo, Ah can prove it. Mistah, you jist go back to Santa Ana with me and Ah kin show you Ah jist got out from jail, yes sah. "Dem blame cops in Santa Ana, dey don't let nobody go through without they half to stop 'im and search 'im and see what dey got on 'im, and maybe throw 'im in jail, like dey did me. No mistah, Ah didn't get yo' watches, Ise been in jail in Santa Ana." The negro then caught an idea. "Say, mistah, tell yo' what Ah'll do. Ah'll help you hunt fo' yo watches. Dey's two men down there in the holler' and we'll go down and search 'im. Ah'll help you," he proposed. "But I'm no officer," Barnard demurred. "Never mind, mistah. Yo' all get yo' gun and we'll go down and see 'bout dem fellers. By cracky, we'll search them." The suggestion was acted on and Barnard and the negro questioned the two white hoboes. The negro perhaps remembering recent experiences of his own, searched the tramps with a practiced hand and a beligerent air. None of the lost valuables were found, however. Then John Brown, wholly vindicated, went on his way. By this time, no doubt, the man who had a private still in the willows of the Santa Ana river bottom opposes AUSTRIAN EXCHANGE MAKES SWISS FRET GENEVA, Jan. 10. — The Austrian exchange rate is causing considerable perturbation to the Swiss unemployment authorities in districts within easy distance of the Austrian frontier. The "won't works" have found it a pleasant game to hike for Austria as soon as they have drawn their fortnight's unemployment pay of 6.50 francs per day and change it into Austrian kronen which at the present rate of exchange works out at something near 7,000 kronen a day. On this amount they can live in comfort at good class hotels. FISH BAIT CALLED EXCESS BAGGAGE LONDON, Jan. 10. — An angler's boarding a train at Wrexham carrying his can of live bait, was staggered to receive a demand for "excess luggage fare." Railway officials contended that live bait—small fishes swimming in a can—was not passengers' "ordinary" luggage. He had to pay, but all the anglers' associations in England are taking the matter up with the railway companies. LOST WEDDING EVE, GETS BACK TODAY LAWSON, Mo., Jan. 10. — Noah Moffitt, 48, who disappeared from here three months ago and who at one time was reported to have been killed at Wichita Kan., returned today and told a story of being kidnapped, imprisoned on an Arizona ranch and robbed of several hundred dollars. Mr. Moffitt, a farmer, was reported to have been about to be married at the time he disappeared. WOOD ALCOHOL IS FATAL TO FIVE MEN HOBOKEN, N. J., Jan. 10. — Five men died from wood alcohol poisoning here today. The victims include a saloon keeper, and men who had been boarding with him near the Ho-boken pier. A suggestion was acted on and Barnard and the negro questioned the two white hoboes. The negro, perhaps remembering recent experiences of his own, searched the tramps with a practiced hand and a beligerent air. None of the lost valuables were found, however. Then John Brown, wholly vindicated, went on his way. By this time, no doubt, the man who had a private still in the willows of the Santa Ana river bottom opposite Gypsum creek has slipped quietly through the brush to take a look at the mash to see how it is working. And the mash is gone. So are the barrels and the gasoline stove. "Curses," quoted the moonshiner. Consternation, without question, came upon him. He turned and tore off through the brush, "scared half to death" by fear that a prohibition enforcement officer was chasing him. Had a cow stirred the brush just then he, no doubt, would have died of fright. When a crew of men of the county engineer department were at work on the river during the recent flood, three barrels of mash and a gasoline stove were found hidden away in the willows. The discoverers dumped out the mash and transported the barrels and stove to Santa Ana. CHECK UP ON BANDIT SMITH'S CONFESSION LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10. — Police today made a check on five holdups to which Carl Smith, 18, was reported to have confessed after George Crowe, 18, dying boy bandit, had given Smith a "death-bed handshake" at the county hospital and told his friends to "come clean on this deal and tell the truth." Smith said that he and Crowe had worked together in staging the "stickups," according to the police. Crowe was said to have declared at first that his attempt to hold up Patrolman Ed. Oker of the Hollywood division, who shot the bandit twice near the heart, was his first crime venture. Smith, at Crowe's solicitation, gave details of their crime life, stating that they started operating Nov. 5. It was said at the county hospital that Crowe has a fighting chance to recover. THE ORANGE COUNTY PLAIN D Tuesday, J The S. Q. R. 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