oc-plain-dealer 1922-02-23

BUILDING PERMITS TELL STORY OF ANAHEIM'S GROWTH Year 1921 $1,254,373 No. of Permits 564 Year 1920 879,080 No. of Permits 202 Plain LEADING NEWS VOL. XXV—NO. 171 ANOTHER A. C. OF C. HAS REPORT ON STATE RD. 100 Enjoy Turkey Dinner Last Night At La Habra Social Hall. "You're as welcome as a chewing gum salesman at a stenographer's convention," "You're as welcome as a bootlegger in Hollywood." After these and other comparisons, made by L. M. Hopper, secretary of the La Habra C. of C. in his address of welcome, the members and delegates attending the regular repast of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Orange-co., last night at La Habra, felt more at home than ever. A good turkey dinner was served in Social Hall and was well attended. C. L. Crumrine of La Habra presided in the absence of President E. E. John- Iowa Picnic Will Be Held Next Saturday The Iowa picnic, scheduled for Lincoln Park at Los Angeles yesterday, was postponed by Charles H. Parsons, secretary of the Iowa Ass'n, until Saturday of this week. Heavy rains in Los Angeles made the postponement necessary, Parsons said. The Nebraska picnic will be held at Syramore Grove, Los Angeles, next Saturday. START FLOOD CONTROL WORK While the more than 1000 subscribers to the $10,000 Anaheim flood protection district celebration tonight the consummation of their fi- UNION PETITI FRANCE Request Will Be To City Council TonThe Union Pacific to city council tonic chise thru Anaheim. The U. P. right of ly parallel to the San northern entrance to where plans are ma track to both the San City officials believe fer tracks mean the proceed south from Ana over one or bo lished lines. The U. P. right o city is about 8000 fe ficials say the railroads CONTROL WORK While the more than 1000 subscribers to the $10,000 Anaheim flood protection district celebration tonight the consumption of their financial campaign, with a mass meeting at the high school to elect directors of the construction work, the general committee of the Yorba-Richfield-Anaheim district today began the first work of soliciting for $30,000 for protection work. The two financial campaigns are planned to provide protection work from Yorba hills to the Garden Grove protection work just north of Olive-Id. The Yorba-Richfield-Anaheim committee met at the home of the chairman, A. A. Mills on No. Lemon-st., yesterday afternoon, and divided the district into five sections, and assigned committeemen in charge of soliciting as follows: No. 1—All east of Commonwealth school—solicitors; Maxon Smith, J. Reuedick, John Walls and LeRoy Lyons. No. 2—Between Commonwealth school and Placentia ave. Solicitors, Ralph McFadden and assistants. No. 3—Between Placentia ave. and East-st. Solicitors, J. Kruizenga and Geo. D. Ehrle. No. 4—Between East street and S. P. tracks and between Sycamore-st. and the Anaheim Union Water Co. ditch north of the sugar factory Solicitors, J. T. Lyons, A. A. Mills C. C. Bywater. No. 5—Between S. P. and P. E. tracks, Solicitors, Judge Reese, Dr. L. C. Deming and Carl Walter. Yorba-Richfield-Anaheim committee, all of whom will attend the Anaheim district mass meeting tonight to get suggestions on how to go about their campaign, believe their labors will have been much expedited by the comparative ease with which Anaheim pioneered the way for this kind of financing for public work. Both districts are determined to have all protection work done before another rainy season. MUCH INTEREST IN REVIVAL AT SALEM The revival campaign at the Salem Evangelical church is attracting great interest. I. M. Bitinger, evangelist, and H. Abel, singer, who are assisting Dr. F. N. Doescher, pastor, are being greeted by large attendance at each service. There have been a number of conversions. Services will continue each evening until Sunday night. There will be service to city council thru Anaheim. The U. P. right of city parallel to the San northern entrance to where plans are made track to both the San City officials believe tracks mean the proceed south from Anaver one or two lined lines. The U. P. right of city is about 8000 feet ficials say the railroads its own realty thrust line in the city. No mention of stair made in the petition which requires that must begin within 18 completed within 18pected that the work this summer. BEGIN LAST NAT'L ORANGE SAN BERNARDINI With the coming of Hephens to the N show Thursday, the show program is last. It is also San Galeen's Glee Club of will sing, and other included in the day's Friday, Redlands, the Redlands University will sing, the Redland and will play and oo be furnished by tule. Saturday will be no day in addition and Pasadena day company band will and evening, Sundegion day and Mon. The Show will be Sunday and will not lay night, program or both the last day. TWO INDIAN MARRIAGE WASHINGTON, first marriage license parties were Indian the District of Colby out recently by College clerk at preme court to J years old, and Elliars years old. The Redtron, pastor of church, performed. WHITTIER BUSINESS WHITTIER, Feb mun, local business owing two operatic Memorial Hospital, E. E. Day will cones Sat. afternoon the Plymouth Congregation body will be in the Whittier Mausoleum. MUCH INTEREST IN REVIVAL AT SALEM The revival campaign at the Salem Evangelical church is attracting great interest. I. M. Bitinger, evangelist, and H. Abel, singer, who are assisting Dr. F. N. Doescher, pastor, are being greeted by large attendance at each service. There have been a number of conversions. Services will continue each evening until Sunday night. There will be service during the daytime Sunday which is expected to be a great day for the members of the church. TULLUS HEARING SET FOR MONDAY The preliminary hearing of Hugh Tullus, who gave O. A. Mullinix, local durgist, a worthless check for $10 about a year ago, was set today by Justice J. B. Cox at Santa Ana for Feb. 27. Tullus was arrested at Bakersfield and brought to Santa Ana yesterday. Bail was fixed at $1,000. Tullus father has arrived from Shrieveport, La., to help him. SETTLE BIG DAMAGE SUIT OUT OF COURT The damage suit of Peter J. Matthews for $25,000 against Clarence Maag and his father, J. A. Maag, has been taken off the Superior Court calendar, it was announced at Sanit Ana today. It is said a settlement was affected out of court. The suit was the result of an auto accident in which young Maag was alleged to have fatally injured Mrs. Mathews on Grand avenue, Santa Ana, in July. Witman, eyesight specialist. FRUIT SALES TODAY PHILADELPHIA: Unchanged oranges, lower lemons; oranges $3.85 to $4.20 lemons $3.60 to $5.25. NEW YORK: Slightly lower lemons, steady oranges; oranges $3.55 to $6.10 lemons $4.30 to $5.45. PITTSBURGH: Higher oranges, steady lemons; oranges $4.20 to $4.80 lemons $4.25. THE THERMOMETER Minimum 47 at 6:30 a.m. Maximum 58 at 1:30 p.m. BUILDING E. M. Schottler 115 E. Alberta-st. O. N. Brower No. Philadelphia-inMrs.Johanns-Bing at 1218 W.Bingham AIN DEALER ING NEWSPAPER OF NORTHERN ORANGE COUNTY Anaheim, California, Thursday, February 23, 1922 UNION PACIFIC PETITIONS FRANCHISE Request Will Be Presented To City Council At Session Tonight. The Union Pacific Ry. will apply to city council tonight for a franchise thru Anaheim. The U. P. right of way is practically parallel to the Santa Fe's from the northern entrance to Santa Ana-st., where plans are made for transfer track to both the Santa Fe and S. P. City officials believe the two transfer tracks mean the U. P. plans to proceed south from Anaheim to Santa Ana over one or both of the established lines. The U. P. right of way thru the city is about 8000 feet long. City officials say the railroad has procured TAYLOR AND ADMIRER BEGIN LAST HALF OF NAT'L ORANGE SHOW SAN BERNARDINO, Feb. 23.—With the coming of Governor W. D. Stephens to the National Orange show Thursday, the last half of the show program is launched. It is also San Gabriel Valley Day, Men's Glee Club of Pomona College will sing, and other features are included in the day's program. Friday, Redlands - Highland day, he Redlands University Glee Clubs will sing, the Redlands High School will play and other features are to be furnished by the Redlands people. Saturday will be So. Calif. Edison so. day in addition to Los Angeles and Pasadena day. The Edison company band will play afternoon and evening. Sunday is American Legion day and Monday home day. The Show will be open all day tunday and will not coose until Monday night, programs being prepared or both the last days. TWO INDIANS GET MARRIAGE LICENSE WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—The first marriage license where both parties were Indians ever issued in the District of Columbia, was made but recently by Col. Kroll, marriage license clerk at the District supreme court to Juilo Gomesy, 27 years old, and Ella MacKinley, 18 years old. The Rev. J. Milton Waltron, pastor of Shiloh Baptist church, performed the ceremony. WHITTIER BUSINESSMAN DEAD WHITTIER, Feb. 23.—Arthur Osman, local business man, is dead, following two operations at the Murphy Memorial Hospital. He was 26. Rev. E. E. Day will conduct funeral services Sat. afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Plymouth Congregational church. The body will be placed temporarily in the Whitttier Heights Memorial Mausoleum. TRACE $1000 DEATH BILL LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23.—Trace of a $1000 bill out of which Harry N. Fields, alias "Harry the Chink," says he was paid $900 for driving the automobile used by the slayer of William Desmond Taylor, was sought by deputy sheriffs in Los Angeles today in checking over Fields' astounding "confession" that he was a member of a narcotic peddling gang that committed the murder for revenge. The deputies planned to visit every bank and branch bank in the city in search for the teller who, according to Fields, "broke" the $1000 bill into ten $100 notes to enable the slayer to pay him for piloting the "murder car." Dispatches from Detroit, where Fields is in jail, stated today that the veracity of Fields' so-called "confession" hinges on the tracing of the $1000 bill and the discovery of the gun used in the slaying which, he said, was hidden here. Sheriff Coffin of Detroit, announced that he has received information from Los Angeles which tends to show that Fields' story of the murder was correct and that he had been informed that the most amazing "dope" ring has been found through Fields' statement to him. Corroborating Fields' confession, it was disclosed today that Taylor, months ago, appealed to federal officers in Los Angeles to help him thwart "dope ring" and save from its clutches a woman he is said to have loved and who, it is claimed, was an addict. The discovery that Taylor instigated a secret investigation by federal officers of traffic in narcotics for the purpose of exposing the "dope" peddlers who were victimizing the woman; today appeared to be concrete evidence to substantiate the theory of the slaying as disclosed by Fields. Field's story to Detroit officers was that the drug ring plotted to kill Taylor because Taylor, to save the woman, enlisted the aid of the federator no effort for Mary Miles Minter to smile at William Desmond Taylor in this photograph, for she frankly admits she greatly admired the motion picture director a MAKE RESERVATIONS FOR ATWOOD DINNER Hon. Harry Atwood, prominent Chicago attorney and one of the best public speakers in the United States, is to be the principal item on the program of Anaheim Chamber of Commerce's monthly members meeting, which is to include one of the famous dinners of the Elks' Home next Monday night, at 7 o'clock, sharp. This entertainment is open to all members and ladies are especially invited. In fact, what Mr. Atwood will have to say is of equal interest to all women, enfranchised as they now are, and standing equally in responsibility as citizens with men. As an author, as well as speaker, Mr. Atwood is equally famous. His clear-cut observations in "Safeguarding American Idols." "Keeping God in American History," and "Back to the Republic," have made him the most noted national authority on our Constitutional rights and privileges. At this early date, over 50 tickets are sold and as the Elks' steward must know how to set the table by noon on Saturday, reservations should immediately be telephoned to the Chamber of Commerce, 665, or tickets procured at that office in due season. The guests will be limited to 150. RESTRACT WOOD ALCOHOL SALE WHITTIER BUSINESSMAN DEAD WHITTIER, Feb. 23.—Arthur Osman, local business man, is dead, following two operations at the Murphy Memorial Hospital. He was 26. Rev. E. E. Day will conduct funeral services Sat., afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Plymouth Congregational church. The body will be placed temporarily in the Whittier Heights Memorial Mausoleum. FORD AGREES TO CHANGES WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—Henry Ford agrees to three changes in the offer for the purchase of Muscle Shoals, Ala.: To furnish fertilizers in finished form at a given minimum tonnage annually; to capitalize the operating company; and to insure the delivery of fertilizer to farmers at a price allowing not over 8 per cent above cost of manufacture. DEMOCRATS ATTACK HARDING WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—Democrats in the Senate sharply attacked President Harding's appointment of none but Republicans on the gilled debt funding commission The appointees are Secretaries Hoover and Hughes, Senator Smoot, of Utah and Representative Burton, of Ohio. RICH GIFTS FOR PRINCESS LONDON, Feb. 23.—Jewels worth hundreds of thousands of dollars have been presented to Princess Mary by the King and Queen and other members of the royal family, the nobility and lasseles, father of the bride room-to-be. Vitman, Eyesight Specialist: For tinting call 596 W. Now is the best time to plant fruit trees. Largest assortment in Southern California at reasonable prices. Also ornamental plants. Orange County Nursery Co., North Los Angeles-st., Phone 654-4. BUILDING PERMITS E. M. Schotter, frame garage at 115 E. Alberta-st., cost $600. O. N. Brower, frame garage at 617 No. Philadelphia-st., cost $200. Mrs.Johanna Higgins, frame dwelling at 1218 W. Broadway, cost $1000 RESTRICT WOOD ALCOHOL SALE SACRAMENTO, Feb. 23.—A law restricting or prohibiting the sale of wood alcohol is urged by a coroner's jury here, which sat in the case of Frank Sherman, victim of the liquid. Ten other persons here have been killed or seriously poisoned by the alcohol in the last few weeks. SAYS HARVEY PRO-BRITISH CHICAGO, Feb. 23.—A bitter denunciation of George Harvey, ambassador to England, was uttered by Senator James A. Reed, of Missouri, in a speech before Chicago Council. Friends of Irish Freedom. Reed said Harvey was England's greatest patriot. WASHINGTON HAD RED HAIR BOSTON, Feb. 23.—George Washington never learned to spell in the usual way, said Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart, the well known historian. He spelt 'glew' and window 'winder', said Hart. The historian also said that the father of his country had red hair, under his wig. BOARD AIDS NAVAL HOME FUND LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23.—The U.S. S. Mississippi band, famous for its syncopated melody and employed by over a year on a well known vaude-ville circuit, will join with the city's mothers' bureau in a drive to raise $50,000 for a recreational building for naval men at Los Angeles harbor. LICENSED TO WED A marriage license was issued today in Santa Ana to William F. S. (Bill) Schumacher and Miss Elizabeth S. Peterson both of Santa Ana. Bill was a former Anaheim resident and is the son of Mrs. Frank Cates. Coal Miners' Strike Seems Inevitable CHICAGO, Feb. 23.—A strike of bituminous coal miners April 1 seemed inevitable today. Only governmental intervention or a split in the ranks of the union and acceptance of a lower scale can avert the walkout, it is bollied. The meeting called for Cleveland, March 2, between mine workers and operators will not be held, according to general opinion. WHEN THRU WITH YOUR PLAIN DEALER, MAIL IT TO EASTERN FRIENDS—IT MAY BRING THEM TO ANAHEIM, FASTEST GROWING CITY IN ORANGE COUNTY. TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR GASSER LONG DISTANCE PHONES PUT OUT OF COMMISSION With a roar that could be heard for miles around, Howard Well No. 1, a third gasser of the Union Oil Company of California, blew out at about 2 o'clock this morning near Santa Fe Springs. The volume of gas emerging from the new gasser is even greater than that which came from Bell Well No. 2, recently afire, and there is the menace again of fire by friction. The presence of a subterranean gas chamber, possibly a mile long, is indicated as possible by the blowing out of the third gasser in the same immediate vicinity, officials say. The new well is about half mile from Bell Well No. 2, and a little west of Alexander No. 1, the first of the three gassers. It lies right along the Norwalk-Puente road between Santa Fe Springs and Los Nietos. The company still is convinced that the Santa Fe Springs field is a genuine oil field and not a gas field, because gas sand has not yet been found in quantity, it is declared. The new well is about half mile from Bell Well No. 2, and a little west of Alexander No. 1, the first of the three gassers. It lies right along the Norwalk-Puente road between Santa Fe Springs and Los Nietos. The company still is convinced that the Santa Fe Springs field is a genuine oil field and not a gas field, because gas sand has not yet been found in quantity, it is declared. Gas is belching from the well at the rate of several millions cubic feet per day. The derrick and all machinery were lost while houses and other property in the neighborhood are endangered by the rain of sand and boulders shot into the sky. Long distance telephone service between Anaheim and Los Angeles was crippled today by the bombardment of wires near the well. Traffic is cut off near the gasser while a cordon of guards keep curious at a distance. The Bell gasser, in which the fire was put out several days ago, is still belching gas in as great volume as ever. The great gas creater has thrown up about itself a mud dike between 20 and 30 feet high. The gasser which came in today did so gradually, gather momentum slowly. But for fear that it would break loose suddenly, it is believed that it could have been capped rapidly. All oil derricks in the Santa Fe Springs are being equipped with a special cable from the top for emergency use of derrickmen caught upstairs when one of the great gassers cuts loose. The derrickmen are required to practice sliding down the cable. To date no ollmen have been seriously hurt as the gassers came in. JOHN KEMPER BUYS LEHMBERG RANCH Five acres of bearing Valencias three miles west of Anaheim have been sold by E. W. Lehmberg to John Kemper, both of Anaheim. Kemper takes possession immediately. The exchange was made thrue the Orange-co Realty Co., which is moving from 179 W. Center-st., to 133 So. Los Angeles-st., where Geo. M. Ross and Walter J. Ross are interested in the Golden State Motor Co. S. S. COLLINS MAKES YORBA LINDA HOME S. S. Collins, of Anaheim R. R. D. 5, county horticultural inspector, is moving to Yorba Linda where he will build a home on his valencia ranch—five acres of ten-year-olds and five of three-year-olds. George Sloop, fumigation inspector, will act as horticultural inspector thru the Anaheim district this summer. ISSUE $50,000 PERMIT FOR HEAD APTS. Building Inspector Price today issued a permit for the $50,000 apartment house of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Head at Los Angeles and Sycamore-st., across from the Elks' club. Work is already well started on the foundation. This brings the building permit total for the year todate to $187,000 and for the month to date to $104,-000. Several more large permits are in sight, for early release, including a $60,000 duplex court on No. Lemont-st., $100,000 business block for Arnold Kraemer at Center and Emily-st., Hartman business and apartment bldg., on Senter-st., near Olive-st., $75,000 city hall, Concordia club, etc. TELLS OF MESSAGE OF 'WOMAN SCORNED' LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23.—A beauty parlor love rendezvous hold by J. Belton Kennedy and Mrs. Madelynne C. Obenchain was the story the prosecution prepared to lay before the jury trying Mrs. Madelynne C. Obenchain on the charge of plotting the murder of Kennedy when her trial was resumed today after three days' recess in Superior Judge Reeve's court. Louise M. Wilson, proprietor of a downtown beauty parlor, was the witness when the state was ready to call for the purpose of telling the beauty parlor side of the love affair between Mrs. Obenchain and the wealthy young broker with whose death she and Arthur C.-Burch are charged. It was said that both the principals in the tragic love affair made a confident of Mrs. Wilson. It was to the proprietor of an exclusive beauty shop that Mrs. Obenchain, after waiting in vain at San Francisco for young Kennedy to carry out his alleged agreement to go there and marry her, wrote the postcard carrying the phrase: "I'm going to Honolulu and he can go to the Dickens." This card was introduced in the Burch trial by the state as evidence tending to prove the state's theory that Mrs. Obenchain was a "woman scorned" and as such she plotted with S. S. COLLINS MAKES YORBA LINDA HOME S. S. Collins, of Anaheim R. R. D. 5, county horticultural inspector, is moving to Yorba Linda where he will build a home on his valencia ranch—five acres of ten-year-olds and five of three-year-olds. George Sloop, fumigation inspector, will act as horticultural inspector thru the Anaheim district this summer. CHARGE JEWELRY THEFT FAKE LONG BRANCH, N. J., Feb. 23. — Charged with faking a $50,000 jewelry robbery in order to obtain the insurance money on her jewels, Mrs. Sarah H. Robertson is being held by the police. The "robber," John Bailey, a youth of this city, confessed that he was offended for his part. Bailey used only a leather pipe case for a pistol and the "bag of jewels" contained only tissue paper. POSTPONE IRISH ELECTION DUBLIN, Feb. 23. — South Ireland factions, at a conference in the Mansion House between Griffith and Collins, pro-treaty champions, and De Valera and Austin Stack, who stand for the republic agreed to hold together and postpone the election until the Free States constitution was ready. BUILDING TRADES WAGES OUT MEMPHIS, Tenn., Feb. 23. — Building trades wages will be cut from eight to 20 per cent in 23 cities and remain unchanged in 14, says Guy C. Mills, chairman of the labor and wages committee of the National Association of Builders Exchanges. MINERS AND R. R. MEN INVITE CHICAGO, Feb. 23. — An agreement on "closer cooperation of our forces which will cooperate to protect more effectively the interests engaged in mining and transportation" was renched between officers of the miners' union and chief railway brotherhoods. If it's from Witman's it's good. Lagourgue does painting. Phone 596 W. YANTZ PURCHASE BUSINESS PROPERTY H. W. Yantz has purchased from John Molt a business lot on West Center street. This lot is located ideally for business purposes as it has a frontage on both West Center and Lincoln, Mr. Yantz has purchased the lot for an investment. Negotiations for the sale were made through the offices of Harold Clairmont, "Greater Anaheim Realtor," who represented both parties in the transaction. MAY HOLD SPECIAL SESSION CAL. SOLONS WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. — A special session of California legislature will be called if congress acts soon on the reapportionment, according to word received here today from Governor Stephens. PIONEER WRITER DEAD BERKELEY, Feb. 23. — Mrs. Nellie Blessing Eyster is dead here at 92. She was a pioneer writer of short stories and children's books, president Emeritus of the League of American Pen Women and honorary president of the Pacific Coast Women's Press Association. PAPERS ASK POSTAGE CUT CHICAGO, Feb. 23. — Cut in postage rates on second class matter to the 1919 level is asked Congress by the Inland Daily Press Association. The resolution says that the difference of 300 per cent over the prewar rate is a hardship on publishers. The Pacific Coffee Store is moving Saturday, Feb. 25, to 211 E. Centre