oc-plain-dealer 1922-05-18

BUILDING PERMITS TELL STORY OF ANAHEIM'S GROWTH Year 1921 $1,254,375 No. of Permits 564 Year 1920 879,980 No. of Permits 362 Plain LEADING NEWS VOL. XXV—NO. 241 EFKER FA Laundry Formally Open BIGINDUSTRY OPENED TO PUBLIC Street Dance Under Colored Lights Will be Feature of Theodores' "Blowout" The biggest affair of the kind ever staged in Anaheim will be the formal opening tonight of the Anaheim Laundry Co.'s new building on So. Lemon-st. Extensive preparations were being made today to suit a gala affair. Colored elec-fights were strung across Lemon-st. for a block. ORANGE SHOW ATTENDANCE CO BEST GUESS WORTH $5 Contest Editor of The Plain Dealer: I guess that the total paid attendance Second California Valencia Orange Show (Write figures plainly) Name Address (This coupon must be in Plain Dealer office before 9 a.m., May 23.) Street Dance Under Colored Lights Will be Feature of Theodores’ “Blowout” The biggest affair of the kind ever staged in Anaheim will be the formal opening tonight of the Anaheim Laundry Co.’s new building on So. Lemon-st. Extensive preparations were being made today to give it a gala affair. Colored lights were strung across Lemon-st. for a block. Street dancing will be enjoyed with music provided by Fellinge’s orchestra. There will be hundreds of folding chairs for those who don’t care to dance. Great stacks of paper hats, horns, feathers and other carnival features await the merry-makers. Great quantities of punch and ice cream will be served the crowds that the Messrs. Gus, Nicholas and George Theodore, the owners and proprietors, have invited to their blow-out,” as they term it. The plant, which laundrymen’s journals and laundry machinery manufactures pronounce the most up-to-date in the entire United States, will be in full operation for the benefit of the visitors from seven to ten o’clock tonight. Everyone of the 45 to 50 employees, composing one of the city’s largest payrolls, will be seen at his or her post. All of the employees are always dressed in white. With the modern equipment and the light, airy plant, the girls never get warm enough to necessitate a second application of talcum powder to their faces. While a big feature of the plant will not be so apparent tonight, that wonderful daylight lighting facilities possible from the vast amount of glass, the electric lighting arrangement will make the plant as light as day tonight. One of the machines that will be of especial interest to the housewife tonight is the curtain ironer. Since its installation two months ago, the plant has handled more lace curtains than in all the years since Theocore Bros. purchased the old plant in 1912. All the machinery throughout the plant is up-to-the-minute. Another interesting feature that will be noted tonight is the absence of pipes and wires, all such having been buried beneath the concrete floor. In fact, almost as much money was invested under the floor as there was in the beautiful enameled brick building above it. Each machine is operated by individual motor. If you want to have a good time tonight and cars to have an insight into one of Anaheim’s principal industries, one in which we may all be proud, drop down on So. Lemon-st. between seven and ten tonight.” NINETEEN DIE IN PREPARE FOR BIG CROWD AT SHOW What will be the attendance at the Second California Valencia Orange show? There's five dollars for the one making the best guess on the total paid attendance at the exposition which opens next Tuesday, May 23 and terminates the following Tuesday, Decoration day, May 30. The show is open eight days and nights. The Plain Dealer offers the prize. There are no strings tied to it. Just fill out the enclosed blank and send or bring to the Contest Editor. The Plain Dealer. It is open to anybody anywhere. Last year’s total paid attendance was about 40,000 while concessionaires and others constantly passing thru the gates on passes brot the attendance up close to the 50,000 mark. Nearly $14,000 was taken in at the grate last year. At 50 cents for adults, this would have made an attendance of 28,000 adults. But there were children at 25 cents per ticket, which brot the paid attendance up to about 40,000. The attendance last year, of course, was greatly limited by the continued rainy weather and the fact that it was the first show staged. This year the management is making preparations for a minimum attendance of 120,000 and is expecting 200,000. In fact, that many tickets have been printed. So, send in your guess at once. None received after 9 a.m. Tuesday, opening day of the show. Remember, it is for the TOTAL PAID AT-TENDANCE. BUENA PARK LAND SELLS AT INCREASE The prospect of the Standard Oil Co. obtaining an active well at Buena Park has caused a lot of excitement among real estate men and speculators in land. Some sales recently have been consummated netting rich profits to the sellers. One of the most important of these was that of August Bendulum, who sold 20 acres purchased two years at. At the noon meeting on heim Realty Board today A. White, regional director California Real Estate Co. from Santa Ana, and Holliams, president of the Realty Board met with board to arrange for Real at the Valencia Orange Show Day, May 28. The board southern end of Orange City very enthusiastic over Day. They feel an interest in show because it is an Ortaity and Southern California tuition. All the Orange County Board going to the Realtors’ Long Bench Saturday and Orange County and Orta propoganda. It is hoped that everyone in Southoria will grasp the significance Realtors’ Day this year out in large numbers on further plans of the bring a large number of from other states out to Show on Realtors’ Day nounced by Secretary A. grove, who said that he and those of Fullerton, Orta Santa Ana, expected to get as 1,000 of them out tour of the county. These from outside California willing to attend the annual conference of the National Association Estate Boards to be held Francisco May 30-June 3. avan northward from Los Angeles to Bakersfield, Lindsay, not start until the 29th, or that day and the 30th. The local board hopes to full cooperation of the other in the plan. PRESSELL KICKED IN FACE BY H Carl A. Pressell is sufferer a severely cut cheek which will be noted tonight is the absence of pipes and wires, all such having been buried beneath the concrete floor. In fact, almost as much money was invested under the floor as there was in the beautiful enameled brick building above it. Each machine is operated by individual motor. If you want to have a good time tonight and cars to have an insight into one of Anaheim's principal industries, one in which we may all be proud, drop down on So. Lemon-st between seven and ten tonight." NINETEEN DIE IN HOSPITAL FIRE ROME, May 18.—Nineteen persons were burned to death or asphyxiated today when the Santo Spirito hospital, near St. Peters, was swept by fire, according to official announcement. Eight hundred patients were impaired. Four besides those dead were seriously burned, one fatally. Several firemen and guards were injured during heroic rescue work. Some victims leaped from high windows. A great crowd of relatives of patients fought to get near the hospital. Pitiful cries went up from those peeking to struggle through the lines. By a freak of fate, the ward where incarcerates were treated, was first destroyed. SO. DAK. MAN BUYS 4 JONES TRACT LOTS W. Hamler, of Lyndon & Plain, today reported the sale of four lots in the Jones tract to C. C. Heinert, of So. Dak. Mr. Reinert plans to build when he returns from So. Dak, in the fall. Hamler announced there were only three lots left facing Lemon-st in the Jones tract. BUILDING PERMITS C. P. Beardslee, frame residence and garage, at 716 No. Olive-st, cost $3000. W. G. Allen, frame temporary residence at 712 No. Topeka-st, cost $300. For tinting call 596W. BUENA PARK LAND SELLS AT INCREASE The prospect of the Standard Oil Co. obtaining an active well at Buena Park has caused a lot of excitement among real estate men and speculators in land. Some sales recently have been consummated netting rich profits to the sellers. One of the most important of these was that of August Bendulum, who sold 20 acres purchased two years ago for $6,000, at $22,500, to Joseph W. Cline, a broker of Log Angeles. Several additional tracts are being put on the market, undivided shares in oil royalties, etc., constituting one of the attractions. The land in the vicinity of prospective wells of the Standard and the Petroleum Midway is especially in demand. SHIP HELPLESS IN BANK OF FOG MARSHFIELD, Ore., May 18. — Somewhere southwest of Cape Blanco, under a gray blanket of fog, drifts the motor ship Ozmo with nine men of her crew on board, her engines disabled, and at least 14 ft. of water in her hold and her wireless out of commission. Somewhere on the seas off the Oregon coast drifts also a lifeboat with nine other men, a part of the crew of the Ozmo, who took to the frail craft frTom the motor ship early yesterday. They have not been seen since. JOINT CENTER MEETINGS A meeting of a group of farm owners, those of Anaheim, Fullerton, Yorba Linda, Lafayette, Buena Pais, Cypress and Garden Grove, will be held at Anaheim at a date to be announced later by the Orange County Farm Bureau, to discuss road preservations in the county. Similar meetings will be held at Orange and El Toro by different groups. APHIS ATTACKS CITRUS TREES The green and black plant lice or aphis is attacking the tender growth of citrus trees, nursery stock, etc., to an unusual extent, owing to the favorable weather, says H. E. Wahlberg, Farm Advisor. The infected growth is stunted, unless controlled by spraying or dusting applications. ECONOMY DAY STOCK Men's Engineer and Fireman Blue Chambray Work St 45-inch Imp. Organders; Mercerized Table Damash $2:00 value Gingham D Pure Silk Hose 1 pt. Peroxide Buster Brown Camera Bungalow Aprons Bear Brand Hosiery pr. Men's Pongee Silk Shirt $3x42 Turkish Towel Holland Herring Special All Kinds of Cheese, lb. Crotonne, yard Pereales, yard Cup Cakes, dozen Ladies' Vici Kid Oxfordes Union Suits, Balbriggan a Ladies' White Canvas On Ladies' Low Heel Jazz On Japanese Sun Shades Women's House Slippers Hats, $8.50 values Women's Vests $2½ x45 Heavy Bath Towels 10-inch Volles, yard AIN DEALER BROAD NEWSPAPER OF NORTHERN ORANGE COUNTY Anaheim, California, Thursday, May 18, 1922 FACES REVOLT y Opened Tonight ATTENDANCE COUPON WORTH $5 in Dealer: paid attendance to the Orange Show will be res plainly) SCHOOL KIDS FREE TUES. TO SHOW Workmen Busy All Night Fixing Decorations for Big Exposition All school children of Anaheim and Orange-co. generally are cordially invited to visit the California Valencia Orange Show between the hours of 2 and 6, next Tuesday, May 23, which is the opening day of the show. There will be special music for the kiddies to be furnished by Dead Wife's Spirit Guide to Marriage CHICAGO, May 18.—Plans of Vincenzo Gullotta to marry are being guided by the spirit of his dead wife, he stated today in announcing he plarned to wed Miss Helen Rogers, a school teacher. Gullotta, a violinist on the stage, living at Aurora, Ill., said his wife returned to him a few months after her death last August. "I was lonely and brooding," Gullotta said, "She urged me to get out and meet youth and vitality and love." "The spirit of my dead wife guided me to Miss Rogers and we are now planning our wedding." GUN FLASHED IN DISPUTE REALTY DAY AT ORANGE EXPO SUN. At the noon meeting of the Anaheim Realty Board today, Everett White, regional director of the California Real Estate Association from Santa Ana, and Howard Williams, president of the Orange County board met with the local court to arrange for Realtors' Day at the Valencia Orange Show, Sunday, May 28. The boards of the southern end of Orange County are enthusiastic over Realtors' day. They feel an interest in the law because it is an Orange County and Southern California institution. All the Orange County boards are going to the Realtors' picnic at Big Bench Saturday and spread orange County and Orange Show opoganda. It is hoped that realism everywhere in Southern California will grasp the significance of Realtors' Day this year and turn in large numbers on that day. Further plans of the board to engage a large number of realtors on other states out to the Orange now on Realtors' Day were announced by Secretary A. E. Harvee, who said that his board, those of Fullerton, Orange and Santa Ana, expected to get as many 1,000 of them out here on a road of the county. These realtors outside California will be come to attend the annual convention of the National Association of Real Estate Boards to be held in San Francisco May 30-June 3. The caravan northward from Los Angeles Bakersfield, Lindsay, etc., will start until the 29th, occupying day and the 30th. The local board hopes to get the cooperation of the other boards the plan. ESSELL KICKED IN FACE BY HORSE Carl A. Pressell is suffering from severely cut check which he sus- Workmen Busy All Night Fixing Decorations for Big Exposition All school children of Anaheim and Orange co. generally are cordially invited to visit the California Valencia Orange Show between the hours of 2 and 6, next Tuesday, May 23, which is the opening day of the show. There will be special music for the kiddies to be furnished by the Royal Italian Marine Band sent to the Exposition with the compliments of the City Council of Santa Monica for this occasion. Carlo Bravo, a distinguished tenor and Ethelyn Ostrom, operatic soprano, are also to be on hand, having been engaged by the city of Santa Monica, a compliment to the Exposition on its opening day. These two singers rank with the nest on the Pacific Coast, and will sing aria and duets to the accompaniment of this celebrated band. Teachers in charge of their classes will also be admitted free. A telephone call is being sent from the Exposition headquarters to the superintendents of schools in each city, town and settlement in Orange co. carrying this cordial invitation to the children and their teachers and it is expected that several thousand will attend. The decorators after working all last night have one half of the overhead decorative scheme suspended and by midnight all the overhead decorations in the Exposition will be set and ready to light. In the floral overhead decorations of the citrus department, Mr. P. C. Allen states that there are nearly 3,000,000 paper blossoms. This alone weighs several hundred pounds although they look as airy as tissue paper. The express on the paper from which these blossoms are made, ran to nearly $60. The electric fountain, now being put in by the National Orange Show at San Bernardino, will be ready to illuminate by midnight Saturday. Paadena and Whittier C. of C. have their men on the ground installing their respective feature exhibits this morning and Balboa's feature is well under way. Today finds Mutual Orange Distributors of Redlands with their large combined rack and feature entry fairly well advanced and Tom Anderson, director for American Fruit Growers Inc., took charge of his large rack space early today and promises to make a very effective showing with us. La Habra C. of C., backed by the packers in that district, are taking 20 feet in the center of the racks at the rear of the citrus department. In this space they are decorating the corners with small derricks and at the sides are building a semi feature exhibit to draw attention to the magnitude of the oil interests in hat flourishing settlement. GUN FLASHED IN DISPUTE OVER GAS. A John Doe warrant for assault against one Newell, proprietor of a filling station near Irvine, was issued today by the District Attorney's office on charges preferred by Mrs. E. Danforth of Santa Ana. According to the story which Mrs. Donforth told Deputy District Attorney C. N. Mozley, she and her son, Frank, and Mrs. Josie Rink stopped at the station at about 7 o'clock last night and asked the proprietor to furnish her with two gallons of gasoline. The proprietor, believed to be Newell, was upstairs, and refused to come down. Mrs. Danforth pleaded with him and coaxed him for about 45 minutes. Finally he came down stairs and sold her a gallon and one-half of gasoline, charging her for two gallons, she said. The alleged shortage resulted in a dispute in the course of which Newell seized and struck her, she said. Her son Frank came to her rescue and Newel released her. Meanwhile, a woman, believed to have been Newell's wife appeared with a revolver, prepared for action. The car which the three occupied was so empty of gasoline that they had to push it a considerable distance before they came to the vicinity of the station. HUGE LIQUOR RING PLOT DISCLOSED LOS ANGELES, May 18—Several new and important developments came today in the federal investigation of the alleged smuggling plot revealed at Long Beach when the launch Hollywood run aground there with 123 cases of liquor valued at about $30,000, on board. Prohibition Agent D. J. O'Leary said today that the case promises to develop into the biggest liquor conspiracy case ever investigated by The Southern California dry officers. First, three more men were declared to have fallen under suspicion of complicity in the alleged conspiracy to violate the Volstead act. Two of these, according to prohibition agents, are prominent motion picture." Bakersfield, Lindsey, etc., will start until the 29th, occupying day and the 30th. The local board hopes to get the cooperation of the other boards the plan. ESSELL KICKED IN FACE BY HORSE Arl A. Pressell is suffering from severely cut cheek which he sustained yesterday afternoon while riding a horse. He was taken to hospital where the wound was used. The outside of his cheek one straight gash and the inner is badly cut and bruised from eeth. Altho the wound is painless is able to be about town and be back on the job in a few days. DELAY ALMOND POLICY NAN FRANCISCO, May 18. The Bernia Almond Growers' exece will not outline a policy for coming year until after June 1, as announced here today. VOTE TO HANG BURCH IF GUILTY, IS CHARGE LOS ANGELES, May 18. The first plea in behalf of Arthur C. Burton in his retrial on the charge of murdering J. Belton Kennedy was opened by Leo Silverstein, associate counsel for defense, when Burton's trial was resumed in Judge Sidney Reeve's court today. Silverstein followed Deputy District Attorney Asa Keyes, who finished his argument with a demand that the jury vote to hang Burch if it believed him guilty. AWAIT REPAIRS TO FAIRYLAND THEATER The date of re-opening of the Fairyland Theatre depends upon how soon the owner, John Cassou, can complete the repairs to the projection room, following the recent fire, Manager G. T. Ingram said today. The West Coast Theaters, Inc., the lessees, will be ready at any time to install their equipment, Ingram said. SCORES FLEE FROM INCENDIARY FIRE LOS ANGELES, May 18. A score of persons were driven to the street in their nightclothing early today when incendiaries set fire to a rooming house in North Belmont street, according to the police and fire authorities. Three beds in unoccupied rooms of the second floor of the establishment, said to be conducted by Caroline McMillan, were set afire. HARVEY LOVELAND REPORTED DYING SAN FRANCISCO, May 18. The death of Col. Harvey D. Loveland, critically ill at his home here, was feared today. Col. Loveland is the oldest member of the state railroad commission. TEN YEARS ON WAY NEW YORK, May 18. A postal card mailed Jan. 27, 1911, from Flemington, N.J., has just been delivered, police Lieutenant Katcher informed postoffice officials. If it's from Witman', it's good. 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 EVOLVER PROBE VISIT OF PAIR TO K. K. K. LETTER RECIPIENT Herman J. Efker, proprietor of the Anaheim Novelty Company, was threatened with violence Tuesday eve between 5:30 and 6:00 o'clock, by a man who gave his name as Harry Diamond. Detective L. R. James of the Nick Harris detective agency accompanied Diamond into Efker's store. In the course of Diamond's confab, Diamond drew a gun, pressed it against Efker's side, and asked him if there was any money in the safe. Efker replied that he didn't keep money in the safe, but that if Diamond wanted any money to go to the cash register and help himself. Diamond replied that if, in the future, Efker should have his place rifled not to blame it upon the Ku Klux Klan. Efker is the merchant who received a letter on Ku Klux Klan stationery, telling him not to talk Efker is the merchant who received a letter on Ku Klux Klan stationery, telling him not to talk so much about the Klan. James is the detective who went to Efker and offered to run down the sender of the letter. Later District Attorney A. P. Nelson revealed the fact that James is or was up to March 31 a member of the Klan. Diamond, when he first entered the store, presented an Elk's card to Efker, who himself is an Elk. He then demanded that Efker take back what he had said about James. Efker replied that he had nothing to take back; that whatever he had said was the truth. The drawing of the pistol followed. Diamond did not go to the cash register. Before the two men could leave, local police appeared, took Diamond off and had him arraigned on a charge of carrying concealed weapons before Judge J. S. Howard, who finally released him on his own recognizance, to re-appear at 9:30 this morning. Diamond was stopping at the Antlers Hotel and represented himself to be a clairvoyant. Today his sigh had vanished from the hotel and he is believed to have left the city. Later in the evening Diamond visited the Valencia Hotel and asked to use the local telephone. He called up several persons here, talking very profanely. Therefore when he came back to use the telephone again his request was refused. Whereon he laid a pistol upon the counter and told F. W. Diehl, son of J. W. Diehl, the proprietor, that he had been in the service of the government for years. Young Diehl replied that he had been in the service himself for four years. Whereupon Diamond slipped the pistol back into his pocket and walked out. Today District Attorney A. P. Nelson and Judge Howard listened to the story of Efker at Judge Howard's office. Efker alleged that James had been visiting him almost daily for some two weeks, principally in regard to the Klan matter. Nelson assured Efker that he would be given the full protection of the county authorities. In the disappearance of Diamond, who is thought to have been no clairvoyant at all, it is believed the source of the letter to James H. American Hot Dog Popular In France WASHINGTON, May 18—The American "hot dog" is the king of sausages in France. American Agent Montgomery, in an official report to Secretary Hoover, said American sausages have gained wide favor among Frenchmen. French sausage makers, losing because of American competition and the unpopularity of their own product, seek higher tariff, to assure larger market for the domestic output. FLEEING TRIO GRABBED AT LUDLOW Theima Jensen, 14-year-old daughter of Albert Jensen, and companions, Raymond McClune, 18, and Raleigh Taylor, 17, were apprehended at 5 p.m. Wednesday at Ludlow, near Victorville, Cal. V. Barnhill, Fullerton motorcycle officer, went after the trio today. Taylor will face a charge of kidnaping and a similar charge may be brot against McClune, it was stated today. McClune is said to have furnished the auto with which the youthful elopers left at 2 a.m. yesterday. According to Fullerton police, the young people apparently planned to drive to Nevada and be married. The girl is a blonde and strikingly pretty. She is not over developed for her age. VACANT LOTS ARE BEING CLEANED UP Many vacant lots in the city are being cleaned up today, official Cleanup Day. The cleanup and paintup movement, in fact, has been gathering momentum for several days. Owners who have not yet acted now are provided with some illustrations of how large an area get out and refuse to be refused to walk pleaded for about came down on and one other for two legged short-course and struck frank came released her believed to appear for action, occupied that they distance unity of the ING LOSED Several developments investigated plot when the sound there valued at O'Leary promises to quor conceded by the officers were desaspliciond conspiract. Two prohibition Today District Attorney A. P. Nelson and Judge Howard listened to the story of Efker at Judge Howard's office. Efker alleged that James had been visiting him almost daily for some two weeks, principally in regard to the Klan matter. Nelson assured Efker that he would be given the full protection of the county authorities. In the disappearance of Diamond, who is thought to have been no clairvoyant at all, it is believed the source of the letter to James H. Clark, former proprietor of the Valencia Hotel, who was accused of various crimes and ordered to leave town, also has been traced. District Attorney Nelson was closed with Judge Howard again this afternoon. Asked whether Diamond's name appeared on the list of Klan members furnished him by District Attorney Thomas Lee Woolwine of Los Angeles county, Nelson said he didn't remember whither it was or not. Nelson said personally that he would not push the case against Diamond unless Diamond reappeared in the county. Diamond and James appear to have been here together repeatedly, and Diamond's association with James, if no other fact, has brought him under suspicion of being a Klan member. Carrying concealed weapons, the charge brought against Diamond, is only a misdemeanor, Nelson said, intimating that it was not worthwhile being pushed outside the county. Nelson intimated further that he was not prosecuting the Klan as such, but acting only in his official capacity. This list of Klan members in the county Nelson said he kept locked up, and no one but himself had access to it. On this account, the District Attorney said, it would be useless to authorize one of his deputies to examine the list. He will do so, however, when he returns to Santa Ana tonight. The red automobile of the Nick Harris Detective agency, or a duplicate of it, which has been often parked in the streets here, was parked nearly in front of Judge Howard's office on South Los Angeles street this afternoon, but James had not yet been interviewed by Judge Howard and Nelson today. Herman J. Efker again visited Nelson and Judge Howard this afternoon and furnished additional information on the case. VACANT LOTS ARE BEING CLEANED UP Many vacant lots in the city are being cleaned up today, official Cleanup Day. The cleanup and paintup movement, in fact, has been gathering momentum for several days. Owners who have not yet acted now are provided with some illustrations of how large an improvement can be effected with a little work. The work of repairing a water connection on West Center street, which has been responsible for a stream of water between and near the northeast and northwest corners of West Center and North Lemon streets, is being finished. This stream has existed for weeks at this point. To the various other benefits from the cleanup and paintup campaign that of increased healthfulness has application here and in some other cases. ALLIES HALTED IN U. S. INVITATION GENOA, May 18—Plans for convening powers at the economic conference to sending a second invitation to the United States to join in the meeting at The Hague next month for appointment of a mixed commission on Rusisa were halted abruptly today by Richard Washburn Child, American ambassador to Italy. H. V. WEISEL BUYS CHAS. BOEGE HOME H. V. Weisel has purchased the residence property of Chas. A. Boege, at 1114 W. Center-st. It includes a frontage of 110 feet on W. Center-st., and is 151-feet deep. Boege expects to move into his new home in the Park View tract June 1. FRUIT SALES TODAY NEW YORK: Easier and lower Valencias; oranges $5.15 to $10. PITTSBURGH: Higher oranges; oranges $6.10, lemons $4.90. BOSTON: Higher oranges and lemons; oranges $5.15 to $8.15, lemons $4.90 to $5.05. Plain Dealer for Good Job Printing.