oc-plain-dealer 1923-07-16

RILEY REPORTS ON ROTARY CONVENTION Orange-co was well-represented at the annual convention of Rotary International at St. Louis, Harry D. Riley, official delegate told Rotarians today at their weekly luncheon in the Ellis' clubhouse. The delegates included Bill Irwin of Fullerton and Bill Spurgeon of Santa Ana, both of whom had their wives with them, Frank Henderson of Orange and his son and Harry Anderson of Huntington Beach. Riley displayed photos of the Hotel Statler, St. Louis, the convention headquarters, and also of the coliseum, which seats 14,000 and can seat he said, 20,000. The building was jammed when President Harding addressed the convention. Mrs. Harding was on the platform with the president when the latter was introduced by President Havena of Rotary International. The President's remark that "if he could find Rotary in every community throughout the world he would guarantee the tranquility and the forward march of the world," pleased his hearers immediately. "Service is the greatest thing in the world," the President continued. "You're saving America from a sorrowful existence and putting a little more soul in the life of this Republic." The symbolic pageant which opened the convention "for sheer poetic beauty" surpassed anything Riley ever saw, he declared. Riley's itinerary has already appeared in these columns. Some 15 visitors were present at today's luncheon. BEATS ONE VICTIM; FLEES WITH OTHER (By International News Service) LOS ANGELES, July 16.—The so-called "badge bandit," after an absence of several weeks, reappeared early today when he held up Ray Durkee and Miss Marie Celler while motoring to Lankershim. After dragging Durkee from the automobile, the bandit struck him over the head with a blackjack, then drove away with the girl, letting her out five miles down the road. Durkee reported to the sheriff's office that the bandit was well-represented at the annual convention of Rotary International at St. Louis, Harry D. Riley, official delegate told Rotarians today at their weekly luncheon in the Ellis' clubhouse. The delegates included Bill Irwin of Fullerton and Bill Spurgeon of Santa Ana, both of whom had their wives with them, Frank Henderson of Orange and his son and Harry Anderson of Huntington Beach. Riley displayed photos of the Hotel Statler, St. Louis, the convention headquarters, and also of the coliseum, which seats 14,000 and can seat he said, 20,000. The building was jammed when President Harding addressed the convention. Mrs. Harding was on the platform with the president when the latter was introduced by President Havena of Rotary International. The President's remark that "if he could find Rotary in every community throughout the world he would guarantee the tranquility and the forward march of the world," pleased his hearers immediately. "Service is the greatest thing in the world," the President continued. "You're saving America from a sorrowful existence and putting a little more soul in the life of this Republic." The symbolic pageant which opened the convention "for sheer poetic beauty" surpassed anything Riley ever saw, he declared. Riley's itinerary has already appeared in these columns. Some 15 visitors were present at today's luncheon. LOCAL INVESTORS PLEASED WITH PLANT Dividend checks of 4% a month which have been received by local people, partners with John H. and George Wentz in the casinghead gasoline business at Santa Fe Springs have aroused the highest of enthusiasm for the small offering of stock being made by the syndicate of local men, headed by Harry D. Riley, and Dr. H. A. Johnston. These men and their associates plan the immediate erection of three casing head gasoline plants at Santa Fe Springs and Huntington Beach. The name of the company is the Richfield Southern Oil Co. The offering of stock is rapidly being taken up and this is rapidly being taken up by the men heading the deal and by their friends. The Wentzs are stockholders with Mr. Riley and Dr. Johnston and their knowledge of the business, together with their control of natural gas contracts on 160 acres at Santa Fe Springs, and their control of the "Newton Process" of gasoline extraction has assured the success of the new enterprise. Already a large portion of the $100,000 has been placed in the Anaheim National Bank and actual construction work on the first plant is expected to start within two weeks. Mr. John Wentz, construction manager of the manufacturing company which builds and supervises the "Newton Process" plants will have charge of the erection of the Richfield Southern's plants. The success attained by the Western Gasoline Co., started only four months ago and has been paying dividends past few months at the rate of 4% per month and the profits from which these dividends were paid were made from the operation of only one plant to one third capacity. The casing head gasoline which is of high gravity is used by straight run refineries to blend with that of a lower grade and made the commercial gasoline used in motor vehicles. The Wentzs are now selling their casing head gasoline at 10 cents per gallon at the plant, the lowest price in years for this product. During last year the average price was 17½ cents. One of the big points which worked for such a success was the control for such a success was the control for such a success was the control for such a success was the control for such a success was the control for such a success was the control for such a success was the control for such a success was the control for such a success was the control for such a success was the control for such a success was the control for such a success was the control for such a success was FLEES WITH OTHER (By International News Service) LOS ANGELES, July 16.—The so-called "badge bandit," after an absence of several weeks, reappeared early today when he held up Ray Durkee and Miss Marie Celler while motoring to Lankershim. After dragging Durkee from the automobile, the bandit struck him over the head with a blackjack, then drove away with the girl, letting her out five miles down the road. Durkee reported to the sheriff's office that the bandit stopped him and flashed an officer's badge. After coming to a stop Durkee said the bandit robbed him of $20 and the machine. BAD CHECKS CHARGED TO EX-CONGRESSMAN WASHINGTON, July 16.—A warrant for the arrest of Clarence Van Duser, congressman from Nevada, was issued here this afternoon on the charge of passing worthless checks. Miss Alice Decker, a Washington business woman, charged Van Duser had given a bad check for $1100. The former congressman was twice arrested here on similar charges. BERGER HALF ACRES ON THE One may find the pleasurable been hard BEEN HARD 'THE PLAYG' Where Boating is Safest. Deep Sea Fi "THE K Bathing____Fish POLICE SEEK DEAD MAN'S IDENTITY The Santa Ana police and Sheriff Sam Jernigan's office have another dead man to identify. The body of a man of around 55 or 60, well dressed, but without any means of identification, was found lying in the Santa Fe railway yards at Santa Ana Saturday afternoon. Beside the corpse lay a bottle containing a powder said to be cynalde of potassium. Whether the man killed himself, as surmised, will be decide dat the inquest in Smith & Tuthill's undertaking parlors, Santa Ana, where the body now is. The inquest will be held tomorrow morning, beginning probably at 10 a.m. The man wore a brown moustache and there was a discoloration about the left eye. On the left arm were marks as of a hypodermic needle, and the police believe he was a dope user. He had been seen alive in the railway yards on Friday. City Marshal Claude Rogers and Sheriff Sam Jernigan visited the yards and examined the body, and Deputy Sheriff Herman Zabel of the identification bureau examined the corpse at the undertaking parlors, but found nothing by which to identify the man. ACCIDENT SENDS ONE TO LOCAL HOSPITAL Ford Ross of La Habra, an employee of the Standard oil camp, was brot to the Anaheim sanitarium at noon today suffering from the results of an accident. It was said that he is not seriously hurt. An accident was reported today to the local police by R. Johns of Whittier, who said that on Saturday he was driving east on Lincoln-ave., stopped for the railroad crossing, was struck by a truck from the rear and jammed into a truck ahead. No one was hurt. Robert Sanchez of E. Chartres-st. reported that he was coming off Topeka-st. on to Center-st. and collided with another car damaging the front right fender, the lights, and radiator on his car. An ideal business combination is a doctor and a lawyer with their offices near a bootleg joint. NEW YORK WOMAN NAMED ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL THREE DROWN IN SUNDAY ACCIDENTS By International News Service) SEATTLE, July 16.—One woman was swept to her death over Eagle Falls in the Skyomish river near Index and two children were drowned in Lake Washington at Seward Park in two drowning accidents Sunday. Mrs. Belle Johnson, one of a party of autoists visiting Eagle Falls, stepped to the bank of the river to get a drink of water. She slipped and plunged into the current, was carried over the falls and into a treacherous whirlpool. The body has not yet been recovered. James W. Paxton and Dudley Paxton, sons of William Paxton of Walla Walla, drowned in six feet of water at Seward Park while trying to recover a toy sail boat, despite the efforts of Mrs. Paxton to save them. Miss Helen Eagleson, an expert swimmer, recovered the bodies shortly afterward. GLAD TO DIE FOR HIS BASE CRIME RODEZ, France, July 16.—Ivan Celestin, murderer of the father of two little children whose mother also died of grief over the loss of her husband, has just paid for his crime with his own life. Celestin himself requested the judge to sentence him to death. "I'm a scoundrel," and I deserve no pity" he said after his trial had been completed and before the sentence was passed. "I beg you to send me to the scaffold so I can expiate my crime. Before going to his death the murderer begged the unfortunate children to forgive him. Critics once said Germany was without imagination, but that was before she began to think up a new reparation plan each Thursday. stopped for the railroad crossing, was struck by a truck from the rear and jammed into a truck ahead. No one was hurt. Robert Sanchez of E. Chartres-st. reported that he was coming off Topka-st. on to Center-st. and collided with another car, damaging the front right fender, the lights, and radiator on his car. An ideal business combination is a doctor and a lawyer with their offices near a booileg joint. 3,000,000 cubic feet of gas per day or 6,000 gallons of gasoline. The cost of this unit erected is only $32,000. Many people of Anaheim are already patting themselves on the back for getting in the casinghead gasoline business, which has long been known as the safest and biggest money making end of the oil business. Anaheim OPPOSITE CITY HALL WETHERSFIELD, Conn., July 16. For more than 44 years Frank Bassett, of Bridgeport, has lived within the grim walls of the Connecticut state prison here, serving a life sentence for his part in the slaying of "Stuttering Jack," a water-side character, of Bridgeport, back in 1878. For the forty-fourth time in his prison life Bassett was refused pardon or parole, when the State Board of Pardons held its annual June meeting and Bassett went back to serve out his sentence, showing plainly that age is now upon him in his sixtieth year. Bassett alone of the prison inmates has never seen a trolley car. Airplanes and radio and automobiles are to him mere names, but still he hopes for the day to come when he will step out to see all these modern wonders, and as long as breath of life remains in him he expects to continue to seek freedom. ASLEEP AT STILL NEW LAFFERTY, Ohio, July 16. A deputy sheriff, sent here to serve papers, received no response as he knocked at the door of a home. Opening the door he peepd in, He saw a woman asleep in a chair beside a stove on which a still was distilling moonshine. Increase in the growth of the number of returns of yearly incomes from $3,000 to $6000 has been 750 percent. Critics once said Germany was without imagination, but that was before she began to think up a new reparation plan each Thursday. If Sun and Wind— should burn your skin. Henderson's Skratch Ointment will save you from discomfort. No need to suffer—apply "Skratch" and enjoy quick relief. HENDERSONS SKRATCH OINTMENT Sold By GIBSON DRUG CO. Anaheim, HE BEACH AT H ALBOA BEACH PLAYGROUND OF THE Safest. Yachting, Motor Boating, Canoeing, Sea Fishing. Dancing Afternoon and Evening KIDDIES PARA Fishing Boating DROWN IN DAY ACCIDENTS International News Service) July 16.—One woman to her death over Eagle Skyomish river near Inchington at Seward Park; bringing accidents Sunday. Johnson, one of a party visiting Eagle Falls, the bank of the river to of water. She slipped into the current, was the falls and into a whirlpool. The body has recovered. Paxton and Dudley Paxof William Paxton of drowned in six feet of ward Park while trying to sail boat, despite of Mrs. Paxton to save Eagleson, an expert covered the bodies short- GETTING OUT IN THE OPEN IS FINE, but never keep your teeth out in the open too long. Women wearing knickerbockers inflicate, trousers are not for men only. GRANMER'S CLOTHES SINCE WALK WOOL MOST ONE PRICE $25. 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