oc-plain-dealer 1923-08-03

LONDON SHOCKED BY HARDING DEATH LONDON, Aug. 3.—The death of Warren G. Harding, 29th president of the United States, left London as still and shocked today as if it mourned the passage of one of his own loved sons. Upon receipt of the first cable dispatches bringing the death message flags on the American embassy were lowered. Shouting newsboys with extra spread the news. The embassy was belonged with telephone inquiries. King George ordered the court in mourning for a week. Premier Baldwin was deeply affected and prepared a message of sympathy. Lord Robert Cecil and others who know the president expressed sorrow. King George sent the following message to Mrs. Harding. "The queen and I were much shocked to hear of the irreparable loss which has befallen you and assure your of our heartfelt sympathy in your sorrow. The whole British people join those of the sister nation who mourn the death of their president at the culminating point of his distinguished career." Former premier David Lloyd George issued the following statement: "News of President Harding's death comes as a shock to this country. We were led to believe the crisis was past. Mr. Harding's death is regarded by everyone as a great loss for his genial, simple straightforwardness, won for him the genuine respect and liking of this country. His death adds new complications to a world already tangled in troubles. There is every where a deep feeling of sympathy for Mrs. Harding. Our sincere good wishes go to the new president in the task he has so suddenly been called to discharge in such tragic circumstances." The following message was sent to Mrs. Harding by the Prince of Wales: "Please accept my sincere sympathy in the loss which you and the people of the United States have sustained." GOVERNOR DECLARES IT DAY OF MOURNING (Long Beach, Aug. 3.—The Governor issued the following proclamation here today: "I, Friend William Richardson, Governor of the State of California, do hereby declare Friday, the third day of August, 1923, a day of mourning for the death of our beloved President, Warren G. Harding, and I ask all citizens of the state to close their places of business in respect to his memory. (Signed) "FRIEND WILLIAM RICHARDSON, Governor of the State of California." Governor Richardson issued the following statement today regarding the death of President Harding: "The news of the President's death came as a great shock to me. Less than an hour before I had talked over the telephone to San Francisco and had been assured of the President's recovery. Warren G. Harding literally worked himself to death on a great position, the duties of which seem to surpass the vital force of any man. "We of California feel particularly the blow which has bowed the whole nation in sorrow." SEEK STOLEN SILK, SOME MASH FOUND Juan Tula was arraigned before Judge Brown yesterday on the charge of having liquor in his possession, and held on his own recognizance for a hearing later. Tula was arrested by Ed Marion constable, who had been given a warrant to search the Mexican's home for silks, alleged to have been taken from Mike George, a Syrian peddler by Mexicans in that vicinity. In searching for the silks, constable Marion found something that looked like ordinary whiskey mash, but found no silks. The Mexican will try to prove that it was not whiskey mash, but simply a concoction received by a Mexican friend." SARGUM SPROUTINGS Our western lassie Helen Wills fell by the wayside in the Seabright Tennis tournament. She could not stand up under the strain of playing stars day by day and when she met Miss Gosa of New York, her play just simply went to pieces. Miss Wills is too young to stand up under steady fire for days. She has the ability and if she does not become discouraged she will be champion yet. Dave Shade, the San Francisco lad who held the wetterweight championship for a few days, fought and won a sensational 10-round decision over Paul Doyle of Brooklyn. Dave had the New York fight bugs wild with his wonderful work and they are yelling for him to repair his lost title. James W. Coffroth the Tia Juana racing promoter has stirred up considerable excitement by stating that he is bidding for a Dempsey fight in the border city. Such a venture would pay providing Dempsey did not demand the Mexican treasury as his end of the receipts. Coast and western fans would flock to the Tia Juana race course in great droves to see the world's champion in action against a good man. Either Wills or Pirpo is too good a drawing card in the East to bring out here. Our hope would have to fall on Tom Gibbons and Tom would be foolish from a financial standpoint to fight Dempsey for at least a year. His recent feat of staying 15 rounds with the champion will give him the attraction to make a fortune touring the country for the next year. He stands little chance of upsetting the champion. Floyd Johnson is not ready for the champion and may never be but he would draw a flock of fans if he were to box Dempsey in Tia Juana. Johnson lost a lot of prestage when he allowed Jess Willard to stop him in New York, but at that Johnson isn't such a fillyver. He is a blamed good kid and may be heard from later. The Cineinnatti Reds and the Pittsburgh pirates are surely pounding the New York giants on the tail in the national pennant chase. With two teams so near them, the Giants can not let up for a day, and the hot pace may wreck the Giants yet. The Philadelphia Americans played wonderful ball until they had a chance at the pennant, after which they cracked and are now in seventh place, having lost straight. Conny Mack must be loosing his grip on the boys when he allows them to go to pieces on him like that. Mack has been in the game too long. He still knows a player when he sees one and he knows how players should be managed but he just cannot instill the pep into his team when it starts to break, like he could when younger. SPORT SNAP SHOTS BY JACK WEENE Not in recent years has a national open golf championship produced quite so many thrills as that which resulted in a victory for the young amateur, Robert T. Jones of Atlanta, Ga., after a play-off with Bobby Cruickshank, the recent convert from amateur ranks into the professional circles. With all the nation's stars entered it was generally conceded in advance that in view of the fact the play was to be in Inwood County club course, the first real championship test that the tournament has had in several years, one of the great lights would be the ultimate winner. Yet the so-called topnotchers of the professional world failed. Sarazen, the 1922 winner; Hagen twice winner in the American and once in the British; MacDonald Smith, Kirkwood, Barnes, Hutchison all went down before the rush of newcomers. The great majority of those who finished well up in the list were players who had not made more than a slight impression on the tablets of golf. That incidentally, was one of the significant things about the 1923 championship. It brought to light the fact that here are in America at the present time many youngsters who are forging ahead in dashing style, and who will be able to take the places of those who have held the foreground in the past. Competition is said to be the life of trade. It is also the life of baseball and lack of it in the two big league races just now is beginning to be felt at the turnstiles. Particularly is this true in the American league, where the Yankees are making a runaway race of it. A comparison of the financial statements issued recently by the president of the two major leagues shows that the American league enjoyed the greater prosperity during the first half of the season. The eight teams in the junior organization had played to more than 447,000 persons at the time of its mid-season meeting as against 200,000 in the National. This difference can be accounted for by the opening of the new Yankee stadium and the fact that the race during the first half of the season was closer in the American than it was in the senior circuit. But since the Yankees's present invasion of the west began the situation has been reversed. The New York American league club now enjoys a far more commanding lead than do the Giants. The pennant chase in President Ban Johnson's organization seems to be pretty well settled and this cannot help but detract from the interest. Of course, the unexpected may happen, as it frequently does in baseball, and one or more of the other American teams strike a winning stride which will bring it in hailing distance of the New York team by the first of October but even so, that will not increase the crowds during the next two months. TELL OFFICIAL STORY OF HARDING'S DEATH SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3—Following is the official story of the death of President Harding told in a statement issued today by the five physicians who have been in constant attendance upon the President! "Last spring, following a long period of overwork and great strain, President Harding was confined to his bed with an attack of influenza which was followed by a few nocturnal attacks of labor, breathing. His recovery was slow and he had not only regained his normal strength and health when he started out on the trip to Alaska. He had also had some attacks of abdominal pain and indigestion and at times he had some pain associated with a feeling of oppression in the chest. For some years his systolic blood pressure had ranged around 180 and there was evidence of some arterialclerosis, enlargement of the heart and defective action of the kidneys. Except for fatigue and the fact that his heart and blood vessels were some years older than the rest of his body, he was in reasonably good health. "On the return trip from Alaska he had an acute gastro-intestinal attack associated with abdominal pain and fever. In spite of his illness he insisted on putting through his program of speaking in Vancouver and Seattle. He had considerable difficulty in completing his address in Seattle because of weakness and pain. Because of this he was persuaded to come directly to San Francisco and arrived at the Palace Hotel Sunday morning, July 29. He dressed and walked to the automobile from the train. Sunday evening a consultation was called because his temperature had risen to 102 and his pulse and respiration were abnormally rapid. The abdominal difficulty had by this time become localized in the gall bladder, region, but there was fever and leucocytosis. A central broncho-pneumonia soon developed on the left side. It was accompanied by short circulatory collapses, with cold sweats and an irregular pulse. Most disturbing of all was the rapid and irregular breathing, suggestive of atrero soloris of the brain vessle is in the region of the respiratory center. "Under treatment marked improvement in the pneumonia and circulatory disturbances took place, and Thursday, Aug. 2, he was free from fever and the lung condition was practically gone. HDe was resting comfortably in bed and conversing with Mrs. Harding and General Sawyer when he died instantaneously without a word or a groan. "We all believe he died from apoplexy or a rupture of a blood vessel in the axis of the brain near the respiratory center. His death came after recovery from the acute illness was in process. It might have occurred at any time. One of his sisters died suddenly in the same manner. (Signed)—C. E. SAWYER, M.D. "RAY LYMAN WILBUR, M.D. C. M. COOPER, M.D. D. T. BOONE, M.D. "HUBERT WORK, M.D." MOOSE CHIEF BEGINS LONG BEACH DRIVE J. F. McCracken, who has been in charge of the Moose membership drive in Anaheim for several weeks, will complete his work the end of the month and go to Long Beach on a similar work. Under his management the lodge here now counts 350 members with indication that 400 will be reached by the end of the drive. Mr. McCracken will devote 90 days to the new work, but his family will remain here. The Long Beach lodge has recently installed a radio outfit. Supreme Lodge voted $50,000 for a broadcasting station to be installed in Mooseheart, Ill., the home of the Moose lodge, where notable and musical artists are frequent visitors. Among them secretary of Labor James Davis who is also director general of the national lodge. This broadcasting station is the largest individual one in the United States, and Long Beach is enjoying weekly concerts, one of which was heard at the stag party given in compliment of Anaheim Lodge Tuesday. OFFICIAL ROUTE OF DEATH TRAIN SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3—The route to be followed by the presidential funeral train to Washington was officially announced at 10:20 o'clock. It will be the route of the Overland Limited from San Francisco, passing thru Reno, Ogden, Cheyenne, Omaha and Chicago. The train will pass thru the president's home state of Ohio over the Baltimore and Ohio, passing thru Akron, Youngstown and on into the capital via Cumberland. Seventy-two hours will be required to reach Chicago and 24 from Chicago to Washington, making the total trip 96 hours. TWO FOREST FIRES AT SANTA BARBARA SANTA BARBARA, Aug. 3—Two forest fires, one of which is said to be the most serious problem forest fire officials have had to contend BABY DEATH RATE VERY HIGH HERE Owing to the failure to organize properly, Anaheim's death rate for infants up to one year old is the highest in California, except that of Brawley. Furthermore, it has been abnormally high for years. Whether the deaths were mostly among the Mexicans or in any particular section was not specified. Dr. W. Leland Mitchell, county health officer, revealed the facts to day in connection with the establishment of several infant health centers by the new county nurse, Miss Florence Ames. Centers already have been started at Placentia and Olinda and others will be opened in El Modena and Garden Grove within two weeks. Santa Ana has two such centers under county supervision. The one at Placentia is under the auspices of the Placentia Better Mothers' Club and the one at Olinda under that of the Parent-Teachers' Ass'n. The work is educational, parents being taught how to feed and diet their little ones and generally how to take care of them properly. Under the Sheppard-Towner bill California received $12,000 from the Federal Bureau of Child Hygiene during the year ending June 30, 1922, and $33,000 during the year just closed. Only half a dozen nurses will be maintained by the federal bureau and the state, which supplies about half the funds, this current year. Plain Dealer Want Ads Gets Results ASK for Horlick's The ORIGINAL Malted Milk For Infants, Invalids & Children The Original Food-Drink for All Ages. Quick Lunchat Home, Office & Fountains. Rich Milk, Malted Grain Extract in Powder & Tabletforms. Nourishing—No cooking. Avoid Imitations and Substitutes NEW YORK CITRUS NEW YORK, Aug. 3—Nineteen cars valencias and one mixed car sold Market doing better on 218s; easier on 252s; unchanged on other sizes. Valencia averages ranged from $2.25 to $5.85. BANK CLEARINGS San Francisco $23,500,000. Seattle $5,961,737. Portland $5,569,936. Long Beach $1,567,904. Los Angeles $23,125,396. LOS ANGELES PRODUCE LOS ANGELES, Aug. 3—Butter 48. Eggs: Extras 34; case count 31 pullets 39. Poultry: Hens 14; broilers 25; fryers 25. Pyromanic Breaks Away From Hospital Clad only in his pajamas, Fortunato Padilla, who started fires in packing houses at Anaheim, Fullerton, Riverside and San Bernardino, last night escaped from the Orange-co hospital where he had been temporarily confined for an operation and has not yet been caught. Sheriff Sam Jernigan as soon as he had been noffied, mobilized the police of Anaheim and Fullerton and all of his own forces and scoured the county for him, but to no effect. Jernigan declared he had ordered that Uadilla be confined in the jail cell in the southwest corner of the building on the main floor and carefully guarded whereas the man had been placed in a room in the southeast corner. The hospital uses this jail cell for the violently insane. Two Yale locks protect the screen wire over the window, but the prison contrived to rip one off and then dropped 6 feet to the ground. His tracks were found in the sand nearby, as if he had headed toward Anaheim. Sixteen different police departments were notified by Jernigan to keep on the lookout. TWO FOREST FIRES AT SANTA BARBARA SANTA BARBARA, Aug. 3—Two forest fires, one of which is said to be the most serious problem forest fire officials have had to contend with in several years, were burning today in the Santa Barbara forest reserve. One fire is said to have started five days ago while the second started late yesterday on Sweetwater creek. It was reported today that the fire which started yesterday had leaped Siquizo river and was sweeping up the river channel, fanned by a brisk wind. VOLLMER ARRIVES TO ASSUME OFFICE LOS ANGELES, Aug. 3—August Vollmer, newly appointed chief of police for Los Angeles to replace Louis D. Oaks arrived here today from Berkeley to take up his new duties. Chief Vollmer's arrival was at a time when Mayor Cryer, who dismissed Oaks without warning, stands accused by the Los Angeles crime commission of having aligned himself with the faction which the commission charges is responsible for the "pernicious politics," which has disorganized the police force. Typewriter Paper 16-lb. Acceptance Bond $3.00 Per Ream Stationery Bond $2.00 Per Ream Second Sheets SERVICE. SMILES. WIN CASH AND HUBBY Jean Glasgow, left, and Marion Drake, preparing auto for Marion's honeymoon. Inset, Marion. "Service with a smile," was the slogan adopted by these two girls when they opened a gas service station in Los Angeles, Cal. The combination brought financial success to both and won a husband for Marion. Friday, August 3, 1923. Anaheim C. of C. Extends Sympathy George B. Christian, Palace Hotel, San Francisco. Anaheim Chamber of Commerce deplores the passing of our dear President Harding. Kindly convey this expression of our deep sympathy to Mrs. Harding and trs. Hemsberg. Anaheim Chamber of Commerce HARRY D. RILEY, Pres. MALCOM A. FRASER, Sec. LOWRY CONTINUES DOGGED SILENCE LOS ANGELES, Aug. 3.—Frank Lowry, famous sportsman and clubman, continued his dogged silence today despite the efforts of the San Diego and Seattle police to connect him with robberies and "safe jobs" that took place in those cities many months ago. As far as local police, who are holding Lowry for alleged connection with an attempted safe robbery here, can ascertain Lowry was not in either city at the time of the robberies. Lowry continues to mystify his wealthy friends with his dual personality. His left left which was fractured when he jumped from a window as police sought to arrest him for the alleged burglarious attempt, MUST SELL FRUIT IN SMALL CITIES Intensive development of business among the smaller cities of the country is a solution of the problem of marketing quite as important as that of obtaining new markets, J. O. Cook Jr., manager of the service department of the California Fruit Growers Exchange indicated at yesterday's meeting of the exchange directors in Los Angeles. Cook has just returned from a six weeks' trip in which he practically covered the United States. A large part of his report dealt with the success of the extractor of which 10,000 to 11,000 now are in use. The machine is made in Chicago and distributed at cost to retailers. It squeezes the juice from lemons and oranges. "See It Made" is the slogan to the public. Cook showed that the peak of consumption of oranges in this country and Canada has been nothing like reached as yet. Another matter which came up was the matter of funds for the Fruit Growers' Supply Co., which has grown so fast that the exchange has found it difficult to keep pace. A vote will be taken by the stockholders Sept. 26 on which to put out a bond issue to cover the cost of additional timber acreage, etc. UNITED TONIGHT Theatre Anahelm Again TOMORROW Douglas Fairbanks IN 'His Majesty the American' UNITED TONIGHT Theatre Anaheim Again TOMORROW Douglas Fairbanks IN ‘His Majesty the American’ His Greatest Picture—Laughs, Thrills, Adventure HAROLD LLOYD In One of His Funniest Comedies PATHE NEWS A Show You Can’t Afford to Miss Coming, Sunday Monday and Tuesday— Fred Siegel Stock Co. in “THE DIVORCE QUESTION” Brunswick PHONOGRAPHS AND RECORDS THE YORK $150 EASY TERMS 21 OTHER MODELS $45-$775 ANAHEIM MUSIC CO. EASY TERMS 21 OTHER MODELS $45-$775 ANAHEIM MUSIC CO. 177 West Center St. Anaheim BASEBALL Pasadena Elks VS. Anaheim Elks AT High School Ground SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 2:30 P.M.