oc-plain-dealer 1923-08-08

TOWN IN REVIEW BY OLD TIMER WILLIAM B. MOODY, chief of police, has a whole list of grievances against the men at the county sheriff's office. For instance, Chief Moody prides himself on being a strictly law-abiding citizen. But this week he came down to his office and found that he had been docked as a criminal, the charge being drunk and disorderly, and the arresting Officer Alcohol. Moody made a liquor raid Saturday, seizing 20 gallons of raisin brandy. The county men turned the joke. And Moody prides himself on a strict adherence to duty. But the county men called up his home in the long dreary hours of the night, got him out of bed to answer the telephone, and asked him if he never stayed at his office. What do those county men expect anyhow? Moody would like to know. And the sheriff's men are very sonilfectious about his health, more so indeed than he can relish. For instance, a few nights ago he was snoozing, oh so sweetly: "Twing-a-ling-ling!" the telephoneb roke in abruptly on his dreams. He stretched himself, turned over, and would have slept on, but—"Ting-a-ling-ling" unmercifully rang the telephone. Finally Moody drowsily roused himself, clambered out of bed and over to the telephone. The voice of a member of the sheriff's force came from the other end. "We heard you were not sleeping well at nights, and we are anxious to know how you are resting." It's a long lane that has no turning. THEY'RE even bursting into verse about carburetors now. Look what Bob Jensen contributes: A sun dial has no moving parts, Of wheels it hasn't any, It tells the time within an hour. That's close enough for many. PROGRESS OF ANAHEIM AS TOLD BY BUILDING Year Permits Total 1922 675..... $1,413,046 1921 564..... 1,253,870 1920 362..... 879,950 1919 174..... 464,500 WEATHER. Fair, moderately cool tonight and Thursday, probably fog in morning. AMERICA Young Anaheim AWARDED 1400 ACRES NEAR TIA JUANA Josemaria Arguello Owns Coffroth Race Track and Hot Springs Slight Smile Face of WASHINGTON slight smile, soft droop of his lip face of Presider death. The smile was a delegation of V respondents private the president for while he lay in room of the White Mrs. Harding's newspapermen, ed the president be permitted to wMany of the steeped with ex world of tragedy grief while viewThey express at the naturalne THEY'RE even bursting into verse about carburetors now. Look what Bob Jensen contributes: A sun dial has no moving parts, Of wheels it hasn't any, Tells the time within an hour. That's close enough for many. Some there are who want the time At least within a minute, A watch has wheels and springs and things; A sun dial isn't in it. A graveyard has no moving parts, It's years are calm and restful; But life has lots of moving parts. And that's what makes it zestful. An old scythe has no moving parts, And neither has a penell, No valves are in an old quill pen, No springs are in a stencil. But harvesters cut lots of hay; Typewriters do our writing; Alarm clocks note the break of day; Machine guns do our fighting. Most all good things have moving parts. The home, the shop, the playfield; Good carburetors have them too. The best one is the Rayfield. I WAS telling G. M. Simpson—he's in the real estate business and I knew it would make him feel good—about how many people were coming to So. Calif. that when I was traveling to and from the east recently I noted hundreds of cars loaded with luggage coming this way. "Yes," G. M. says, "and I'll bet most of them were Fords." "In fact," he continued, "if I planned a trip across the country I'd drive a Ford, too, because you could go to any hardware store and get a spare part." "That reminds me of the story of two fellows driving Fords who came to a river where the wagon bridge had been washed out, leaving only a footbridge. They were on opposite sides of the stream. After carefully diagnosing the situation, they very sensibly decided to swap Henries and proceed on their several ways. F. GRUETTER, Plain Dealer telegrapher, claims to have made a discovery. He says that mice aren't so keen about cheese after all. The other day Boss Hopkins of the International News Service dropped into town and took C. F. out to lunch. The next morning he ascertained that Mister Mouse had participated generously of his forgosten veal sandwich but had passed up entirely a cheese sandwich in the same JOSEMARIA ARGUELLO OWNS COFFROTH RACE TRACK AND HOT Springs Josemaria Arguello, 25, for 14 years a resident of Anaheim, has come into a large fortune, he announced to friends here today. His great-grandfather, Governor E. Arguello, who served two years as the chief administrative officer of San Diego in the early days, was given a Spanish grant of 18 square miles including much of the townsite of Tia Juana. Now, after four court actions lasting over two years in Tia Juana, the numerous heirs have come into their own. The Anaheim man gets 1400 acres, much of it worth only $50 to $75 per acre, but on it is the Coffroth race track which he will lease for $10,000, and the Tia Juana Hot Springs with large hotel, saloon, cabaret, etc. This resort, operated by an uncle, Albert Arguello, includes 590 acres of the Anaheim man's share. It may also be leased for $10,000 per annum but no decision has been reached on this. There are a number of heirs. Among them is Juan Bandini, of Los Angeles, former well known Anaheimer. Mrs. Arguello, of Anaheim, gives five shares—her own and those of her husband and three children, all deceased. The San Diego & Arizona Ry. runs for 15 miles across the Arguello grant. John D. Spreckels deposited in escrow Oct. 27, 1910, the sum of $82,610 for right-of-way. The Anaheim man experienced some difficulty in demonstrating his right to a share because of a mixup in the records. As an infant, his mother permitted his hair to hang in long curls. It was not until she and Atty J. B. Cota of San Diego had delved deep in the records that they were able to show the court that the "girl." Maria Josephine Arguello, of the records, was her son, Josemaria Arguello. Altho this point was cleared up at the conclusion of the fourth trial last Saturday, it will be a month yet, depending on confirmation from Mexico City, before the Anaheim man actually gets title to his property. Arguello attended the Anaheim schools and joined the navy from being located at Balboa Island BOND MAY BE AFFECTIVE The special city discuss and act upon $1,000,000 bond fit of Orange-co., witness some fire opinions voiced by the meeting board memorial obese set ahead from Antoine The gathering with City Council chair Secretary Malek local C. of C. in that the regular directors would night instead of clared that the city not act on the pro-The Fullerton co-resolutions against on the ground prominent banker promises of what the first $500,000 size. A prominent rails his grounds for a bond issue as foliage will not print Los Angeles harbored already half finished; it is impounded good harbor on Norrive and the Pine surrounding la most of the benefit situation about L which is a municipal On the other her broad director o F. GRUETTER, Plain Dealer telegrapher, claims to have made a discovery. He says that mice aren't so keen about cheese after all. The other day Boss Hopkins of the International News Service dropped into town and took C. F. out to lunch. The next morning he ascertained that Mister Mouse had participated generously of his forgiven veal sandwich but had passed up entirely a cheese sandwich in the same parcel. C. F. is always making discoveries. He has a hobby of trying to find how many different by-roads lead from Anaheim to Long Beach. Last Sunday he discovered it took four hours and a pair of mules to get out of some deep sand near Clearwater. THE recent earthquake came when Charles Eygabroad was in Portland on his vacation. Portland papers blatantly announced with billboard type that So. Calif. was in ruins. The only exceptions, for some reason or other, according to the printed story, were Anaheim, Fullerton, Orange and Santa Ana. Eygabroad was told by his host not to worry about the rest of So. Calif., either, that he would probably find when he got home Portland papers had been handling the earthquake story the same way the Los Angeles papers make a terrible blizzard out of a little snowstorm at Portland. THAT is a fine picture of our late president distributed today by a Los Angeles morning paper. There should be general use of this or similar picture of Harding, properly surrounded by crepe, in business houses the next two days. So far, a few flags at half mast is the only indication in Anaheim that the president has died. Four out-of-town C. of C. secretaries passing through yesterday remarked upon the absence of proper decorations here. ARE the higher rents asked for lower floors justified! The Stewart Realty Co. says so. When the J. C. Penney Co. leased the Pressel-bldg, crowding out the Stewart Co., the latter had to seek an upstairs location. "It cost us $1000 per month while we were up there," says S. M. Kistler of the Stewart company. "That's why we're getting back to earth in the Lakeman & Renner-bldg." REALTORS HONOR HARDING MEMORY Anaheim Realty Board at noon today adopted a resolution adhering to the proclamation of the mayor by observing from 12 to 3 o'clock Friday in the memory of late President Harding. A motion also was passed that unless realtors had exclusive listing they would not put up signs on the property. Preliminary plans are being made for members of the local board to attend the Realtors State Convention at Sacramento beginning October 10. They plan to go in an auto caravan. STILL PLAN TEST OF NEW MOTOR ACT The plan to test the constitutionality of that provision of the new state Motor Vehicle act, which calls for the payment of County traffic officers out of the county's share of the license fees, has not been abandoned, District Attorney A. P. Nelson declared today. Presno-co has declared its intent to bring an action. Nelson added that the county's signing, now accomplished, of the contract with W. H. Marsh, director or the State Division of Motor Vehicles, did not mean that the county acquiesced in the employment of the traffic officers by the State instead of the County. But the County had to have the work done during the pendency of such an action. Nelson has been privately informed, he said, that the present incumbents would be re-named. FULL REPORT OF INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE—FIRST LEASED WIRE IN AN THE ORANGE COUNTY Plain Dea LEADING NEWSPAPER OF NORTHERN ORANGE COUNTY Anaheim, Calif.. Wednesday, August 8, 1923. RICA SPEAKS ITS GR anaheimer Wins Large Fortune Th Slight Smile Upon Face of President WASHINGTON, Aug. 8—A slight smile, softening the tired droop of his lips, lightens the face of President Harding in death. The smile was noted today by a delegation of White House correspondents privileged to view the president for a last time while he lay in state in the east room of the White House. It was Mrs. Harding's wish that the newspapermen, who followed the president in life, should be permitted to view the body. Many of the veteran writers, steeped with experience in the world of tragedy, showed signs of grief while viewing the body. They expressed surprise, too at the naturalness of the presi WIDOW NEAR HYSTERICAL COLLAPSE Strain of Attending State Funeral Completely Saps Her Strength MEMORIAL P Program in memory of President Park, 1 p.m., Friday, Aug. 10th: "America"... Anaheim Community S (Led by Dale Hamilton) Invocation... Pastor Anaheim Methodist "Lead, Kindly Light" Oration... Salve—Firing Squad from Anaheim Post "Abide With Me" Benediction... Rector, St. Michael's Episcopal "Star-Spangled Banner" Taps—Bugler from Anaheim Post 72, Services held under auspices City of Anaheim Chamber of Commerce, Anaheiary, Klwanis and Lions' Clubs, Mercha sociation, Business and Professional Work all denominations in Anaheim. BOND MEETING MAY BE HOT AFFAIR The special citizens' meeting to discuss and act upon the proposed $1,000,000 bond issue for the benefit of Orange-co. harbor, is likely to witness some fireworks, according to opinions voiced here today. The date of the meeting because of the Harding memorial observances, has been set ahead from Aug. 10 to Aug. 16. The gathering will be held in the City Council chamber. Secretary Malcom Fraser of the local C. of C. in announcing today that the regular weekly meeting of the directors would be held tomorrow night instead of Friday night, declared that the organization would not act on the project of the issue. The Fullerton chamber has passed resolutions against the issue probably on the ground, as Waldo O'Kelly prominent banker, put it, that the promises of what would be done with the first $500,000, didn't materialize. A prominent rancher today gave his grounds for opposition to the bond issue as follows: The government will not provide funds until Los Angeles harbor's improvement already half finished has been completed; it is impossible to make a good harbor on Newport bay; James Irvine and the Pacific Electric own the surrounding land and would reap most of the benefit, contrary to the situation about Los Angeles harbor, which is a municipal harbor. On the other hand, Charles Eygabroad, director of the Anaheim Citizen's National Bank of Los Angeles turned out to be the bidder for the Buena Park water district bonds, $26,500, which the board voted to call a new election for. The bid was below par, being $23,850. It was voted to transfer $2500 from the county's share of the state license fund to Road Improvement District No. 7. The same amount was voted to the county fair committee. New transits for County Engineer J. L. McBride's office were voted. A prominent rancher today gave his grounds for opposition to the bond issue as follows: The government will not provide funds until Los Angeles harbor's improvement already half finished has been completed; it is impossible to make a good harbor on Newport bay; James Irvine and the Pacific Electric own the surrounding land and would reap most of the benefit, contrary to the situation about Los Angeles harbor, which is a municipal harbor. On the other hand, Charles Eygabroad, director of the Anaheim Citrus Fruit Assn., and of the California Fruit Growers' Exchange, has declared that the new steamship line backed by the exchange would be glad to use Orange-co. harbor if it were improved so as to accommodate sea-going craft. STEEL MILLS HEED HARDING REQUEST GARY, Ind., Aug. 8.—Beginning next Monday morning, a unit of the blast furnace workers in the great Gary Mills of the U.S. Steel Corp., will be put on an eight-hour working day, it was learned today. This is in accordance with a request made of the steel industry by the late President Harding. SANTA ANA STORES WILL CLOSE FRIDAY Santa Ana will pay tribute to the memory of the dead president by closing its business houses Friday afternoon and joining in a union service at Birch Park. Directors of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Assn., passed a resolution to close stores at one o'clock and remain closed the rest of the day. The city council has ordered all municipal offices to be closed. Rev. Otto S. Russell of the Baptist church will preside at the union service and Attorney L. A. West and Jduge W. M. Thomas will be the speakers. FULLERTON SERVICE AT 1 P. M. FRIDAY Fullerton's public memorial service in honor of the late president will open at one o'clock instead of three, according to word from the sister city today. Three o'clock was the hour mentioned by Mayor W. P. Coulter in his proclamation. The gathering will be held in the high school building. The trail led back to Marion, Ohio where the president lived as a boy. grew in 'o manhood, won his first great laurels as a public servant and where he wished to go when his race was won. And it was the wish too of Mrs. Harding, who had earlier permitted his country to honor him with a magnificent state funeral. Tonight he will go westward so the friends of his youth may welcome him to their bosoms. Altho the new president of the republic and an honor guard of high personages accompanied the body from the capital to the station where it was placed aboard the Harding funeral train, the ceremony was marked with a simplicity that was insisted upon by Mrs. Harding. The president was going home, not as a magistrate of the land, but as a citizen of Marion, Ohio. President Coolidge left his temporary "White House" at 4:45 p.m. to join the procession. At five o'clock promptly the great rates of the Capitol swung shut, while thousands of citizens found disappointment in not having viewed the body while it lay in state. Fully 15,000 persons had gone thru the Capitol, passing the catafale in the five hours, but half as many failed to get inside the great building. Mrs. Harding, supported by Secretary George B. Christian Jr., left the White House at 5:47 p.m. en route to board the funeral trail at Union Station. She apparently had recovered somewhat from the almost exhausted condition of the early afternoon. She was driven straight to the station. By WILLIAM K HUTCHISON (I. N. S. Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Florence Kling Harding, the most pathetic figure in America today, returned to the White House from the journey down the "Avenue of Sorrow" this afternoon in a state approaching physical collapse. Burdened under an overwhelming grief, Mrs. Harding had to be lifted from her motor car and practically carried into the White House on the arms of attendants. The ordeal apparently had sapped the last vestige of her indomitable will to "carry on." Whereas she walked out of the White House earlier in the day with a firm step and a calmness coming from supreme courage, she drooped with weakness on the return trip. Continued on Page Two EVERYBODY LIKED HARDING AT MARION By BENSON K. PRATT (I. N. S. Staff Correspondent) MARION, Ohio, Aug. 8.—One of the best loved citizens of this city, Warren G. Harding, died last week out in California. They're bringing his body home tomorrow to bury him and his friends and neighbors are busy today making plans for the funeral. Everybody here liked Mr. Harding. The probability is that he had more real friends here than any other man who ever called this place his home. That's one reason which his funeral day after tomorrow will be the biggest ever held in this county. That he was the chief executive of the nation is of but secondary importance to these people here. They are not going to the funeral on that account. They are going because they knew him, because he was their neighbor, because they are sorry he's gone, and because they want to pay him tribute. Today at the Marion club, Mr. Harding's neighbors are working cut the last details; details which concern themselves for the most part with the handling of the great crowd of better than 75,000 and 100,000 persons, who are expected. Lieutenant Colonel Frank Lahn, representing President Coolidge, and General Benson Hough, representing the state of Ohio, are working with Mr. Harding's friends so that there will be no hitch in the ceremony. Colonel Lahn will take care of President Coolidge, Chief Justice William H. Taft, and others who are to arrive Friday morning. General Hough and his aides will have charge of the policing of the funeral route. Under instructions (Continued on Page Two). RELEASED WIRE IN ANAHEIM Dealer ORANGE COUNTY GROWTH OF ANAHEIM SHOWN BY CENSUS Total in 1910 was..... 2,628 For Year 1920 was..... 5,525 Today, Estimated at .....10,000 Mail your Plain Dealer to Eastern friends. It may bring them to Anaheim, fastest growing city in Orange County. August 8, 1923. 26TH YEAR—NO. 292. IS GRIEF TODAY June Thru Action Of Court MEMORIAL PROGRAM memory of President Harding at Anaheim City Friday, Aug. 10th: Anaheim Community Service Chorus and Audience (Led by Dale Hamilton Evans.) James Allen Geissinger, D.D. istor Anaheim Methodist White Temple. Light" Chorus and Audience Mr. S. C. Hartranft liquid from Anaheim Post 72, American Legion. Chorus and Audience Rev A. G. H. Bode St. Michael's Episcopal Church, Anaheim, Banner" Chorus and Audience. from Anaheim Post 72, American Legion. PAGEANTRY OF SORROW AT WASHINGTON All That Nation Could Do to Show Veneration Was Done Today HOUSE CLOSE AS BOY IS JAILED A girl giving her age at 16 and her name as May Jones was picked up late yesterday on Acacia-ave, Fullerton, in company with a 19-year-old boy, giving his name as Ray Birch. The girl was dressed in boy's clothing, and the two are said to have been trying to make their way to San Bernardino and points east. The officers that at first they were brothers. The girl was later found to have escaped from the county hospital, where she had been taken from the detention home. She figured some time ago in the case of C. Smith, who was sent to San Quentin for a term of from one to 50 years on a statutory charge. He is said to have taken the girl to Tin Juana and gone thru an illegal wedding ceremony. She told the officers that she escaped from the county hospital with another girl Friday night, and joined Birch and another boy. The other girl and boy went to Huntington Beach and the and Birch started to San Bernardino. She made an attractive boy, not easily detected. She was returned to the detention home, and Birch was turned over to the Juvenile officers. The arrest was made by Officers Lacy, Martin and Ellis. Five of six into theft suspicts picked up Monday night are still being held. John Vender, one of them, was sentenced to 30 days in the county jail on the charge of resisting an officer. All That Nation Could Do to Show Veneration Was Done Today By GEORGE R. HOLMES (L. N. S. Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Aug. 8—America spoke her grief today at the passing of a well-beloved son, the twenty-ninth president of the United States, spoke it in a pageantry of sorrow, spoke it in an outpouring of silent emotion, spoke it in tones of majestic reverence such as the nation has seldom heard. All that a great and powerful people can do to show their veneration and their respect for the departed leader was done here today in the national capital for Warren G. Harding. All the homage and sorrow that is in the nation's heart was laid today at his silent feet. And, in the performance there was written a chapter across the pages of the republic's history that shall be forever green in the memory of men. Hardly had a torpid sun swung quarter way across the smoky sky when the great black gates of the White House swung wide and all that remains of Warren G. Harding come forth from his last night under its broad roof into the hands of the people and thence thru endless lanes of a bowed and reverential citizenry to where the dome of the Capitol showed mistily against the foggy heavens. And there, under the great dome which has covered the nation's heroes, reverential hands laid his body, wrapped only in the glorious mantle of the flag, on its cataflaque that the rich and poor, the mighty and the small, might pass by his bier and mourn him to his grave. Historic Pennsylvania-ave., which has re-echoed to the sadness of Lincoln's cortage, the triumphant tramp of Grant's men, home from the war; the grief that attended the passing of Garfield and McKinley, reverbrated today to the marching of those who did honor to Harding—home at last, after a 3,000-mile journey that Caesar might have well envied. It was down this same broad avenue, but 29 months ago, that Warren G. Harding rode to the great honor that can come to man, the presidency of the greatest republic on earth. Then he was filled with the flush of life, keen and alert to get at the great tanks he had ahead of him. Birch and another boy. The other girl and boy went to Huntington Beach and she and Birch started to San Bernardino. She made an attractive boy, not easily detected. She was returned to the detention home, and Birch was turned over to the Juvenile officers. The arrest was made by Officers Lucy, Martin and Ellis. Five of six auto theft suspects picked up Monday night are still being held. John Vender, one of them, was sentenced to 30 days in the county jail on the charge of resisting an officer. Rodigo Chaves, charged with peddling without a license, was released on a bail of $10. NO AUGUST LULL IN BUILDING PERMITS Twelve building permits were issued by the city in the first five and one-half working days of August, representing a valuation of $18,310. This means upwards of 50 permits for the month. BALDWIN ATTEMPTS NEW NEGOTIATIONS LONDON, Aug. 8.—Premier Stanley Baldwin consulted with his cabinet today in an effort to establish a new basis of reparations negotiations with Belgium. It was reported from Brussels that Premier Theunis, of Belgium is anxious to intervene to settle the differences between France and Great Britain. With Italy lined up with England, the British may find means of bringing pressure upon France thru Belgium. The latter have begun to feel the economic strain arising from uncertainty over reparations and are anxious to have the question definitely settled as soon as possible. MANY OVERCOME BY WASHINGTON HEAT WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—The oppressive heat of a torrid Washington marred the Harding funeral today. Those who marched silently by the calisson bearing the body could hear sufferers stretched all over the green award of the grounds. Six soldiers of the marching troops and six civilians lay within one space of a hundred yards. What poor taste In dress does this girl show? The answer will be found among today's want ads.