oc-plain-dealer 1923-08-11

TOWN IN REVIEW BY OLD TIMER ANAHEIM is never at a loss for an able speaker on state occasions. I refer to S.C. Hartranft, who made us all proud of his eloquence yesterday as the orator of the day at the Harding memorial service in the city park. At the conclusion of his address, an aged man turned around and said to Charles Eygabroad: "I am from Indiana and knew Harding personally. I have certainly appreciated the address. Who is the speaker?" "That's S.C. Hartranft. He's a rancher," said Eygabroad. "If your ranchers can speak like that I'd like to be around when you bring on your regular orators," said the Hooster. EYGABROAD likes to tell about the time Hartranft, as county superintendent of schools at Aberdeen, S.D., stopped over night, while on an inspection tour of the rural schools, at the home of a graff, old German. After supper the farmer and his daughter went out to milk. Hartranft mossied out, too, unbeknownst to his host. "Father," said the girl, "how do you like the superintendent?" "Oh, I don't know," was the gutteral reply. "I think he's real nice; he's so good looking," said the girl. "Oh Lord!" was the farmer's ex-postulation. Hartranft heard as he quickly beat a retreat. OVER at a banquet in Fullerton one night, Hartranft was told there was present a speaker from Buena Park who was uglier than he was. Hartranft expressed a desire to meet him. "They tell me you're uglier than am," Hartranft told the Buena Park man. The latter failed to see any hu- 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 with moderate temperature tonight and Sunday. LOCAL WO Widow And Dau FILE 2 SUITS IN SUPERIOR CT. TODAY Seek Recovery of 1600 Shares of Anaheim Investment Company Filling two suits today in Superior Court thru their attorneys, Mrs. Here's Recipe Coolidge WASHINGTON Better than anything deng Coolidge like And here is the Glassofel makes it Anthony is chef Hotel, temporary the Coolidges. Anthony has nudge custard?" and says its the best Here it is: Whip five eggs spoonfuls of sugar Flavor with van and add one pint c Mix thoroly and crust in pie plait beans to keep it f Pour in custard it grows thick. OVER at a banquet in Fullerton one night, Hartranft was told there was present a speaker from Buena Park who was uglier than he was, Hartranft expressed a desire to meet him. "They tell me you're uglier than am," Hartranft told the Buena Park man. The latter failed to see any humor in the statement whatever, in fact, he became very angry. Since then Hartranft has been very cautious about attempting to shift his Orange-co title. AND the cat came back! Eight days ago, Austin Marshburn of Yorba Linda was visiting in Anaheim and mentioned that he was troubled with mice. His host offered him a half-grown kitten which was duly tossed into a sack. Fearful that the kitten might not prove a superior mouser, an older cat was also sacked. The next day Marshburn still had the kitten, but the cat had disappeared. Today the cat was back at its Anaheim home. That's the homing instinct for you! How do you explain it? Hauled, blind folded, ten miles in an auto and then the snarring return! PERHAPS cats find the same appeal in Anaheim as we humans. The following yarn promises to be retold as often as the story of the California real estate man who offered to tell about his native state during an interval at an eastern general: An Anaheim max died and stood at the pearly gates. "Where are you from?" asked St. Peter. "From Anaheim," was the reply. "Well, if you're from Anaheim, you can go right in, but I doubt if you'll like it." ATTACHES of Anaheim postoffice now can sympathise with the rest of folks who complain about delays in mail service. Incidentally, they will never forgive the fourth assistant postmaster general or whoever was responsible. At 5 p.m. yesterday they received an order to close all day on account of Harding's burial. NOTHER problem in public policy confronts Anaheim city council. Recently there has been an epidemic of weddings at the city hall. In each and every case a certain counselman has always happened along when it was time to kiss the bride, Billy Wallace, city rate collector tells me. Yesterday, Thomas Williams, nee CT. TODAY Seek Recovery of 1600 Shares of Anaheim Investment Company Filing two suits today in Superior Court thru their attorneys, Mrs. Louise Royer, widow of the late General Julian O. Royer, and Mrs Marie-Louise Amstutz, her daughter, ask recovery of 1438 shares of stock, respectively from the Anaheim Investment Co. and Max Royer, special administrator of the estate. Mrs. Royer asks that she be declared owner of the 1439 shares out of 1938 shares in the company represented by certificate No. 25 dated Oct. 13, 1921 and issued in the name of J. O. Royer, and that the name declare that the General never had been the owner of the stock. She asks further that Max as special administrator be ordered to surrender the certificate, that it be destroyed and a new one for 1439 shares issued and that the costs be born by the estate and Max. Edwin A. Meserve of Anaheim is her attorney. She declares that on Sept. 8, 1920, she was the owner of 1439 shares represented by certificate No. 22, her separate property. General Royer surrendered this certificate and asked for certificate No. 25, dated Oct. 13, 1921, for 1938 shares which included intestate by the Superior of Max Royer and 249 of Marie Louise Amstutz. Both this complaint and that of the daughter recites the circumstances of the trial many weeks ago in which the General finally was declared Interstate by the Superior Court and his alleged will, favoring Marie Feraud, a companion, set aside. POLICE DISCREDIT PLAN TO ROB BANK Fulleron police today discredited reports that S. Levia, who killed himself at San Gabriel, and his associates had planned to rob the First National Bank at Fullerton Sunday morning. One of Levia's partners is said to have confessed it was scheduled. Fullerton police think that if such a thing was intended, they would never have gotten away with it, despite the cleverness of the plan to draw the police out of town by getting them to chase a speeder. EN ROUTE TO MARRY Anthony has no idge custard" and says its best here it is: Whip five eggs spoonfuls of sugar Flavor with vanilla and add one pint cocoa Mix thoroly and crust in pie plait beans to keep it Pour in custard it grows thick. ANAHEIM 100 CARS ORANGE Shipments of citrus the Anaheim district leap today over last 100 cars as compared despite the fact that houses were closed several of them today. Prices still are with the likelihood ower declining accord William Webster heim Valencia Orange The Orange County today resumed gacki siderable interim and ship two cars today Pacific Exchange shipmentited to 600 cars per state according to Ware are still approximate valencias to go. Deciduous fruits are petitor than ever, so pushcart peddlers, my percentage of oranges enti dropped oranges enti and pears are the pritors- Small size oraly be sold. The West Anaheim district alone shipped week. JOHNSON TO AT ORANGE R. D. Flaherty, m ange-co., Fair, who Senator Hiram John ANOTHER problem in public policy confronts Anaheim city council. Recently there has been an epidemic of weddings at the city hall. In each and every case a certain councilman has always happened along when it was time to kiss the bride, Billy Wallace, city rate collector tells me. Yesterday, Thomas Williams, negro janitor, took unto himself a bride. Councilman will have to follow precedent," declares Bill. "Otherwise such rank discrimination will cost him a lot of votes. It might even mean the blasting of a promising political career." ANAHEIM public schools should have a fine staff of teachers this year, for Superintendent C. C. Smith tells me he has had the pick of 550 applicants. On the other hand, as secretary of the school board in constructing the new Junior High School bldg., he hasn't had a fraction of that many applications for construction work, the plasterers are commanding $12 to $16 per day, masons, $12 and hod carriers $9. Write your own ticket. EVERYBODY knows what funny sights may be seen when the fire whistle blows after retiring time but it remained for two Anaheim men to pass up their own wives unrecognized on the street at the fire Thursday night. In confidence I can tell you the men were N. F. Ballou and Theodore Roberts, both of whom are accustomed to seeing their wives appropriately gowned for all occasions, but as they passed two women wearing coats and pleasant smiles, as good husbands should, the men passed on, with a mere glance. Imagine their surprise when the ladies called out, "Well, don't you gentlemen speak to your wives?" VIVID example of the more reasonable rates for ocean shipping has come to my attention. The freight on a carload of paper by boat from Portland to San Pedro nearly 2000 miles, was $146. The freight by train from San Pedro to Anaheim, about 30 miles, was $64. FULL REPORT OF INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE—FIRST LEASED WIRE IN ANAHEIM THE ORANGE COUNTY Plain Dealer LEADING NEWSPAPER OF NORTHERN ORANGE COUNTY moderate temperature Sunday. Anaheim, Calif., Saturday, August 11, 1923. WOMAN ROBBED OF SAND Daughter of General Royer St Here's Recipe for Coolidge Favorite WASHINGTON Aug. 11—Better than anything else. President Coolidge likes custard pie. And here is the way Anthony Glasofel makes it for him. Anthony is chef at the Willard Hotel, temporary white house of the Coolidges. Anthony has named it "Coolidge custard" and the president says its the best he ever tasted. Here it is: Whip five eggs with six tablespoonfuls of sugar. Flavor with vanilla or lemon and add one pint of hot milk. Mix thoroly and strain. Bake crust in pie plate filled with beans to keep it from shrinking. Pour in custard and bake until it grows thick. DERRICK UP ON WAGNER RANCH First Rig in Anaheim Field 200 Yards East of City Dump Preparations for development of the test well southeast of Anaheim HAS ANAHEIM A GREAT OIL STR By VIN FORTUNE What is the extent of the Anaheim "fold limits will it extend, north, south, east, west structured dome, or a great anticline? To whi to penetrate in order that greatest production the sands be thicker, or less thick, than Sig and Huntington Beach? Answers to these made only by the drill. The drill is the determining factor. Wiser than all geologists, more certain than all of the knowing ones. It never guesses. It may stumble along, hesitate even lose itself on the way down the hole, but it never guesses. When it is finally through with its task, there is no further need to guess. Either the oil is next two authoritie takes, roneous, Hunting Springs being n ANAHEIMSHIPS 100 CARS OF ORANGES Shipments of citrus fruit from the Anaheim district took another leap today over last week, totaling 100 cars as compared with 74. This despite the fact that all of the houses were closed yesterday and several of them today. Prices still are firm, however, with the likelihood of rising rather than declining, according to Manager William Webster of the Anaheim Valencia Orange Growers. The Orange County Valencia Co. today resumed gacking after a considerable interim and probably will ship two cars today over the Union Pacific. Exchange shipments remain limited to 600 cars per week from the state, according to Webster. There are still approximately 9000 cars of valencias to go. Deciduous fruits are a worse competitor than ever, so much so that pushheart peddlers, who take a large percentage of the orange crop, have dropped oranges entirely. Peaches and pears are the principal competitors. Small size oranges can hardly be sold. The West Anaheim section of the district alone shipped 45 cars this week. JOHNSON TO-SPEAK AT ORANGE-CO. FAIR R. D. Flaherty, manager of Orange-co., Fair, who invited U.S. Senator Hiram Johnson to deliver RANCH First Rig in Anaheim Field 200 Yards East of City Dump Preparations for development of the test well southeast of Anaheim are being expedited. Altho lumber has been on the ground only a few days, the derrick stands completed with three boilers erected this afternoon. The well will be spudded in as soon as possible. It is located on the Will Wagner ranch, about 200 yards east of Placentia-ave., opposite the city dumping grounds. Leasing continues active, with scouts for a number of companies in the field. The following companies are reported to have leased acreage as follows south and east of Anaheim. Standard, 1800 acres; General Petroleum, 300 acres; Shell, 300 acres; Potter, 60 acres; Honolulu 20. No estimate is made of the Union's leasing activities. The Petroleum Midway is understood to be attempting to get leases inside the city. Some landholders were reported today to be attempting to get C. C. Julian interested in the Anaheim field. FILM ACTRESS MAY REACH SETTLEMENT LOS ANGELES, Aug. 11.—A settlement out of court of the controversy over $1,300,000 which Mary Miles Minter, film actress, claims her estranged mother, Mrs. Charlotto Shelby, now has possession of but refuses to relinquish to her, loomed today when the pretty actress said she was willing to see her mother and see if she will do what is right by her. Mrs. Shelby is now ill in a local hospital following an operation and until today Miss Minter has refused to visit her mother, saying that her parent is not as ill as she claims. Miss Minter declared she was determined to live her own life, unhauped by maternal objections, which she claims robbed her of the joys a girl should have, and that if necessary she is willing to bare her case for public opinion. The cesset and her mother became estranged last October when she left the home where she was residing with her mother and sister, Margaret Shelby. The drill is the determining factor. Wiser than all geologists, more certain than all of the knowing ones. It never guesses. It may stumble along, hesitate even lose its self on the way down the hole, but it never guesses. When it is finally through with its task, there is no further need to guess. Either the oil is present or absent. But we all have the right to guess at the extent of a field, before development, and from the number of theories, predictions and absolute statements of the several hundred Anaheim citizens who have expressed an opinion there are innumerable possibilities as to just how Anaheim "fold" is to comport itself. The geologists for the Standard have arrived at an apparent agreement that the greatest possibility of production will be east and south of the city, and have confined their feasuring activities to those sections. The Shell, General Petroleum and other large and small companies have crowded around close up as possible to the big fellows, and were it not for the fact, that many of their officials admit that they have not "worked" the structure, one would be led to believe that there was a very general consensus of geological deductions in the minds of the several scientific gentlemen whose business it is to advise their employers as to where to proceed in seeking what the promoter so aptly calls the "liquid gold," "black gold," or any one of a dozen illuminating and alluring terms. It may be that you will recall the impression quite generally entertained when the Shell Company selected its drill site on Signal Hill. Whether there is actual foundation for the statement is perhaps a question, but it is emphatically insisted by a great number who pretend to know, and never officially denied, so far as public records appear, that geologists for the company refused to entertain leases west of Cherry street. It might have been nearer the idea, and they refused to lease east of the street, though of course they have developed some very good wells in that zone. But the thought just now is, why will anyone, lay person or scientist, give or entertain the impression, that an oil area will perhaps be affected by an asphalt street, a city limit, or any other superficial demarkation? Why not have the limits of a field marked by the number of ten-year-old valencias in a row? Over at Compton the price of leases is dependent almost entirely upon whether they are north or south of Main street. Main street designated by a long strip of asphalt, running ribbon like through the territory west of the town of JOHNSON TO-SPEAK AT ORANGE-CO. FAIR R. D. Flaherty, manager of Orange-co., Fair, who invited U. S. Senator Hiram Johnson to deliver an address on the opening night of the county fair Sept 25, today received a response to the effect that the senator was returning to Calif. the last August and if nothing intervenes will accept. Flahery will hold the date open. CHARGES CRUELTY Cruelty and failure to provide are the causes alleged in a complaint for divorce filed today by Agnes I. Saviers against James Seath Saviers. The woman also asks $60 per month alimony. They were married at Oxnard Sept. 6, 1911 and separated on Oct. 16, last, says the complaint. Among the acts of cruelty complained of was that of maintaining silence and not speaking to her. On one occasion, three weeks went by without his talking to her, she alleges. STEAL RIDE, KILLED LOS ANGELES, Aug. 11—Two men were killed instantly, another injured so seriously that he died while enroute to a hospital, and four others were probably mortally hurt when they were buried under a load of heavy pipe in a freight car in which they were stealing a ride near Indio today, reports said. WATERSHED SAVED SANTA BARBARA, Aug. 11. The Santa Ynez watershed, threatened with destruction, is saved, forest fires to the south and east of her are under control and the flames are being brushed out of the manzanita where 10,000 acres of brush were destroyed. This information was based on telephone messages received from Chester Jordan, supervisor of the Santa Barbara National Forest. TEMPERATURE Maximum 79 at 1:43 p.m. BASED 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. 11, 1923. 26TH YEAR—NO. 295. 70 OF $4000 GEMS Buyer Start Suit For Stock ANAHEIM ANOTHER OIL STRUCTURE By VIN FORTUNE. ment of the Anaheim "fold?" How far beyond the city north, south, east, west? Is it a perfectly congreat anticline? To what depth will it be necessary that greatest production may be "picked up?" Will it be less thick than Signal Hill, Santa Fe Springs or less thick than Signal Hill, Santa Fe Springs? Answers to these interesting questions will be still. ESCAPES WITH TWO LARGE DIAMONDS Bandit Pretends to Be Looking for Still and Stolen Jewelry Alleging that he was an officer of WIDOW QUITS WHITE HOUSE IMMEDIATELY By GEORGE R. HOLMES (I. N. S. Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Ag. 11—Exhausted from the tremendous nervous and emotional strain she has been under for a fortnight, but firmly determined to adjust her affairs and depart from the White House as quickly as possible, Mrs. Harding came to the executive mansion today from the burial of her husband at Marion. The special train upon which she returned from Marion—the same train upon which the presidential party left the capital 52 days ago, reached Washington at 9:20 a.m. After bidding a somewhat sad farewell to all those of the party who were on the history-making trip, she entered a white house car at the station and was driven directly to the executive mansion. Inside the mansion, Mrs. Coolidge, soon to be the new mistress of the White House, met Mrs. Harding. She expressed her sympathy and proffered her services in any way possible to the bereaved woman she is succeeding. She also took occasion to assure Mrs. Harding of her own and next two years, the greatest oil field in the state. It has, according to this authority, who is not handicapped by the necessity for paying for his mistakes, should his findings prove erroneous, every favorable mark of Huntington Beach and Santa Fe Springs, with the added condition of being more definitely marked than either of those prolific fields, especially now, since those fields have removed some of the mystery of oil geology in So Calif. Certainly every citizen of Anaheim is vitally interested, and instead of looking far afield, to other development gamles, why not concentrate on the home town, until we will be the great oil center of this marvelous country. Bandit Pretends to Be Looking for Still and Stolen Jewelry Alleging that he was an officer of Santa Ana, hunting for bootleggers, and diamond thieves, a well dressed thief last night took two valuable diamond rings from Mrs. Lucy M. Stanton of Anaheim while she was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Spennetta near Villa Park. After he had received the rings, which he took ostensibly until he had identified them, the man, at the point of a gun, forced the three to an outbuilding where he fastened the door with wire. He then cut the telephone wires from the house and vanished in a car which his companion had kept waiting with the motor running. The burglary took place about 7:30. The larger of the two diamonds was of approximately two-karat and in a platinum setting. The other was smaller. The thief showed a badge when Spennetta grew suspicious, and satisfied Mrs. Spennitta, although the badge probably was not even an imitation of the real thing, in Sheriff Sam Jernigan’s opinion. PRESIDENT CALLS CABINET MEETING By GEORGE E. DURNO (I. N. S. Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—The first cabinet meeting of the Coolidge administration will be held next Tuesday morning at 11 o’clock, it was announced officially this afternoon at the temporary “White House”. President Coolidge issued the call informally after a series of conferences in which eight cabinet members visited him at his presidential suite in the Willard Hotel. The absentees were Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and Secretary of Labor Davis, who are abroad. It was also announced the president will decide on Monday whether he will meet Washington correspondents after the cabinet meeting. SEEK REMAINS OF BURNED LAUNCH After bidding a somewhat sad farewell to all those of the party who were on the history-making trip, she entered a white house car at the station and was driven directly to the executive mansion. Inside the mansion, Mrs. Coolidge, soon to be the new mistress of the White House, met Mrs. Harding. She expressed her sympathy and proferred her services in any way possible to the bereaved woman she is succeeding. She also took occasion to assure Mrs. Harding of her own and the president's wish that she remain at the White House indefinitely. Mrs. Harding only shook her head a bit sadly and thanked her. Mrs. Coolidge retired shortly and returned to the temporary white house at the new Willard Hotel. Whatever fears her doctors may have entertained, that the widow of the president would collapse when the strain was ever, was disappearing to a large extent today. Except for an unusual pallor, accentuated by her heavy mourning and her lack of strength, she appeared this morning to be in excellent condition to complete the trying task of removal from the White House that has been her home for two and one-half years. Friends of Mrs. Harding are privately indignant over what they consider lack of consideration for her on the peril of some of the under officials of the new Coolidge administration. An order was issued even before the body of the late president was returned to the capital placing all white house transportation under the control of the new chief executive and it developed that when Mrs. Harding called for her car to go to the station to escort the body of her husband back to Marion there was no white house car available and she was forced to call on friends for a car. Thy are also somewhat indignant over the removal of Major O. M. Baldinger, junior military aide at the white house, a favorite of Mrs. Harding's even before Major Baldinger had returned to Washington with the body of his chief. There is, however, no disposition to blame President Coolidge or any of his friends for the incidents. On the contrary, Mrs. Harding's friends blame the petty jealousies and personal animosities of a number of army officers for the whole situation, What mistake has the user of this rowboat made? The answer will be found among today's want ads.