oc-plain-dealer 1923-09-13

DEMPSEY 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 tonight and Friday generally cloudy 8 MILES OF NEW N. Frank Morse Sues Pac REPORTED 10 DESTROYERS HIT ROCKS New Air Record of 245 Miles an Hour MITCHEL FIELD, N. Y., Sept. 18—Lieutenant H. G. Brown, U. S. N., piloting a Curtiss navy biplane in preparation for the airplane race at St. Louis today established a new world's speed record of 245 miles an hour. The previous speed record was held by Lieutenant L. H. Sandderson, of the U. S. Marine Corps with 238 miles an hour. The test was made over a kilometer course and was electrically clocked to the tenth of a second. Lieut. Brown flew at the rate Naval Court of Inquiry at San Diego Today Adjourns Until Monday Morning SAN DIEGO, Cal., Sept. 13.—A report that ten instead of seven destroyers went on the rocks Saturday night gained credence when underground channels of information yielded reports to the effect that the Farragut and Somers are leaking from holes in their hulls. The Marcus has been ordered to drydock tomorrow to repair a great rent in her false bottom, it was learned at the destroyer repair base today. How the Marcus received her wound has not been disclosed by the navy authorities officially, but private information is that she was following the seven wrecked sister ships. Unfoldment of the details of the disaster have been shrouded in mystery. The public has been permitted to learn only what was obvious from the sight of the seven warships topsy turvy on the rocks of Point Honda, the navy officials withholding information that would make clear to the public the why and that wherefore of the greatest catastrophe in the histroy of the American Navy. Dispatches from Washington state that Secretary Denby has been practically without official advice and has been compelled to telegraph for details. Officers of the line here have divulged bits of gossip to the effect that three destroyers, additional to the seven wrecked beyond salvage, go on the rocks before their wildly reversed engines could halt; their 20-knot progress in the dense fog. They were able, according to the seemingly well-founded rumors, to back off the rocks with the lift of friendly wave swells and make port under their own power, but in sadly crippled condition. The naval board of inquiry to probe the disaster convened shortly before noon today at the naval air station on North Island. The board is headed by Rear Admiral William V. Pattis, assisted by Captain Gustave Mitchel Field, N. Y., Sept. 13.—Lieutenant H. G. Brown, U. S. N., piloting a Curtiss navy biplane in preparation for the airplane race at St. Louis today established a new world's speed record of 245 miles an hour. The previous speed record was held by Lieutenant L. H. Sanderson, of the U. S. Marine Corps with 238 miles an hour. The test was made over a kilometer course and was electrically clocked to the tenth of a second. Lient. Brown flew at the rate of 800 feet a second. RADIO MUSIC SOON THING OF PAST Broadcasting in Los Angeles to So. Calif., points will be over with in six months. Amateur radio communication will be killed beginning Oct. 1, except to a few isolated points in the Pacific and occasionally the Orient. The work of the Orange County Radio Ass'n, which with the growth in popularity of receiving sets promised to be more successful than ever this fall and winter, will be crippled or ended. These are some of the results, according to Dr. J. E. Waters, president of the county association, that accrue when the new ruling of the Department of Commerce, made on recommendation of the second radio convention, goes into effect on the first of next month. The ruling bars work between 8:00 and 10:30 p.m., the very hours when the amateur is busy. The hours, moreover, apply all over the country, regardless of whether it is eastern, western, mountain or Pacific time, so that really the idle period is from 6:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. for communications within the United States. The action of the second radio convention was taken because of alleged extreme interference with other business during the hours mentioned. As a matter of fact, according to Waters, commercial business was the cause of such interference, and the trouble will be found as great as ever. JULIAN EM GONE SIN Where is H. H. been working on pipe line of C. C.ily at Huntington Sam Jernigan we Counts left tha morning in a n work and hasn't since He is 52 inches tall, weighs ORDER INVESTIGATION OF ELLIS ISLAND WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—Secretary of the Treasury Mellon this morning ordered an investigation of health conditions at the Ellis Island immigration station. The inquiry will be conducted by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Wadsworth, supervising the U. S. public health service, and assistant secretary of labor Henning; who is directly charged with the direction of the American bureau. Reorganization of the staff of the public health office on duty at New York is contemplated, according to treasury officials. TEMPERATURE Maximum 80 at 2:35 p.m. Y Yes, The Plain Dealer will give the big fight results Friday evening as per usual. You don't know who'll win, neither do we, but the folks at Plain Dealer "show" will know as quickly as anyone, the fight being announced blow by blow thru the big megaphone. OR The Plain Dealer is the only new Orange-co. with a six-day leased evening the Plain Dealer will be communication with the International press box at the ringside in the You know how we served the Ju FULL REPORT OF INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE—FIRST LEASED WIRE IN ANAHEIM THE ORANGE COUNTY LEADING NEWSPAPER OF NORTHERN ORANGE COUNTY Anaheim, California, Thursday, September 13, 1923 NEW PAVING IN TH es Pacific Mausoleum Co. Stockh SUITS RANGE FROM $1000 TO $10,000 BIG FIGHT WILL START AT 6 P.M. The big Dempsey-Firpo battle at New York tomorrow evening will start at 6 p.m. Anaheim time. Preliminaries are announced to start at 3:30 p.m. All will be announced in front of The Plain Dealer Office as fast as they come over the International News Service leased wire DRILL AGAIN TODAY CUTS THRU SAND FROM $1000 TO $10,000 Long List of Defendants in Actions Filed on Promissory Notes Suits for more than $53,000 on promissory notes filed today by N. Frank Moore vs. a long list of stockholders in the Pacific Mausoleum Co. of Anaheim. The sum against the defendants range all of the way from under $1000 to over $10,000. The defendants are Henry Husmann, R. J. Sparks, Martha A. Sparks, C. E. Holcomb, L. F. Pomeroy, J. Allen Knapp, M. Nebelung, J. A. Greenough, S. J. Paschall and Nettle H. Mayes. The complaint is on stockholders' liability. The First National Bank loaned $38,000 to the stockholders on a note, remaining unpaid except in part. Morse, according to the complaint, was one of several who guaranteed the payment of various notes. On a note for $15,000 issued by the Merchants' National of Los Angeles some property of Morse's was attached. Other notes written were 16 for $5,000 each to the First National of Los Angeles, payable to C. E. Holcomb, ten of which were delivered by Holcomb to the bank and the other handed over for the payment of a note executed by the plaintiff, Holcomb and others for $40,000. Holcomb got the $40,000 and paid $22,000 of it to the mausoleum company. The Vermont Marble Co. and the First National Bank of Fullerton were other concerns which gave loans and recently notes. JULIAN EMPLOYE GONE SINCE MONDAY Where is H. H. Counts, who has been working on the Los Alamitos pipe line of C. C. Julian? His family at Huntington Beach and Sheriff Sam Jernigan would like to know. Counts left the house Tuesday morning in a new Ford to go work and hasn't been heard from since He is 52, five feet nine inches tall, weighs 158 pounds, has battle at New York tomorrow evening will start at 6 p.m. Anaheim time. Preliminaries are announced to start at 3:30 p.m. All will be announced in front of The Plain Dealer Office as fast as they come over the International News Service leased wire direct from the ringside. However, if you don't want to stand for so long a time first on one foot, them the other don't plan to get around to the Plain Dealer "show" until a few minutes before six. NEED INSANE ASYLUM IN COUNTY The county soon will need an insane asylum of its own, if state institutions continue to be packed, Dr Harry E. Zaiser, superintendent of the Orange County Hospital, said today. Very recently seven hopelessly insane persons of the county have been turned back from Norwalk to the hospital. Other counties are having the same experience. Altho the September class of nurses was filled up, Zaiser today issued a call for a new class in October, something unheard of. The psychopathic ward is filled up now. The trouble with the insane, especially four of the new inmates, is that they are absolutely helpless and really require individual nurses. That makes the staff short-handed. Six more nurses are wanted. Graduation from a high school no longer is necessary. At present the hospital has 108 patients, including approximately 40 20 Feet of New Hole Has Been Made in Last 24 Hrs. on S.O. Test Well After several days' siege of the hardest kind of drilling, the crews on the Standard Oil Company's test well on the William Wagner, Jr., ranch of the Community lease, hit sand again today and in a short time had bored down 11 feet, compared with only nine feet most of yesterday. That is, about 20 feet has been bored in the last 24 hours, roughly speaking, and the depth now is 670 feet or better, with the possibility of nearly 800 by Friday morning. Nine bits worn to an "edge" an inch or more thick, compared with a knife edge when they were first fastened on, testify to the recent difficulties. That the present rock is sedimentary or of ocean type rather than riverbed was the opinion given today by a man who should know. It is a conglomerate, with a thick sprinkling of pebbles, rather than ordinary sandstone, altho it would be less hard if subject to erosion above the surface. It is hoped to strike seashells at 1000 to 1500 feet. A big bit is being kept on hand ready to ream out the hole when it becomes too snug for the tools. Thus far it hasn't had to be used. FIRST DIRECT WORD FROM QUAKE CITY (The following dispatch from Duke N. Parry, I. N. S. staff correspondent in Japan, is the first direct word from the stricken city of Tokio to reach the United States. Up to now all messages from Tokio have been relayed via Shanghai and other far eastern ports). TOKIO, Sept. 13.—Vice Minister Tanaka Galmusho called on American Ambassador Cyrus Wood today to officially thank the United States for the leading part that nation has taken in rushing help to the stricken... JULIAN EMPLOYE GONE SINCE MONDAY Where is H. H. Counts, who has been working on the Los Alamitos pipe line of C. C. Julian? His family at Huntington Beach and Sheriff Sam Jernigan would like to know. Counts left the house Tuesday morning in a new Ford to go to work and hasn't been heard from since. He is 52, five feet nine inches tall, weighs 158 pounds, has dark brown hair and is smooth abaven, but had three or four days' growth of beard on his face when last seen. A knife scar on the left side of his face back of the eye and blue overalls and a khaki shirt are other marks of identification. FOUR BANDITS ROB BANK AT OAKLAND OAKLAND, Sept. 13.—Four armed bandits held up a branch of the American bank at Fortieth-st. and San Pablo-ave., here today and escaped with $5000 after terrorizing employees and customers. HYLAN VERY SICK SARATOGA SPRINGS, Sept. 13.—Mayor John F. Hylan of New York has pneumonia in both lungs and is gravely ill. Formal announcement was made this afternoon following examination of x-ray pictures. STEPHENS NAMED SACRAMENTO, Sept. 13.—Joseph S. Stephens, Sacramento banker, was appointed today by Governor Richardson as a member of the state recitation board, succeeding Peter R. Gagg resigned. EVACUATION DATE PARIS, Sept. 13.—The council of ambassadors today fixed the date for evacuation of Corfu by Italian forces. From Italian sources, International News Service learned that the evacuation will not take place before Oct. 1. Plain Dealer Want-ads bring results. FULLERTON MAN LIVES THRU QUAKE A radio message has been received from D. E. Smith, father of M. D. Smith of Fullerton, who was in the earthquake disaster at Yokohama, saying that he is safe and is now on his way back to San Francisco. The elder Mr. Smith is a wholesale importer of Japanese antiques, and it had been feared by his family in Fullerton that he had lost his life in the Yokohoma catastrophe. BIG SUNFLOWER Here's something for you sunflower growers to shoot at! Louis Beck of Kroeger-st. brings to The Plain Dealer office a blossom 15-1-2 inches across and containing thousands of seeds. It grew on an eight-foot stock beside the Beek chicken yard. FILE NEW COMPLAINT A. C. Moreno is arraigned this morning in Judge Brown's court on the charge of assault and battery, and the case dismissed. A new complaint was issued charging Moreno and Robert Luis, complaining witness in the first case, with disturbing the peace. They pleaded guilty, and were fined $15 each. (The following dispatch from Duke N. Parry, I. N. S. staff correspondent in Japan, is the first direct word from the stricken city of Tokio to reach the United States. Up to now all messages from Tokio have been relayed via Shanghai and other far eastern ports). TOKIO, Sept. 13.—Vice Minister Tanaka Gaimusho called on American Ambassador Cyrus Wood today to officially thank the United States for the leading part that nation has taken in rushing help to the stricken area of Japan. The cremation of bodies continues throughout Tokio and Yokohama. Debris is being cleared away as rapidly as possible and the actual work of rehabilitation is expected to start within a week or ten days. An official investigation is being made of Yokohama harbor to determine whether the upheaval of the port bottom will seriously interfere with the future activity and usefulness of the once great Japanese Seaport. Tokio presents a grewsome scene. The silence of the devastated sections is oppressing. In spite of the efficient work of the sanitary corps many bodies still remain among the ruins in plain view. Slight earth tremors continue to instill fear in the hearts of thousands of refugees. However, no material damage has resulted from these quakes. The youngest daughter of American Trade Commissioner E. G. Babbitt was trapped in the lobby of the Grand Hotel here at the time of the great quake and perished in the flames that subsequently mantled the building. Mrs. Babbitt, who was undergoing a massage treatment when the shock struck, had a miraculous escape when she was led by another daughter thus flying wreckage and falling debris to a place of safety in the open street. American Commercial Attache Abbott's family escaped harm. First reports had it that it was Abbott's daughter who was burned to death in the ruins of the Grand Hotel, but it now is established beyond doubt that the unfortunate girl was the youngest daughter of Trade Commissioner Babbitt. Food is plentiful throutout the earthquake and fire region. So far no serious outbreak of peptic ulcer has taken place. FIRPO RE IN ANAHEIM Dealer COUNTY GROWTH OF ANAHEIM SHOWN BY CENSUS Total in 1910 was ..... 2,528 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. 13, 1923 27TH YEAR—NO. 15. IN THIS DISTRICT Stockholders for $53,000 AGAIN Y CUTS U SAND 13 Ships Move With Earthquake Relief WASHINGTON, Sept. 13. With 13 ships now enroute or being loaded with relief supplies for the Japanese earthquake sufferers, national headquarters of the American Red Cross announced this afternoon that subscriptions to its relief fund now total $6,139,367—more than a million dollars in excess of the original quota. More than $3,500,000 has already been spent for food, medicinal goods and other needs. NEW Hole Has de in Last 24 O. Test Well days' siege of the drilling, the crews of Oil Company's test William Wagner, Jr. community lease, hit and in a short time 11 feet, compared feet most of yesterabout 20 feet has the last 24 hours, and in a short time it would be less to erosion above the strike seashells at being kept on hand when it for the tools. Thus to be used. ECT WORD QUAKE CITY dispatch from Duke S. staff corresponddent first direct word on city of Tokio to States. Up to now Tokio have been neghai and other far WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—With 13 ships now enroute or being loaded with relief supplies for the Japanese earthquake sufferers, national headquarters of the American Red Cross announced this afternoon that subscriptions to its relief fund now total $6,139,367—more than a million dollars in excess of the original' quota. More than $3,500,000 has already been spent for food, medicine and other supplies. JOPLIN SAYS HIS RIGHTS VIOLATED To forbid a man to hunt on his own property violates the Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal constitution, which forbids the taking of private property without due process of law or without compensation. J. C. Joplin, County Treasurer, said today in answer to the misdemeanor charge filed this morning. Further more, the state does not obtain protection for animal life by permitting a man to shoot an animal on private property while prohibiting him to carry it off and eat it on his own place, whether that place is in a game refuge or not. Joplin announced that he would fight the charge to the limit. He declared that he had had poultry, bigs, a calf, etc., killed by predatory animals, because he wasn't permitted to shoot on his own property without a special permit. Mountain lions, coyotes, skunks, wild cats, foxes, raccoons, oppressums, hawks, etc., prey upon his stock. He owns 300 acres adjoining the O'Neill ranch, where he for years has had the privilege of shooting. Joplin said further that would-be poachers were back of the attempted prosecution. The complaint is on two counts, one of which mentions shooting a dove and the other taking a fire arm that is a shotgun, to a game refuge. JOPLIN INVITES A Ball-rd. Will Be Improved From Los Angeles-st. to Garden Grove-rd. Suprvisor Wm. Schumacher, in Anaheim this afternoon, announced plans for eight miles of new paving in this, the third, supervisorial district. These improvements will be distributed as follows: Ball-rd from Los Angeles-st to Garden Grove-rd, about two miles. Streets in the townsite of Placentia, three miles. Cedar-st in Brea, 1½ miles. The road from Northam station to Orangethorpe-ave will be widened to 40 and inside Buena Park to 80 feet. This is 1½ miles. This work will be done by improvement districts, the adjacent property owners paying one-fourth to one-third and the county the remainder. This is the paying program for the district in the new yearly budget. $40,000 IS STOLEN FROM INDIANA BANK INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 13.—Whils most officials of the Indiana National Bank were out this afternoon $40,000 in United States certificates were stolen from the desk of D. V. Moore, vice-president. The certificates had just been delivered to Moore and when he turned around to attend a business matter, the package was picked up by a man who disappeared in the crowd in the lobby. No description of the thief could be given by Moore. DEMURRERS FILED IN ROYER ACTIONS Demurrers to the complaint in intervention of Marie Feraud in the cases of Louise Royer vs. the Anaheim Investment Co. and Max Royer, administrator of the estate of the late General Julien O. Royer, and of Vice Minister called on Americus Cyrus Wood today part of the United States that nation has help to the stricken of bodies continues Yokohama. Debris as rapidly as actual work of repected to start withdays. Investigation is being ma harbor to deter the upheaval of the seriously interfere activity and usefulgreat Japanese Sea. a grewsome scene. devastated secoing. In spite of the sanitary corps remains to the hearts of thous. However, no maresulted from daughter of Amerimissioner E. G. Babin the lobby of the at the time of the perished in the frequently mantled the who was undergoing ment when the shock aculous escape when other daughter thruand falling debris to in the open street. mercial Attache Abnaped harm. First that it was Abbott's was burned to death Grand Hotel, but heshed beyond doubt nate girl was the cr of Trade Commistiful throut out the region. was outbreak of peaplace. JOPLIN INVITES A TEST OF GAME LAWS Whether the state game law should apply to private property or not is the question raised with the arrest of J. C. Joplin, county treasurer, accused of violating the law. Joplin was hunting on his ranch at the head of Bell canyon when Under-sheriff E. E. French took him on the charge of hunting on a game refuge of the state. At the opening of the dove season, Sept. 1, Joplin had told the authorities that he intended to hunt on his ranch, and did so, but the arrest didn't take place until Tuesday. The State Fish and Game Commission, which is interested in a strict enforcement of the law, will back the fight against Joplin, it is believed. The refuge of which Joplin's ranch is alleged to be a part, includes part of the Trabuco division of the Cleveland national forest. The ranch lies on the edge of both the forest and the game refuge. Last fall Joplin refused to let his ranch be posted as a game refuge, and succeeded in having two bills introduced into the legislature to have his ranch excluded from the game refuge. One of these bills was killed and the other the governor never signed. BULGAR COMMUNIST LEADERS ARRESTED SOFIA, Sept. 13.—Leaders of the Bulgarian communists are being arrested. Reports from various quarters today told of more than a score of arrests. The Bulgarian government is said to possess evidence that the communists under instructions from Moscow are planning a counter revolution. DEMURRERS FILED IN ROYER ACTIONS Demurrers to the complaint in intervention of Marie Feraud in the case of Louise Royer vs. the Anaheim Investment Co. and Max Royer, administrator of the estate of the late General Julien O. Royer, and of Marie-Louise Amstuts against the same defendants were filed today by the company and Max Royer. That is, four complaints in intervention in all were filed. The actions constitute another chapter in the fight over the general's estate which the superior court decided fell to the family. An appeal to the supreme court by Marie Feraud is pending. OILMAN'S FOOT HURT Jack Mohr is hobbling about town, wearing but one shoe, the result of an accident yesterday when a platon rod, at the Amazon Drilling Co., at Santa Fe Springs, fell on his foot, bruising it badly. It will be several days before he can wear his shoe. BLUNDERS Why would a person entering this office feel awkward? The answer will be found among today's want ads.