oc-plain-dealer 1923-11-02

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. WEATHER Fair with moderate temperature tonight and Saturday. MONSTER PETITION United States Irritation Over INVITATION SENT U. S. SHORTLY Conference Terms Follow British Note And Will Not Be Specified WASHINGTON, Nov. 2—(INS)—The public debt of the United States has been reduced nearly a billion dollars during the past year, the treasury department announced today. Since October 31, 1922, the reduction has amounted to $995,575,076, making the total today $22,082,298,061. The reduction during October 1923 was $43,405,286. Reduce Debt Nearly Billion Last Year WASHINGTON, Nov. 2—(INS) ANAHEIMERS WILL VISIT GERMANY REALTORS TO CONFER ON Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Roberts Leave Tomorrow For 6-Months' Trip Mr. and Mrs. Tneodorp Roberts are leaving tomorrow morning at 10:30 over the Union Pa SHORTLY Conference Terms Follow British Note And Will Not Be Specified WASHINGTON, Nov. 2—(INS) Until the French government itself deigns to clear up the misunderstanding that has arisen with respect to the scope of the proposed reparations conference, it is impossible to say whether the United States will take part in the parley. This official announcement was made at the White House this afternoon. At the same time it was indicated there was every reason to believe a way would be found out of the difficulty which has arisen since Premier Poincaré and the French foreign office limited the scope of the inquiry. By GEORGE R. HOLMES (I. N. S. Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Nov. 2—American irritation over the French threat to limit the scope of the experts' inquiry into the reparations controversy was appreciably lessened today. A copy of the French note to Great Britain, accepting the invitation to the conference was received at the state department, and while it was not made public, it is understood that it is not nearly so hostile as the public utterances of Premier Poincaré and the French foreign office have indicated. By LUTHER A. HUSTON I. N. S. Staff Correspondent LONDON, Nov. 2—(TNS)—An invitation to the United States to send representatives to the international conference of reparations experts is being drafted and probably will be dispatched within a few days to Washington, it was learned at the foreign office this afternoon. The invitation will follow the lines of the original British note proposing the creation of an international committee of experts to examine the reparations question. The terms for the conference will not be specified. This will be left to the inter-Allied reparations commission, under whose auspices the investigation into Germany's capacity for payment will be conducted. British officials regard Premier Poincaré's Newspaper milder than his previous announcement. The British now believe it is REALTORS TO CONFER ON FARM LAND Discussion of plans for a conference at an early date, probably at Riverside, by realty men from all over So Cal on the farm land situation, and the inauguration within two weeks of a real estate course by U. S. C. at Santa Ana were important features of a very interesting meeting of the Orange Co Realty Board last night at Riverside. The Orange Co board enjoys the distinction of having been the first organization of the kind in the state, five city realty boards uniting three months ago. This was the second meeting of the county organization and was a decided success in every way. The names of 27 realtors were added to the membership roll. Tom Talbert, president of the county board of supervisors, acted as chairman for the evening. Principal speakers included Glenn D. Willaman, secretary, and Henry I. Barbour, of Long Beach, new president of the Calif. Real Estate Men's Assn. and Freeman Bloodgood, of Santa Anna, first state reality commissioner. Also, Lenie Tanner, five-year-old Fullerton youth, was given an ovation when he repeated the five-minute "home town" talk which he gave at the recent state reality convention. There were 125 realtors present, representing they boards at Anaheim, Fullerton, Garden Grove, Santa Ann, Orange and Huntington Beach. Anaheim realtors present were W. B. Allen, W. J. Elliott, Bird V. Beebe, J. E. Schumacher, A. E. Hargrove, A. A. Ambrose, C. C. Sidnam and Secretary Reid of the C., of C. GERMANY Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Roberts' Leave Tomorrow For 6-Months' Trip Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Roberts are leaving tomorrow morning at 10:30 over the Union Pacific for a journey which will course about six months and which Mrs. Roberts says is a long defended honeymoon. Their fifth wedding anniversary will be celebrated while in German with relatives. They will stop in Chicago, Detroit and Buffalo, arriving in New York in time to sail Nov. 17, on the steamer "America" and hope to arrive in Bremen on Nov. 27. The first visit will be made with Mr. Roberts' mother, who is 80 years old in Danzig, when they will celebrate Christmas company with two sisters and two brothers of Mr. Roberts'. In Austria Mrs. Roberts' grandmother and an aunt will extend their hospitality for some weekends and the globe trotters will go to Italy, Switzerland, Holland and England, returning to a German port to sail for America. is their hope to return on the first nailing palace, the "Columbia," now under construction. Should conditions in German permit, the schedule will be changed, but should inconvenience or unpleasantness be countered, the travellers will shorten their itinerary and arrive home somewhat sooner than now anticipated. ELECT OFFICERS OF CHORAL CLUB A very enthusiastic and profitable meeting of the Anaheim Choral club was held last event in the high school auditorium. This club has been organized for the purpose of creating a promoting musical interests in city. Anaheim is progressive in civic and literary organizations, and the Anaheim Choral club is planning a campaign aid and develop its musical task. Mrs. Walter Ross as presided at the business meeting at which a constitution and laws were adopted by the clerk Mr. Austin was elected vice president, and a nominating committee composed of Mrs. Roya Mrs. Schumaker and Mr. Wat was appointed to select a box of directors for the club. U.S. MAY NOT BE IN CONFERENCE By GEORGE R. HOLMES (L. N. S. Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. The United States may not participate in the proposed conference after all. It is understood that the embassy at Paris has been instructed to ascertain the French government's intention. If it is the French government's intention to limit the scope of the parley to uncertain what Germany can pay now and not in the future, then it is probable that Secretary of State Hughes will decline the invitation to participate. There was to be nothing binding on the government to accept the conclusions of experts. It was recognized France had the right not to commit herself in advance. Premier Poincare's bristling speeches to the effect that France would not tolerate deviating oneota from the treaty of Versailles and that she could not accept any reduction in German reparations have always been taken in Washington with the proverbal grain of salt. They have been regarded as largely designed for home consumption and consequently were not taken too seriously. The Poincare speech at Newry was no exception to this general rule. But when the French For-Continued on page 8. GREATEST SPEED MAN EVER WENT MITCHELL FIELD, New York, Nov. 2. The fastest speed ever travelled by man was attained today by Lieutenant Harold J. Brow, in a U.S. Navy plane. He averaged 275 miles an hour in four flights over a three kilometer straightaway course. COTTON UP $10 NEW YORK, Nov. 2. (INS)—Capping a day of sensational trading, cotton prices advanced 200 points, or $10 a bale, today as a result of the government crop report. This is the limit of advance permitted under exchange rules in any one day of trading. All options sold at the highest levels of the year, January at 31.60; March 31.65; May 31.60 and July 31.60. McCORY IN CHARGE MANILA, Nov. 2. (INS)—General McCory arrived today from China and Japan and immediately assumed the duties of the governor-general's office during the absence of Governor General Wood in Mindanon. BUILDING PERMITS Fuca Lemo Co., frame addition to factory at 911 No. Los Angeles-st, cost $1000. Herman Strandt, frame deplex at 1104½ W.-Center-at cost $2000. Eisenbauer, skylight, $57. W. A. Keeney, tent-house at 727 So Walnut-st, cost $45. D. J. Pitts, frame garage at 215 So Ohio-st, cost $25. NAB PETITE STAR LOS ANGELES, Nov. 2.—Pretty Patricia Palmer, film star, better known, peras Margaret Gibson, was arr at the home of her mother by U. S. Deputy Marshall charge of extorting money George Lasher, under threat federal prosecution. Lasher claims to have the actress a total of $1.1 million alleged threatened in censure under the Mann Act the asserted transportation Miss Palmer to Tla Juana. FULL REPORT OF INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE—FIRST LEASED WIRE IN ANAHEIM THE ORANGE COUNTY plain Dealer LEADING NEWSPAPER OF NORTHERN ORANGE COUNTY Anaheim, California,Friday, November 2, 1923 TITION FOR NEW DANGO In Over French Reparation Demands HAHEIMERS ALL VISIT GERMANY Wilson To Speak Over Radio Nov. 10 WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 — (INS)—Breaking the silence that, with few exceptions, he has maintained since his retirement from the White House, Woodrow Wilson has consented to make a "publ lie address" on the night of November 10, which will be carried over the radio and broadcast to thousands of Americans, it was announced here today. The ex-president, however, will not leave his home in S. Street. He will deliver the address, sented in his invalid's chair in his library. AMPLE ROOM TO EXPAND OUTFALL Right-of-way 30 Feet Wide Will Care For Cities Many Years Far from allowing for a sewage system to cover development of the MRS. STOKES SEVERELY GRILLED NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—Smiling triumphantly, Mrs. Helen Elwood Stokes, titian-haired defendant in the sensational Stokes divorce trial, stepped from the witness stand this afternoon with flying colors after undergoing three hours of severe cross-examination. She had time and again crossed wits and matched repartee with Max Steuer, her millionaire husband's attorney, and altho Steuer is regarded as one of New York's cleverest cross-examining attorneys, she never came out second best. She proved to be a splendid witness for herself, at best under fire. NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—Mrs. Helen Elwood Stokes, attractive defendant in the remational divorce suit brought by her 73-year-old millionaire husband, W. E. D. Stokes, was submitted to a grilling today and refused time and time again to admit that before her marriage she was intimate with Edgar T. Wallace, the co-respondent. Wallace is a San Francisco oil promoter. I was not in love with him; she asserted. Her face was flushed with fever. Her voice was hunky from an attack of grippe which she has been suffering from for two days. Steuer, pacing up and down in front of the titian-haired witness, used every trick known to the legal trade in the duel of wits with the witness. OUTFALL Right-of-way 30 Feet Wide Will Care For Cities Many Years Far from allowing for a sewage system to cover development of the county only during the next 10 years, as popularly supposed, rights-of-way of both the general outfall sewer and the individual municipal sewers measure 30 feet wide, permitting the construction of two other units similar to those being laid. It was shown today by Dr. W. Leland Mitchell, county Health officer, and City Manager O. E. Stoward. Hence, when further facilities become necessary because of growing population or the fact that other cities besides Anaheim, Santa Ana, Fullerton and Orange want to hitch on, it will not be necessary to replace, but only add to the present outfall line. The outfall sewer's right-of-way is owned jointly by the four cities, so they are tied up in one system for 30 years to come. It is unlikely that for the present any other communities will try to connect with the outfall sewer, partly because of the expense, partly because septic tanks will suffice for the present and further because they can fasten on later. The sewer tappers from 42 inches in diameter at a distance to 24-inch adjoining Anaheim. While nothing is certain as yet, Dr. Mitchell gave it as his private opinion that Placetta would not hitch on for the reasons named, altho it has taken the step that would be preliminary anyhow in voting for the district, in the absence of incorporation. La Habra will not do so either, but will present to the Board of Supervisors at its next meeting, or the one succeeding, its petition for the formation of a sanitary district, to be followed by its own sewage system, probably a septic tank of the modern Imhoff type. Garden Grove also is planning a sanitary district, and progress is being made at Buena Park toward one. REID AND DODGE SPEAK TO LIONS Some interesting readings and character sketches by Sanford Dodge and a talk on civic co-op with the witness. The Gobi desert, he said, the source of practically form of life. Evidence with the exception of REID AND DODGE SPEAK TO LIONS Some interesting readings and character sketches by Sanford Dodge and a talk on civic co-operation by Secretary George W. Reid of the Chamber of Commerce were the features of today's Lions' club luncheon at the Elks' clubhouse. Much of the discussion was about the forthcoming play "Are You a Mason?" to be given at the Fairyland on the evening of Nov. 5. There is no doubt at all that the house will be packed, according to Secretary Beebe. R. R. COMMISSION TO HANDLE RATES WASHINGTON, Nov. 2—(INS) —Railroad executives having refused to accept President Coolidge's proposal for a voluntary reduction in grain and fuel rates the matter has been turned over entirely to the Interstate Commerce committee. It was announced at the White House today. The president will take no further action, it was said. The president is still hopeful, however, of an immediate reduction in rates. RODRIGUEZ ON JOB MEXICALI, Mex., Nov. 2—(INS) —General Abelardo Rodriguez assumed the governorship of Lower California here this afternoon, as the forerunner of what is rumored to be a shake-up among governmental office holders. REPORTS ACCIDENT M. D. Parsons, of Fullerton told Fullerton police yesterday that his Ford roadster had been struck by a car owned by F. E. Sonners, of Glendale at Ameriage ave., and Spadra rd. Both cars were damaged. Andrews' investigations have convinced him that Darwin right, in that all animal life has evolved from a primitive stage, but he also is convinced that the Bible is right, in that there was a Garden of where primitive man finds the light of day. The Gobi desert, he said, the source of practically form of life. Evidence with the exception of prince man and the primitive were found by his expedition and he declares that furry vestigation should reveal these. Andrews arrived in yesterday on the Admiral Linier President Jackson, panied by Professor Henry field Osborne, president American Museum of History, New York, and Morne, who met him as heged from the desert. Osborne was particularly by Andrews' discovery they bore out an assertion by him 22 years ago, forms of animal life or in Central Asia. Andrews brought with his tons of fossils, as evidence discoveries. Among these dinosaur eggs, which a cold storage product to show their age is estimated at 10,000,000 years: the skeleton a browsing rhinoceros, long, 12 feet high with a like neck 22 feet long, skull of a dok-like monster feet long with a mouth 18 inches. For untold centuries after the comparatively recent something like 200,000 Ildrews says, the Gobt destined the most delightful spot from a climatic standpoint a shift of the poles trawl it into the waste that day. This same shift lieves, destroyed two lanes between America and Asia. As evidence of the relationship between aborigines of two continents, Andréws to the fact that Mongolia day cannot be told from who undoubtedly migrated this continent. NAHEIM aler COUNTY PROGRESS OF ANAHEIM, AS TOLD BY BUILDING Year Permits Total 1922 675 $1,413,046 1921 564 1,263,870 1920 362 879,950 1919 174 464,500 27TH YEAR—NO. 57 DANCE HALL ACT demands Somewhat Lessened INTESS, FAMED AS BOSTON BEAUTY, FINDS MARITAL HAPPINESS AT LAST WOULD FORCE PAYMENT OF LARGE TAX Declared Source of Juvenile Delinquency and Expense to County Gofug outside Santa Ana and circulating many copies of the petition asking the Board of Surgeon LATEST photo of the Countess Palfy. Countess Palfy, formerly Miss Dorothy Deacon of Boston, whose duty won her fame years ago, has returned to the U.S. for a visit with her is Count Palfy, her second husband. Her second marriage proved a happy one, she says. Her first romance was with since Antoine Albert Radziwill. Their marriage was a failure. After many pleas Miss Deacon finally obtained an annulment from the creed Rota Tribunal of Rome. Shortly afterward she married the BRYAN AND DARWIN ARE BOTH CORRECT EATTLE, Nov. 2.—William Jennings Bryan can batter his sword into a plow share. And so can the exponents of the Darwinian story of evolution who have been fighting him. Because, according to Roy Chapman Andrews, scientist and ex-erorer, who left Seattle today for New York with the spoils of a three year expedition in what was once the Garden of Eden, both them are right. Andrews declares that there is absolutely no conflict, from a scientific standpoint, between the story of evolution and a liberal interpretation of Genesis. Andrews' investigations in theobi desert, central Asia, have convinced him that Darwin was right, in that all animal life had evolved from a primitive age, but he also is convinced that the Bible is right, in that there was a Garden of Eden, here primitive man first saw the light of day. The Gobi desert, he said, was the source of practically every form of life. Evidences of this with the exception of primitive labor gains in British election By F. A. WRAY (L.N.S. Staff Correspondent) LONDON, Nov. 2.—Available returns today from yesterday's borough council elections throughout England and Wales showed appreciable gains for the labor party although they failed to make the clean sweep they had hoped for. Liberal losses were heavy. The conservatives (Tories) broke even, which caused surprise in some quarters in view of the forthcoming general election. LARGE TAX Declared Source of Juvenile Delinquency and Expense to County Gofug outside Santa Ana and circulating many copies of the petition, asking the Board of Supervisors to pass an ordinance putting dance halls of the county under strifeer surveillance, the petitioners today filed hundreds of names of people scattered thru Tusfin, Orange, Garden Grove and other points as well as Santa Ana in favor of the new law. The petition asks the board by ordinance to require all proprietors or conductors of dance halls or public dances in Orange-co to procure licenses and to pay a substantial license tax for conducting such places, for the reason that they have proved a prolific source of juvenile delinquency, a cause of expense to our county and require strict police regulation." R. R. Miller, county prosecution officer, who provided much of the evidence on which the clergymen, civic leaders and others worked, declared at a public meeting in Santa Ana that most of the girl delinquents were "dance hall lizards" or had been such. In an interview he said that an assessment should be levied sufficient to provide special police officers and that proper lighting of public dance hall inside and out should be demanded by the authorities. COUNTY ANSWERS BIRCH TAX SUIT In its answer filed today in superior court to the action of A. Otis Birch who claimed a large over-valuation of oil property and asked for a corresponding reduction in taxes. The county alleges that the Fullerton Oil Co., General Petroleum Co., which owns the Amalgamated Oil Co., and other concerns were not comparable with the Birch company, principally because the plaintiff's oil was of much higher specific gravity. The assessed valuation named this year was $845,235 and it has been rising steadily year by year, followed by unsuccessful suits to have the amounts cut. In regard to the Fullerton Oil Co. and certain other producing Androws' investigations in the bob desert, central Asia, have convinced him that Darwin was right, in that all animal life has been evolved from a primitive age, but he also is convinced that the Bible is right, in that there was a Garden of Eden, where primitive man first saw the light of day. The Gobi desert, he said, was the source of practically every form of life. Evidences of this with the exception of primitive man and the primitive horse, are found by his expedition, and he declares that further investigation should reveal both of these. Androws arrived in Seattle yesterday on the Admiral Oriental her President Jackson, accompanied by Professor Henry Fairbaird Osborne, president of the American Museum of Natural History. New York, and Mrs. Osborne, who met him as he emerged from the desert. Osborne was particularly elated by Androws' discoveries, and they bore out an assertion made by him 23 years ago, that all forms of animal life originated in Central Asia. Androws brought with him nine tons of fossils, as evidence of his discoveries. Among these are 25 dinosaur eggs, which put any old storage product to shame, as their age is estimated at some 90,000,000 years; the skeleton of browsing rhinoceeros, 24 feet long, 12 feet high with a giraffe-like neck 22 feet long, and the skull of a dog-like monster, three feet long with a mouth opening 8 inches. For untold centuries and until the comparatively recent date of something like 200,000 B.C., Androws says, the Gobt desert was the most delightful spot on earth from a climatic standpoint. Then a shift of the poles transformed it into the waste that it is today. This same shift, he believes, destroyed two land bridges between America and Asia. As evidence of the close relationship between aboriginal types of two continents, Androws points to the fact that Mongolians of today cannot be told from Eskimos who undoubtedly migrated to this continent. By F. A. WRAY (I.N.S. Staff Correspondent) LONDON, Nov. 2.—Available returns today from yesterday's borough council elections throughout England and Wales showed appreciable gains for the labor party although they failed to make the clean sweep they had hoped for. Liberal losses were heavy. The conservatives (Tories) broke even, which caused surprise in some quarters, in view of the forthcoming general election, which is now expected in January or February, with Premier Baldwin's protection policy as the chief issue. The election result was closely scrutinized by political leaders to get a line on public opinion. Labor's strength will be the most important factor in the general election. Laborites are making plans for a vigorous campaign against the protection issue and leaders of the labor party are active in all parts of England, Scotland and Wales. Premier Baldwin will make a speech at Manchester tonight, when he is expected to renew his arguments for protection. It is probable that he will refer to the status of foreign affairs, also possibly touching upon the proposed reparations conference. BANDITS NEAR CAPTURE AGAIN LOS ANGELES, Nov. 2.—(INS) — Escaping thru the net of officers who had surrounded them in the hills near Topanga Canyon, the two young bandits who yesterday held up and robbed the Owensmouth State Bank of $1600 in currency, were today-near capture a second time in the vicinity of the Mexican border near Yuma, Arizona, it was reported to the sheriff's office here. QUAKES IN MANILA MANILA, Nov. 2.—(INS) — Manila was again frightened late yesterday by two more earth quakes similar to those of last week and about the same intensity. They were of from 3 to 5 seconds duration. THE Fullerton Oil Co., General Petroleum Co., which owns the Amalgamated Oil Co., and other concerns were not comparable with the Birch company, principally because the plaintiff's oil was of much higher specific gravity. The assessed valuation named this year was $845,935 and it has been rising steadily year by year, followed by unsuccessful suits to have the amounts cut. In regard to the Fullerton Oil Co., and certain other producing concerns instanced by the plaintiffs to show the alleged injustice, only 15 acres were productive, says the defendant. Similarly only 30 acres out of the 240 of the General Petroleum named were producing during the year. Hence the 482,407 barrels mentioned as produced by the Fullerton Oil Co. were largely irrelevant to the issue. REPLY TO BRITISH PARIS, Nov. 2.—(INS) — Replying to the British note protesting against creation of independent states in Germany, the French government forwarded a communication to London this afternoon interpreting the Versailles treaty. France denies that the signatories of the Versailles treaty guarantee to respect German boundaries. WIRE FROM PRINCE BERLIN, Nov. 2.—(INS) — The Berlin bureau of international News Service received the following telegram this afternoon from the former German crown prince at Wielingen, Holland: in response to a previous message of inquiry: "There are no new developments respecting my return to Germany." WILL HELP WOOD MANILA, Nov. 2.—(INS) — The Democratic party today formally announced its willingness to co-operate with Governor General Wood and adopted a resolution disapproving of territorial government.