oc-plain-dealer 1924-01-05

GROWTH OF ANAHEIM SHOWN BY CENSUS Total in 1910 was ... 2,628 For Year 1920 was ... 5,525 Today Estimated at ... 12,000 Mail your Plain Dealer to Eastern friends. It may bring them to Anaheim, fastest growing city in Orange County. WEATHER Fair, cool tonight and Sunday. WORST COLD WAKE File Forgery Charge Against C CLAIM SALES CONTRACTS SPURIOUS Authorities Believe There was Systematic Series Trash Fire Is Believed Says Picture Star Former Nurse Girl LOS ANGELES, Jan. 5. — Edna Purviance, one of the central figures in the shooting here of Courtland S. Dines, was once a nurse girl in Love-lock, Nev., according to Mrs. Ed Kiler, who said today that the now famous actress worked for her in that capacity 16 years ago. Miss Purviance's father was a miner, known as Captain Purviance, according to Mrs. Kiler. The erstwhile nurse girl's rise to fame in the motion picture business began in San Francisco several years later, where she was working as a stenographer, Charlie Chaplin met her and promptly offered her a contract. WIND FAN FLAMES AT FULLERTON Trash Fires is Believed To Have Spread To Garages Authorities Believe There was Systematic Series Trash Fire Is Believed The filing of a forgery charge against Cnaa. C. Tash well known Santa Ana dealer in used cars, brought to light today what the authorities claim to believe was a systematic series of operations in spurious sales contracts, involving considerable losses to private finance. Tash, arraigned before Justice J. B. Cox today on the forgery charge, which was preferred by N. H. Maynard, Santa Ana outlining contractor, was ordered to appear for preliminary hearing Feb. 20. His $500 bail bond was supplied by John Knox and J. K. Stout, former auto dealers now in the real estate business. Maynard filed the forgery charge late yesterday. Appearing at the district attorney's office, he turned over two used car sales contracts to be used as evidence, one of them forming the basis of the charge. This one purported to represent the sale of a car by Tash to R. A. West, Talbert blacksmith. It bore the purported signature of West and was executed in favor of Tash. Maynard said that Tash had sold the contract at a discount for cash to Maynard's wife, Mrs. Jessie Maynard. West, who was with Maynard, stated that he had purchased the car covered in the contract last August through Tash from J. O. Guilledge, he had placed the car with Tash for sale on consignment. West said he had signed a contract made out to Guilledge but that his signature on the contract made out to Tash was a forgery. He exhibited a copy of his contract with Guiledge and which bore what he said his genuine signature. According to Maynard, his wife had purchased seven such contracts from Tash and had already discovered that two of them were forgeries. One bearing the name of Ralph Williams, Huntington Beach oil worker, was also forged, he claimed. Williams, who was present corroborated this assertion. Maynard said that he had not investigated the other five contracts as yet. The asserted forgeries were discovered, he said, when West was asked to make payments to two different contract holders, Guilledge and Mrs. Maynard. REGISTRATI'N NOW IN FULL SWING HERE Registration in preparation for this year's elections is in full swing here, and several hundred rames already have been put on record. The only change in the law, according to County Clerk Joe Backs, is that a foreign woman not yet naturalized who married an American citizen prior to Sept. 22, 1923, has not the vote. This date, according to the book of instructions is 1922 and not 1923. Anabem now has 12 precincts instead of 10. Some of the women registrars will call at homes to take names if notified. The County Clerk today refused to give out the list of local registration clerks, on the ground that they wouldn't receive their instructions until Monday. Among those so far named are Mrs. Trash Fires is Believed To Have Spread To Garages Fullerton fire department called out this morning about 9:30 to extinguish a blaze in garage at 132 West Maple-owned by R. W. Jackson. Garage is said to have caused from a trash fire by reason the high wind, and was virtually destroyed, doing damage amounting to about $150. A garment next door owned by J. C. Batman was scorched to the amount of about $50. It looked for time as tho a nearby resident would be lost and a woman in pains to see that her pet can was removed to safety. Fullerton firemen were called out last night about o'clock to extinguish a fire the residence of George Lyon on East Patterson Way, who had caught from the outside whether from a trash fire from the match of an incendio Roy Davis, fire chief, refused say. A great deal of the fire was burned off, the building being damaged to the extent about $100, partially covered insurance. Mr. Davis made an appeal the public to take more care about trash fires, especially during windy weather. PLEADS GUILTY TO LIQUOR CHARGE The local police made a no-today on the home of J. L. Da 748 N. Topeka st., and confiscated three pints of liquor, it said. Davis was brought back Judge Brown and entered a bill of guilty to the charge of having liquor in his possession, and fined $200. HANS SALVESON, 78, PASSES AWA Hans Salveson, 78, for years a resident of Fullerton died early this morning at family home, 410 Chapman-a following a lingering illness from which he had been con- ed to his room since last June. Mr. Salveson was born in New Way Feb. 28, 1845. He and M Salveson, then Miss Tonette Lefson, were married in North 45 years ago, and soon af- tracts from Tash and had already discovered that two of them were forgeries. One bearing the name of Ralph Williams, Huntington Beach oil worker, was also forged, he claimed. Williams, who was present corroborated this assertion. Maynard said that he had not investigated the other five contracts as yet. The asserted forgeries were discovered, he said, when West was asked to make payments to two different contract holders, Guilledge and Mrs. Maynard. According to the authorities, it appeared that after the genuine contracts had been executed, a copy was made, bearing the forged name of the buyer and substituting the name of Tash for the real owner. These copied contracts were then sold at a discount to Mrs. Maynard. Guilledge, who accompanied Maynard to the district attorney's office, intimated that other spurious contracts on several cars he had placed with Tash for sale had been disposed of to a local bank. Tash was taken into custody early today at his home. SEND BODY EAST H. P. Campbell was called to Long Beach early last evening to care for the body of a lifelong friend, J. Sidney Johnson, whose former home was Crockett, Tex., but who passed away in Seaside hospital after an illness of three months. The body was brought to the Backs, Terry & Campbell undertaking parlorors, where it was prepared for shipment to the old home on the Sunset limited. Mrs. Johnson will accompany her husband's body, and funeral services will be held Wednesday at 9 a.m. A daughter, Mrs. H. A. Lacey, resides on Lemon ave., Long Beach, and the widow will return soon from her sad mission to continue her residence, as Mr. Johnson, a retired merchant, had closed his business in the Texas home before coming west. Mr. Johnson had known Mr. Campbell since he was a small box, the latter being a native of Crockett, and had frequently visited here. Films developed free. Prints 4c and 5c each. Stewart's Studio 140 W. Center st. HIIRAM'S HEADQUARTERS CHICAGO, Jan. 5.—Senator Hiram Johnson's campaign for the Republican nomination for the presidency will be directed from Chicago. The senator made this announcement. Alarmed over Disappearance Of Noted Singer's Daughter LOS ANGELES, Jan. 5.—Alarming fear for the safety of Eveline Balfour, 16, pretty daughter of Constance Balfour, well known singer, mysteriously missing since Thursday afternoon, developed tails afternoon when police and private detectives discovered new clues relating to her disappearance. The detectives succeeded in tracing the girl from a photographer's studio in West 20th-street where she went Thursday afternoon to the downtown district and learned that she appeared in a "highly excited" condition. From that point the detectives were unable to find any trace of her and another source gave information that made fear for girl's safety become alarming. This information was that a answering Miss Balfour's description had appeared at the California Hospital yesterday afternoon in company with two Mexicans and arranged for an X-ray photograph to be made of her shoulder which she said had been injured. Two theories for Miss Balfour disappearance are advanced. First, that she is the victim angriness, the result of an illness Second, that she has been haped. PULL REPORT OF INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE—FIRST LEASED WIRE IN ANAHEIM THE ORANGE COUNTY Plain Dealer LEADING NEWSPAPER OF NORTHERN ORANGE COUNTY Anaheim, California, Saturday, January 5, 1924 WAVE IN YEARS HIT against Charles C. Tash, Well Known S IND FANS LAMES AT TULLERTON sh Fires is Believed To Have Spread To Garages Grocer Jumps From Counter to Count SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 5, From counter to count was the jump today of Antone Zeitich. Proprietor of a grocery store that caters to San Francisco society, Zeitich sprung a surprise by wedding the Countess Jacoinn Spanich. He met, wooed and won the countess while on a vacation trip to Venice. Married by proxy, the countess made the long trip here from Dalmatia to join her fiance and they were married again here today. Zeitich, a graduate of Santa Clara college, under Dalmatian law, becomes a count, but says he has no intention of deserting the counter which RIVAL STAGE LINES RUN UP BIDS Public Auction Adds $7000 to Offer for C. J. Crosby Line DEMOS AGREE UPON THEIR OWN BILL WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 — The rocky road which the Mellon tax program has to follow thru the 68th congress was made even more difficult today when Democratic leaders of the house reached an agreement to frame their own program and propose it as a substitute for the Mellon plan. Owing to the fact that the Democrats are numerically almost as powerful as the Republicans, and probably will receive the support of the insurgent Republicans who are opposed to the Mellon plan, the fate of the Mellon measure was in decided jeopardy this afternoon. Democratic leaders stated the Democratic program would have the virtually united backing of the party in both houses. The substitute plan will propose a maximum surtax of 44 per cent on incomes of $100,000 or over, as compared with the maximum of 25 per cent lain down in the Mellon program. The Democrats propose to start sur taxes on incomes between $12,000 and $20,000 as compared with $10,000 in the Mellon bill. The president is understood to be principally opposed to the twin propositions endorsed by some Democrats and partly endorsed by the LaFollette insurgents of re-establishing the excess profits tax and the retention of the maximum sur tax of 50 society, Zeitich sprung a surprise by wedding the Countess Jacouin Spanich. He met, wooed and won the countess while on a vacation trip to Venice. Married by proxy, the countess made the long trip here from Dalmatia to join her fiance and they were married again here today. Zeltich, a graduate of Santa Clara college, under Dalmatian law, becomes a count, but says he has no intention of deserting the counter which has brought prosperity to him. Public Auction Adds $7000 to Offer for C. J. Crosby Line Public auction, it was learned today, added approximately $7000 to the private sale value of the C. J. Crosby Bus line, which went under the hamer in Superior Judge R. Y. Williams' court yesterday and was sold to the Crown Stage Line for $20,000. With two big, rival companies seeking the Crosby equipment and franchise, which extends between Santa Ana and Huntington Beach, bidding was spirited when Judge R. Y. Williams conducted the auction in court. Previously the executor of the C. J. Crosby estate had filed a petition with the court requesting permission to dispose of the bus line to the Crown Stage Lines for $13,200, the sum offered for private sale. Judge Williams, however, decided to sell at auction. Officials and legal representatives of the Crown Stage Lines and the Motor Transit company were in court yesterday when the sale was held. The Crown representatives repeated their private bid, which was instantly raised $1,000 by the Motor Transit company. After a brief consultation the Crown representatives added another $1,000 to the bidding. The bids raised steadily $1,000 at a time until the Motor Transit company dropped out when the Crown bid of $20,000 was made. The Crosby line consists of three buses in addition to the franchise. Mrs. Emma Crosby, mother of the late C. J. Crosby, was heir to his estate, which consisted chiefly of the bus line. She will be the beneficiary of the $7,000 gain made by holding the auction. APPOINTMENT OF CABINET SUNDAY TOKIO, Jan. 5 — Formal appointment of the Klyoura cabinet succeeding the resigned Yamamo-to ministry, is predicted tomorrow. The new ministry has been given the name of the "wedding cabinet" by a group of Tokio papers, meaning that it can only be expected to hold office until after the imperial wedding of the prince regent. It was stated this afternoon that 78, PASSES AWAY Mrs. Salveson, 78, for 36 a resident of Fullerton, nearly this morning at the home home, 410 Chapman-ave, swinging a lingering illness which he had been confinished his room since last June. Salveson was born in Norfeb. 22, 1845. He and Mrs. Sisson, then Miss Tonette Tollery, were married in Norway years ago, and soon aftercame to the United States, again in Fullerton. They had resided at the same address is survived by witen and ten children: Mrs. Man Simpson, S. A. Salveson, Harold Kelly, Frank Salveson and Louise Salveson, all of Corton; and Mrs. James Shaw, J. T. Salveson, Brea, and Mart Salveson and Melvin Salveson who live on ranches near Simm, and Mrs. F. C. Cowan. General services have been announced for 2 p.m. Monday the McAulay funeral parservices to be conducted by J. H. Peters, pastor of the Lutheran Church of AnaPallbearers will be sonsor of the decedent. All the men are to be at the funeral. Appearance Her's Daughter Unable to find any trace of another source gave information was that a girl giving Miss Balfour's description appeared at the Califorthern hospital yesterday afternoon with two Mexicans arranged for an X-ray phototo be made of her shoulder, she said had been injured. The theories Miss Balfour's derance are advanced. That she is the victim of the result of an illness, found, that she has been kidned. COOLIDGE CLUB WILL MEET SOON A meeting of the Coolidge-forPresident club probably will be called for next Wednesday, Judge J. S. Howard, president, announced. The club held its first meeting in Judge Howard's office, and unless another place is designat-ed, will meet there again. Blaine Gibson has resigned the position of secretary and gone to Pasadena. APPOINTMENT OF CABINET SUNDAY TOKIO, Jan. 5. — Formal appointment of the Kiyoura cabinet succeeding the resigned Yamamoto ministry, is predicted tomorrow. The new ministry has been given the name of the "wedding cabinet" by a group of Tokio papers, meaning that it can only be expected to hold office until after the imperial wedding of the prince regent. It was stated this afternoon the following ministers will receive portfolios from the prince regent at Asasaka palace: Home, Rentara Mizuno; foreign, Baron Fujimura; finance, S. Katsuta; war, General Fukuda; navy, Kenaro Suzuki; justice, Kisaburo Suzuki; education, S. Egl; agriculture and commerce, Viscount Maeda; communications, K. Komatsu; railways, Tokl. VENIZELOS HEADS GREEK ASSEMBLY LONDON, Jan. 5. — Former Premier Venizelos of Greece has been elected president of the national assembly, according to an Athens dispatch received here this afternoon. It is understood that the former premier's willingness to assume the office indicates his willingness to form a new coalition cabinet, the dispatch added. 83 PEOPLE KILLED IN VIOLENT QUAKE MOSCOW, Jan. 5. — A violent earthquake in the Turkestan district has killed 83 persons and destroyed more than 400 houses at Samarkan, according to reports received here today. CLAES SERVICES MONDAY MORNING Recitation of the rosary over the body of Benedict Claes will be held in the chapel of Backa, Terry & Campbell tomorrow evening at 9 a.m. Monday will be said in St Boniface church. Intermeat in Calvary cemetery, Los Angeles, to follow. FULLERTON REALI BOARD ACTS HO Anaheim Realty Board is pocted to turn out in a boonight as guests of the Fullrealtors at a banquet to be at the Fullerton club. FullRealty Board is to be host the realtors of Orange counthis banquet. IN ANAHEIM aler COUNTY PROGRESS OF ANAHEIM, AS TOLD BY BUILDING Year Permits Total 1923 823 $2,269,277 1922 675 1,413,045 1921 564 1,253,870 1920 362 879,950 1919 174 464,500 27TH YEAR—NO. 108 HITS MID-WEST Known Santa Ana Auto Dealer HE'LL TELL FRENCH THEATER GOERS THAT YES, AMERICA HAS NO BANANAS MERCURY IS MAKING NEW LOW MARKS Several Meet Death by Freezing in Frigid Weather Today Several Meet Death by Freezing in Frigid Weather Today WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—The cold wave sweeping down out of Alaska had most of the United States in its grip today. Temperatures of below zero was reported to the United States weather bureau from Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Missouri, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, the Dakotas, Montana and Wyoming. CHICAGO, Jan. 5.—An unidentified man, found frozen to death long before dawn today with neither money or overcoat, was the first victim of a renewed midwest cold wave whose intensity official thermometer readings put at 16 degrees below zero at 8 a.m. in Chicago. Weather bureau forecasts for Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa all agreed on "colder today." MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 5.—The Twin Cities and Southern Minnesota, which are used to severe winters, today shivered in the coldest temperature in years, with the thermometer 25 below. Official thermometers registered as low as 32 below last night in the Minneapolis downtown district and a stiff north wind was unbearable outside. Charles Peterson, policeman, was frozen to death in Como park, St. Paul, last night and this morning found the streets lined with frozen and stalled motor cars. Street car traffic was disrupted and home water systems, built to withstand the severest weather, were frozen in hundreds of cases, making a busy day for the water department. The sky was clear last night and continues so today, with the promise of relief by the weather bureau this afternoon. CHICAGO, Jan. 5.—Just before dawn today Fred Cordes bundled his wife into the family automobile and started on a mad dash for a hospital. After he had driven several miles, his engine became stalled. Three policemen of the "flivver squad" hastened to his aid. Mrs. Cordes was transferred to the police machine and the journey to the hospital was resumed. Several minutes later a baby girl was born in the patrol wagon in attem- FROGRESS The drill which began work on the W. M. Keck well onookhurst avenue at midnight this morning night, is making good progress, with three shifts busy out of the 24 hours it is estimated that upwards of 10 months will be required to fill the required depth. LEVEL OF WELLS NOT ALARMING With a depth below the ground water of 80 feet five inches on January 2, according to measurements taken in one well, and 79 feet eight inches on Jan. 2, 1922, the normal year, Anaheim hasn't had reason to worry over its domestic water supply. The level of well is typical of all, and so fluctuations. On Jan. 2, 1923, the depth rose to 54 feet three inches, following the heavy rainfall of the fall and the dry winter of 1922. During December 2-23 the precipitation was more than twice as large as in November 1, 1922, and most of the rain fell more Jan. 1, 1923. On Dec. 1, the depth of this well was 81 feet eight inches; Nov. 1, 84 feet 10 inches; on Jan. 1, 82 feet 10 inches. The January measurements were not taken in 1921 or 1920; the depth on March 1, 1921, 78 feet, and on Feb. 1, 1920, feet 10 inches. The depth to which the wells have been dug is largely responsible for the way in which their name of water is maintained. They are approximately 320 to feet deep. FULLERTON REALTY BOARD ACTS HOST Anaheim Realty Board is excited to turn out in a body to host as guests of the Fullerton officers at a banquet at the Fullerton club. Fullertonalty Board is to be host to all realtors of Orange county at a banquet. SOUGHT Extradition of George M. Smiley from Little Rock, Arkansas, will be demanded by Orange-co., authorities, who hold an embezzlement charge against him, it was announced here today. If signed by the governor, extradition papers will be promptly forwarded to the governor of Arkansas. Whether Smiley, who is wanted here on charges preferred by H. R. Grove, Fullerton motor car dealer, will fight extradition, was not known here. Smiley, who had purchased a car from Grove on contract, was said to have traded it for another car at a small town near Little Rock. He was arrested at the Arkansas capital on suspicion of auto theft and when a registration certificate found in his possession gave his address as Fullerton, Grove was notified. Grove turned the matter over to the theft bureau of the automobile club, it was said, and Sheriff Jernigan was notified of the matter late yesterday. CANCEL ANAHEIM GAME ON SUNDAY Out of respect to the memory of H. Salveson who died early today, the Anaheim Merchants baseball team has called off its game for tomorrow with El Monte Merchants. He was the father of Herbert Salveson, pitcher, and father-in-law of Buster Callan, catcher. MAY START HOUSE-BLDG. CAMPAIGN Frank P. Williams, building contractor, of Sacramento, was in Anaheim yesterday negotiating with the Stewart Realty Co. about a proposed sabdivision. Mr. Williams has built 90 houses in Sacramento in the last ten months, and being struck with the possibilities in Anaheim, is seriously thinking of starting a local building campaign in moderate-priced homes. CHICAGO, Jan. 5—Just before dawn today Fred Cordes bundled his wife into the family automobile and started on a mad dash for a hospital. After he had driven several miles, his engine became stalled. Three policemen of the "flivver squad" hastened to his aid. Mrs. Cordes was transferred to the police machine and the journey to the hospital was resumed. Several minutes later a baby girl was born in the patrol wagon in a temperature of 12 degrees below zero. HANDS FROZEN CHICAGO, Jan. 5—When Geo. Smidges, 25, arrived at his home early today, after walking nearly a mile, he discovered that the handle of a suitcase which he had been carrying, was frozen to his hand. At a hospital, where he was taken, it was discovered that both of his hands were frozen. Smidges may lose both of them, doctors said. DES MOINES, Jan. 5—An official temperature of 23 degrees below zero was recorded here at 6 a.m. today, a record for this winter, and the lowest mark reached in years. The lowest previous record this season was 12 below. MONTREAL, Jan. 5—The coldest place in Canada today was White River, Ont., where the thermometer registered 43 degrees below zero. Chapleau had 36 deg. below and at Prince Albert 34 degrees below. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 5—Two and one dying was the toll of the severest cold wave years that enveloped this sending the mercury down degrees below. SAN FRANCISCO, Chico took the records for cold weather perature of 20 this lusa had 25, Baker say 24, and upwr Angeles. Heavy frosts tomorrow the day dicted, with f...