oc-plain-dealer 1924-03-21

SPRING FASHION SHOW AT CALIFORNIA 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. PRICE Three Cents Per Copy $3 year in No. Orange-co. NEW GRAFT TRAIN Two Oilmen Killed and Thirteen TRAGEDY AT TORRANCE DERRICK Would Raise Limit For Enlistment Age WASHINGTON, March 21. Boys under 21 would not be permitted to enlist in the U.S. navy without the written consent of their parents under a provision written into the naval appropriation bill this afternoon by the house. The present age limit is 18 years. The new regulation was proposed by Representative Connally, Dem. of Texas, and was adopted by a vote of 119 to 104. LOCAL WATER SUPPLY I SPLENDID TORRANCE DERRICK Age Pieces of Steel Hurled 200 Feet and Rig Floor Wrecked LOS ANGELES, March 21.—Two men were killed and a third injured at noon today by the mysterious explosion of a rotary drum at the Petroleum Midway Stock well No. 3, at Torrance, according to word received here. C. M. Murray was instantly killed and E. F. Houser, 25, of Long Beach was fatally injured and died about an hour later, the report said. The man injured was said to be Earl Cotter. Huge pieces of steel were hurled 200 feet by the force of the explosion, it was reported, and the floor of the derrick was completely wrecked. Overheating of air inside the drum was supposed to be the cause of the explosion. AUCTION TO HELP FOUNTAIN FUND We are here today, at their work incheon in the Elks' Club, up to the fact that the fountain which they will erect in the city park is more elaborate than they had supposed and will cost quite a bit more. So it was decided, following the acceptance of the plans, to hold an auction Saturday, April 5, on the lot adjoining Peck's hardware store on West Center-st. Articles to be auctioned off will be donated principally by Lions and their friends and will sell at $1.00 to $100.00. Furniture, some of it brand new, will be included. Auctioneer Martin has donated his services. Many members plan to attend the district convention at Sacramento April 22-24. The club is determined to make the membership contest which has just started a 100 per cent success. To get the members in trim and in the habit of not missing meetings, open. WASHINGTON, March 21.—Boys under 21 would not be permitted to enlist in the U. S. navy without the written consent of their parents under a provision written into the naval appropriation bill this afternoon by the house. The present age limit is 18 years. The new regulation was proposed by Representative Connally, Dem. of Texas, and was adopted by a vote of 119 to 104. GALE LEAVES TRAIL OF VICTIMS LOS ANGELES, March 21.—It snowed in Los Angeles this afternoon after a day of freaky weather ranging from the usual sunshine to a cold drizzle. The snow was reported on the outskirts of the city and in Gleudale. The day as a whole was considered "raw." Thousands of persons crowded the Glendale business district and watched the feathery flakes filter thru the air for five minutes. It melted, however, as fast as it fell. CHICAGO, March 21.—The spring blizzard which throutout the night and early today was spending its fury over the midwest, this afternoon was moving rapidly eastward, leaving in its wake a trail of human victims, disrupted transportation facilities and demoralized wire service. In the immediate Chicago district the swirling, blinding snow claimed three lives and caused injuries which may prove fatal to five others. Two men were killed in Chicago proper, both were struck by trains which the heavy snow hid from view. At Wheeler, Ind., another death was added to the storm toll and at Hammond, Ind., four persons weer injured when two buses the drivers blinded by snow, crashed. CHICAGO, Marhe 21.—Spring frode in on a blizzard today. Only Pasteurized From Anaheim Dairy Used in Schools There is no possibility of heim's water supply being taminated through drouth or mechanical cause, City Mania E Steward declared today. In itself has no connection impure water taken from and there is no sewer near Anaheim's wells which country impurities into any of them happened in Santa Ana. No cases of typhoid have been reported here, accord Dr. J. W. Truxaw, city head fleecer. Only pasteurized milk Anaheim dairies now is being in the schools. In Santa Ana the concern sewer designed to carry oil face water from the vicinity pit where one of the located overflowed, said St Overflowing of sewers in Ana every few days has rather common thing anything this condition was steadily ing worse. Santa Ana needed the job fall sewer sorely, and did completing it hasn't held epidemic, the city manage mated. Anaheim's four wells are 335 feet deep. They are in and are carefully enclosed off drainage from the sur near it. If water seeped to low, and reached the ground would become filtered so as to be pure, according to ard. Dr. Truxaw pointed out cooked food, particularly bles, was safer than raw the cooking sterilized. If would avoid all raw food would afford themselves an protection. Raw vegetables should be ed thorably. The City Health Office denned ground reservoirs those at Santa Ana which the epidemic. Not only water but other impurities... Articles to be auctioned off will be donated principally by Lions and their friends and will sell at $1.00 to $100.00. Furniture, some of it brand new, will be included. Auctioneer Martin has donated his services. Many members plan to attend the district convention at Sacramento April 22-24. The club is determined to make the membership contest which has just started a 100 per cent success. To get the members in trim and in the habit of not missing meetings, the local contest openel about two weeks in advance of the national one. MAY RELEASE CHUM LOS ANGELES, March 21.—Concussion of the brain, produced internally by an enlarged thymus gland under strain of excitement caused the death of John Toothman, 18, who fell dead in a first fight Wednesday night with R. D. McLoan, 17, held on a charge of manslaughter, according to the official report today of autopsy surgeon Wagner. Dr. Wagner's report is expected to result in the release of young McLean, who had insisted that Toothman's death was caused when he stumbled and fell to the ground during the fight. An inquest was set for this afternoon. LARGER HOSPITALS WASHINGTON, March 21.—National hospitalization facilities on the Pacific coast are to be improved thru an appropriation of $2,500,000, authorized by the house today on motion of Congressman Vinson, Dem., of Arkansas. Is proposed to enlist the San Diego hospital from 500 to 750 beds and to enlarge the hospital buildings at Mare Island Navy Yard by addition of a fire proof concrete structure. FIRE STOPS RACES HAVANA, March 21.—A fire in the Oriental hotel, outside the Oriental park race track today destroyed all telegraph and cable communication and resulted in manSION of all races. The fire was burning briskly and firemen refused to permit telephone repairmen inside the lines to fix the wires or any messengers into the park to bring the results of the races to outside points of communication. HEAVY SNOW AT SUMMIT SAN FRANCISCO, March 21.—Seven inches of snow at Summit, a good fall of rain in Fresno and vicinity and light showers in southern California, falling yesterday and last night, is all that may be expected of the California storm which ushered in spring, beyond a few sprinkles today, weather bureau officials said here today. Light rains possibly may fall in southern California mountains. The rainfall in the vicinity of Fresno was within the radius where Charles M. Hatfield, "ramaker" has been gassing the air for days in an attempt to bring moisture for crops. Hatfield will receive credit for the rain under his contract with farmers at Harford and the surrounding country. Weather bureau reports today showed rain yesterday and last night as follows: Merced .05 inches; Eureka .22; Fresno .24; San Diego .04; San Luis Obispo .01; Bonita .04; Lincoln (Continued on Page Two) Three men were killed in Chicago proper, both were struck by trains which the heavy snow hid from view. At Wheeler, Ind., another death was added to the storm toll and at Hammond, Ind., four persons weer injured when two buses the drivers blinded by snow, crashed. CHICAGO, Marche 21.—Spring rode in on a blizzard today. Unlike its winter predecessors which moved down from the Canadian northwest, the blustery season's finale came from the southwest, where Muskogee, Okla., reported sixteen inches of snow. Enroute north and east, it reminded Missouri, Indiana, Illinois and lower Michigan that coal supplies might yet call for reinforcement. St. Louis receiving four inches of sticky snow and southern Illinois cities a depth that blocked traffic. The northwest received none, nor did Nebraska and Iowa. The prospects were for no let-up before night and a mild recurrence of winter's final late this week or early next in a closing flurry of snow and sleet. East of Chicago the sleet storm which hung about the edges of the blizzard interfered with telegraph and telephone service. ORANGE now has 23 cases, of which 10 were reopened by Orange Board of Health Wednesday noon. All water has been found free of typhoons. Following a joint meeting Orange city council and Board with Dr. Charles I. state epidemiologist, and land Mitchell, county health clerk, it was decided to state health nurse to the call on patients, inoculate dairy employees with an phloid serum and hold a meeting at which they would be discussed of their health administration the city to the county. Epidemic statistics at S reported yesterday. Cases of typhoid fever s 1, 1924, 424. Deaths from typhoons since Jan. 1, 1924, 24. Cases of typhoid fever tined since January 1, 1924. Cases of typhoid fever quarantine on this date. Cases of typhoid fever tined in last 24 hours. Cases of typhoid fever from quarantine since Jan. 1924, 150. Cases of typhoid fever (Continued on Page) AT CALIFORNIA THEATER, MATINEE AND M 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, March 21, 1924 TRAIL TO DAUGHERT Third Injured in Mysterious Explo LOCAL WATER SUPPLY IS SPLENDID Escapes Unhurt as Trains Wreck Auto CHICAGO, March 21.—Edward A. Polka, official of the Valentine Seavers Furniture Co., escaped unscathed when his auto was ground to bits between two "L" trains early today. Blinded by the falling snow he drove thru the gates at Austin-Blvd. where the elevated railway trains run on the surface. The car was struck by an eastbound train, which hurled it in the path of one west- GADDIE PUTS IN 10-INCH CASING 3490 Voter Anah Anaheim has a reg 3,490 voters for the cl April 14, according to necunced today by Coun M. Backs. The total shows a p over the registration f eral election in Nov years ago. By Novem year, the gain will be s Backs expects. Registration by pre SUPPLY IS SPLENDID Only Pasteurized Milk from Anaheim Dairies Used in Schools there is no possibility of Anaheim's water supply being combined thru drought or any mechanical cause, City Manager O.itteward declared today. Drought itself has no connection with pure water taken from wells, there is no sewer near any of the wells which could carm-purities into any of them, as opened in Santa Ana. No cases of typhoid have yet been reported here, according to J. W. Truxaw, city health officer. Only pasteurized milk from Anaheim dairies now is being used in schools. In Santa Ana the contents of a water designed to carry off surface water from the vicinity of a pit where one of the wells is rated overflowed, said Steward. Offflowing of sewers in Santa Ana every few days has been a common thing anyway, and condition was steadily become worse. Santa Ana needed the joint outage sewer solely, and delay in completing it hasn't helped the epidemic, the city manager intiited. Anaheim's four wells average a feet deep. They are in gravel, are carefully enclosed to shut drainage from the surface or ear it. If water seeper thru beey, and reached the gravel, it would become filtered so thoroughly to be pure, according to Steward. Dr. Truxaw pointed out thataked food, particularly vegeta- was safer than raw, because cooking sterilized. If people should avoid all raw food they could afford themselves addition-protection. Raw vegetables should be washed thoroughly. The City Health Officer continued ground reservoirs such as those at Santa Ana which caused an epidemic. Not only surface but other impurities can CHICAGO, March 21.—Edward A. Polka, official of the Valentine Seavers Furniture Co., escaped unscathed when his auto was ground to bits between two "L" trains early today. Blinded by the falling snow he drove thru the gates at Austin-Blvd. where the elevated railway trains run on the surface. The car was struck by an eastbound train, which hurled it in the path of one west-bound. Between the two, not a whole piece was left of the car. Polka clung to the steering wheel and was unscratched. Both trains were derailed. ASK INQUIRY INTO TAX REFUNDS WASHINGTON, March 21.—A Democratic attack upon the refundation of federal taxes by the treasury department was launched in the senate this afternoon when Senators King, Dem. of Utah, and McKellar, Dem. of Tennessee, demanded a public investigation of all tax claims before their settlement. The attack followed the publication of official records by Senator McKellar, showing that $200,000,000 in taxes were refunded by the treasury in the last three years. The records revealed that high governmental officials were directly benefited by the refunds. WASHINGTON, March 21.—Fresh impetus was given the senatorial investigation of the internal revenue department today when evidence was turned over to the special Couzons committee showing that $200,000,000 had been paid out by the treasury department in the last three years on refunds of federal taxes. Topping a long list of persons and corporations benefiting by the refunds were found the names of Mrs. Adelaide C. Blair, wife of Internal Revenue Commissioner David H. Blair, several members of her family. Secretary of War IN 10-INCH CASING Standard Rig Will Be Substituted Later For Rotary The Gaddie Well No. 1 half a mile south of Cypress has reached 3,050 feet, and plans are being made to put in 10-inch easing today or tomorrow, cement off the water and quit drilling for two or three weeks. At present the well is an open hole from 669 feet below the surface downward. Later an eight-inch easing will be put in and a standard rig substituted for the rotary, H. A. Gaddie announced. The application of the Midas Oil Co. for permission to drill on the Huttenlocher ranch a mite and one-half north of the Gaddie well is in the hands of the State Corporation Commissioner. Former Superintendent Holman of the Shell Oil Co., who put the Los Alamites well down to 3690 feet, has lined up Seattle capital in a close corporation new being formed and is preparing to drill a mile west of the Gaddie well. No stock whatever will be put upon the market. Hugh Connor, Los Alamites pestmaster who with associates owns a quantity of land in Los Alamitos, and A. W. Duncan of Long Beach are among these interested in Holman's proposed operations. J.W.Kline, a geologist, one of the ranchers who have leased $8 acres to the Union Oil Co. predicted a 5,000 barrel well at 3500 feet for the Gaddie people. Kline made a careful examination and was much impressed by the showings of the cores. His place is about a mile northeast of Cypress. The Union Oil lease still is in encroach, payment of the bonus being delayed. SAY $25,000 SPENT TO DIVIDE VOTE CHICAGO, March 21.—Charges that Coolidge managers financed a LaFollette campaign in North Dakota, "knowing they could not win, unless they split the anti-Coolidge vote, were made today by Harold Ickes of the Johnson-for-Anaheim has a regi-3,490 voters for the clerk April 14, according to announcement today by Coun- M. Backs. The total shows ap- over the registration foreral election in New years ago. By November year, the gain will be set Backs expects. Registration by pre- Illustrating the ra- which preparations for Annual Orange Show ar ing, the executive co- nounced today folle semi-weekly meeting spaces in the industri- been sold, 35 per cent. Besides these spaces so- vations have been mu- A representative of dard Oil Co. was pre- sured the committee orate exhibit. Another feature will be that solidified Ice & Cold which will show ice be banks and principal in the city also intend hibits. Many of t he are signed up. Contracts this week with Foster to display the bills to Many of the company illuminated. Among cations at which thie agement's own signs played are Naples, near Brea, state high Habra, blvd.s near Ol- Habra and Santa Fe Fo- two at Long Beach. Lists of a big circle background and "Fourth Annual California Orange Show." Four hundred bushes these signs in front in rear. Dr. Truxaw pointed out that cooked food, particularly vegetasas, was safer than raw because it cooking sterilized. If people could avoid all raw food they could afford themselves additionprotection. Raw vegetables should be washed thoroughly. The City Health Officer commenced ground reservoirs such as house at Santa Ana which caused epidemic. Not only surface water, but other impurities can alter them, he declared. Anaheim's reservoir, erected high above the surface of the ground and well covered to exclude est, is in no similar danger of contaminated. There is no general epidemiic outside of Santa Ana, although cities like Orange have numbers of cases used mainly by milk from Santa ana or by Santa Anans themselves. Orange now has 23 or more cases, of which 10 were reported to the Orange Board of Health since Wednesday noon. All water again has been free of typhoid. Following a joint meeting of the orange city council and Health board with Dr. Charles Halliday, state epidemiologist, and Dr. LecMitchell, county health officer, it was decided to bring a state health nurse to the city to all on patients, inoculate all state employees with an anti-typhoid serum and hold a special meeting at which the matter could be discussed of transferring the health administration from the city to the county. Epidemic statistics at Santa Ana are reported yesterday. Cases of typhoid fever since Jan. 1924, 424. Deaths from typhoid fever since Jan. 1, 1924, 24. Cases of typhoid fever quaranned since January 1, 1924, 243. Cases of typhoid fever under quarantine on this date, 170. Cases of typhoid fever quaranned in last 24 hours, 10. Cases of typhoid fever released from quarantine since January 1, 1924, 150. Cases of typhoid fever released (Continued on Page Two) Parking space for auto by day, week or month. Central Auto Park, opposite California Theater. Phone 975. Fresh impetus was given the senatorial investigation of the internal revenue department today when evidence was turned over to the special Couzons committee showing that $200,000,000 had been paid out by the treasury department in the last three years on refunds of federal taxes. Topping a long list of persons and corporations benefiting by the refunds were found the names of Mrs. Adelaide C. Blair, wife of Internal Revenue Commissioner David H. Blair, several members of her family, Secretary of War John W. Weeks and the Gulf Refining Co., of which Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon was a principal stockholder. The refund records gave no indication of wrongdoing but the large totals and the identity of beneficiaries led to a demand by Democratic senators for a thoroughest investigation of the entire administration of the bureau. The list of refunds was gathered from official sources by Senator McKellar, Democrat of Tennessee and turned over to the Couzons committee for investigation. The list included only those refunds in excess of $20,000 but several of the repayments ranged above $1,000,-000. In addition McKellar informed International News Service he had positive evidence showing that $3,300,000 was repaid to the Gulf Refining Co. and its subsidiaries in 1922. While reporting the total of refunds for each of the last three years, McKellar gave the committee the names of individuals and corporations which benefitted only during the years 1922 and 1921. The annual total repayments were $28,655,257 for 1921; $48,134,127 for 1922 and $123,000,000 for 1923. The official records, McKellar said, showed that Mrs. Blair, wife of the commissioner, received a refund of $31,798 in 1922. Her home was given as Winston Salem, N.C. and the account carried under her name as Adelaide C. Blair. Four other members of her fam- (Continued on Page Two) BUILDING PERMITS J. D. Guy, stucco residence and garage at 901 N. Dickel-st. Cost $4000. Luneberg, Est., alter building for shoe store at 120 E. Center-St. Cost $60. SAY $25,000 SPENT TO DIVIDE VOTE CHICAGO, March 21.-Charges that Coolidge managers financed a LaFollette campaign in North Dakota, "knowing they could not win, unless they split the anti-Coolidge vote, were made today by Harold Ickes of the Johnson-for-President campaign headquarters here. He declared the Coolidge forces spent more than $25,000 after Senator LaFollette had formally withdrawn from the contest. In distributing LaFollette stickers to paste on the preferential primary ballots. WASHINGTON, March 21.-The statement of Harold L. Ickes Johnson supporter in Chicago that Coolidge managers had spent more than $25,000 in North Dakota financing a LaFollette campaign in order to split the anti-Coolidge forces, met with a prompt and indignant denial here this afternoon from C. Basem Slemp, secretary to the president. "There isn't a single word of truth in what Ickes says," Slemp declared. URGE NEW MEETING ON DISARMAMENT WASHINGTON, March 21.-The house this afternoon passed an amendment to the naval appropriations bill requesting President Coolidge to at once undertake negotiations with Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan, looking to a further reduction in armaments. Specifically, the amendment urges limitation of surface and sub-surface craft of less than 10,000 tons, and of aircraft—the type of armaments untouched in the Washington arms conference of 1922. VERDICT OF SUICIDE A verdict of suicide by lysol poisoning was reached by the jury sitting at the inquest over Mrs. Pearl Sikes, whose self destruction occurred after attending a dance in a LaHabra dance hall. The body is being held until her parents, who reside in Muskogee, may be reached. His place is about a mile north-east of Cypress. The Union Oil lease still is in escrow, payment of the bonus being delayed. SAY $25,000 SPENT TO DIVIDE VOTE CHICAGO, March 21.-Charges that Coolidge managers financed a LaFollette campaign in North Dakota, "knowing they could not win, unless they split the anti-Coolidge vote, were made today by Harold Ickes of the Johnson-for-President campaign headquarters here. He declared the Coolidge forces spent more than $25,000 after Senator LaFollette had formally withdrawn from the contest. In distributing LaFollette stickers to paste on the preferential primary ballots. WASHINGTON, March 21.-The statement of Harold L. Ickes Johnson supporter in Chicago that Coolidge managers had spent more than $25,000 in North Dakota financing a LaFollette campaign in order to split the anti-Coolidge forces, met with a prompt and indignant denial here this afternoon from C. Basem Slemp, secretary to the president. "There isn't a single word of truth in what Ickes says," Slemp declared. URGE NEW MEETING ON DISARMAMENT WASHINGTON, March 21.-The house this afternoon passed an amendment to the naval appropriations bill requesting President Coolidge to at once undertake negotiations with Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan, looking to a further reduction in armaments. Specifically, the amendment urges limitation of surface and sub-surface craft of less than 10,000 tons, and of aircraft—the type of armaments untouched in the Washington arms conference of 1922. VERDICT OF SUICIDE A verdict of suicide by lysol poisoning was reached by the jury sitting at the inquest over Mrs. Pearl Sikes, whose self destruction occurred after attending a dance in a LaHabra dance hall. The body is being held until her parents, who reside in Muskogee, may be reached. His place is about a mile north-east of Cypress. The Union Oil lease still is in escrow, payment of the bonus being delayed. SAY $25,000 SPENT TO DIVIDE VOTE CHICAGO, March 21.-Charges that Coolidge managers financed a LaFollette campaign in North Dakota, "knowing they could not win, unless they split the anti-Coolidge vote, were made today by Harold Ickes of the Johnson-for-President campaign headquarters here. He declared the Coolidge forces spent more than $25,000 after Senator LaFollette had formally withdrawn from the contest. In distributing LaFollette stickers to paste on the preferential primary ballots. WASHINGTON, March 21.-The statement of Harold L. Ickes Johnson supporter in Chicago that Coolidge managers had spent more than $25,000 in North Dakota financing a LaFollette campaign in order to split the anti-Coolledge forces, met with a prompt and indignant denial here this afternoon from C. Basem Slemp, secretary to the president. "There isn't a single word of truth in what Ickes says," Slemp declared. URGE NEW MEETING ON DISARMAMENT WASHINGTON, March 21.-The house this afternoon passed an amendment to the naval appropriations bill requesting President Coolidge to at once undertake negotiations with Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan, looking to a further reduction in armaments. Specifically, the amendment urges limitation of surface and sub-surface craft of less than 10,000 tons, and of aircraft—the type of armaments untouched in the Washington arms conference of 1922. VERDICT OF SUICIDE A verdict of suicide by lysol poisoning was reached by the jury sitting at the inquest over Mrs. Pearl Sikes, whose self destruction occurred after attending a dance in a LaHabra dance hall. The body is being held until her parents，who reside in Muskogee，may be reached。 His place is about a mile north-east of Cypress. The Union Oil lease still is in escrow，payment of the bonus being delayed. SAY $25,000 SPENT TO DIVIDE VOTE CHICAGO，March 21.-Charges that Coolidge managers financed a LaFollette campaign in North Dakota，"knowing they could not win，unless they split the anti-Coolledge vote，were made today by Harold Ickes of the Johnson-for-President campaign headquarters here. He declared the Coolidge forces spent more than $25,000 after Senator LaFollette had formally withdrawn from the contest. In distributing LaFollette stickers to paste on the preferential primary ballots. WASHINGTON，March 21.-The statement of Harold L. Ickes Johnson supporter in Chicago that Coolidge managers had spent more than $25,000 in North Dakota financing a LaFollette campaign in order to split the anti-Coolledge forces，met with a prompt and indignant denial here this afternoon from C. Basem Slemp，secretary to the president. "There isn't a single word of truth in what Ickes says," Slemp declared. URGE NEW MEETING ON DISARMAMENT WASHINGTON，March 21.-The house this afternoon passed an amendment to the naval appropriations bill requesting President Coolidge to at once undertake negotiations with Great Britain，France，Italy and Japan，looking to a further reduction in armaments. Specifically，the amendment urges limitation of surface and sub-surface craft of less than 10，000 tons，and of aircraft—the type of armaments untouched in the Washington arms conference of 1922. VERDICT OF SUICIDE A verdict of suicide by lysol poisoning was reached by the jury sitting at the inquest over Mrs. Pearl Sikes，whose self destruction occurred after attending a dance in a LaHabra dance hall. The body is being held until her parents，who reside in Muskogee，may be reached。 His place is about a mile north-east of Cypress. The Union Oil lease still is in escrow，payment of the bonus being delayed. SAY $25，000 SPENT TO DIVIDE VOTE CHICAGO，March 21.-Charges that Coolidge managers financed a LaFollette campaign in North Dakota，"knowing they could not win，unless they split the anti-Coolledge vote，were made today by Harold Ickes of the Johnson-for-President campaign headquarters here. He declared the Coolidge forces spent more than $25，000 after Senator LaFollette had formally withdrawn from the contest. In distributing LaFollette stickers to paste on the preferential primary ballots. WASHINGTON，March 21.-The statement of Harold L. Ickes Johnson supporter in Chicago that Coolige managers had spent more than $25，000 in North Dakota financing a LaFollette campaign in order to split the anti-Coolledge forces，met with a prompt and indignant denial here this afternoon from C. Basem Slemp，secretary to the president." "There isn't a single word of truth in what Ickes says," Slemp declared. URGE NEW MEETING ON DISARMAMENT WASHINGTON，March 21.-The house this afternoon passed an amendment to the naval appropriations bill requesting President Coolidge to at once undertake negotiations with Great Britain，France，Italy and Japan，looking to a further reduction in armaments. Specifically，the amendment urges limitation of surface and sub-surface craft of less than 10，000 tons，and of aircraft—the type of armaments untouched in the Washington arms conference of 1922." VERDICT OF SUICIDE A verdict of suicide by lysol poisoning was reached by the jury sitting at the inquest over Mrs. Pearl Sikes，whose self destruction occurred after attending a dance in a LaHabra dance hall. The body is being held until her parents，who reside in Muskogee，may be reached。 His place is about a mile north-east of Cypress. The Union Oil lease still is in escrow，payment of the bonus being delayed. SAY $25，000 SPENT TO DIVIDE VOTE CHICAGO，March 21.-Charges that Coolige managers financed a LaFollette campaign in North Dakota，"knowing they could not win，unless they split the anti-Coolledge vote，were made today by Harold Ickes of the Johnson-for-President campaign headquarters here. He declared the Coolige forces spent more than $25，000 after Senator LaFollette had formally withdrawn from the contest. In distributing LaFollette stickers to paste on the preferential primary ballots. WASHINGTON，March 21.-The statement of Harold L. Ickes Johnson supporter in Chicago that Coolige managers had spent more than $25，000 in North Dakota financing a LaFollette campaign in order to split the anti-Coolledge forces，met with a prompt and indignant denial here this afternoon from C. Basem Slemp，secretary to the president." "There isn't a single word of truth in what Ickes says," Slemp declared. URGE NEW MEETING ON DISARMAMMENT WASHINGTON，March 21.-The house this afternoon passed an amendment to the naval appropriations bill requesting President Coolidge to at once undertake negotiations with Great Britain，France，Italy and Japan，looking to a further reduction in armaments. Specifically，the amendment urges limitation of surface and sub-surface craft of less than 10，000 tons，and of aircraft—the type of armaments untouched in the Washington arms conference of 1922." E AND NIGHT, MARCH 25 AND 26 FIRE 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. 172 HERTY'S FRIENDS us Explosion of Rotary Drum 3490 Voters Registered for Anaheim Election April 14 Anaheim has a registration of 3,490 voters for the city election. April 14, according to figures announced today by County Clerk J. M. Backs. The total shows a gain of 522 over the registration for the general election in November two years ago. By November of this year, the gain will be still greater. Backs expects. Registration by precincts fol- $1,000 BILLS TOLD ABOUT BY GORONI Anaheim has a registration of 3,490 voters for the city election, April 14, according to figures announced today by County Clerk J. M. Backs. The total shows a gain of 522 over the registration for the general election in November two years ago. By November of this year, the gain will be still greater. Backs expects Registration by precincts follow: CITRUS SHOW BOOTHS IN DEMAND Illustrating the rapid pace at which preparations for the fourth Annual Orange Show are progressing, the executive committee announced today following their semi-weekly meeting, that 53 spaces in the industrial tent have been sold, 35 per cent of the total. Besides these spaces sold, 25 reservations have been made. A representative of the Standard Oil Co. was present and assured the committee of an elaborate exhibit. Another industrial feature will be that of the Consolidated Ice & Cold Storage Co., which will show ice being cut. The banks and principal merchants of the city also intend to enter exhibits. Many of these already are signed up. Contracts were signed this week with Foster & Kleiser to display the bills of the show. Many of the company's boards are illuminated. Among the ten locations at which the show management's own signs will be displayed are Naples, Ponona-blvd near Brea, state highway, near La Habra, blvd.s near Olive Orange-co hospital and Santa Fe Springs, and two at Long Beach. The sign consists of a big circle with an orange background and the legend "Fourth Annual California Valencia Orange Show" in red letters. Four hundred buses will carry these signs in front and banners in rear. SINCLAIR NOT PERMITTED TO TALK (By Kenneth W. Clark) (I. N. S. Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, March 21—Harry F. Sinclair, multi-millionaire oil magnate and owner of the Teapot Dome lease, will refuse to testify when he is called before the senate public lands committee tomorrow, International News Service learned this afternoon. Sinclair will claim immunity on the ground his testimony might tend to incriminate him in court action, criminal and civil, in connection with the lease. WASHINGTON, March 21—Harry F. Sinclair multimillionaire oil magnate who leased Teapot Dome from Albert B. Fall, sat on the witness stand before the senate oil investigating committee for two hours today and wielded him thumbs while his lawyers were wrangling with the senators on the committee over whether Sinclair had to testify. No conclusion had been reached at the end of two hours legal give and take so Sinclair stopped down from the stand and the committee adjourned until tomorrow when a decision will be forthcoming as to the committee's powers to compel Sinclair to testify. WASHINGTON, March 21—The Counsel for Harry F. Sinclair challenged the right of the senate oil investigators today to interrogate the oil magnate concerning the lease of Teapot Dome which he secured from Albert B. Fall as secretary of the interior. Declares Orr, Mannington And Smith Profited by Whisky Withdrawals WASHINGTON, March 21—A fresh sensation was sprung in the senate's investigation of Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty today when John Goroni, a New York wholesale druggist, testified that David L. Lesperance, a special assistant attorney general of the United States, received a "cut in" on the money that was paid for the illegal withdrawals of liquor in New York. L'Esperance is on duty in the district attorney's office in New York. He is the first federal official directly charged with accepting bribe money in all the testimony adduced by the Daugherty investigating committee, alto numerous of Daugherty's "unofficial" friends have accused of all sorts of corruption. Goroni sprung his sensation after he had once been dismissed from the stand and then recalled. The "union price" for withdrawing a case of liquor, he said, was $15. This $15 was split, he declared, as follows: To Howard Mannington, of Columbus, Ohio, one of those who claimed to be close to Daugherty,$2. To the wholesale druggist will make out the application,$1. To the prohibition director,$4. To himself (Goroni) $1. To special Assistant Attorney General L'Esperance $50. The rest of the money he said went to William A. Orr, former private secretary to Governor Whitman of New York, and his partner, named Murphy. Goroni estimated that between 50,000 and 60,000 cases of whisky were thus withdrawn illegally and found their way into bootlegging channels. Goroni identified L'Esperance as "Major in the regiment of district Attorney William Hayward, and later was an attorney in Hayward's office." And L'Esperance is now a spe- Among the ten locations at which the show management's own signs will be displayed are Naples, Ponona-blyd near Brea, state highway, near La Habra, blvd.s near Olive Orange-co hospital and Santa Fe Springs, and two at Long Beach. The sign consists of a big circle with an orange background and the legend "Fourth Annual California Valencia Orange Show" in red letters. Four hundred buses will carry these signs in front and banners in rear. A representative of Downie Bros., of Los Angeles, was present today and assured the committee that there will be no hitch in the arrangements for the tent. All the contracts for the entertainment are expected to be signed up next week, including the one with the Royal Italian Band of Santa Monica, one of the features of the show. Contracts have also been signed with Mears-Bowser Carnival Co for the Midway. SENATE PASSES DEFICIENCY BILL WASHINGTON, March 21.—The senate this afternoon passed the first deficiency appropriation bill, carrying $156,000,000 to meet deficits for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923. Of this amount $105,467,000 was for tax refunds. Senator King of Utah bitterly, but unavailing, attacked this portion of the appropriation, charging it was for "illegal refunds." FACES CAMP FIRE CHARGE A. Crawford pleaded not guilty to a charge of leaving a camp fire burning in Trabuca canyon, and his trial was set by Justice J. B Cox at Santa Ana yesterday for April 18 at 2 p.m. Closes up 13 Buildings by Liquor Abatement Actions REDDING. March 21.—"Till put padlocks on every door in Kennet's so-called whisky row" said Dist. Atty Jesse W. Carter this morning as he filed 13 abatement suits against as many Kennet property owners. They were notified in February that nuisances incident to selling alcoholic liquor must be stopped," said Carter. "I have evidence that the notice have been ignored. I have brot today in the name of the United States abatement suite."