oc-plain-dealer 1924-03-24

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. SENATE HOLDS S Complete Preparations for M SHOWING TO LAST FOR TWO DAYS House Orders Two Brand New Probes WASHINGTON, March 24. Two brand new investigations were authorized today by the house. 1—A special committee of nine members will be named by Speaker Gillett to investigate an alleged aircraft monopoly and government purchases of airplanes. 2—An investigation will be made by a special committee of alleged duplication of government bonds and securities. DRILL HI OLD TREAT AT 2400 Expect Great Crowds at California Theater to See Easter Styles RANCHERS and everyone else are happy as larks today since the much-appreciated rainfall, and wives and daughters are intent on new spring clothes, nothing being more conducive to thought of the clothes question than a bright spring morning after a rain. And on tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow evening, Wednesday afternoon and evening there will be the opportunity of a year to select designs and get ideas for those same new clothes. The California theatre will house one of the most complete, elaborate displays of men's and women's wearing apparel ever shown in Anaheim. Miss Elsie Schuyler, than whom none ranks more highly in staging fashion revues, will present several of her most charming models each of whom has been chosen through her adaptability for modeling some particular style of dress. Anaheim merchants will show their choicest outfits from neglige to wrap with shoes for every occasion, and this is well worth attending. But that is not all. "Pleasure had," one of the finest plays of the season, adapted from a well-known story, will also be shown at each fashion revue, matinee and evening, with particularly fine music. This picture was selected that the audience might get something unusually good on the auspicious occasion. Another feature of the fashion show is the music. Through arrangement by Miss Schuyler, the music is particularly adapted to the affair. Adrian McDowell's Dixie Synopaters have been secured through the courtesy of the Forluns Dancing Academy, and have several numbers arranged exclusively for the fashion show. Arch Fritz will be at the Wurlitzer, which also is a pleasing announcement. The scenery, made for this spring event, has never before been used in Anaheim. The setting, through the courtesy of Stroup-Barnes, is going to be no small feature of the show, for NO CASES OF TYPHOID IN CITY Typhoid still keeps away from Anaheim. Not a case has been reported as yet to Dr. J. W. Truxaw, city health officer. In Orange, however, which in spite of a pure water supply, caught the epidemic from Santa Ana; more than 30 persons today are down with the disease. Many are children who drank milk at school supplied by a Santa Ana dairy which has not delivered in Anaheim. Charles Hell, president of the Crescent Creamery Co., told City Manager O. E. Steward of Anaheim today that not a quart of milk was now permitted to leave Santa Ana or Orange dairies that had not first been pasteurized. Anaheim school children are getting only pasteurized milk from No. Orange-co. Unless some further menace occurs, no further measures will be taken here, Steward declared. The milk companies about Anaheim are rushed with business, following the cancelling of much domestic business with the out-of-town concerns. Housewives here, scared for their families, have turned to the other dairies by the score. The state board of health, whose representative recommended the pasteurization of all milk, is in complete charge of the fight against the epidemic with Dr. Leand Mitchell, county health officer. Shell Co. Starts Upon Second Well Los Alimatos The Shell Oil Co., true dictions made in these colls has not only started a well near Los Alamitos, but leased 160 acres on the Hixby ranch where it is drilled. The company is also for the casing broken in the end or third series of gas slions and will attempt to co-drilling. Lease of approximately acres on the Bryant rank joining was announced no ago in these columns. The second well is about an nighth of a mile feet of the first. Los Alaminois convinced that the company sure of bringing In a good and developing a new field developed, the field will be of the largest in the South. The Coast Land Co.'s w day is past 2500 feet. The less gas but more oil shows Hughes bit has been put. The Standard Oil Co.'s near Placentia avenue and ner road is around 4,050 f day. No changes have oo worth mentioning. The Wonder Oil Co.'s remains of an old tree are feet in its well, Brookhur 1, when drilling was resumed fishing had been successful. Pieces of tha have been distributed as s irs. Gaddle Well No. 1, so Cypress is now around 3190 The structure has softened bit. D. C. Batis of Cypress has five acres to a Long Beach firm which will sub-divide The sale was handled by & Sconce. Illustrating the way the Dealer is read by people at tance, this firm recently in inquiry from Santo Do West Indian islands, abou and oil prospects here. FORMER ANAHEIM MAN PASSES AWAY C. W. Martin of Garden Grove received sad news of the pass-passing his brother, G. F. Martin, at Highland Park, yesterday. Deceased underwent an operation about a year ago and seemed greatly benefited. Shortly after Xmas he began to fail, suffering terrific pain. A sorrowing widow and two children, 1 1-2 and 5 1-2 years, besides two sisters, Mrs. Henry and Mrs. Allieyer, both of El Monte, and two brothers, R. Marin, Los Angeles, and C. W. of Anaheim, survive. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. today at the Riedman funeral parlor, Los Angeles, with burial at Odd Fellows' cemetery. Deceased was a former Anaheimer and member of the Odd Fellows' lodge, still retaining his membership here. Sook health at the beachers? Surgeons carve more scientifically. You object to either! See Dr. Neth and get it chironactically. BUILDING PERMITS Mrs Files, alteration to residence at 330 So. Melrose st, cost $75. F. C. Eisenbauer, alter brick drug store at Clementine and Center-st, cost $500. H. E. Hunt, frame residence and garage at 51 No. Vine-st, cost $3000. Mrs H. Tipton, alter residence at $16 No. Pine, cost $75. The milk companies about Anaheim are rushed with business, following the cancelling of much domestic business with the out-of-town concerns. Housewives here, scared for their families, have turned to the other dairies by the score. The state board of health, whose representative recommended the pasteurization of all milk, is in complete charge of the fight against the epidemic with Dr. Le兰 Mitchell, county health officer. COLD WAVE HITS DECIDUOUS FRUIT Deciduous fruits in No. Calif., received a heavy blow last week, when the cold weather caused losses of from 25 to 75 per cent in various localities, according to reports reaching here. Peaches, plums, pears and grapes alike were affected. The temperature in the Anaheim district dropped 36, and this meant a much lower figure north of the Techachapi. GETS $12,000 GEMS CLEVELAND) March 24. — A satchel containing $12,000 in gems was snatched from the hands of Samuel Resser, New York jewelry salesman, on a crowded street here this afternoon, as reported to police. The thief escaped. LETTER DELivered Here After Being on Road for 16 Years C. W. Hedges, Anaheim RFD carrier, went to considerable trouble the other day to deliver a letter addressed to Miss Grace Dale, Box 17, R. R. No. I, Anaheim. Cal., never realizing that the trouble was necessitated by the fact that the postmark was dated Phoenlys, Ariz. June 13, 1907. It also bore on the back the receiving postmark Anaheim, June 14, 1907 and Pomona, March 12, 1924, just 16 years and nine months later. The letter contained the announcement of the wedding of a cousin, Martin J. Dale, to Jesse Lisby of Phoenix in Los Angeles. Miss Dale was married to day to T. J. Sturtew and she suggested there be a meet the four newlyweds in Gales. Miss Dale's parents, for Dale-ave is named, later Utah. The letter was delivered relatives near Garden Grove Hedges considered as most to get it to the addressee. Mrs. Sturtew resides in Postal attaches are unexplain where the letter halls these years. AT CALIFORNIA THEATER, MATINEE AND FULL REPORT OF INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE—FIRST LEASED WHERE IN ANAHEIM THE ORANGE COUNTY Plain Dealer LEADING NEWSPAPER OF NORTHERN ORANGE COUNTY Anaheim, California, Monday, March 24, 1924 DS SINCLAIR TO BE s for Most Elaborate Fashion Revue RILL HITS OLD TREE AT 2400 Wilbur is Favorable To Good Sized Navy WASHINGTON, March 24—Curtis D. Wilbur of California, the new secretary of the navy, arrived in the capital today, rolled up his sleeves and went to work. Navy policies were discussed by Wilbur in an hour's conference with President Coolidge at the White House and he went from there directly to the navy department to assume his new duties. Wilbur delined to discuss his plans and policies but, asked HEAVY SNOW NOW COVERS MOUNTAINS Attorney Trustee For the first time to defense of Glenn B. Ch, O. C. Hardabeck was the investors of the Stores, of which they moters, one of which Anaheim. The two men ing trial in superior 9 on a charge that the investors of approxima WASHINGTON, March 24—Curtis D. Wilbur of California, the new secretary of the navy, arrived in the capital today, rolled up his sleeves and went to work. Navy policies were discussed by Wilbur in an hour's conference with President Coolidge at the White House and he went from there directly to the navy department to assume his new duties. Wilbur delined to discuss his plans and policies but, asked if he was to be considered as a "big navy man," he replied: "Pretty good size." ASK $175,000 FOR WRECK DAMAGES With nearly $150,000 as the stake, three damage suits against A. W. Rutan, Santa Ana attorney, were being tried before a jury today in Department Three of the superior court. Judge G. W. Freeman of Riverside sat in the case, substituting for Judge F. C. Drumm. The three suits, aggregating $41,725, were brought by Joseph Schwartz, his wife, Sophie Schwartz, and G. W. Norman, who was riding with Mr. and Mrs. Schwartz when their car collided with Rutan's machine on Anaheim-rd, between Long Beach and Huntington Beach, November 26, 1922. The plaintiffs are Los Angeles-co residents. In one of the suits, Schwartz asked $41,150 damages and his wife $40,000 for injuries to themselves and for loss of a child, alleged to have been prematurely born to Mrs. Schwartz as a result of the wreck. Mrs. Schwartz's claim included $15,000 for asserted permanent injuries that were alleged to prevent her from bearing more children. In another action, filed separately by Mrs. Schwartz, she asked $25,000 for loss of the babe and $15,000 for alleged injuries to herself. Norman's suit involved a claim of $20,575 for injuries consisting of two broken ribs and numerous facial lacerations. NOW COVERS MOUNTAINS Anaheim Receives About Inch of Rain From Weekend Storm Upwards of an inch of rain fell in Anaheim during the storm which edged at an early hour this morning, while the San Bernardino mountains received the heaviest snow fall of the season. Snow coming so late in the winter is as useful as rain in the valleys to the north, particularly if cool temperatures continue to prevail and prevent the snow from melting. G. W. Sandiflands, manager of the Anaheim Orange & Lemon Ass'n, declared. It will be unnecessary to irrigate for a month. Growers who irrigated within the past two or three weeks and whose ground was well open to receive the precipitation particularly benefit. During the past 24 hours ending at 8 a.m., today, .75 of an inch fell, while the total for the storm was 1.13. The season's aggregate was 5.52 against 6.98 last year and an average of 12 to 13 inches to the corresponding date. The city powerhouse reported .77 for the 24 hours and a total of 5.285 for the season against 7.42 last year. Its gauge is close by that of the Anaheim Orange & Lemon Ass'n, and the difference in the total for the season is principally due to one of several erratic and spotty storms which gave one point considerably more rain than the other. Fulerton received .91, making 5.12 for the season, according to the Placentia Orange Growers' Ass'n. La Habra got only .49, the La Habra Citrus Fruit Ass'n reported. A. S. Bradford of Placentia reported .85. The Yorba Linda Citrus Ass'n reported .61. The latter figure brings the season's total in Yorba Linda to 5.69 against 6.24 last year. The storm was general over the Southland, altho it was not only uneven, but spotty. Banning, for example, receiving only a trace of rain up to 7 o'clock last night. Covina with 1.02 to the same For the first time to fense of Glenn B. Chu O.C. Hardabek was the investors of the Stores, of which they motors, one of which Anaheim. The two meeting trial in superior court on a charge that the investors of approximately 000 by false pretenses. The defense, offered of a statement issued by torney, Morgan Marsh Los Angeles, declaral suit was the result; conclusions, based on standing on the part of holders. It also asks to await the outcome with open minds. Here is Marmaduke in full: "I don't wish to an attitude of trying this newspapers. That is tice. But there has been already published abents; so many misstakes exaggerations, that thou to have the tru about them. It seems in all fairness, the pear hear their side of the matter of fact, it ENTENCED 90 DAYS IN WEAPON CHARGE Roman Romero of Placentia was the county jail today, serving a sentence of 90 days administered by Justice J. B. Cox, Santa Ana, after Romero had pleaded guilty to carrying a concealed weapon. Romero was said by officers to arrested him yesterday to be been flourishing a revolver-like threatening a woman at accentia. INQUEST TODAY An inquest was held at 2 p.m. today at Backs, Terry and Campbell parlors over the body of Bert W. Hickey, oil worker, killed Saturday morning in a fall from a derrick at the Miley will. Backs, Terry & Campbell will take the remains to Escondido, where the body will be interred in the family lot tomorrow. PLAIN DEALER CLASSIFIED ADS PRODUCE RESULTS Rainmaker Works Hard for $8000 HANFORD, March 24—Black clouds hung over Hanford and vicinity this afternoon, giving promise that "Rainmaker" Charles H. Hatfield, hired to tap the skies, would meet with luck before nightfall. It had not rained here today up to 2 o'clock this afternoon, but yesterday 21 of an inch of moisture was recorded. Hatfield will receive $2000 as soon as the first one and one-quarter inches is recorded and $8000 for the entire two inches. At the Hanford farm bureau this afternoon officials said they were certain it would rain before night and in the meantime Hatfield continued to "gas" the air with his "rain-making device." ONE KILLED, ONE DYING FROM GAS LOS ANGELES, March 24—One man is dead, a 9-year-old girl is dying and several other members of the family narrowly escaped death early today from the lethal fumes of a leaky heater which filled a home here with gas. Why be hooked with bait? You'll be hooked with a fair rate at Dr. Neth's. La Habra got only .49, the La Habra Citrus Fruit Ass'n reported. A. S. Bradford of Placentia reported .55. The Yorba Linda Citrus Ass'n reported .61. The latter figure brings the season's total in Yorba Linda to 5.69 against 6.24 last year. The storm was general over the Southland, altho it was not only uneven, but spotty. Banning, for example, receiving only a trace of rain up to 7 o'clock last night. Covina, with 1.02 to the same hour, Glendora with 1.14. Monrovia with 1.20, Upland with 1.36 and Mt. Wilson with 1.40 to the same hour fared best of the points reported. San Diego and the Imperial valley received none of the present storm. Telephone lines to Lake Arrowhead were down last night, roads blocked and parties snowbound. Painfall at other points in the county: Year Year Storm todate ago Santa Ana ...59.815.758 Huntgton Beach ...41.460 Yorba Linda ...61.569.624 Newport B. ...29.497 Tustin ...56.876.632 Greenville ...44.482.483 Orange ...64.632.783 McPherson ...63.637.756 Villa Park ...56.618.808 Clive ...67.596.674 Hewes Park ...47.730.738 Orange-co 1'.60.5$2 Bixby Kanch ...64. El Toro ...69. Los Alamitos ...44. Dyer ...59. Talbert ...40. La Habra ...51. Irvine Home ...21.793. Irvine Ware H...45.793. Old Ranch ...30.572. Allise ...19.821. Lomestone ...60.792. Harkel-rd ...27.655. National Be Form California National girls favor allocation tailon to Orange-co in San Bernardino or it it was learned today; fewer counties are making efforts to obtain co ever. Orange-co legal understood generally proposition. The battalion wou headquarters compare BE AND NIGHT, MARCH 25 AND 26 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 174 464,600 Weather—Fair and warmer tonight; 27TH YEAR—NO. 179 BE IN CONTEMPT Revue Ever Staged in Anaheim Attorney for Keen Store Trustees Makes Statement For the first time today the defense of Glen B. Churchill and O. C. Hardabeck was laid before the investors of the Keen Hat Stores, of which they were promotes, one of which is located at Anaheim. The two men are awaiting trial in superior court April 9 on a charge that they defrauded investors of approximately $250. FACES FINE OR TERM IN JAIL Trustees Makes Statement For the first time today the defense of Glen B, Churchill and O. C. Hardabek was laid before the investors of the Keen Hat Stores, of which they were promoters, one of which is located at Anaheim. The two men are awaiting trial in superior court April 9 on a charge that they defrauded investors of approximately $250,000 by false pretenses. The defense, offered in the form of a statement issued by their attorney, Morgan Marmaduke, of Los Angeles, declares the criminal suit was the result of too hasty conclusions, based on misunderstanding on the part of the stockholders. It also asks the public to await the outcome of the trial with open minds. Here is Marmaduke's statement in full: "I don't wish to appear in the attitude of trying this case in the newspapers. That isn't my practice. But there has been so much already published about my clients; so many misstatements and exaggerations, that they feel anxious to have the truth known about them. It seems to me that in all fairness, the public should hear their side of the story. As a matter of fact, it is to the interest of the stockholders in the Keen Hat Stores to hear the truth about this thing. "Now, that time enough has elapsed to cool the feeling of anger against them, caused by malicious propaganda, and a saner view of the matter may be taken, Churchill and Harkbeck feel that their friends and the public are entitled to a truthful statement. They are confident that the newspapers who print their previous statements will co-operate by printing this one. "The Keen Hat Stores Co. was organized as a common law trust, to protect the stockholders against assessment in case of financial trouble and the stockholders today are not and cannot be assessed to pay the debts of the company, due to that fact. "In asking the corporation department for a permit to sell securities to the public, they did not ask for or receive a single share of promotion or fee stock, altho they might have been granted as much as $25,000 promotion stock had they so desired. It is, therefore, absurd to believe the statement that they claimed to have $10,000 worth of stock for which (Continued on Page Six) 8 KILLED IN COLLISION OF SHIPS LONDON, March 24.—Eight persons were reported killed, one steamship was sunk and another beached in a collision between the United States S. S. Merchant and the Albion Liner Matatua of Thameshaven today. The Merchant was on her maiden voyage bound for Tilbury. She was beached after the accident. The Matatua, chrushed amidships, was sunk. According to first reports only two members of the Matatua's crew were killed. A later dispatch from Gravesend to the Standard put the dead manager Herman Stern of the Valencia Orange show this afternoon received a telegram stating Governor Richardson and several score members of the Cal. Editorial Assn had accepted an invitation to visit the exposition probably May 21. Manager Stern immediately took steps to arrange a luncheon for the executive and escribes at the Elks club in which the city council, C. of C. and other civic organizations are expected to participate. WASHINGTON, March 24.—An investigation was gotten under way today into the year-old suicide of Jesse W. Smith, close friend and confidante of Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, as a result of the veiled insinuations cropping out in the Daugherty investigation that Smith may have met with foul play. J. Ramsay Nevitt, coroner of the District of Columbia, who returned the verdict of suicide, probably will be called before the senate investigating committee, it developed. WASHINGTON, March 24. The criminal investigation before a federal grand jury of the oil leases of ex-Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall will get under way here about April 10, it was announced here today by Owen J. Roberts and Atlee Pomerene, President Colidge's special oil counsel. WASHINGTON, March 21.—The U. S. Senate today held Harry F. Sinclair, multi-millionaire oil magnate, who leased Teapot Dome from e-secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall, to be in contempt. Sinclair was found to be in contempt for his refusal to answer questions concerning the lease when he appeared before the senate public lands committee on Saturday. The certification means that the secretary of the senate will certify Sinclair's contempt to the district attorney of the District of Columbia, who will proceed against the oil magnate under the law governing contempt. If convicted, Sinclair faces a fine of from $100 to $1,000 or a jail sentence of not more than one year. As soon as Senator Ladd's report was read, Senator Walsh, Dem. of Mont., formally moved to have Sinclair cited for contempt by the secretary of the senate to the U. National Guard Battalion May Be Formed in Orange County California National Guard officials favor allocation of a battalion to Orange-co in preference to San Bernardino or Riverside-cos. It was learned today. The two latter counties are making strenuous efforts to obtain the unit, however. Orange-co legion posts are understood generally to favor the proposition. The battalion would include a headquarters company of three officers and minimum of 11 enlisted men and three rifle and one machine gun companies of three officers and 50 enlisted men. It would be necessary to increase the enlisted strength 30% to 40 per cent in six months. Santa Ana is anxious to get the headquarters company, leaving the rifle and machine companies to Anaheim. Fullerton, Huntington Beach and Brea or Orange. Governor Richardson and several score members of the Cal. Editorial Assn had accepted an invitation to visit the exposition probably May 21. Manager Stern immediately took steps to arrange a luncheon for the executive and scribes at the Elks club in which the city council, C. of C. and other civic organizations are expected to participate. U. S. LEGATION IS IN NEUTRAL ZONE WASHINGTON, March 24.—A neutral zone so drawn so as to include the American legation at Tegucigalpa, Honduras, has been established and both sides of the revolution now in progress there have agreed to respect it. Minister Morales notified the state department today. The diplomatic representatives of five nations, Great Britain, Nicaragua, Guatemala, San Salvador and Costa Rica have expressed official thanks to American government for landing bluejackets and marines to protect foreign interests, Morales reported. ACCEPT SAND POINT WASHINGTON, March 24.—The house naval affairs committee today voted unanimously to accept the offer of Sand Point, Wash., as a naval air base for the north Pacific coast. The offer of the site was made to congress by King-co and the city of Seattle. The secretary of the senate will certify Sinclair's contempt to the district attorney of the District of Columbia, who will proceed against the oil magnate under the law governing contempt. If convicted, Sinclair faces a fine of from $100 to $1,000 or a jail sentence of not more than one year. As soon as Senator Ladd's report was read, Senator Walsh, Dem. of Mont., formally moved to have Sinclair cited for contempt by the secretary of the senate to the U.S. district attorney for the District of Columbia. Walsh said he hoped Sinclair would get the "full penalty" of the law." He described Sinclair's action as "one of the gravest matters ever brot to the attention of the senate." There was only one dissenting voice in the senate's action. It came from Senator Eikins, Republican, West Virginia, who admitted dealing in Sinclair oil stocks. The vote was 72 to 1. "An effort is being made to impress the public mind that the power of the senate of the United States to require a witness to appear and testify on a private matter is involved in a very grave doubt," Walsh declared. "This is done, I suppose, with a view to obtaining lenency for the witness who does not desire to testify. "This action was a serious affront to the authority of congress. I cannot regard this offense against the dignity of the senate as trivial. The witness takes all the chances of the extreme penalty of the law. For my part, I hope to see him visited with the utmost vigor of the law if his reason for testifying are held to be inconsequential. I hope he shall be given the limit of the law." Walsh called attention "to some of the matters concealed by Sinclair when he previously appeared on the witness stand." Walsh said Sinclair had "concealed his $25,000 loan of liberty bonds to Pail; the $1,000,000 he paid for newspaper silence and the $1,000,000 he paid to cover fake claims of the Standard Oil Co." Senator Walsh this afternoon issued a subpoena for the cashier of the Empire Trust Co. of New York. He will be questioned about testimony of Will Hayes that a por- (Continued on Page Two)