oc-plain-dealer 1924-03-29

GROWTH OF ANAHEIM SHOWN BY CENSUS Total in 1910 was ..... 2,028 For Year 1920 was ..... 5,625 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. TWO SECTIONS TEN PAGES OILWORKER WO Startling Story Told of How PRO-GERMAN INFLUENCE BLAMED Seaife Declares Efforts to Probe Graft Were Always Hindered BY WILLIAM K. HUTCHINSON ENGLISH MASONIC HEAD TO TOUR U.S NO LAUNDRY FOOD, DRINK FROM S. A. Health Officer Truxaw Makes More Stringent Recommendations What Is Anaheim doing t OLAMED Scaife Declares Efforts to Probe Graft Were Always Hindered BY WILLIAM K. HUTCHINSON (I. N. S. Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, March 29. A starling story of how investigation into aircraft frauds was blocked by an official of the department of justice who had been appointed at the instance of attorneys of one of the companies under investigation, was related to the Daugherty Investigating committee today by H. L. Scalfe, a former agent of the department. An even more startling suggestion advanced by Scalfe was to the effect that the failure of the American aircraft program during the war was due to the exercise of pro-German influence, operating thru the Mitsui Company, a Japanese banking syndicate which controlled the Standard Aircraft Corporation, and which before the war had acted as paymasters for the German secret service. Scalfe charged his efforts to investigate aircraft frauds were "blocked continually." He declared that the law firm of former Attorney General Geo. W. Wickersham, counsel for one of the companies under investigation, "secured the appointment of Abraham F. Myers as special assistant general to take charge of aircraft cases." Who did Wickersham represent? asked Senator Brookhart. Mitsui and company, the Japanese firm which owned the Standard Aircraft Corporation, and that was one of the companies under investigation. "You mean Wickersham secured Myers' appointment?" "Wickersham appointed him a clerk while attorney general and later Myers was promoted to take charge of the aircraft prosecutions." "Did Myers block you?" "Yes, sir." "You mean that Myers, the appointee of Wickersham, was given charge of all aircraft cases and blocked your investigation while Wickersham was counsel for one of the accused companies?" "Yee, sir." Scalfe said William J. Burns "was outraged at Myers' appointment." Burns told me to go out and get the crooks," Scalfe added. Scalfe said Myers was still in the department of justice. "Did Wickersham secure Myers' prosecution?" Sir Alfred Robins, Sir Alfred Robins, president of the board of general purpose of the Masonie lodges of England, is preparing for a tour of the United States to visit grand lodges, all of which have extended him invitations. He has just arrived from London. 50 WORKMEN BURied BY SNOW SLIDE SALT LAKE CITY, March 29. Fifty track workers on the Denver & Rio Grande Western R. R. were buried under a huge snow slide in Provo Canyon shortly before 11 o'clock today. A large force of rescue workers was rushed to the scene. At 11 o'clock, 44 men, all badly injured, had been dug out by rescue workers and were rushed to Provo hospitals by special trains. Six men are still missing. Provo canyon is about 40 miles southeast of Salt Lake City. First report from the scene of the slide said five of the workers were dead. Railroad officials here declared they had received only meager reports of the slide and had no confirmation of any deaths. A heavy fall of snow was general over Utah Thursday and Friday. FROM S. A. Health Officer Truxaw Makes More Stringent Recommendations What is Anaheim doing to keep out typhoid? This is the question that is being asked by outside towns in the county, says Dr. J. W. Truxaw, city health officer. All the physician could do was to point to the regulations and recommendations made here. These were extended today, all the option was left to residents to put them into effect. The city health officer declared that all business from Santa Ana or Orange having to do with food or clothes should be barred. Laundry especially should not be sent to Santa Ana, where contamination would be easy, even if clothing was boiled, because of handling. Soda water was barred yesterday day by the physician. No more new cases were reported in Orange during the 48 hours ending yesterday afternoon when there were 37 fill. In Santa Ana four new cases were reported yesterday, making 15 under modified quarantine and 136 all told under quarantine. Five cases were quarantined in the 24 hours. No cases of typhoid were reported here. SLAYS GIRL AND KILLS HIMSELF CASPER, Wyo., March 29. Two bodies lie in the morgue this morning—one a victim of a murderer's bullet, the other a suicide. The love of a man for a maid was the cause. Lee D. Mortimer, 24, president of the Casper Business College, shot and instantly killed Norma Ford, 17, his sweetheart, as the two walked arm in arm down a business street late yesterday. The two, according to police information, had been sweethearts for some time. Recently they had quarreled over an old suitor, but their difficulties apparently had been patched up. Entering the class room, Miss Ford remarked to her girl friends that she was very happy, saying, "I've just made up with my sweetle." Mortimer overhearing the re- "You mean that Myers, the appointee of Wickersham, was given charge of all aircraft cases and blocked your investigation while Wickersham was counsel for one of the accused companies?" "Yee, sir." Scalfe said William J. Burns "was outraged" at Myers' appointment. "Burns told me to go out and get the crooks," Scalfe added. Scalfe said Myers was still in the department of justice. "Did Wickersham secure Myers' promotion?" Mr. Guy D. Goff, assistant, told me so. Myers started in the department as an office boy while Wickersham was attorney general. Scalfe declared that there is 1,000,000,000 charged to the war department for air service expenditures which was never accounted for." Scalfe flayed the Japanese firm Mitsui & Co., and its handling of aircraft contracts. From my investigation I would say Mitsui & Co., was a part of the invisible government of America," said Scalfe. "They acted as paymasters for the German government before we entered the war. It was a general feeling that the people who owned the Standard Aircraft Corporation were pro-German during the war." Scalfe flatly charged the Mitsui Co. with conducting a "system of espionage" on this country for Japan during the war. WASHINGTON, March 29—Altha Harry M. Daugherty has returned to the ranks of private citizenry, the Wheeler committee today continued its investigation into the charges of corruption brot against 11's administration of the department of justice. Senator Wheeler, prosecutor, announced that the investigation will be continued until every charge of official corruption is proven or dismissed and those guilty of wrongdoing brot into court. Daugherty's personal counsel welcomed the committee's decision, declaring that the attorney general was determined to refute by competent witnesses every charge that in any way involved his official or private life. Reports of a $100,000 whisky (Continued on Page Two) VERDICT FOR RUTAN The jury in the $71,000 damage case of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Swartz and George Norman against A. W. Rutan, tried in department 3 of the superior court, reached a verdict for the defense this afternoon, after being out but five minutes. The trial had consumed five days. The case concerned an auto collision in November, 1922, in which Swartz claimed premature birth of a baby and injuries to the mother which incapacitated her for bearing other children. Norman asked $20,000. WOMAN MISSING F. Schoemherter, 60, 515 8. Orange-st., Orange, reported to authorities today that his housekeeper, Miss Helen Miller, 56, had mysteriously disappeared since 3 a.m. Friday under circumstances by which he feared for her safety. He considered it possible she had become demented and had wandered away. They were childhood friends in Germany. BRENER FUNERAL THURSDAY Funeral services for Gustav Brener, 64, retired rancher of Katella, who died Thursday at the hospital, will be held Monday at 2 p.m. in the Evangelical church, of which he was a member. Rev. G. G. Schmid will officiate. The body will be taken to Los Angeles by W. S. Huddle for cremation. Mr. Brener has no relatives in Anaheim, but has a host of church friends. His brother in Texas is unable to make the journey to Anaheim in time for the funeral. PASS WAR DEBT BILL WASHINGTON, March 29—The house today passed the 1924-25 war department annexation bill carrying a total of $326,274.- CLAIM CHEF HAS TWO MANY WIVES Jean Croket, famous at one time as a Los Angeles chef, lived happily for nine years with Rose Croket of Bakersfield, but when he met flaxon-haired Ida J. Boinay, he forgot his marital connections and wed the latter in Santa Ana under the name of Jean de Crochette last fall, his wife alleged. Today the officers are seeking the pastry man who moulded two hearts to suit himself, it is claimed, after the two women met in Los Angeles and informed themselves of their predicament. The information charges bigamy. Wife No. 2 thought her bride-groom was a single man she avers. EARLY EASTER VACATION Santa Ana schools will observe Easter vacation early this year. The low attendance at school during the typhoid epidemic in Santa Ana has made this step advisable, and a two weeks' holiday will begin next Monday. As a balancing factor school will close a week later in the spring, making the date June 20 instenl FULL REPORT OF INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE—FIRST LEASED WIRE IN ANAHEIM THE ORANGE COUNTY plain Deale LEADING NEWSPAPER OF NORTHERN ORANGE COUNTY 'Anaheim, California, Saturday, March 29, 1924 Weather—Fair, moderate tonight and Sunday. WOUNDED BY SPECIAL FOOT How Investigation Into Aircraft LAUNDRY, OD, DRINK OM S. A. Wilbur High Kicker During Cadet Days ANNAPOLIS, Mr., March 29. The tambourine which was kicked by the secretary of the navy, when, as Cadet C. D. Wilbur, he established the world's record for the hitch and kick with a performance of nine feet and one inch, is in the possession of William A. Strohm of this city, who received it from his father, Matthew Strohm, for 42 years instructor in gymnastics and boxing at the naval academy. Mr. Strohm intends to present the relic to Secretary Wilbur. 20 DIE, MANY INJURED IN TORNADO Between 150 and 200 Destroyed in Shawnee, Okla.; Many Hurt WOMEN RUN VER "REGULARS" REELECTED TO SCHOOLS The "regulars" were re-elected to succeed themselves yesterday on the high school and grammar school boards—E. H. Metcalf on the latter and Charles H. Mann and Henry Adams on the former. Friends of E. H. Metcalf accused City Councilman Godfrey Stock who is opposed to Metcalf's candidacy for city council, of trying to beat him by the scheme of having a "dark horse" written in on the grammar school board ticket. Metcalf's friends came to his rescue and gave him a highly complimentary vote. Metcalf received 768 and Wm. Chambers was "written in" 119. Henry Adams received 1096 and Charles H. Mann, 1072 for the A. H. S. board. The contest in Fullerton was close between S. C. Hartranft, Mrs. Lottie Morse, L. B. Steward and Mrs. Ethlyn Gnagy, the two former winning. In Huntington Beach eight candidates were on the ticket. In Garden Grove the women elected all their candidates. The results outside Anaheim were: HIGH SCHOOL Fullerton—S. C. Hartranft, 1592, and Lottie Morse 1325 elected; L. B. Steward, 1109, Mrs. Ethlyn Gnaky, 833 candidates. Garden Grove—Mrs. Carrie Chaffee, 233; Mrs. Nina Kann, 196; elected; W. W. Dungan, 169, Wm. Lenhardt, 155. Orange—Incomplete; W. E. Clement, Orange, Willard Smith. Huntington Beach—W. T. Newland, 366; D. T. Tarbox, 282, elected; H. T. Dunning, 84; C. P. Patton, 105; Wm. McKeep, 68; Ira E. Patterson, 31; W. T. Pamp. TORNADO Between 150 and 200 Destroyed in Shawnee, Okla.; Many Hurt A score dead in the west and southwest from a freak storm which struck with tornado violence and became a blizzard as it moved north, promised today to be the toll of winter's dying blow. Ten were dead, between fifty and sixty injured and heavy property damage inflicted in Oklahoma, where the tornado first struck, late yesterday. Four more lives were taken as it moved over Missouri early today. In Utak, where heavy snows started yesterday, four men were missing after a snow slide which buried fifty railroad track workers, seriously injuring 44 of them. EIGHT KNOWN DEAD SHAWNEE, Okla., March 29. Eight persons are known to be dead and careful search was being made in the devastated area this afternoon to determine if any further bodies are in the ruins left by the tornado which swept across this city late yesterday. Two persons reported among the dead earlier in the day were located. E. J. Ellison and a baby on Louis Johnson, whose names were in the early death list, later were found safe, lowering the death toll to eight. All hospitals were filled with injured this afternoon, between 50 and 60 being seriously hurt. Two of this number were said to be dying. The American Red Cross, American Legion and other civic organizations were carrying relief work in the area where 200 homes were demolished. 8 DEAD, 20 HURT AT SHAWNEE SHAWNEE, Okla., March 29. Eight persons are dead, 20 seriously hurt, two probably fatally, and 60 others slightly injured today as a result of a tornado which swept here late yesterday. The path of the tornado was two blocks wide and nine blocks long. Approximately 200 houses were swept away in the best residential section of the city, causing heavy property damage. Four hundred students narrowly escaped serious injury or death as the school building from which they had been dismissed only a few minutes before, was demolished. Mrs. Mertle Palmer The little town of Duxbrough to leading offices in the muni-town from offices in their clerk, handles the routine mail room. The town has a popu-lance banker, today, in a rejoining the answer of Lee Pfau, Bldg to a slander suit for $50,000 cleared Pfau's statements false and that he knew the be when he put them into citation. Commenting on Pfau's defection that Wallace had domesticated the Orange-co. Harbor Co.nation in expenditure unlawful and unskillfully of $850 Wallace declared such report previously been investigated to the county grand jury and to have no basis in fact. He declared the $850,000 been budgeted before bonditions were called and the expended in that manner. He declared the harbor co.nation had nothing to do with port Beach expenditures. He refuted the charge that had gained 200 acres of tide from dredged material and said that a number of companies paid $70,000 for dredged malal. If the dredging was unski-ly done that was the fault of Chas Leeds, U.S. Army neeer, who represented the government in the development of harbor. He denied that he had paid any of the harbor commis-sions More Stringent Recommendations is Anaheim doing to typhoid the question that is be-dled by outside towns in nity, says Dr. J. W. city health officer. All civilian could do was to the regulations and rec-tions made here. were extended today, al-ons was left to residents them into effect. The city officer declared that all from Santa Ana or moving to do with food or should be barred. especially should not so Santa Ana, where con- would be easy, even if was boiled, because of water was barred yester-yeare physician. new cases were re-recited. Orange during the 48 hour yesterday afternoon, there were 37 fill. anta Ana four new cases reported yesterday, making modified quarantine all told under quarantine cases were quarantin-24 hours. cases of typhoid were re-reIS GIRL AND SKILLS HIMSELE Rr. Wyo., March 29. is lie in the morgue this old arm in arm down a street late yesterday. so according to police inhad been sweethearts time. Recently they had over an old suitor, but securities apparently had hed up. the class room, Miss marked to her girl friends was very happy, buying made up with my overhearing the re- IN CHEF HAS TO MANY WIVES broket, famous at one Los Angeles chef, lived for nine years with Rose Bakersfield, but when axon-haired Ida J. Boin-got his marital connection the latter in Santa Claire the name of Jean de last fall, his wife altered to the sidewalk going the gun to his right mortimer fired and fell girl's body. IN CHEF HAS TO MANY WIVES broket, famous at one Los Angeles chef, lived for nine years with Rose Bakersfield, but when axon-haired Ida J. Boin-got his marital connection the latter in Santa Claire the name of Jean de last fall, his wife altered to the sidewalk going the gun to his right mortimer fired and fell girl's body. IN CHEF HAS TO MANY WIVES broket, famous at one Los Angeles chef, lived for nine years with Rose Bakersfield, but when axon-haired Ida J. Boin-got his marital connection the latter in Santa Claire the name of Jean de last fall, his wife altered to the sidewalk going the gun to his right mortimer fired and fell girl's body. FICTION WRITER KILLED IN CRASH OAKLAND, March 29.—Homer Eon Flint, fiction writer, died of a fractured spine and back injuries inflicted when the auto in which he was riding was wrecked on the Dublin road, according to the findings of an autopsy performed by Dr. Eugene Barbera and submitted to the sheriff's office today. The autopsy did not reveal gunshot or knife wounds or the presence of poison in the system, the report declared. He refuted the charge that had gained 200 acres of tide from dredged material and said that a number of companies paid $70,000 for dredged material. If the dredging was unskilled done that was the fault of or Chas. Leeds, U. S. Army neeer, who represented the government in the development of harbor. He denied that he had paid any of the harbor commission funds in his own bank, stating that such had been under the pervision of County Treasurer Joplin at all times. He denied that he had preyed from any Newport Beach port of pipe line contracts. FOUR DIE WHEN BRIDGE CRASH NEWARK, Ohio, March 29. Four trainmen lost their when a B. & O. freight crashed thru-a bridge near her day. The dead are: Louis Castla, engineer: L Gartner, fireman: J. A. Bld conductor; Robert Powell, bld man. The bridge, over a crouch, wounded by flood water, collapsed the engine reached the center entire train dropped into stair below and the trainmen were led beneath the wreckage. SUES TO CANCEL CONTRACT OF SALE George H. Schermerhorn Buena Park today had on fuit in the superior court agen Mr. and Mrs. H. Y. Romayne Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Robbins cancel a contract of sale to mayne, conferring five acres land, and to quiet title to the property. It was alleged that Romayne had defaulted in payment of $250 note in connection with sale. U. F. BUYS EQUIPMENT WASHINGTON, March 29. Interstate Commerce Commission today authorized the U. P. rail to expend $3,000,000 fo equipment. IN ANAHEIM aler COUNTY PROGRESS OF ANAHEIM, AS TOLD BY BUILDING Year Permits Total 1923 823 $2,360,277 1922 675 1,413,045 1921 564 1,253,870 1920 362 879,960 1919 174 464,600 27TH YEAR—NO. 179 SPECIAL OFFICER Aircraft Frauds Was Blocked WOMEN RUN VERMONT TOWN FROM HOMES DECLINES TO STOP UPON COMMAND In Hospital Today, Still Thot He Was Victim of Bandit Attack Mrs. Mertie Palmer in her office at her home. The little town of Duxbury, Vermont, has just elected five women leading offices in the municipality. The women conduct the affairs of town from offices in their homes. Mrs. Mertie Palmer, elected town park, handles the routine matters of her office from a desk in her living room. The town has a population of 681. ATTACKS WOMAN IN LOVE TANGLE BERKELEY, March 29. — A desperate early morning attempt to slay a woman by chloroform and to commit suicide, a battle with a police squad and tearful confessions today brought to an end a love tangle that involved the hearts of two women and three men. Peter B. Thornton, 33, formerly of St. Thomas, Ont., where he has a wife and a 17-year-old son, is in jail, self confessed to a plot to murder the woman he loved and to end his life. Early this morning, Thornton, according to his confession, entered the home of Mrs. Adeline Wilson Dudley, known here as Miss Adeline Horner, and attempted to chloroform her. A desperate battle ensued but the woman escaped and called the police. Thornton battled madly with the officers. Mrs. Dudley declared to the police that Thornton had hypnotized her and that she could not resist his love. The couple deserted their families and fled to San Francisco, where they lived for a year and a half as man and wife, she declared. Then entered a new complexity in the person of Kenneth Moody. COMMAND In Hospital Today, Still Thot He Was Victim of Bandit Attack J. S. Robinson, Long Beach oil worker, was shot last night when he declined to obey a command to halt by Special Officer Coffman, detailed at the county line on the Anaheim-rd. near Long Beach to enforce the hoof and mouth quarantine. In the hospital at Long Beach today, Robinson, suffering from a wound in the shoulder, still thot he had been attacked by bandits. He didn't know there had been a quarantine established. It is expected he will recover. When Robinson ran past the guard, the latter fired twice, only one bullet taking effect. An official investigation was under way today. County Veterinarian Wilkins had nothing to say. He declined to state whether he had given guards orders to shoot. He explained the guards were to be stationed near lighted signs explaining the quarantine. He said he had ordered such a sign on the Long Beach-Anaheim-rd yesterday and presumed it was in place. Also, he stated the guards carried lanterns which would distinguish them from bandits. Three more guards were appointed today, making total of 18. It was announced today that dogs, cats and poultry would not be permitted to move from Orange-co. to Los Angeles-co. except that dogs in crates, fumigated and inspected by veterinary, could go thru. It was announced today that Coffman fired at another motorist last night but bullet went wide. KILL 1000 HEAD OF STOCK LOS ANGELES, March 29. With the burial in a huge trench today of the heads of $59 cattle which were destroyed because of hoof and mouth disease officials here declared the epidemic in this vicinity had checked. During the week approximately 1000 head of stock were killed to eradicate the disease. All stock yards are being thoroly disinfected. NEW INFECTION IN MERCED SACRAMENTO, March 29. Another new infection in Mercedco. was the only development reported here today in the foot and mouth disease situation. the dredging was unskillful one that was the fault of Majhas, Leeds, U.S. Army engl. who represented the govern- at all times. he denied that he had placed of the harbor commission's in his own bank, stating such had been under the su- sition of County Treasurer at all times. he denied that he had profited any Newport Beach paying pipe line contracts. BUR DIE WHEN BRIDGE CRASHES NEWARK, Ohio, March 29.—trainmen lost their lives in a B. & O. freight train thru-a bridge near here to the dead are: Louis Castla, engineer; H. F.erner, fireman; J. A. Bidwell,ctor; Robert Powell, brakee bridge, over a crock, weakly by flood water, collapsed as engine reached the center. The train dropped into stream and the trainmen were bur- nereath the wreckage. IES TO CANCEL CONTRACT OF SALE George H. Schermerhorn of a Park today had on file in the superior court against Mrs. H. Y. Romayne and Mrs. Hubert Robbins, to al- contract of sale to Ro- ce, conferring five acres of land and to quiet title to the pro- was alleged that Romayne defaulted in payment of a note in connection with the P. BUYS EQUIPMENT WASHINGTON, March 29.—The state Commerce Commission authorized the U.P. railroad expend $3,000,000 fo new mement. Mra. Dudley declared to the police that Thornton had hypnotized her and that she could not resist his love. The couple deserted their families and fled to San Francisco, where they lived for a year and a half as man and wife, she declared. Then entered a new complexity in the person of Kenneth Moody, a 22-year-old auto salesman, who learned of the illicit love of the woman and the other man and attempted to win her away and back to what he termed the "straight path." Thornton told police he could not allow the youth to take his place in the woman's affections, so he bought the chloroform and last night decided to "end it all for both of us." TRAGEDY AVERTED SEATTLE, March 29.—A sea tragedy with the possible loss of 40 lives was averted today when the Swedish steamship Tolken reached the crippled Japanese freighter Ayaha Maru, adrift in a heavy gale off the Aleutian Islands, rudderless and with a broken tailshaft. The Tolken is proceeding toward Dutch Harbor, Alaska, with the disabled freighter in tow according to radio advises received here. S O S calls were sent out by the Ayha Friday night, reporting her adrift and helpless in a heavy sea near the island of Atka, at the western end of the Aleutian group. JURY GETS CLARK CASE LATE MONDAY SAN DIEGO, March 29.—There was no session of court today in the trial of E. Drew Clark charged with the murder of Geo. E. Schick. When court opens Monday morning counsel will begin argument and summing up. This is expected to consume most of the day, the case going to the jury late Monday afternoon. Parking space for auto by day, week or month. Central Auto Park, opposite California Theater, phone 075. BOY BADLY HURT BY CIRCUS LION LOS ANGELES, March 29.—Caught in the claws of a maddened circus lion when opened the door of an enclosed cage, Hubert Hellgren, eight, was probably fatally injured today. The J. E. Henry traveling animal show had stopped for the night on the outskirts of the city and the Hellgren boy was watching the work of unloading. He was rescued by circus employees after he had been almost scalped. BANDITS GET $30-000 TAMPA, Fla., March 29.—Four masked auto bandits today forced entrance into offices of the Havana Tampa Cigar Co., here, and held up pay officials and escaped with approximately $30,000 according to reports given to police. The money had been delivered to the offices a few minutes before the bandits arrived and was to have been used in paying employees, officials said. PRESIDENT GIVEN YEARLY P.O.BILL WASHINGTON, March 29.—The house and senate today passed finally and sent to the president for approval the postoffice appropriation bill for the fiscal year beginning July 1, next. It carries total of $734,413.-600. Included is an item of $2,750.-000 for the air mail day and night service from New York to San Francisco and $1,500.000 for general air mail service.