oc-plain-dealer 1924-05-15

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. PRESIDENT VETO Criminal Complaint Filed A CLAIM FRAUD IN $100,000 STOCK SALE Declare 100 to 150 Citizens of Orange-co. Are Losers Over 400 at Model House Yesterday More than 400 guests yesterday admired the Model House at 728 North Elm Street and its furnishings. From all over Orange County, from Hollywood, Long Beach, etc., the guests came. The afternoon has been a particularly popular time, especially for visitors from a distance. Mrs. M. E. Canby, who is in charge, estimates the total number who have come so far at around 800. Much of the credit for the arrangements, including house hold convienences, is due to Mrs. Harry F. Dierker, wife of the designer and builder. RECEIVE LOOK OF MAJOR MARTIN Nearly Froze to Declares Unfortunate Flight Commander Telling in the matter of style of a veteran army man a of adventure in the air and land amid Arctic condition un Declare 100 to 150 Citizens of Orange-co. Are Losers A criminal complaint against John Saxon Porter, missing promoter, was filed today at the office of the district attorney in connection with disclosures of asserted fraud in connection with the sale of approximately $100,000 in Dixie service station stock. Complaints against Leslie Graham, Anaheim manager of the organization, and at least two members of Porter's family, may be filed, it was learned. That considerable funds, representing proceeds from the sale of stock to between 100 and 150 Orange-co. citizens, have disappeared, is the belief of authorities but the official investigation has so far failed to indicate just now great a sum is involved. Meanwhile, one completed service station at Orange and others, half finished, located at Olive and Anaheim, have been left behind by the promoters as landmarks of what the authorities profess to view as potentially gigantic fraud. Investigations recently instituted by the state corporation department upon the filing of a complaint by Hamilton Lawrence, 613 S. Flower-st., Santa Ana, culminated yesterday in a decision to prosecute the promoters. The decision was reached following a conference between Chief Deputy Dist. Atty. C. N. Mosley and Rusel Keach and Edwin B. Cassidy. Investigators from the corporation department, who laid the results of their investigation before the Orange-co. officials, As a result, Lawrence, who is said to have invested $1000 in the service station chain, was scheduled to sweep to a criminal complaint this afternoon. Other investors in the scheme were named as L. C. Miller, 118 W. Broadway, Anaheim, owner of the site on which one of the service stations was being erected; J. H. Wente, 151 N. Pine-st. Orange; W. C. Matthels, 195 N. Buffer-st.; Orange, and C. E. Wwrick, 4525 Fifth-ave., Los Angeles. Keach and Cassidy made a raid upon Graham's apartments in Anaheim, at which time they secured a few papers and a list of names, which they believe to be investors but found nothing of apparent importance to the quest, it was said. Graham has been absent from his apartments for a week and his present whereabouts are unknown, it was learned. Porter, described as the head of the organiza- STORM KEEPS U.S.FLIERS AT ATTU CORDOVA, Alaska, May 14—Lieut. Lowell H. Smith, commanding the three American round-the-world filers at Attu today reported a 70-mile gale, giving small chance of a hop-off to the Kuriles Islands off the coast of Japan, the next jump of the globe-circlers. According to Smith, snow and rain is accompanying the gale, and the sea is heavy, forcing the coast guard cutter Halida, which is acting as supply craft, to sea. The planes weathered the storm in good shape, according to Smith and were undamaged. This afternoon the storm moderated and the Halida is returning. Smith and his companions are living in shacks on the beach, and are all in good health and spirits. CORDOVA, Alaska, May 15.—Providing weather conditions to the westward improve, the American round-the-world filers hope to start their trans-Pacific jump from Chicagooff, Island, of Attu, today. The start had been planned for yesterday but adverse conditions caused delay. The three planes at Attu under command of Lieut. Lowell Smith will jump from Attu to the Island of Paramushiru in the Japanese Kuriles group, where the American destroyers Pope and Ford and Japanese guide ships are awaiting their arrival. According to radio message picked up here the Catherine D. Pacific American fisheries boat, Nearly Froze to Declares Unfortunate Flight Commander Telling in the matter of style of a veteran army man a story of adventure in the air and land amid Arctic condition unaltered in the history of aviation International News Service to received the log of the disaster flight of the plane Seattle of American round-the-world flight kept by Major Frederick L. Mottin, commander of the flight. The log was sent by a lancanner radio station at Port Mottin thru several relays to United States. His story follows. (By Major Frederick L. Mottin Commander American Round-the-World Flight as related exclusively to George W. Chinn for International News service.) Orange; W. C. Matthels, 195 N. Bhaffer-st., Orange, and C. E. Wurwick, $335 Fifth-ave., Los Angeles. Keach and Cassidy made a raid upon Graham's apartments in Anaheim, at which time they secured a few papers and a list of names, which they believe to be investors but found nothing of apparent importance to the quest, it was said. Graham has been absent from his apartments for a week and his present whereabouts are unknown, it was learned. Porter, described as the head of the organization, lived in Los Angeles. His son and daughter-in-law are said to have been involved in the enterprise, according to the district attorney's office. Porter was operating under a permit from the state corporation commissioner authorizing the sales of $250,000 in stock. It was alleged. The plan provided for the insurance of convertible merchandising agreements with the stockholders, by which the latter were to be supplied with gas and oil from the service stations at a discount of ten per cent. It was asserted by stockholders that each one who subscribed to as much as $500 worth of stock was promised a service station job at attipulated salaries of $185 per month for employees, $150 a month for assistant managers, and $200 per month for managers. These agreements, authorities pointed out, were manifestly beyond reason. Lawrence made his complaint when he failed to receive his certificate of stock, which the promoters, having it, alleged, failed to live up to their permit, could not produce. DENIES FRAUD PLAN LOS ANGELES, May 15.—Mrs. August E. Riekebacker, also known as Marie Tomblin, returned from San Francisco where she was arrested on complaint of a Pasadena Hotel, today steadfastly denied she intended to defraud the hotel company. She declared her financial affairs and dealings had been misrepresented and that she had been placed in a false light before the wealthy and socially prominent folk who had been her friends. Like was held in the county hall here pending the arrival of officers from Pasadena. Frisco Chinatown Refuses To Believe Dr. Sun Dealer SAN FRANCISCO, May 15.—Chinatown here was in a tumult today. Refusing to believe that Dr. Sun Yat Sen, president of the South China Republic, is dead, hundreds of excited men, women and children thronged the narrow, crooked streets. Blanched old men hastily left their pipes in alley hovels they had not deserted in years, to join the crowds in front of bulletin boards. Chinese gardeners in blue smocks, tea-house girls in gay kimonos and bobbed-haired women workers from Chinatown's sweatshops elbowed their way with modernly clad bankers and merchants in the search word of the leader across the Pacific. Headquarters of the Chinese National Party, which financed Sun's attempt to grasp control of China, San Francisco Chinese banking his heaviest financial backers were headquartered. Before a large portrait of Sun Chan Yew Poon, general secretary of the nationalist party, stood proclaimed to his people: "He is not dead; he is not dead!" "But if he dies we will mount long. We will parade; there will be speeches and with memorable services we will do him honor." So while they soffed at the riot of Sun's death, the Chinese got ready to mourn. Hundreds of black cloth strips were tora hang around doorways. An air of suspense clothing Chinatown. In many places business was stopped while shopkeepers discussed China's future most concerned of all were the attention eyed barbers. For if the president is dead, many of them will be forced out of business. An ancient Chinese custom still follows in mourning the great pliding out to shave or cut the last for 100 days. PULL REPORT OF INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE—FIRST LEASED WIRE IN ANAHEIM THE ORANGE COUNTY Plain Dealer LEADING NEWSPAPER OF NORTHERN ORANGE COUNTY Anaheim, California, Thursday, May 15, 1924 VETOES SOLDIERS' Filed Against Missing Promoter of CEIVE LOG OF MAJOR MARTIN ly Froze to Death, declares Unfortunate light Commander ing in the matter of fact a veteran army man a tale venture in the air and on old Arctic condition unpar- "STORMY PETREL" OF BRITISH LABOR STILL AWAIT DECISION ON SHOW Sentiment Quite General In Favor Holding Exposition Sentiment in favor of holding the fourth annual California Valencia Orange Show was quite gen- HARDING HAD OWN PROBE INSTITUTED WASHINGTON, May 15.—A new light was thrown on the methods and policies of the late President Warren G. Harding today when H. L. Scaife, a former department of justice agent, testified before the Wheeler-Brookhart committee that Mr. Harding personally financed a private investigation of liquor violations in 1922, in order to obtain means of compelling stricter enforcement. The investigation was ordered by Harding, Scaife said, when the treasury department and the department of justice apparently were unable to enforce the law. "Several hundred indictments were secured as a result of Mr. Harding's investigation," Scaife said. Scaife's testimony, in some particulars, linked up with that of Gaston B. Means, an ex-agent, who startled the Daugherty investigator. ON SHOW Sentiment Quite General In Favor Holding Exposition Sentiment in favor of holding the fourth annual California Valencia Orange Show was quite general at today's meeting of the Anaheim C. of C. directors, but no decision could be made because of the foot and mouth epidemic. An offer of the Retail Grocers' Assn to combine th show with their food exposition was discussed, but no action taken. Chairman Herman Stern of the executive committee is inclined to oppose such a plan even temporarily, because one of the chief benefits of the orange show is the advertising which Anaheim receives from it. There was considerable discussion over the plan to be followed in the $9-acre industrial tract. The Santa Fe and Union Pacific seek to cut their costs by approximately $20,000 by dividing the tract into larger pieces than the C. of C. planned. The tracks will run east and west. The chamber proposes pieces 300 feet long along the spurs and 120 deep instead of the 250 by 100—a reverse arrangement sought by the railways. It is hoped to reach a compromise on the matter. The railways claim that only one car can be loaded at a time anyhow, so that extended frontage on the spurs is not so important as it appears. Endeavors to arrange a meeting today of the 12 men appointed to convass for subscribers to the Greater Los Angeles Assn' Industrial drive were not successful. A meeting will be held shortly. NATIVE SONS NEXT TO SAN BERNARDINO SACRAMENTO, May 15.—San Bernardino was today named as the next convention city of the Grand Parlor of the Native Sons of the Golden West by delegates attending the annual meeting here. The vote was unanimous. Santa Cruz was selected for the celebration of Admission Day. Ing committee recently by asserting that he had been hired by the late president to conduct a "private investigation" and that he had "caught Secretary Mellon." A Different Street Every Day, But the Same Fine Showing in Plain Dealer Circulation The High School has been obtained for the convention of the Pacific conference of the Germanist church it was a last evening at the midwifery service of the local Rev. Max Leuschner. Preparations are being made with the understanding that big meeting will be called June 18-22 inclusive as soon as possible and no attempt to gather will be made by the federal authorities or advise otherwise. In the church publication Cleveland, O., will be cited with and an annexed postponement made or telegrams will be by the pastor directly to odd churches of Californian gov., Washington and Idaho. The church seminary eater, N.Y., as well as lication society will be ted among the delegates. A Different Street Every Day, But the Same Fine Showing in Plain Dealer Circulation The Plain Dealer is Read in 88 Out of Every 100 Homes Reading a Local Paper WEST CENTER STREET House Number Plain Dealer 119 Plain Dealer 121 Plain Dealer 123 Plain Dealer 123 Plain Dealer 129 Plain Dealer 207 Plain Dealer 211 Plain Dealer 213 No local paper 217 No local paper 319 Plain Dealer 321 Plain Dealer 331 Plain Dealer 403 Vacant 413 Plain Dealer 415 Plain Dealer 501 Plain Dealer 581 No report 549 Plain Dealer 551 Plain Dealer 553 SOUTH ILLINOIS STREET House Number 110 Vacant 114 Plain Dealer 122 Plain Dealer 128 No local paper 202 Plain Dealer 210 Plain Dealer 208 Plain Dealer 208 Plain Dealer 330 No local paper 418 Bulletin In the 100, 200, 300, 400 and 500 blocks on South Illinois Street there are a total of 30 homes. The PLAIN DEALER IS TAKEN AND READ IN 22 of these homes. Now read the report of the homes which the Plain Dealer does not enter; One takes the Bulletin; 4 take no local paper; 2 are vacant; 2 no report. In the thirty-three districts checked to date there are 936 homes in which the local papers are read and the Plain Dealer is read in 824 out of the 933 homes, or $8 per cent. Number of Plain Dealers taken in the 35 districts checked ... 824 Number of homes not taking Plain Dealer, but taking Bulletin 109 Total number of homes taking local papers ... 932 Anyone interested, of course, can check up on the correctness of the above statements. WATCH THIS SPACE DAILY Grand Parlor of the Native Sons of the Golden West by delegates attending the annual meeting here. The vote was unanimous. Santa Cruz was selected for the celebration of Admission Day. Ing committee recently by asserting that he had been hired by the late president to conduct a "private investigation" and that he had "caught Secretary Mellon." The church seminary entered N.Y., as well as allication society will be treated among the delegates. The morning session be given up to business stions and reports, the to religious and theological persons and the evening to with sermons. Saturday afternoon, there will be a sight-seen about the county. It is feared the attack which had been put at may be cut down by and mouth epidemic. Three Comets Year and WASHINGTON, May Three comets, those most lous of all heavenly wander are due for a visit to the vicinity of the earth and year, the U.S. naval observa said today. Astronomers thruout try are preparing for the of the derelicts and expect discoveries of scientific c. The list of 1924 comets ed by the naval observa includes Encke and Tempel November, and Tuttle in December. In 1925, six comets in March, July, August toober. The visitors were of the variety of heavenly strains the last trips to the sun, both of wandering in space m n vastly increased their vol- brot about their diminutive. Should one of the greatest known astronomers, hove into the earth it be belie- seas would boil and tide would dash against the mi- polar ice would melt an FIRE IN ANAHEIM aler COUNTY PROGRESS OF ANAHEIM, AS BOLD BY BUILDING Year Permits Total 1928 828 $3,369,375 1922 675 1,419,045 1921 564 3,368,378 1920 362 279,860 1919 174 484,500 Fair and warm tonight and Friday 27th YEAR—No. 219 RS' BONUS BILL otor of Dixie Service Station CELEBRATING STRAW HAT WEEK LOCALLY INSISTS UPON REDUCTION OF TAXES Republican and Democrat Leaders Claim Strength To Pass Measure WASHINGTON, May 15—President Coolidge today vetoed the soldiers' bonus bill and sent it EXPECT 300 HOUSE VOTES TO ATTEND EXCLUSION JULY 1ST The High School auditorium has been obtained for the annual convention of the Pacific coast conference of the German Baptist church it was announced last evening at the midweek prayer service of the local church by Rev. Max Leuschner, pastor. Preparations are proceeding with the understanding that the big meeting will be carried out June 18-22 inclusive as scheduled and no attempt to cancel the gathering will be made unless the federal authorities interfere or advise otherwise. In that case the church publication society in Cleveland, O., will be communicated with and an announcement of postponement made or letters or telegrams will be sent by the pastor directly to the 30odd churches of California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho. The church seminary at Rochester, N.Y., as well as the publication society will be represented among the delegates or speak. WASHINGTON, May 15.—Disregarding the demands of President Coolidge and Secretary of State Hughes, the house of representatives voted finally today to make the Japanese exclusion provided for in the new immigration bill effective on July 1, 1324. The administration had insisted upon a year's delay to enable the state department to conclude a treaty with Japan for the regulation of immigration. The vote was 308 to 58, more than enough to override a veto in the event the president refuses to accept the exclusion provision. The house acted in adopting the conference report on the bill. The report now goes to the senate, where an effort will be made to rush it thru tomorrow. Adoption of the July 1 date by the house was forecast when a motion by Rep. Sabath of Illinois, tricouncil the conference report, was adopted 240 to 32. OF TAXES Republican and Democrat Leaders Claim Strength To Pass Measure WASHINGTON, May 15—President Coolidge today vetoed the soldiers' bonus bill and sent it back to congress with one of the strongest and most pointed messages that ever came from the White House. He denounced the bonus, not only from a practical financial standpoint, but also from the standpoint of morality as well. "We must abandon our theory of patriotism, or abandon this bill," the president declared. "We owe no bonus to the able-bodied veterans, their first duty was to their country." "Patriotism cannot be bot or sold, and to attempt to pay money, for it offers it (patriotism) an indignity." President Coolidge went a great deal farther than did ris predecessor, the late President Harding in expressing his disapproval of the bonus, both in theory and as to practicability. "The veterans themselves as a whole, do not want it," his message declared, "and there is no moral justification for it." The savagery with which the president assailed the bonus aroused considerable resentment in the house where it was listened to with intense interest by three fourths of the membership and crowded galleries. As soon as the veto message was read, Republican Leader Longworth tried to set a time for the vote to override the veto. He suggested a vote on Monday, but the Democrats clamored for a decision at once and a great tumult arose. "Vote, vote!" the democrats cried crowding toward the speaker's rostrum. Longworth then tried compromise by proposing next Monday. Rankin objected amid a veritable uprising from the Democrats massed around the speaker's rostrum, yelling "vote! vote! Vote Now." Again Longworth sought compromise. He suggested Saturday and the cries increased. Then he made his proposition in the form of a motion and he was beaten by a standing vot of 112 to 198. He demanded a record vote on roll call on his motion, and during the interim Republican scouts were sent out to round up absentees to prevent what appeared to be an impending rebuke to the president by Three Comets Coming This Year and Six More in 1925 WASHINGTON, May 15.—three comets, those most mysterious of all heavenly wanderers—are due for a visit to the general vicinity of the earth and sun this year, the U.S. naval observatory said today. Astronomers throut the country are preparing for the arrival of the derelicts and expecting new discoveries of scientific interest. The list of 1924 comets, prepared by the naval observatory, includes Encke and Tempel, I, in November, and Tuttle in December. In 1925, six comets are due March, July, August and October. The visitors were of the smaller variety of heavenly strangers on the last trips to the sun, but years wandering in space may have easily increased their volume—or not about their diminution. Should one of the great comets known to astronomers, hurt itself to the earth, it is believed the gas would boil and tidal waves could dash against the mountain planets would melt and fire and suffocation sweep the globe according to scientists at the U.S. Bureau of Standards. Government observers explained that should the earth pass close to the head of a comet, a great amount of gas would be absorbed, resulting in material alterations in terrestrial climate. If the head of a comet were to strike the earth or even come close, it would produce most disastrous results," experts of the bureau said. "A considerable proportion of the population might be destroyed. The diameter of the earth's 180,000 mile of orbit would be changed, climatic zones and the length of the year might shift." Nevertheless, it is thot that in the untold ages of the past comets have collided with the earth. Such an explanation has been advanced to account for that curious gash that forms the valley of the Dead Sea and the Jordan, and whose continuation has been traced across the Red Sea and into Africa. The vote was 308 to 58, more than enough to override a veto in the event the president refuses to accept the exclusion provision. The house acted in adopting the conference report on the bill. The report now goes to the senate, where an effort will be made to rush it thru tomorrow. Adoption of the July 1 date by the house was forecast when a motion by Rep. Sabath of Illinois, to recommit the conference report, was adopted 246 to 32. Three courses are open to the president. It was said at the White House, and no definite decision has yet been reached on any of them. He can (1) sign the bill outright; (2) he can sign it with an accompanying statement "deploring" the affront to Japanese pride, which might soften the sting of exclusion; or (3) he can veto the bill and send it back to congress with an accompanying message to the effect he approved. *Continued on Page Eight* Again Longworth sought compromise. He suggested Saturday and the cries increased. Then he made his proposition in the form of a motion and he was beaten by a standing vot of 113 to 169. He demanded a record vote on roll call on his motion, and during the interim Republican scouts were sent out to round up absentees to prevent what appeared to be an impending rebuke to the president by passage of the bill over his veto within an hour after it came from the White House. By a close vote of 179 to 171 the house decided to vote on Saturday on the question of passing the bill over the president's vote. Announcement that the president had vetested the bonus bill was made at the White House at 2:30. The disapproval of the president has been expected, and caused little surprise in either house, where preparations already have been made for an early attempt to pass it over his veto. Both Republican and Democratic leaders predicted this afternoon that this would speedily be done, probably before the end of the week. Reading of the president's message was begun in the house shortly before three o'clock. This bill offers a plain gratuity," the president's message declared, after pointing out that the war time insurance plan adopted in 1917 was at that time regarded as relieving the obligations of the government to the veterans. "Patriotism cannot be bought or sold. An attempt to pay money for it offers it an indignity." The president said the government had already spent more than two billion dollars in veterans' relief. In his opinion the bill was "not in harmony" with sound governmental financial policy. Our first concern is for this nation as a whole." The president declared, pointing out that the bonus would benefit only one class of citizens. The cost of the bonus is in (Continued on Page Eight)