oc-plain-dealer 1924-06-28

GROWTH OF ANAHEIM SHOWN BY CENSUS Total for 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. DEMOS VOTE 3 Power Famine This Week Cu WEEKMARKED BY RISING LEMONS Exchange Believes Low Spot in Valencia Market Reached Wednesday Shipments of citrus fruit from No. Orange-co. this week will aggregate approximately 375 cars compared with 463 cars last week. Calif. Delegates Can Remain All Summer NEW YORK, June 28. The California delegation will remain in New York "all summer if necessary to vote on the klan and league of nations planks and McAdoo for president." Gavin McNab of San Francisco announced following a meeting of the delegation this afternoon to determine whether all the members were financially able to stay on here. DES MOINES SWEPT BY CONTRACT IRON BOUND SAYS WEBB Only Hope Thru Voltary Release by Edison or Commission Order City Atty, Wm. Webb to gave the opinion that under contract with the Edison the could manufacture electricity ing the present shortage. Exchange Believes Low Spot in Valencia Market Reached Wednesday Shipments of citrus fruit from No. Orange co. this week will aggregate approximately 375 cars compared with 463 cars last week. These figures cover the entire northern section including Olive and Garden Grove. Cuts except in lemon growing localities like Yorba Linda and LaHabra were general. Anaheim, Placentia and Fullerton reduced shipments from 20 to 30 cars each under last week. Lemon shipments amounted to The week was marked by al-The weel was marked by almost constantly rising prices for lemons and a steady market for valencias, with new high records set for fancy varieties of the latter. Average prices or valencias were little changed, 10 or 15 cents decline one day being made up the next. According to J. H. Ritchie, manager of the Anaheim Co-operative Orange Ass'n, the market will hold its own probably until the Fourth, after which, if shipments are cleared up, prices may be expected to continue firm. Cantaloupes from the Imperial Valley this week still were an important factor, daily averages being around 300 to 350 cars. While Anaheim packing houses are not being handicapped to the point of being forced to cease operations due to the power shortage, because the city owns its distributing system, packing houses throut the county have felt the energy famine this week. Many houses closed last night not to open until Tuesday morning. The demand that packing houses close two days per week is going to bother shippers considerably. The Exchange shipped between 650 and 700 cars this week, compared with sales of 900 cars. The Exchange believes the low point in the current market movement was reached Wednesday. Since then there have been advances of ten to 50 cents per box. "YOU'RE A LIAR" MARKS KLAN TALK "You're a liar." This shout, which came from Dan O'Hanlon, prominent Fullerton realtor, caused a thrill last night in the Fullerton City Park, when Dr. Paul Henry Packard, DES MOINES SWEPT BY TORNADO DES MOINES, Iowa, June 28—Several persons were injured, roofs were torn from houses, thousands of trees uprooted and plate glass windows were broken in nearly every downtown building when a tornado tore thru the city at 1:30 this morning. Communication with outside points was practically cut off. The Western Union reported no wires in Iowa, the Postal said that more than 50 poles were down in all directions. CYCLONE IN CENTRAL ILL. CHICAGO, June 28 — Central Illinois and sections of Iowa were visited early today by a storm which was believed to have reached cyclonic proportions. The town of Morton, ten miles from Peoria, was practically wiped out, but whether any deaths resulted was not known early today. A telephone call was received early at Peoria urging that physicians and nurses be dispatched to Morton. Telegraphic communication from Iowa towns believed to have been hardest hit was impossible. MOTHER AND BABE KILLED PEORIA, Ill., June 28—a woman and her baby are believed to have drowned during the heavy storm here early today when a cabin boat in which they made their home on the Illinois river was capsized. TOWN WIPED OUT AMES, Iowa, June 28—The town of Ogden, Iowa, 30 miles north of Deg Moines, was wiped out by last night's cyclone, according to reports reaching here today. GEORGE JESKE IS FATALLY BURNED Only Hope Thru Voltary Release by Edisse or Commission Order City Atty. Won. Webb to gave the opinion that under contract with the Edison the could manufacture electricity ing the present shortage, when the Edison is again pared to deliver all the energy city requires Anahiem would required to pay for it unless Edison agreed to drop the tract. Webb opined that the rail commission, which agreed to surcharge, might be able to move the obstacle of the con from the way of the city in efforts to establish its own p "There is no telling how this power famine will last. have had two dry years. year may be wet and again it not," said Webb. He declared that in view of emergency he favored the citing ahead with a "stand-by" since the Edison contract ex in 21 months anyway. City Manager J. W. Price declared he was convinced that could manufacture energy, Diesel engines, at less cost the Edison contract price. The present surcharge and the son's application before the road commission for an addit surcharge of 12 per cent, would be considerable money head if it manufactured the of its energy and paid E eight per cent profit until the tract expires. The more city officials are ing into the matter of a plant equipped with Diesel engines the greater their enthusiasm the project. The paragraph in the con on which Webb bases his opinions: "If at any time during this agreement the Con shall fail, refuse or neglect liver electric energy to the suner in accordance with terms of this agreement, then that event and during Such ried, the Consumer may manure electric energy for its use, consumption and sale or procure the name from sources." Directors of the West heim Union Water Co., faced the proposition of being able operate only four days a week night went into the matter placing their two 50-h. p o motors with Diesel engine costs 64 cents per hour per "YOU'RE A LIAR" MARKS KLAN TALK "Your're a liar." This shout, which came from Dan O'Hanlon, prominent Fullerton realtor, caused a thrill last night in the Fullerton City Park, when Dr. Paul Henry Packard, of Kansas City, addressed a big crowd, under the auspices of the Ku Klux Klan. Somebody else in the crowd shouted a reply that O'Hanlon hadn't taken out his first papers yet. Then the police got busy and hustled O'Hanlon off to the lock-up, partly to protect him from the crowd. Klan members here said. Rev. Leon L. Myers went to the jail with a Fullerton Tribune man and persuaded the authorities to release him. The pastor said he did it as a Christian. O'Hanlon's alleged interruption took place when the lecturer remarked that alien influences were to blame for America's troubles. The remark was the speaker's answer to the question implied in the topic of his address, "What's the Matter with America." Four thousand occupied seats at the gathering and 1,000 more stood. A feature of the affair was the elevation of a fiery cross to the top of the flag pole where it shone far and wide. Dr. Packard will attend at the Christian Tabernacle Sunday eve. CLAIM COMMUNITY PLOTTED MURDER SANTA BARBARA, June 28. The trial of William Downs Taylor and C. W. Crawford, charged with blowing to his death J. J. McGuire, blacksmith of Los Olivos by planning a heavy charge of dynamite under his house, will begin July 2 in superior court here. The entire community plotted against the old man and drew lots from a hat to determine who was to be his murderer, officers who investigated the case, declare. TOWN WIPED OUT AMES, Iowa, June 28—The town of Ogden, Iowa, 30 miles north of Deg Moines, was wiped out by last night's cyclone, according to reports reaching here today. GEORGE JESKE IS FATALLY BURNED LOS ANGELES, June 28.—Herically attempting to extinguish a fire which threatened the lives of three neighbor women, George Jeske, well known motion picture director, was probably fatally burned here today. Clad only in a bathing suit Jeske battled a fire in a gasoline container and suffered severe burns, which may prove fatal. $200,000 FIRE LOSS RAINIER, Ore., June 28.—Flames swept thru 17 buildings in the business district early today, causing damage estimated at $200,000. Authorities feel certain the fire was of incendiary origin. AVIATOR KILLED COGNAC, France, June 28.—Pilot Lieut. Bateller was killed today competing in the Micinaelin cup race. Bleating of Goat Saves McCoy From Raid By Chicken Thief Cackling of geese saved Rome, bleating of a nanny goat last night saved A. A. McCoy, policeman, from a raid by chicken thieves. He says the goat is as good as any watch dog. McCoy lives on Vermont ave., where he and his wife have a nice bunch of chickens. This morning about daybreak while he was snoozing, the nanny goat bleated. McCoy scrambled out of bed just in time to chase the thieves away. Another attempted robbery occurred last night about 10 o'clock at the chicken ranch of Hunt Van Deusen near the corn East Broadway and Rose-street it was the chickens gave the alarm. Mr. Van Deusen ran out with a shotgun his night clothes, and nectar say that Mrs. Van Deusen "Shoot 'em good." Taking alarm, the would-be thieves down the alley, and after chased for about two hastened their flight in a vehicle which, it is said, and sounded like a Ford No chickens were missed. FULL REPORT OF INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE—FIRST LEASED WIRE IN ANAHEIM THE ORANGE COUNTY Plain Dealer LEADING NEWSPAPER OF NORTHERN ORANGE COUNTY Anaheim, California, Saturday, June 28, 1924 TE 34 TO 16 NOT TO week Cuts No. Orange-co. Citrus Ship NTRACT IS ON BOUND AYS WEBB Hope Thru VolunRelease by Edison Commission Order Atty. Wm. Webb today the opinion that under its set with the Edison the city manufacture electricity during present shortage but W. G. McAdoo. Former secretary of the treasury and leading candidate from west. BOOZE WORTH $12,000 IS CAPTURED Five Arrests and Three Autos Grabbed From Rum Runners Five arrests, liquor booty valued at $12,000 and three autos worth $11,000 were the results of a raid on a gang of rum runners at Irvine Cove five miles south of Newport Harbor early yesterday. Platform O In Pr MADISON SQUARE, NEW YORK, June 27 sponse to a fervent Homer S. Cummings; the platform commiDemocratic national recessed at 11:10 o'clock morning until 3 o'clock noon to allow the dealutions committee time another agreement Klux Klan plank, the over which has becomtered that Cummings's convention there was disparty split. Cummings' appear brief speech before thain the garden this rn dramatic. He was haloss of sleep and swostood on the platform. He told the delegate been agreement on evithe platform save two of nations and one a FOUR SHOT IN FIGHT WITH RUM SHIP SEATTLE, June 28.—Four men were wounded, one perhaps fatally, in a running battle off Point No Point in Puget Sound this morning between a small speed boat, believed to have been used as a rum runner, and the coast guard cutter Arcata, under command of Captain L. A. Lonsdale. The speed boat was disabled by a shot from the one pounder gun on the Arcata, her gasoline tank blew up and she sank. All the wounded were aboard the alleged smuggler. The casualties: Ernie Jackson, 39, mechanic, skull fractured. Ralph O'Leary, 38, logger, leg lacerated. Moy Sing, Chinese, severely burned. Moy Yik, Chinese, badly burned. According to meager reports that were available during the morning, the Arcata encountered the speedboat in the sound shortly after four o'clock this morning. Called upon to halt for investigation, the launch is said to have disregarded the summons and raced away, whereupon the Arcata opened fire with both its one pounder and its quick-fire. After the battle had been raging for several minutes, one of the shots found its mark in the gas tank of the speedboat and a violent explosion followed. The boat began to sink almost immediately and the crew of the coast guard cutter boarded her, removing the wounded. According to Captain Frederick G.D.odge, commander of the Coast Guard, Five arrests and Three Autos Grabbed From Rum Runners Five arrests, liquor booty valued at $12,000 and three autos worth $11,900 were the results of a raid on a gang of rum runners at Irvine Cove five miles south of Newport Harbor early yesterday. The goods were the first of what were to have been several different consignments. The seizure and arrest, carefully planned and following a week's watchful waiting, were under the direction of Captain Robert P. Martin, who had two aides. Two deputy sheriffs of Orange-co., assisted. The small craft offshore was signalled by means of the auto headlights. It required several hours to unload the liquor, which included 100 cases of fine whiskey and liquors and 104 gallons of grain alcohol. The five men yesterday produced $2500 ball apiece and were released to appear for trial July 26th before U.S. Commissioner Long in Los Angeles. KISTLERS TO PASS HALF YEAR ABROAD Mr. and Mrs. S. Kistler, of E. Center-st., last night on a summer journey with Switzerland, Mrs. Kistler's birthplace, as their objective point. They will stop in St. Louis for a short visit with relatives, and expect to sail July 9 for France. They will visit Mr. Kistler's birthplace, Strassberg, and many other places, planning to be absent about six months. Miss Susanne Psaad, a niece, accompanied them to Los Angeles and went from there to Chico where she will remain during their absence. CHARGE BLACKMAIL LOS ANGELES, June 28.—Mrs. Rita Clark-Alexander, former private detective and Arthur B. Betts, president of the Pacific Coast Police, were at liberty here today under $1500 bail each on charges of alleged extortion and conspiracy in a blackmail plot. They were arrested after Mrs. Cleo Shanks, wealthy society woman, told the district attorney she became enmeshed in the clutches of a blackmail ring which took a valuable auto from her on promise not to tell her husband, Geo. E. Shanks, prominent business man, of alleged affairs with other men. FEARED ENEMIES LOS ANGELES, June 28.—Another agreement Klux Klan plank, the over which has become tered that Cummings's vention there was d party split. Cummings' appeal brief speech before th in the garden this r dramatic. He was h loss of sleep and aw stood on the platform. He told the delegate been agreement on ev e platform save two of nations and one ligious freedom." The former he min latter he emphasized; told the delegates th ences were so great t tee on the klan plan this morning all the t he committee recited Prayer and that Willi Bryan prayed for divi ADVERTISING is the link between supply and demand—between the man who has something to sell and the man who desires to buy The Plain Dealer brings the Buyer and Seller together MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, June 28.—In response to a fervent plea from Homer S. Cummings, chairman of the platform committee, the Democratic national convention recessed at 11:10 o'clock this morning until 3 o'clock this afternoon to allow the deadlocked resolutions committee time to try for another agreement on the Ku Klux Klan plank, the argument over which has become so embittered that Cummings told the convention there was danger of a party split. Cummings' appearance and brief speech before the convention in the garden this morning was dramatic. He was haggard from loss of sleep and swayed as he stood on the platform. He told the delegates there had been agreement on every plank in the platform save two—the league of nations and one affecting "re- Cummings did not attempt to conceal from the convention that a party crisis is threatened. "And so," he said, remembering our responsibility, remembering our glorious heritage and the wonderful opportunity ahead of this party and in order to save for America a united Democratic party, I come to you now and backed with the unanimous consent of the 54 members of the resolutions committee I ask this convention to stand in recess until 3 p.m. to give us an opportunity to try to compose our differences." Under the spell of Cummings' dramatic story and appeal, the rumbling disapproval of the delegates melted away and on the vote there was not a dissenting voice raised against the extension of time for which the tired platform builder pleaded. But while the convention unanimously agreed to give the commit- AGED SUGAR MAGNATE IS DEAD SAN FRANCISCO, June 28.—Adolph B. Spreckels, 67, millionaire sugar magnate and member of the famous Pacific coast family of that name, died at his residence here early today. Spreckels was born in San Francisco in 1857, the son of Claus Spreckels, internationally famous financier and sugar magnate. Spreckels was associated in the management of literally a score of leading Pacific Coast and eastern enterprises, among which were included J. D. Spreckels and Bros. Co., Spreckels Sugar Co., Oeanic Steamship Co., Western Sugar Refinery and Calif. Sugar Refinery. A millionaire at his birth, Spreckels shortly showed his business acumen and directly he finished his education in local schools and abroad returned to this city where he launched his carrer in finance. The fortunes of the Spreckels family were founded on sugar and was in this branch of industry that "A. B." as he was known to his associates, soon made a name for himself. He is survived by a widow, Al- LA FOLLETTE WILL HEAD 3RD PARTY CLEVELAND, June 28.—Senator Robert M. LaFollette, of Wisconsin, will be named as an independent candidate for the presidency by the conference for progressive political action, when it meets in Cleveland next Friday, whether William Gibbs McAdoy is nominated by the Democrats at New York or not, leaders of three of the "big four" railroad brotheods indicated here today, in repudiating a statement made by labor chieftains in New York yesterday. K. K. K. IS SUED CHICAGO, June 28.—The Ku Klux Klan was made defendant in a suit for $500,000 damages filed here today in United States district court by attorneys for the American Unity Publishing Company. The petition charges Hiram W. Evans, imperial wizard of the klan, with offices at Atlanta, Ga., and other high officials with conspiracy to destroy the American Unity League and its organ pub- Newton Baker Presents Minority Report on League of Nations By GEORGE R. HOLMES (In N. S, Staff Correspondent) MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK CITY, June 28.—In an atmosphere of tension seldom seen in great political gatherings, the Democratic national convention reconvened in Madison Square Garden this afternoon to battle over a platform into which has been injected, thru the Ku Klux Klan, for bidding spectre of religious controversy. Across the street in a hotel the leaders of the party were engaged in a last desperate effort to reach complete agreement on whether the platform should denounce the hooded order by name. At 3:15 o'clock word reached the delegates that the platform committee, as expected, had failed to reach an agreement and had voted, 34 to 15 against raming the klan in the platform. The anti-klan was left no alternative but to report a minority and fight on the floor. Battle lines were drawn taut as the convention opened. Opposed to the array of eastern strength were the representatives of southern and western states where the klan is either strong or is beginning to become a political factor. They held it was not necessary to name the order in the plaxfrom. They similarly knew no compromise. The battle over the klan for the time being shoved into the background the battle between a score of rival aspirants for the presidential nomination. Reports were printed in several New York papers that Governor Smith might withdraw from the race if the convention adopted "a platform dictated by the Ku Klux Klan." Franklin D. Roosevelt, Smith's manager, simply said: "I never heard of it." There was some wild yipping and applause as the swaint figure of William Jennings Bryan made his way slowly down the center alley and took his place on the speaker's platform. Two minutes after Bryan reached the platform, Chairman Walsh pounded for order. He introduced Rabbi Stephen Wise of New York who pronounced the invocation. Newton D. Baker presented a minority report on the league of nations plank, and to demand that this great Democratic gathering "not desert Woodrow Wilson within five months after his death." Close National Parks Because Of Menace From Forest Fires SAN FRANCISCO, June 28.—At a conference held here today between officials of the U.S. forestry service and state officials, the advisability of closing ten or more large areas in national parks because of the present fire menace was being considered. Paul G. Redington, forester of the United States service, announced that Cleveland and Santa Barbara national forests were already closed to travel and that the advisability of closing others endangered by the fires raging in wildly separated parts of the state was being debated. The fire which has been raging in Santa Clara-co for the past week in the vicinity of Mount Hamilton broke out with renewed fury today over an eight mile front and more than 1500 exhausted workers who have been battling the flames for many days were reported to have given up hope of extinguishing it. Two large fires, one near General Grant National Park and the other near Baldy Mountain, near Redding were reported to be spreading while four additional conflagrations on the slopes of Mount Diablo, at South Forks, Madera; Goodyears bar and at Boca near the Nevada border, are said to be under control. K. K. K. IS SUED CHICAGO, June 28.—The Ku Klux Klan was made defendant in a suit for $500,000 damages filed here today in United States district court by attorneys for the American Unity Publishing Company. The petition charges Hiram W. Evans, imperial wizard of the klan, with offices at Atlanta, Ga., and other high officials with conspiracy to destroy the American Unity League and its organ published by the company, by sending a man here to work for the league as a supposed klan enemy, who is in reality a worker for the klan. REPORT 52 DROWN MANILA, June 28.—Fifty-two persons were reported drowned today in the wreck of an unnamed sailing vessel on the coast of Leyte Island. Dispatches stated that there were but six survivors and that two bodies had been recovered. Reports received here were fragmentary and the unusually large number on board is regarded as indicating that the vessel carried passengers. See Dr. Neth, 110 N. Resh, Chiropractic and Electric Treatments. Newton D. Baker presented a minority report on the league of nations plank, and to demand that this great Democratic gathering "not desert Woodrow Wilson within five months after his death." At 4:13 impatient delegates began to cry from the floor "let's go" and a moment later the tall figure of Homer S. Cummings, with many sheets of paper in his hand, walked out. "The next business before the convention," said Walsh, "is the report of the committee on resolution. I present the Hon. Homer S. Cummings." "I am about to submit the report of the committee on resolutions," he said, "supported by a majority of that committee. And at the end of the reading I will move its adoption without alteration or amendment." The great glaring searchlights focused on the tired chairman. The garden was quieter than it had been any day this week. While Cummings was engaged in reading the majority platform, the anti-clanners were in conference across the street putting the finishing touches on their minority report. They were expected to have it completed by the time Cummings finished. General applause greeted the early part of the platform as the chairman reviewed the history of the last four years of Wilson's administration and compared with the last three years of the Republican administration. At 4:30 when Cummings had gotten down to "honest government" he stopped. With your permission," he said, "I am going to ask Senator Key Pitman of Nevada secretary of the resolutions committee to continue the reading." Cummings rat-down warily beside William Jennings Brown. While Pittman continued the reading in a stronger voice, Gov. (Continued on Page Two)