oc-plain-dealer 1924-06-30

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. DEMOCRATS DEAD Mysterious “Fire Bug” Sets Fire HUNDREDS OF GUARDS ON WATCH Attempt to Ignite Two Other Rigs Blocked By Oil Worker The mysterious “fire bug” operated again in the Huntington each oil field Saturday night. Known Death List in Ohio Disaster CLEVELAND, June 30—The known dead thus far in the cyclone Saturday night in Ohio total 88, as follows: Lorain, 60; Sandusky, 7; Cleveland, 7; Avon, 7; Mantua, 3; Medina, 2; other points, 2. Property damage was estimated at $30,000,000 throut the northern part of the state. MERCHANT & WOMAN SHOT $25,000,000 DAMAGE BY TORNADO 60 Bodies Recovered at Lorain; Death List May Total 150 LORAIN, Ohio, June 30.—With 60 bodies recovered, Lorain, heavy hearted but with grim determina- WATCH Attempt to Ignite Two Other Rigs Blocked By Oil Worker The mysterious "fire bug" operated again in the Huntington Beach oil field Saturday night, setting fire to one oil derrick, with a $5000 loss, and attempted to not fire to two others, but the attempt was frustrated by an employee of the Petroleum-Midway Oil Co., who extinguished the blazes with a hand appliance. Today several hundred extra guards were on duty guarding the properties and huge reservoirs of oil. The Huntington Beach field is now producing about $50,000 of oil weekly. Under the cover of the darkness brot about in the ordinarily brilliantly lighted oil fields, thru the edict for the conservation of electric energy, the "fire bug" drove to the Associated Oil Co.'s Reservoir well No. 2 and set fire to the derrick about midnight Saturday. The derrick was consumed. Police officers, summoned, found kerosene soaked rags and fuses near the derricks of the Invader Oil Co.'s well No. 1 and the Petroleum Midway Oil Co.'s Judd No. 1. Fires broke out at these wells, but the Petroleum Midway employee extinguished them. The rags and fuses found were the same kind found some four months ago, City Marshal Jack Tinsley of the Huntington Beach police said. PATRIOTISM NOW IS OBEYING LAW Citizens should obey the constitution and laws, particularly the 18th amendment, providing for prohibition, Supervisor Leon Whitsell told the Rotarians today at their weekly luncheon meeting in the Elks' Club. Whitsell's general topic was the constitution and the New Patriotism. Patriotism nowadays, he suggested, consisted in obeying the laws of the land. It didn't matter whether a man believed in prohibition or not. Society had indicated that the amendment was necessary for its welfare, and every citizen should comply with its provisions. The supervisor outlined the history of the making of the constitution, including the difficulties which had attended the con- MERCHANT & WOMANSHOT FATALLY LOS ANGELES, June 30—Henry B. Meyers, wealthy department store owner of Pasadena, and Mrs. Theresa Doris, wife of George Doris, wealthy Long Beach realtor, were shot and almost instantly killed last night in the Doris home at 59 Atlantic ave, Long Beach. Doris, who was found by the police today pacing up and down the floor in an adjoining room in a highly nervous state, was unable to give the police a coherent story of the tragedy, muttering over and over in response to questioning, "She died-defending me." Business difficulties are believed to have led to the tragedy. GEO. F. COLLINS PASSES SUNDAY George F. Collins passed away early Sunday after a two weeks' illness, which was not considered serious until two days before his death. Mr. Collins established his home in Richfield ten years ago and has taken a very active interest in his community, being in the van of every forward movement. He had an abiding interest in the public schools of his community and served for several years on the school board of the Placentia-Richfield district. The present efficient public school system in that district is due largely to his theft and labor. Mr. Collins was a man of high ideals, calm and dispassionate in his judgment and, by his gentle nature, endeared himself to friends and neighbors. His loss will be keenly felt in the community. He leaves a wife, a son and daughter. His daughter, Mrs. Harlowe, is a teacher in the public school at Placentia and his son, George, is attending Junior college at Fullerton. TORNADO 60 Bodies Recovered at Lorain; Death List May Total 150 LORAIN, Ohio, June 30.—With 60 bodies recovered, Lorain, heavy hearted but with grim determination to carry on, awoke with dawn today to continue the work of removing the pile of debris that marks part of the State theater site, where still other bodies are believed to be buried as a result of the cyclone which struck here late Saturday, injuring hundreds and inflicting property damage that may reach $25,000,000 or more. The city was under martial law today as the workers donated by two big corporations continued their work. Soldiers with fixed bayonets patrolled the streets; curiously seekers were turned back with scant courtesy or—if they were able bodied men—impressed into the work of cleaning up. The only passes recognized were those signed by Brigadier General J. R McQuing, in command of the Ohio National Guard unit on duty here. Just how high the casualty list will be remains unknown today. More than 100 persons have been reported as "missing" by family and friends in addition to the identified dead, but it was that as the work progressed many of these would be found to have taken refuge elsewhere. Dr. William E. Tower, in charge of Red Cross headquarters, estimated the probable dead at 750. East Lorain, the other side of Black River from main town, remains practically unexplored this morning. Here 150 houses were leveled by the fury of the gale, and it was believed today that clearing away of the wreckage would reveal many more bodies. Pitiful scenes at the improvised morgues, enacted many times yesterday, were being re-enacted today as people sought missing members of their families. In most instances, however they did not find their loved ones as but two bodies, those of a man sixty or more, and one man of 25 remained unidentified. Only when the ruins as yet unexplored give up their secret Patriotism nowadays, he suggested, consisted in obeying the laws of the land. It didn't matter whether a man believed in prohibition or not. Society had indicated that the amendment was necessary for its welfare, and every citizen should comply with its provisions. The supervisor outlined the history of the making of the constitution, including the difficulties which had attended the constitutional convention of 1879. Art Shipke presided as chairman. The other chairman of the day was Supervisor W. M. Schumacher. Carl Leonard, president, made a report on the international convention at Toronto to which he was the official delegate, but his remarks were brief, and the report in full will be rendered at a special meeting the date of which has not yet been set. KEEN TRUSTEES ON TRIAL TOMORROW For the third time, Glenn B. Churchill and O. C. Hardebeck, trustees of the defunct Keen Hat Stores, charged with obtaining money under false pretenses thru the sale of stock, will go on trial tomorrow before Judge R. Y. Williams. Both the first and the second trials resulted in jury disagreements. Morgan Marmaduke of Los Angeles, defense attorney, is few months has appeared in court. Ana in eight trials as defense counsel, seven of which resulted in mistrials. ITALIANS ATTACKED ROME, June 30.—Italian troops attacked a force of Arab rebels in Tripoli, killing 179, said a dispatch from Cyrenica today. The Italian casualties were three killed, 30 wounded. BUILDING PERMITS H E Hunt, stucco residence and garage at 525 No. Vine-st., cost $3,000. NOTICE—All Anaheim beauty parlors will be closed the Fourth and Saturday. MAUGHAN RETURNS SAN FRANCISCO, June 30.—Lieutenant Russell Manghan, who last week established a new record when he New from New York City to Crissy Field here in a day, was planning to take off from here this afternoon for return flight to Mitchell Field. Lieut. Maughan will not try to establish a record on the return trip and will make the journey in short jumps. His first stop will be Salt Lake City, where he will arrive this evening. AUTOIST DOES NOT STOP AFTER CRASH William O. Sutherland of Los Angeles narrowly escaped serious injuries Saturday at Hansen-rd and Lincoln-ave when his Buick was turned over by a man in a Studebaker car who did not stop. Sutherland and other occupants of his car were scratched but not seriously hurt. FRENCH SIGN RUM TREATY WITH U. S. WASHINGTON, June 30.—A treaty to prevent the smuggling of liquor into the United States was signed today between the United States and France, similar to those already negotiated with Great Britain, Germany and other powers. Aviators Nearly Drowned in Forced Landing Off Balboa Thomas Wade, aviator, and his alide, Bob Wren, both of Long Beach, narrowly escaped drowning yesterday afternoon when the oil line of their machine became clogged, their cylinders froze and they had to coast 2,800 feet into the sea a mile off Balboa. The two were rescued by E. O. Efferle of the Rogers Boat Co., who put out in a powerful motor-boat. He told Efferle that a few minutes later his effort would have been in vain. The men had been working for Seal Beach. The Sunday crowd on the Balboa and Newport beaches didn’t snow anything was the matter when they saw the hydroplanal light, and it was not until a hour later when the machine with the two men clinging to it drifted with the tide nearer shore than anything wrong was suspected. FULL REPORT OF INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE—FIRST LEASED WIRE IN 'ANAHEIM THE ORANGE COUNTY lain Deale LEADING NEWSPAPER OF NORTHERN ORANGE COUNTY Anaheim, California, Monday, June 30, 1924 DEADLOCKED AFTER NO Sets Fire to Huntington Beach Oil De 1,000,000 IMAGE BY CORNADO lies Recovered at main; Death List day Total 150 Ohio, June 30.—With recovered, Lorain, heavy tit with grim determination on smoke with Long Beach Branch Court is Invalid LOS ANGELES, June 30.—Scores of divorce cases settled in a branch of the Los Angeles county superior court established in Long Beach by a special act of the California legislature were centers of doubtful legality today when the state supreme court, in a decision filed here, held that the Long Beach sessions were invalid. Losing parties in the cases tried in the Long Beach superior court will have grounds for contesting the actions there and may be granted retrials, it was indicated. Some of the parties in divorce cases, it was believed, have married again since the settling of the cases in the court. FALL, DOHENY & SINCLAIR INDICTED Special U. S. Jury Finds Conspiracy to Defraud and Bribery WASHINGTON, June 30.—Indictments charging conspiracy to defraud the United States in connection with the leasing of naval "Solid West' To Standard MADISON SQUARE GATE NEW YORK, June 30.—The west," which William O. expected to rally without a to his defense, was not conto his expectations as the ing proceeded this afternoon the Democratic battle to no a candidate for president. On the late ballots Arizona still voting four and one- McAdoo and one and one- Oscar Underwood of Alabama California, voting und unit rule, repeatedly cast votes for McAdoo. New York, with its 90 vow not bound by the unit rule wavered in its loyalty to nor Smith. McAdoo summoned the dividual members of theonia delegation to his suite Vanderbilt hotel before the vention convened today. SIX KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK BUDA, Ill., June 30.—Six persons were killed here early today when the fast Burlington passenger train No. 8 crashed into the rear of the Denver-Chicago passenger train, which had stopped for coal. The dead: F. W. McNair, Houghton, Mich., president of Michigan College of Mines; Mrs. H. C. Clapp, McCook, Neb.; Miss —— Clapp, her niece; W. J. Brechtel, Aurora, Ill., fireman on No. 8; J. A. Triplet, porter on No. 2, Chicago; an unidentified woman. KEWANEE, Ill., June 30.—Eight persons were killed at Buda, near here, early today when Burlington passenger train No. 8 crashed into passenger train No. 2. Number 2 was en route from Denver to Chicago. The bodies had not been identified when word was received at this city of the wreck. TRIED ON CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER A. A. Alton, director of the Julian Petroleum Corp. of Los Angeles, will be given his preliminary hearing tomorrow in the justice court of J. B. Cox on a man-slaughter charge in connection with the death of Mrs. Louis Ware, 20, of Corona, a bride of a few weeks, killed when Alton's car, said to have been traveling. INDIGITED Special U. S. Jury Finds Conspiracy to Defraud and Bribery WASHINGTON, June 30.—Indictments charging conspiracy to defraud the United States in connection with the leasing of naval oil hands in California and Wyoming were returned today by a special federal grand jury against former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall, Harry F. Sinchair and Edward L. Doheny, multimillionaire oil magnates, and the latter's son, Edward L. Doheny, Jr. In addition to the conspiracy charges, Fall and Doheny were indicted for bribery, the charge being based on the giving of $100,000 to the secretary of the interior by the oil magnate. Four indictments were obtained from the grand jury by Owen J. Roberts and Atlee Pomerene, the special counsel named by President Coolidge to conduct the oil lease litigation, following the exhaustive investigation made by the senate public lands committee under the direction of Sen. Thomas J. Walsh, Dem. of Mont. The indictments charge (1) Fall and Doheny with conspiracy to defraud the government through the leasing of the Elk Hills oil reserve in California; (2) Fall and Sinchair with conspiracy to defraud the government through the leasing to the Teapot Dome reserve in Wyoming; (3) Fall with accepting a bribe from Doheny; (4) Doheny and his son with offering and giving a bribe to Fall. The bribery charges were based on the fact, as admitted by Doheny in testimony before the senate oil committee, that he sent $100,000 to Fall his own son acting as messenger. It was charged by the government that the money was given to Fall as secretary of the interior to influence him to grant valuable leases in California to the Pan-American Petroleum Co. It was also charged by the government that the executive order issued by the late President Harding on May 31, 1921, transferring control of the oil reserves from the navy to the interior department, was illegal and that Fall conspired with Doheny to have this order issued, knowing that it would be illegal, but wanting it issued so that the way would be cleared to lease the great naval oil reserves. The grand jury charges that a number of other companies besides the Pan-American Petro- ADVERTISING is the news of worth while things; who make them, and where and how and why. LET THE PLAIN DEALER carry your store news to 88% of all homes reading a local paper. IN 'ANAHEIM aler COUNTY PROGRESS OF 'ANAHEIM AS TOLD BY BUILDING Year Permits Total 1923 823 $2,269,275 1922 675 1,413,045 1921 564 1,253,870 1920 362 379,950 1919 174 464,509 Pair tonight and Tuesday with moderate temperature. Cloudy 27th YEAR—No. 259 ER NINE BATTLES In Oil Derrick With $5,000 Loss Solid West" Fails to Rally To Standard of Wm. McAdoo MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, June 30—The "solid est," which William G. McAdoo expected to rally without a break his defense, was not coming up his expectations as the ballot-proceeded this afternoon in the Democratic battle to nominate candidate for president. On the late ballots Arizona was all voting four and one-half for McAdoo and one and one-half for car Underwood of Alabama. California, voting under the unit rule, repeatedly cast its 26 votes for McAdoo. New York, with its 90 votes and it bound by the unit rule, never covered in its loyalty to Governor Smith. McAdoo summoned the 26 individual members of the Californa delegation to his suite in the Underwood hotel before the convention convened today. MCADOO AND AL SMITH LEADING Convention Adjourns 'After 4 p.m. to Reconvene at Eight Tonight By GEO. R. HOLMES (I.N.S. Staff Correspondent) MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, June 30—The Demonstration CITY HALL IS SOLD AT BARGAIN Following sale of the city hall and four lots to James F. Robinson for $1,800, the city council of Stanton has set July 22 as the date for voting on disincorporation that municipality, it was announced today by Mrs. Della M. Davis, city clerk. Organized some years ago to Itahema plains for locating a municipal sewer farm in the district. Stanton has been on the edge of disincorporation since accomplishment of the joint outfall sewer. According to reports, Robinson secured a bargain in the city property. While the cost of the four lots was not known definitively, it was said the city hall cost approximately $4,500 when built. Stanton, it was understood, will use the building for a general merchandise store. According to the city clerk, there is some doubt about disincorporation being voted. Failure of the election would mean the municipal authorities would have rent quarters. It was said there is considerable opposition to proposed boulevards in the district and for this reason it was probable incorporation would be maintained to prevent the contemplated improvement. In addition, there has been installed a private telephone wire from the McAdoo suite to a room in Madison Square Garden. At the garden end of the wire is one of McAdoo's close friends and political advisers, a Los Angeles man who held a federal office during the Wilson regime. This man, provided with a sergeant-at-arms badge, has access to the convention floor and every delegation. This McAdoo, as one of his friends pointed out, "is director general] of the balloting, a military strategist directing his field forces like a general directs an army." CITY MAKING 'JUICE' FOR ONE PUMP The city of Anaheim, which has taken an active lead in the power conservation program, made another contribution today when an old generator, which had been overhauled quickly in the last few days, was put to work by Supt. V. W. Hannum of the power department. The generator is furnishing about 60 K.W., no small contribution, and was hooked to one of the pumps at the water plant. Tonerow Hannum plans to try it out on a heavier pump. There had been some question whether the generator, which is 60-cycle, could be adapted to the 50-cycle motor which has been used with the Edison energy. The interest in municipal electrical plants seems to have inoculated a number of So. Calif. towns. While Anaheim, Fullerton and Glendale have been busy with investigations into the problem for several days, Mayor Metcalf today received a visit from a committee headed by Asa Hoffman of the Santa Ana reality board, appointed to look into the matter of a municipal stand-by unit of sufficient capacity, at least, to operate Santa Ana's street lighting system. Manager J. W. Price stated today that he would "try his luck" with a request to the Edison company for permission for Anaheim to withdraw from the contract in LEADING Convention Adjourns 'After 4 p.m. to Reconvene at Eight Tonight By GEO. R. HOLMES (I.N.S. Staff Correspondent) MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, June 30—The Democratic convention adjourned shortly before 4 p.m. this afternoon after futilely trying to nominate a candidate for the presidency for nine successive ballots. At the end of the eighth ballot McAdoo was leading with 442.5 votes, with Governor Al Smith second with 276.5, and behind these leaders struggled a field of a dozen candidates. Both McAdoo and Smith made slight gains between the first and eighth ballots, but they were not impressive. It was apparent that both the McAdoo and Smith leaders were laying back and feeling each other out gradually. The general prediction of a deadlock was easily borne out by today's balloting. William G. McAdoo maintained a commanding lead over the field for the entire nine ballots but he did not come within one hundred votes of a majority, much less the two thirds necessary to nominate. Governor Al Smith increased his strength steadily from 241 on the first ballot to 278 on the ninth and his managers claimed to be able to run his considerably above this any time they gave the word. McAdoo's maximum strength was polled on the eighth and ninth ballots, on both of which he had 444.6, as compared with a strength on the first ballot of 431½. Three favorite sons went out of the running during the nine ballots—the first Gov. William E. Sweet, of Colo., on the third ballot; Sen. John B. Kendrick, of Wyо., on the fifth, and the third, Sen. Woodbridge Ferris of Mich. on the eighth. The votes of these states were split between McAdoo, Smith, Underwood and John W. Davis, with the New York governor faring better than his rivals. Still another favorite son was ready to drop when the adjournment came, the Kansas delegation deciding to go to McAdoo as has been generally expected. Several efforts were made dur- Two Fullerton Youths Jailed For Firing Rockets In Street Shooting skyrockets down a busy street leads to trouble, Walter McClune, 17, and W. N. Hipley, 22, learned in Fullerton. They placed two skyrockets in the button at Santa Fe-ave, and Spadra-rd., one pointing up Spadra and the other down Spadra, and set them off. The one going up Spadra narrowly missed a woman pedestrian,ashed thru the sign on "Ball's Cafe", but spent itself without hurting anyone. The last seen of the south-bound rocket, it was still tearing down Spadra south of the U.P. Shipley was fined $15 today by Judge Hart, and McClune was committed to the juvenile court. Frank Cescena was picked up Sunday for Los Angeles officers on the charge of disposing of property not his own. His San Francisco record is also being investigated, officers suspecting him to be a man wanted there on the charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.