oc-plain-dealer 1924-12-04

GROWTH OF ANAHEIM SHOWN BY CENSUS Total for 1910 was 2,268 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. 5 DEAD, SEVERAL UNIVERSITY PROJECT IS PRESENTED Site Committee Requests Pressure be Brot Upon Regents The project of bringing the Southern Branch of the U. of C. to Orange County was brought more strongly forward today with the receipt of a circular letter Protest Release of "Underworld King" SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4.—State and civic bodies today are joining in their efforts to resist the fight for freedom being carried to White House in Washington on behalf of Pete McDonough, alleged "king of the San Francisco underword," who was found guilty and sentenced to jail for violation of the prohibition law. Protests against presidential action which may result in the freeing of McDonough were said to have been malled and wired to Washington by the Church Federation of San Francisco and the Women's Committee of Five Thousand, a statewide organization which took a prominent part in the passage of the Wright act, California's prohibition enforcement law. Other similar organizations are said to be preparing to follow suit. PRES. OFFENDER RULE FOR INDUSTRY Business Must Co Humanity to be Prosperous ABOARD THE CAPITOL ITED EN ROUTE TO CHANGE WITH PRESIDENT COOK Dec. 4.—It seems to be lark for the president a coolidge this traveling a Site Committee Requests Pressure be Brot Upon Regents The project of bringing the Southern Branch of the U. of C. to Orange County was brought more strongly forward today with the receipt of a circular letter from the Southern Branch Site Committee asking the C. of C. and luncheon clubs to take action. The local C. of C. already has endorsed the plan, the luncheon clubs are expected to investigate and get behind some particular site. The site committee has indicated that it will not favor a site more than 30 miles distant from Los Angeles. That means that Fullerton's offer of 1000 acres free is the only practicable one so far made. The letter from the site committee follows: "At several meetings of representatives from the counties of So. Calif., the crowded condition of the So. Branch of the Univ. of Calif., now located in the old Normal School-bldg., was forcibly brought to our attention. There are now over 5000 students enrolled there and on account of the crowded condition and the courses that could not be given, many are being yearly turned away. The present site is surrounded by a densely populated district and cannot be further enlarged or improved except at a great expense. Further, it has been found that the entire present equipment is urgently needed for teacher training to supply the elementary and secondary schools of So. Calif. "We have, therefore, requested the Board of Regents to move the Southern Branch to an adequate site, commensurate with the increase of the large population, the wealth and needs of So. Cal. It is also perfectly obvious that suitable sites must be secured at once if they are to be secured at all at a reasonable expense. We are, therefore, asking all organizations in So. Cal. to get behind this proposition and request the Board of Regents to move the southern branch to an adequate site. Will you, therefore, have your body adopt suitable resolutions, sending this office two copies, and take such steps as shall bring about the desirable results? Will you also send a representative of your body to attend the next meeting of this committee to be held in the Los" FACES TRIAL AFTER 27 MURDERS (Copyright 1924 by I. N. S.) COURTROOM, HANOVER. GERMANY, Dec. 4—Germany's "vampire killer" went to trial today with the air of a hero about to receive deserved public acclaim. The grim figure of the official headsman—executions in Hanover are still carried out with the axes—did not serve to rob Fritz Haarmann of his bravado as his trial for 27 murders got under war. He feels sure he will bow his head to the executioner but he prefers to make light of it. "I knbw the whole world is watching me," he said. "You needn't think I'll break down in the courtroom—no, I'll cut a very dignified figure. I will tell just what happened. I know I did wrong and that I must die for it, but I swear at the moments I did the actual killings I didn't know what I was doing." This was Haarmann's statement in an exclusive interview in his cell just before going to the courtroom. It is significant that nearly every sentence started with the personal pronoun. The man characterized as history's greatest criminal sat in his cell and sipped strong mocha coffee, specially made for him, to steady his nerves so that he might make the best appearance in court. His trial for the 27 killings, all of young men ranging from 14 to 24 years of age, began this morning. Hours before the case was called the streets in the large square in front of the old court house were packed. Only a minimum number of people attended. Business Must Co- Humanity to be F Prosperous ABOARD THE CAPITOL EN ROUTE TO CHICAGO DEC. 4—It seems to be lark for the president at Coolidge, this travelling passengers aboard an Pullman train—If not White House retinue without bers are charged with theft and comfort of the Coolidge. The Coolidge and other presidential party eat their in the diner apparently unof the stares of the other gers and chat informally observation car just as commercial travelers bound buying centers of the west. Observing his custom, the president has not indicted like or dislike of this p breaking trip. But Mrs. has keenly enjoyed it. She about the train as casual other passenger. Until a late hour last night beinning again early constant stream of fellow gers have passed thru bearing the presidential piling hasty glimpses into ting room when the door open. The diner was crowded his morning than it has before according to the Breakfasters lingered lo their coffee in hopes of s president and Mrs. Coolidge. The president and his p reach Chicago in mid-Soon after arrival they tend a luncheon at the club where Mr. Coolidge make his first of the two he will deliver in Chicago. CHICAGO, Dec. 4—first trip west as chief e Pres. Coolidge today pro a new industrial gold which he declared must be between agriculture and merce if the former is to and the latter is to co-prosper. "Prosperity cannot be from humanity," was it? The president's meet these two great industries livered at a luncheon him by the Chicago Co Club, the industrial leader mammoth national market He urged the commercial dustrial side of the nation less attention "wheat and hos, to their trans and their prices, and to go thought to the men and who produce them. "Do you wish to m system which will control EXPECT FIGHT TO OBTAIN LETTERS SAN BERNARDINO, Dec. 4.—A legal battle loomed here today between Miss Mary Watkins, "pure passion" sweetheart of William R. Fee, banker mysteriously slain near his mountain cabin, and Mrs. Anna Fee, the banker's widow, over the possession of love letters and securities found by the authorities in a safety deposit box maintained jointly by Miss Watkins and Fee in one of the banker's institutions. At first it was reported the controversy between the two women was only over the tender love notes which passed between the financiers and the girl in the six years' duration of their love affair. But today it was learned that both Mrs. Fee and Miss Watkins claim the securities, valued at thousands of dollars, found in the box. Miss Watkins said she used the joint box to safeguard her securities and that both she and Fee owned keys to the deposit box. The widow asserted the securities belonged to her banker-husband and that the box was maintained solely by him. Sheriff Shay of San Bernardino county, who seized the love notes and securities seeking a clue to Fee's mystery death refused to turn over the notes to either woman. He said they would be returned to the bank box. Plain Dealer Classified Ads produce results. Try this medium nearly every sentence started with the personal pronoun. The man characterized as history's greatest criminal sat in its cell and sipped strong mocha coffee, specially made for him, to steady his nerves so that he might make the best appearance in court. His trial for the 27 killings, all of young men ranging from 14 to 24 years of age, began this morning. Hours before the case was called the streets in the large square in front of the old court house were packed. Only a minimum number of spectators and a limited number of reporters were allowed in the little courtroom which scarcely holds 200 persons. The case is expected to last three weeks. The list of 190 witnesses includes the International News Service correspondent who has been the only newspaper to interview Haarmann. There are innumerable gruesome exhibits piled up in a room adjoining the court. They include the "murder bed," an axe, a meat chopper, a length of lead pipe, the blood-stained door mat with which the slayer is said to have deadened the noise of hacking to pieces his victims' bodies in the little attic room. INJECT MRS. VOTAW INTO BRIBE TRIAL CHICAGO, Dec. 4.—The name of Mrs. Carolyn oVtaw, sister of the late Pres. Harding, was injected into the bribery and conspiracy trial of Col. Chas. R. Forbes for mer head of the U.S. Veteran Bureau, and John W. Thompson, St. Louis contractor, today when Ellis H. Mortimer, star witness for the government, again took the witness stand in federal court. The name was read into the record from telegram said to have been sent from Mrs. Votaw Mortimer in San Francisco. BANDITS GET $18,500 SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4.—While scores of pedestrians passed on both sides of the street, four daring bandits held up two employees of the Pacific Gas and Electric Co., in front of the company's office in the downtown district at noon and escaped with $18,500 in cash. A handbag containing $23,000 worth of negotiable bonds, was dropped by the bandits. "The president drew from the story of Joseph Israelites and the seven famine as unfolded in Genesis. He depicted for his striking anology between tensions today and the experience Hebrews. He called to the "seven years of plea came to America during and he noted "the seven years" that followed in it." The trials of the Israel in their time of famine filled warehouses on he likened to those of the... FULL REPORT OF INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE—FIRST LEASED WIRE IN ANAHEIM THE ORANGE COUNTY Plain Dealer LEADING NEWSPAPER IN NORTHERN ORANGE COUNTY Anaheim, California, Thursday, December 4, 1924 Partly sho VERAL DYING. IN OAK PRES. OFFERS RULE FOR INDUSTRY Business Must Consider Humanity to be Real Prosperous ABOARD THE CAPITOL LIMITED EN ROUTE TO CHICAGO WITH PRESIDENT COOLIDGE, Dec. 4. It seems to be a great mark for the president and Mrs. coolidge this traveling as casual Storm Lays Wires, News Over Radio CHICAGO, Dec. 4. The middle west and Rocky Mountain regions today were in the grip of a severe snow and wind storm that had disrupted wire communication and impaired traffic thruout Dakotas, Nebraska, Western Kansas and Colorado. All telegraph wires to these sections were down and press associations were forced to work on very limited service. International News Service was receiving most of its news by radio, thru the Radio Corp. This is the first severe storm of the winter in this territory. COUNTY MAY BE AVIATION CENTER $25,000,000 Corporation Looking Here For Location Orange County loomed today as a possible centre of aviation progress in the Soundland with the announcement that a $25,-000,000 corporation planned to select a site of at least 200 acres Buy By Herbert A. B. AN Anaheim merchant who healthy condition purposes. "Credit is enable an expand impossible. Anaheim obtain them unl capital. "Anahelmer because of close. "Of course est as anywhere. "Banks he and stability. I and enabling fu 30 RETAILERS UNITE IN Business Must Consider Humanity to be Real Prosperous ABOARD THE CAPITOL LIMITED EN ROUTE TO CHICAGO, WITH PRESIDENT COOLIDGE, Dec. 4. It seems to be a great mark for the president and Mrs. Coolidge, this traveling as casual passengers aboard an ordinary fullman train—if not for the White House retinue whose members are charged with the safety and comfort of the Coolidges. The Coolidges and others in the presidential party eat their meals at the diner apparently unmindful of the stares of the other passengers and chat informally in the observation car just as do the commercial travelers bound for the buying centers of the west. Observing his customary calm, the president has not indicated his like or dislike of this precedent breaking trip. But Mrs. Coolidge is keenly enjoyed it. She strolls about the train as casually as any other passenger. Until a late hour last night and deciding again early today a constant stream of fellow passengers have passed thru the car bearing the presidential party, taking hasty glimpses into the drawing room when the door has been open. The diner was crowded earlier his morning than it has ever been before according to the steward. Breakfasters lingered long over their coffee in hopes of seeing the president and Mrs. Coolidge. The president and his party will reach Chicago in mid-foreoon. Soon after arrival they will attend a luncheon at the Commercial club where Mr. Coolidge will make his first of the two speeches he will deliver in Chicago. CHICAGO, Dec. 4. On his first trip west as chief executive, Pres. Coolidge today propounded a new industrial golden rule, which he declared must be applied between agriculture and commerce if the former is to survive and the latter is to continue to prosper. "Prosperity cannot be divorced from humanity," was its burden. The president's message to these two great industries was delivered at a luncheon tendered him by the Chicago Commercial Club, the industrial leaders of this mammoth national market place. He urged the commercial and industrial side of the nation to pay less attention "wheat and corn and hos, to their transportation and their prices, and to give more thought to the men and women who produce them. "Do you wish to maintain a system which will contribute both work on very limited service." International News Service was receiving most of its news by radio, thrue the Radio Corp. This is the first severe storm of the winter in this territory. 30 RETAILERS UNITE IN RECEPTION Approximately 30 stores already have signified that they would participate in the merchants' reception next Thursday evening from 7:00 to 10:00 o'clock. The plan is to have the Christmas decorations in place for the first time on that date, while several stores will have orchestras, some will serve punch and wafers, etc., and most of them will distribute favors or prizes. Each store will conduct its own affair. O. H. Renner of the S.Q.R. store is chairman of the C. of C. committed in charge. RECEIVE NO REPLY FROM BARTLETT CO. No reply has yet arrived from G. M. Bartlett of the Bartlett NuProducts Co., regarding other security besides his 16 acres here; Secretary George W. Reid of the C. of C. said today. Reid doesn't expect any answer yet, but says that Bartlett will respond by coming here personally and conferring with the C. of C. WORST STORM OF WINTER IN COLO. DENVER, Dec. 4. — Transcontinental communication was severely hampered today following the winter's worst storm to date in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain region. Sweeping down from the northwest, the storm covered Colorado with the blanket of snow varying in depth from four inches, in Denver, to nearly a foot in one of $25,000,000 Corporation Looking Here For Location Orange County loomed today as a possible centre of aviation progress in the Soundland with the announcement that a $25,000,000 corporation planned to select a site of at least 200 acres for an assembly plant, flying school and airport for passenger and freight craft. According to A. B. McCord, a meeting will be held next week, Friday evening, at St. Ann's Inn, Santa Ana, of prominent men of the county, with Col. R. S. Hartz, retired pilot of the U.S.Aviation Service as the principal speaker. McCord said that Col. Hartz was head of the corporation and that the company preferred a site near Anaheim. If possible it will take an entire section of land. Col. Hartz was the speaker at Tuesday's Kiwanis Club luncheon here. He was one of the army flyers who made the round the tim trip about the United States borders in 1919. The main field would be in Orange County, said McCord, and the corporation has been incorporated in California, which has furnished most of the capital. New York, Chicago, Omaha and perhaps Cheyenne will be other airports. Col. Hartz is said to be confident of obtaining government contracts to carry mail. NO. CALIFORNIA DRENCHED TODAY SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4 — The Bay region and northern California were being drenched with rain today. The downpour started before 6 o'clock and was continuing with varying degrees of intensity throughout the northern part of the state. Prospects are for the rain to continue tomorrow. Rainfall at various points follows: Eureka .22 of an inch at 7 o'clock this morning; Red Bluff .10; Chicago .16; Colusa .30; Orland .47; Oroville .30; and Santa Rosa .39. Indications are for a "nominally wet" winter, according to weather bureau officials. C. C. SECRETARIES ATTEND MEETING Most of the secretaries of C.'s of C. in the county attended one because of close WASHINGTON, D.C. claring that the revival 1924 has failed to pertain changes in the that will assure natality. Secy. of the Treest in his annual report today, recommended program of reform. While the real fight Coolidge administratior organization of this team is not expected until the 69th conquest occasion to our short session what lthe dangerous flaws law. These provisions consistent with eco follow: 1. Excessive surplus 2. Confiscatory rates. 3.Unworkable gift to "unduly hamper longevity." 4.Publicity provoked characterized as "a policy" and "detrimmene." 5.Altho devoting his tention to the tax pellon urged greater government, recommen fiscal, banking and forms, described effusion of the public cited the status of liigations owed to States. Mellon slapped this opposition in the dental election. Various theories with economic laws vanced and urged this or that feature according to the alision of the particular said. "The sober judge great majority o "Prosperity cannot be divorced from humanity," was its burden. The president's message to these two great industries was delivered at a luncheon tendered by the Chicago Commercial Club, the industrial leaders of this mammoth national market place. He urged the commercial and industrial side of the nation to pay less attention "wheat and corn and hos., to their transportation and their prices, and to give more thought to the men and women who produce them. "Do you wish to maintain a system which will contribute both to their welfare and your own," he challenged his luncheon hosts "or to permit, even unintentionally, methods of doing business under which their want and distress will ultimately result in the failure of your own success and prosperity. You people of commerce, you people of the city, are an integral part of the life of agriculture, of the life of the country." Mr. Coolidge applied the same principle to America's foreign relations. He warned that, in the long course of events, this nation could not hope to enjoy a permanent level of superiority in material wealth over other people of the earth. In the long course of affairs," he said "and in a world which has become little more than a great neighborhood, our common sense must tell us, if our self-interest did not, that our prosperity, our advancement, our portion of good fortune, must depend largely upon the share that shall be allotted to our neighbors. At the least, those of us who are partners in the supreme service of building and bettering our civilization must go down, or must succeed or fall together, in our one common enterprise." The president drew his text from the story of Joseph and the Israelites and the seven years of famine as unfolded in the book of Genesis. He depicted for his audience a striking anology between conditions today and the experiences of the Hebrews. He called attention to the "seven years of plenty" that came to America during the war and he noted "the seven lean years" that followed in its wake. The trials of the Israelites, who in their time of famine went to the filled warehouses of Joseph, likened to those of the Amherst (Continued on Page Two) WORST STORM OF WINTER IN COLO. DENVER, Dec. 4.—Transcontinental communication was severely hampered today following the winter's worst storm to date in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain region. Sweeping down from the northwest, the storm covered Colorado with the blanket of snow varying in depth from four inches, in Denver, to nearly a foot in some of the mountainous districts. Today dawned clear and cool in Denver with the storm having appeared to the east. Reports from Omaha and Lincoln indicated that a heavy driving sleet was prevailing in Nebraska with its center around North Platte. Telegraph and telephone companies reported wire service badly crippled, a result of the sleet storm in Nebraska, altho train service had not been interrupted at an early hour. The precipitation in Colorado broke a long drought and the moisture is expected to be of tremendous benefit to winter wheat growers and to the soil in general. SEATTLE OBTAINS FOUR NEW PLAYERS SEATTLE, Wn., Dec. 4.—All colorful players was the brief description of four new additions to the Seattle Baseball Club in a telegram from Manager Wade Killifer at Hartford, Conn. The most important was the sale of Jimmy Welsh for a cash consideration and three players including Pitchers Stryker and Yeargin for immediate delivery, and an unnamed player to be delivered before April 25. Killefer also announced the purchase of Pitcher Miljus, Outfielder First Baseman Babe Herman and Elliott, first baseman of the Chicago Cubs. The Walsh deal involves a total consideration of $50,000. ARREST 8 POLICE Reid doesn't expect any answer Eight members of the Weehawken police department and Capt. Chas. McNames were arrested, today charged with conspiring to violate the prohibition enforcement law. C. C. SECRETARIES ATTEND MEETING Most of the secretaries of C.'s of C. in the county attended one or more gatherings of the annual meeting of the Western Division, U.S.C. of C. in Los Angeles on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to Secretary George W. Reid, who was at his desk again today, enthused with the splendid program put on. Those present included Secretaries Raymer of Fullerton, Johnson of Orange, Olliger of Santa Ana, Walker of Yorba Linda, Armitage of Huntington Beach and Welch of the Orang County Harbor C. of C. The general subjects were reforestation, shipping problems of the Pacific coast and waste and extravagance in business and government. Among the principal sessions were a luncheon meeting Tuesday noon at the Biltmore and a banquet gathering Tuesday evening at the ohtel Ambassador. The Hotel Alexandria was the general headquarters. The principal speakers at the banquet were Henry M. Robinson, president of the First National Bank and Pacific Southwest Trust and Savings and President Richard T. Grant of the U.S.C. of C. WM. TREND KILLED WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—William Trend, 34, of San Francisco, an American soldier who has been in Chile investigating the reported existence of a pre-historic monster of the dinosaur type, was killed while flying over Andes, according to cable received here today. DENVER STADIUM DENVER, Dec. 4.—Denver University is to have an athletic stadium, to cost $275,000 and have a seating capacity of 25,000, according to announcement today. Eureka .22 of an inch at 7 o'clock this morning; Red Bluff .10; Chicago .16; Colusa .30; Oriand .47; Oroville .30; and Santa Rosa .39. Indications are for a "nominally wet" winter, according to weather bureau officials. Various theories with economic laws vananced and urged this or that feature according to the situation of the particular said. "The sober judge great majority of our in election just lated these theories itself in favor of a and orderly program our governmental action." Mellon painted a picture of business at the "complete disobordour economic structure and early 1921. prices have been stable for two or three duction has increased cent, employment 88 and bank deposits si llion dollars since thie 1921. In his tax recorder Mellon vigorously 37 1-2 per cent surpises. He stood motionless to a point lying and 25 per cent on that such a tax would be imposed today as the result of papers in local yesterday setting fictions under which tried in the San Francisco area they were maluited or metly $10,500,000 ar property was solicited by United States thie allen property custom chel Palmer, to the "sugar trust." of Haverford 500,000 less than i worth. Plain Denver Chelsea duce results. Try RE IN ANAHEIM aler E COUNTY PROGRESS OF ANAHEIM AS TOLD BY BUILDING Year Permits Total 1923 823 82,209,271 1922 675 1,413,045 1921 584 1,253,870 1920 362 379,950 1919 274 464,500 Partly cloudy tonight and Friday showers and cooler Friday. 27th YEAR—No. 67 OAKLAND WRECK Buy In Anaheim By Herbert A. Hawley, Cashier of Southern Counties Bank An Anaheimmer who purchases in Anaheim helps the merchant who in turn helps keep the banks in a strong, healthy condition—able to loan money locally for development purposes. "Credit is based upon actual deposits and deposits enable an expanded use of funds which would otherwise be impossible. Anaheim is seeking industries. It cannot hope to obtain them unless it maintains a large volume of fluid capital. "Anaheimmers who trade here are helping themselves, because of close inter-relations of business." "Of course money loaned here earns the same interest as anywhere else in California." "Banks here have long been noted for their strength and stability. Let us keep them so by trading at home and enabling funds to be used to mutual advantage." MORE THAN 40 OTHERS INJURED 12th-st. Key Route Car Telescoped by Fast Passenger Train OAKLAND, Cal., Dec. 4—Six persons are dead, several others dying, more than 40 are in East Bay hospitals and scores of other victims are suffering from slight- MELLON SAYS HIS THEORY ENDORSED WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—Declaring that the revenue act of 1924 has failed to provide necessary changes in the tax system that will assure national prosperity, Secy. of the Treasury Mellon in his annual report to congress today, recommended a far reaching program of reform. While the real fight of the new Coolidge administration for its reorganization of the taxation system is not expected to be launched until the 69th congress, Mellon took occasion to outline to the short session what he considers the dangerous flaws in the 1924 law. These provisions said to be "inconsistent with economic laws" follow: 1. Excessive surtax rates. 2. Confiscatory estate tax rates. 3. Unworkable gift tax alleged to "unduly hamper legitimate business." 4. Publicity provisions of law characterized as "a mistake of policy" and "detrimental to revenue." Altho devoting his principal attention to the tax program, Secy. Mellon urged greater economy in government, recommended various fiscal, banking and currency reforms, described efforts at reduction of the public debt and outlined the status of the foreign obligations owed to the United States. Mellon slapped the Republican opposition in the recent presidential election. Various theories inconsistent with economic laws have been advanced and urged as remedies to this or that feature of our system, according to the slant or obsession of the particular theorist," he said. The sober judgment of a great majority of people has been used to mutual advantage." FINISH FIGHT ON MUSCLE SHOALS WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—A finished fight over disposition of the government's $100,000,000 Muscle Shoals water power project was launched in the senate this afternoon when Sen. Geo. W. Norris, Rep. of Neb., opened debate in defense of his government ownership plan. Norris urged the senate to create a government corporation to own and operate the project. This plan, approved last spring by the agricultural department, was offered as a substitute for the bill passed by the house which accepted Henry Ford's offer for the site. ANAHEIM WOMAN CHIEF WITNESS After being out half an hour, the jury, composed of two women and ten men, returned a verdict of not guilty. Mrs. Pearl Baldwin, Anaheim was the state's chief witness today in the trial of B. Cecil Jack, former Orana stand owner, who is charged with a statutory offense against her. Superior Judge Z. B. West was hearing the case. Jack, better known as "Dinty Moore," has been under $10,000 bail after he was re-arrested in justice court several weeks ago. The first complaint lodged against him was dismissed when a 17-year-old Anaheim girl, who was the complaining witness, testified she had not been mistreated. Mrs. Baldwin then swore to a similar charge. Mrs. Baldwin's daughter also took the stand today. She testified she and her mother both were employed by Jack at his Orana stand before it was raided by deputy sheriffs and obscene 12th-st. Key Route Car Telescoped by Fast Passenger Train OAKLAND, Cal., Dec. 4—Six persons are dead, several others dying, more than 40 are in East Bay hospitals and scores of other victims are suffering from slighter injuries, the result of a rear end collision between a 12th St.-Key Route train and a Saeramento Short Line train near the end of the Key route mole runway today. Both cars were San Francisco bound, the Key Route car, which was in the lead, had stopped. It was telescoped for more than a third of its length by the Saeramento Short Line train, which was speeding thru the rain and fog to catch a ferry boat. At noon the Key System officials issued a statement announcing that formal inquiry to fix responsibility for the accident will be started tomorrow. A revised list of the dead: Frederick J. Gibson, 65, marine engineer, Goat Island. C. C. O'Louhlin, Sequoiah, Contra Costa County. Frank B. Hoppe, 3738 Rhoda Avenue, Berkeley. Charles M. Dougty, 744 East Twelfth Street, Oakland. Lillian Johnson, 18, 1352 E.Twenty-eighth St. Unidentified woman; about 35 years of age. The collision is declared by officials of the Key System Traction Co. to be the worst in East Bay history. Caught in the tangle of splintering wood and ripping steel, scores of passengers in the rear of the Key Route car were crushed. Several were killed outright, according to reports, and others so mangled that they died within a few minutes. Cause of the collision has not been determined. The treatie to the Key mole is operated under what is called the safest block system in existence. It is supposed to be fool proof. Every available hospital facility in Oakland and Berkeley was taxed to the limit by the stream of injured rushed in by hastily organized rescues. Hospital and police ambulances were augmented by a fleet of private automobiles who left their business to lend aid. In their frantic efforts to release victims pinned in the wreckage, rescue workers performed heroically. One man's life was saved by a fellow passenger who held his hands around the injured man's throat for an hour while awaiting rescuers. Mellon slapped the Republican opposition in the recent presidential election. "Various theories inconsistent with economic laws have been advanced and urged as remedies to this or that feature of our system, according to the slant or obsession of the particular theorist," he said. "The sober judgment of a great majority of our people has in the election just passed repudiated these theories and expressed itself in favor of a constructive and orderly program of handling our governmental affairs." Mellon painted an optimistic picture of business recovery since the "complete disorganization of our economic structure in 1920 and early 1921." He said that prices have been comparatively stable for two or three years, production has increased 20 to 25 per cent, employment 8 to 10 per cent and bank deposits six to eight billion dollars since the low point in 1921. In his tax recommendations, Mellon vigorously assailed the 37 1-2 per cent surtax on large incomes. He stood for a reduction to a point lying between 15 and 25 per cent on the ground that such a tax would yield. STOCKHOLDERS SAY THEY WERE ROBBED SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4.—Further action in the $10,500,000 accounting suit brought by 17 stockholders in the former Hawaiian sugar corporation of H. Hackfeld and Co., is being taken here today as the result of the filing of papers in the local superior court yesterday setting forth stipulations under which the suit will be tried in the San Francisco courts. The complainants charge that they were malicious out of approximately $10,500,000 when the sugar property was sold in 1918 by the United States thru the then alien property custodian, A. Mitchell Palmer, to the so-called "sugar trust," of Hawaii for $10,-500,000 less than it was really worth. Plain Denter Classified Ads produce results. Try this medium. A Class Ad is best little salesman. Better known as Dinty Moore," has been under $10,000 bail after he was re-arrested in justice court several weeks ago. The first complaint lodged against him was dismissed when a 17-year-old Anaheim girl, who was the complaining witness, testified she had not been mistreated. Mrs. Baldwin then swore to a similar charge. Mrs. Baldwin's daughter also took the stand today. She testified she and her mother both were employed by Jack at his Orana stand before it was raided by deputy sheriffs and obscene pictures were found. Atty. S. S. Hahn, noted Los Angeles attorney is appearing for Jack C. N. Mozley, deputy district attorney, is appearing for the prosecution. LITA GREY MUST RETURN TO BOOKS LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4.—Lita Grey must go back to her books. School days for Charlie Chaplin's bride have not ended, according to Mrs. Edna R. Sheldon, special investigator of the department of compulsory education and child welfare of the Los Angeles board of education, who declared today Mrs. Chaplin had agreed to hire a tutor. Mrs. Chaplin must spend four hours day in study with her tutor, bride or no bride," said Mrs. Sheldon. "This is the requirement of the law of California for minors and Lita Grey is no exception." The actress has compiled with the law in the past and avowed her intention to the board of education to continue to do so, according to Mrs. Sheldon. Last year Mrs. Chapulin secured a permit to work in pictures with the understanding that she would employ a tutor. "Investigation has been made and showed that Mrs. Chapulin complied with the law," said the special investigator. "That is the only interest the board of education had in the Chaplin wedding. Mrs. Chapulin is 16 years old. Our records show that." Plain Denter Classified Ads produce results. Try this medium. Available hospital facility in Oakland and Berkeley was taxed to the limit by the stream of injured rushed in by hastily organized rescues. Hospital and police ambulances were augmented by a fleet of private automobiles who left their business to lend aid. In their frantic efforts to release victims pinned in the wreck age, rescue workers performed heroically. One man's life was saved by a fellow passenger who held his hands around the injured man's throat for an hour while awaiting medical assistance This prevented him from bleeding to death thrue two deep gashes in his throat. Dr. O. D. Hamilin, chief surgeon at the Oakland Emergency hospital, reported his entire staff was strained to the limit to care for the stream of injured. Among the dead is believed to be V. C. Brubaker, engineer of the flyer. While most of the injured were commuters, in the rear of the Key Route car, crushed as if by a juggernaut, the front part of the rear train was smashed in. Brubaker was not seen after the collision. A score of injured were taken to the Berkeley General hospital, it was learned later. Two died on arrival. Many other injured have been removed to the Oakland Emergency hospital and Fabiola hospital. At the Emergency hospital here one of the injured men told doctors that all the persons in the fore part of the first car of the Key Route train were killed outright. Hundreds of automobiles began racing through the downtown streets to the scene of the accident. Police reserves were called out by Chief of Police James Drew to assist in rescue work and to restrain the crowds. Calls were sent out for additional physicians and nurses. Police patrol warrants, ambulances and private automobiles were impressed into emergency service. See Dr. Neth, 110 N. Resh-Chiropratic and Electric Treatments.