oc-plain-dealer 1925-01-26

DISASTROUS FIRE RAGES IN NORFOLK NORFOLK, Jan 26—The Bishop Block, the largest store and office building in Norfolk, was completely razed to the ground today as the result of a terrific fire which raged early this morning. Fanned by a sweeping north wind the fire swept through the building and its contents despite the efforts of firemen to check the blaze. In the sub-zero weather, the firemen were shrouds of ice and today many were under treatment for frozen hands, legs and faces. Destruction of the entire business section was prevented by dynamiting. The total loss of the building and contents is estimated at $500,000. Claude Summers, a bystander, was nearly killed when a brick wall, near which he was watching the fire, collapsed with a charge of dynamite. He suffered a broken leg. The firemen, under the direction of Chief Boehnke, suffered terribly from the wind and cold weather and a relief station was established nearby. There, warm mittens, overshoes, coats, sweaters and mufflers were exchanged for the wet and icy garments of the firemen and many business men turned out to give what assistance they could. The origin of the fire is unknown, but it is believed to have started from spontaneous combustion in the coal stored in the basement of the building. Among firms and stores housed in the destroyed building were the Fair Department Store and the Fair Meat Market; the Singer Sewing Machine Co., Young's Plano Store, Carberry Seed Co., all on the ground floor. The Elkhorn Building and Loan Ass'n, a dentist office, two doctors offices, four insurance agencies, five lawyers and a beauty parlor occupied the upstairs. The structure destroyed is on the busiest street in Norfolk, across from the Hotel which is under construction. The building itself was valued Farmers Troubles Nearly Over "'The war is over at last.' That remark was made to me recently by a man who is in close touch with agricultural conditions," said Eugene Meyer, Jr., managing director of the War Finance Corporation, recently. "It is not, of course, to be taken in the literal sense. It was merely intended to express the state of feeling that exists today in many agricultural communities. It does not mean that everything everywhere, is rosy and that all the ill effects resulting from the chaos and disorganization of war have disappeared. "But it does mean that today agriculture as a whole is in better shape than it has been for many years, and that the 1924 farming operations have greatly strengthened its economic position. "In the four states, Minnesota, North and South Dakota and Montana, the wheat acreage this year was 15,809,000 and the production 256,937,000 bushels, compared with an acreage of 17,924,000 and a total crop of 170,018,000 bushels in 1923. In other words, these states raised in 1924 86,919,000 more bushels on 1,252,000 less acres than in 1923. Taking the country as a whole, 872,000,000 bushels—75,000,000 bushels more than last year—were produced on an acreage of 54209,000 approximately 5 per cent less than the 1923 acreage. The improvement has not been confined to wheat alone. Prices of many other grains have reached high levels, bringing returns to the farmers considerably larger than those of 1923. While the corn crop was short, due to frost damage and other unfavorable factors, the total farm value, on the basis of December 1, 1924 prices, exceeds that of the preceding year. Gross Income Increased "The tobacco crop is approximately 277,000,000 pounds less than the 1923 production, and while the industry has been handicapped to some extent by carry-overs from former years, it has maintained a relatively satisfac-tion." in the destroyed building were the Fair Department Store and the Fair Meat Market; the Singer Sewing Machine Co., Young's Plano Store, Carberry Seed Co., all on the ground floor. The Elkhorn Building and Loan Ass'n, a dentist office, two doctors offices, four insurance agencies, five lawyers and a beauty parlor occupied the upstairs. The structure destroyed is on the busiest street in Norfolk, across from the Hotel which is under construction. The building itself was valued at $150,000 and the destruction of the contents will bring the total loss to $500,000. LOST LOVE, SUICIDE SACRAMENTO, Jan. 26.—Failure to effect a reconciliation with his former fiance, Miss Margaret Zingg, was believed by police today to have caused Leon Stanley Haas, Sacramento youth, to end his life by sending a bullet thru his heart. Haas left no farewell note but was said to have telephoned the home of his former sweetheart just before he ended his life. GEO. NALLY OPENS AUTO REPAIR SHOP Here's another new business for Anaheim. George B. Nally, formerly in charge of the Frank P. Taggart auto repairing department, has opened a repair shop of his own at 326 East Center-st, where he will be pleased to meet his former patrons and other friends. The automobile entrance to Nally's shop is at the rear of the place. He guarantees expert repairing of all makes of cars. It's worry, not work, that wrinkles our brows. Up with the window, down with the "flu." GERMANY ORDERED LONDON, Jan. 26.—Germany has been forbidden to manufacture warlike material for a foreign nation, it was announced today by the foreign office. The councils threatened Germany with disciplinary action. It was said. Germany was reported ready to reply that internal combustion boilers are not "warlike material." The ambassadors' council has sent a note to the German foreign office, notifying it that the proposed contract of Krupps with the Argentine government to make boilers for the new Argentine warships would be considered a breach of the Versailles treaty. The council holds, it was stated, that Germany is not permitted to make any "warlike material," and that the proposed boilers would come under this heading. LEAPS 8 STORIES NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—Miss Helen Vosborgh, 22, student at Barnard college, leaped from the window of her room on the eighth floor of Brook hall today and landed in front of a number of her classmates. Her condition is serious. No motive for her action could be learned. Not Fair to the Railroads Santa Fe Says Gooding Bill, in Congress, would impair railroads Pacific Coast traffic—adversely affecting merchants, farmers, manufacturers and others in Western States. The Gooding bill, now before Congress, would greatly divert traffic to the Atlantic Seaboard from the Middle West. It would thus retard the development of the Middle West and its railroads by preventing competition for Pacific Coast business with the Atlantic Seaboard and the steamship lines. Unregulated canal competition has al- largely via the canal. The Atlantic Sea-ready taken from the Middle West much board pane only the lost canal line. The Gooding bill, now before Congress, would greatly divert traffic to the Atlantic Seaboard from the Middle West. It would thus retard the development of the Middle West and its railroads by preventing competition for Pacific Coast business with the Atlantic Seaboard and the steamship lines. Unregulated canal competition has already taken from the Middle West much business, which can be regained by this territory only if the railroads are allowed to make rates to compete with the canal. The Central States and their railroads have enjoyed a share in this Pacific Coast business from the beginning of the operation of transcontinental lines, and this tonnage was a large factor justifying their being built. Under the present law the Interstate Commerce Commission is authorized to permit the railroads to equalize canal rates, and application for this is pending. Until 1918 the railroads had this permission. Then, due to the war, canal competition ceased and the Commission withdrew the permission. Now the ships are back in greater numbers than ever and have taken practically all competitive traffic, while the railroads have lacked the permission to equalize rates. The Gooding bill, which has passed the Senate and is being considered by the House, would withdraw from the Interstate Commerce Commission authority to grant any such permission. It will not help intermountain states, because steamship rates between the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts will continue lower than those of the railroads; and it will not add to the Coast competition of intermountain distributors for the railroads to handle a part of the business. This westbound business on which the railroads desire to compete comprises highly manufactured articles moving in great volume, made both in the Atlantic States and in the Central and Middle Western States and sold on the Pacific Coast. It now moves largely via the canal. The Atlantic Seaboard pays only the low canal rates. The Middle West producer must pay either the additional rail charge to the Atlantic Coast or the charge for direct shipment by rail. If the railroads are allowed to compete, not only will the Middle West producer be enabled to compete on more even terms (which of itself will promote the development of the Central States), but also the railroads will be able to fill out their trains better, to develop their facilities, employ more men and purchase more supplies—all to the advantage of this great Western territory. The Western railroads feel that the Gooding bill would deprive them of needed business without doing anybody any good, except owners of steamship lines operating through the canal; also that it would take away traffic in which they have participated under the Interstate Commerce Commission's authority since its creation in 1887. It seems most unfair to change the law at this time, in view of all these conditions. When the Gooding bill was before the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce, the Interstate Commerce Commission, with but one of its eleven members dissenting, sent the Committee an urgent letter opposing the bill. It summed up the matter most clearly with a concluding statement, showing that the interests of the Central West are involved quite as seriously as ours, as follows: "The effect of such a provision upon commerce, industry and agriculture, would be revolutionary, and in many cases disastrous to carriers, shippers and communities." "The Wages of Sin—" Foreign News SAN DIEGO—While the rest of California was being drenched with rain yesterday and last night, San Diego received but a slight drizzle, and the sun is shining bright. SAN DIEGO—Ned Browning, 41, tired of the humdrum of a bachelor's life, shot himself through the temple here today. Loneliness superinduced nervous disorder, it was said. TA JUANA—This resort town is viling with Hollywood in entertaining celebrities. Jack Dempey and his fiancee, Estelle Taylor, Jack Kerns, Barney Oldfield, Carl Laemmle, Otto Floto and a host of movie stars spent the week-end at the border oasis. The W. G. McAdos were race track visitors last week. SEATTLE—Three masked bandits piled their trade within a stone's throw of the city jail early today when they bound and gagged the janitor of a workingmen's club and riffled the cash drawer of $38. SEATTLE, Wn.—Eskimo girls, neath the northern lights, are bobbing their hair, according to a report received here by J. H. Wagner, chief of the U. S. bureau of education. PORTLAND, Ore. — Nationally known figures in American surgery, including Dr. Franklin H. Martin of Chicago and Dr. George Crite of Cleveland, will speak here tonight at a sectional meeting of the American college of surgeons. PORTLAND, Ore. — Six persons were injured in auto accidents, one driver arrested on a charge of driving while drunk and two others taken for reckless driving over the week-end. PORTLAND, Ore. — With a 50-mile wind reported at North Head, Wash., the Weather Bureau today ordered southeast storm warnings up at all points north of Cape Blanco. A soaking rain was falling over western Oregon and RECORD FUNERAL FOR DRY RAIDER HERRIN, Ill., Jan. 26.—W. S. Glean Young's body lay in stair at the First Baptist Church today Coroner George Bell formally opened his inquest into the death the colorful Klan leader and Deputy Sheriff Ora Thomas, of Forbes and of Homer Warrell stain in the renewal of the Wliamson-co "war" here Saturday night. Meantime the town of Herndon is under rule of the Illinois National Guard and people are quietly moving about the city and tending strictly to their own fairs. A hundred versions of the shooting exist. Assisted by States Attorney Arlie Boswell, the coroner's task is to determine how the fatal fire started, who fired the first shot and by whose hands the victim died. Klansmen charge that You was killed by Thomas who shot him from behind. They say the Klan leader fell dying that with his last strength, flew the bullet that cut down the city sheriff who was reputed to head of the Flaming Circle. Anti-Klansmen declare that Thomas was trapped in a room by Young and his cohort. They say Young, Forbes and Warren were in the grill room where Thomas walked in alone. You immediately went for his gun, cording to their version, Thomas beat him on the drawer killed him. Then Klansmen outside started shooting in the room, according to Their friends, and killed Thomas two of their own men. Forbes Warren as well. Anti-Klansmen today opened charged that the coroner's probe was a joke, that every juror would result in a Klan whitewashing. The real facts will become known when the regular jury meets Feb. 4, at Marion, Klan faction said. Young's funeral has been set off. HANDICAP FACES ADMINISTRATION WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—With adjournment but five weeks away, the administration faced impassable barriers today in attempting to enact President Coolidge's administrative program before congress drops its official worries for the long summer vacation. Five major legislative measures remained on administrations program aside from the usual appropriation bills with all signs indicating they will be defeated or left in the stretch when congress quits March 4. They include the Sale of Pines treaty, the Underwood Muscle Shoals bill, the Moses postal bill to aid co-operative marketing and the president's own recommendation for American adherence to the world court. The administration also faced serious difficulty in obtaining senatorial confirmation of the appointment of Harlan F. Stone to the supreme court and of Chas. B. Warren as attorney general. Fights have been waged against both appointments, the immediate attack being aimed at Stone because of charges that he is "persecuting" Sen. Burten K. Wheeler, Democrat of Montana, in trying to indict him in the District of Columbia. The Wheeler clique which includes such independents as Sen. Borah Republican of Idaho and Sen. Norris, Republican of Nebraska, today planned to force an investigation of Stone's activities toward Wheeler before the Senate Judiciary committee. While this would delay his confirmation for weeks, administration leaders were inclined to accept it in preference to an open fight on the senate floor with an ever present threat of rejection. The outlook was that congress will make little headway on subjects the administration favors and much noise where the president desires quiet. Irrigation Tour By Farm Bureau PORTLAND, Ore.—Six persons were injured in auto accidents; one driver arrested on a charge of driving while drunk and two others taken for reckless driving over the week-end. PORTLAND, Ore.—With a 50-mile wind reported at North Head, Wash., the Weather Bureau today ordered southeast storm warnings up at all points north of tape Blanco. A soaking rain was falling over western Oregon and Washington. LOS ANGELES—Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Mrs. Sarah Emmeline Ralston, 56, mother of Jobyana Ralston, film actress, Mrs. Ralston died suddenly at the family home from an attack of apoplexy. LOS ANGELES—Walter S. Daniel, acquitted by a jury of the murder of Peter Zarilla, was preparing today to flee from So. Cal. He told deputy sheriffs he had been threatened by a woman, who he said told him before the trial ended that she would knife him if he were freed. LOS ANGELES—the state supreme court was scheduled to open a two-day session here today at which time appeals were to be considered in 19 civil suits and four criminal cases. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28.—Contracts for construction of the Carquinez straits and Antioch bridges, involving $8,500,000, were signed today. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 26. American college fraternities were attacked here today at a statement by Malcolm MacDonald, son of the former English premier. He said they afforded too little privacy. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 26. Police today sought a "hit-and-run" motorist who struck down L.A. Schmitz, pharmacist, and left him dying in the street. LONDON, Jan. 26.—Lord Asquith, former premier of England, will accept an earlom and become the Earl of Oxford, it was reported here today. Luther Burbank Discusses Evolution Either Burbank, noted plant pathologist and scientist, in a discussion of "Science and Religion" in Santa Rosa, Calif., recently, criticised the activities of fundamentalists against the theory of evolution. Referring to "efforts being made to prevent the teaching of selenium at a section meeting of the American college of surgeons, PORTLAND, Ore.—Six persons were injured in auto accidents; one driver arrested on a charge of driving while drunk and two others taken for reckless driving over the week-end. PORTLAND, Ore.—With a 50-mile wind reported at North Head, Wash., the Weather Bureau today ordered southeast storm warnings up at all points north of tape Blanco. A soaking rain was falling over western Oregon and Washington. LOS ANGELES—Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Mrs. Sarah Emmeline Ralston, 56, mother of Jobyana Ralston, film actress, Mrs. Ralston died suddenly at the family home from an attack of apoplexy. LOS ANGELES—Walter S. Daniel, acquitted by a jury of the murder of Peter Zarilla, was preparing today to flee from So. Cal. He told deputy sheriffs he had been threatened by a woman, who he said told him before the trial ended that she would knife him if he were freed. LOS ANGELES—the state supreme court was scheduled to open a two-day session here today at which time appeals were to be considered in 19 civil suits and four criminal cases. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28.—Contracts for construction of the Carquinez straits and Antioch bridges, involving $8,500,000, were signed today. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 26. American college fraternities were attacked here today at a statement by Malcolm MacDonald, son of the former English premier. He said they afforded too little privacy. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 26. Police today sought a "hit-and-run" motorist who struck down L.A. Schmitz, pharmacist, and left him dying in the street. LONDON, Jan. 26.—Lord Asquith, former premier of England, will accept an earlom and become the Earl of Oxford, it was reported here today. Luther Burbank Discusses Evolution Either Burbank, noted plant pathologist and scientist, in a discussion of "Science and Religion" in Santa Rosa, Calif., recently, criticised the activities of fundamentalists against the theory of evolution. Referring to "efforts being made to prevent the teaching of selenium at a section meeting of the American college of surgeons, PORTLAND, Ore.—Six persons were injured in auto accidents; one driver arrested on a charge of driving while drunk and two others taken for reckless driving over the week-end. PORTLAND, Ore.—With a 50-mile wind reported at North Head, Wash., the Weather Bureau today ordered southeast storm warnings up at all points north of tape Blanco. A soaking rain was falling over western Oregon and Washington. LOS ANGELES—Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Mrs. Sarah Emmeline Ralston, 56, mother of Jobyana Ralston, film actress, Mrs. Ralston died suddenly at the family home from an attack of apoplexy. LOS ANGELES—Walter S. Daniel, acquitted by a jury of the murder of Peter Zarilla, was preparing today to flee from So. Cal. He told deputy sheriffs he had been threatened by a woman, who he said told him before the trial ended that she would knife him if he were freed. LOS ANGELES—the state supreme court was scheduled to open a two-day session here today at which time appeals were to be considered in 19 civil suits and four criminal cases. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28.—Contracts for construction of the Carquinez straits and Antioch bridges, involving $8,500,000, were signed today. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 26. American college fraternities were attacked here today at a statement by Malcolm MacDonald, son of the former English premier. He said they afforded too little privacy. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 26. Police today sought a "hit-and-run" motorist who struck down L.A. Schmitz, pharmacist, and left him dying in the street. LONDON, Jan. 26.—Lord Asquith, former premier of England, will accept an earlom and become the Earl of Oxford, it was reported here today. SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Jan. 26 There will be no immediate withdrawal of state troops from Hirin; scene of a violent pistol blast late Saturday night which ended in the slaying of four men; cording to an announcement made here today by Adjutant Gen.C.Black. "We do not anticipate further trouble but we are going to take no chances," Gen.Black declared. "There will be no removal troops until we are sure quiet." Irrigation Tour By Farm Bureau An overhead irrigation tour under auspices of the Farm Bureau scheduled for this district starting tomorrow at the V. M. Tressiar place, one mile east and one mile north of La Habra, at 10 a.m. Everyone choosing to attend is asked to carry luncheon along, but the tour will be concluded in time for chores and dinner at home in the evening. Two or three overhead irrigation systems will be visited before noon in Los Angeles county and in the afternoon over the southern districts. The trip is under the auspices of the Farm Bureau and it is hoped many growers will participate. Wilson Peace Prize Symbol This medal is symbolic of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation's annual $10,000 peace prize, won this year by Viscount Cecil. The medal is the work of Metrovic, famous European sculptor. Luther Burbank Discusses Evolution Earlier Burbank, noted plant pathologist and scientist, in a discussion of "Science and Religion" in Santa Rosa, Calif., recently criticised the activities of fundamentalists against the theory of evolution. Referring to "efforts being made to prevent the teaching of scientific truths in the schools," Burbank said: "Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable speed of light, and also introduce a clause to prevent the use of the telescope, the microscope and the spectroscope or any other instrument of precession which may in the future be invented, constructed or used for the discovery of truth." Referring to William Jennings Bryan, the speaker said: "Mr. Bryan is an honored friend of mine, yet this need not prevent the observation that the skull with which nature endowed him visibly approaches the Neanderthal type. Feeling and the use of gesticulation and words are more according to the nature of this type than investigation and reflection." Public health should be divorced from politics on the grounds of non-support. MURINE FOR YOUR EYES Night and Morning to keep them Clean; Clear and Healthy Write for Free "Eye Care" or "Eye Beauty" Book Murine Co., Drkt H. S. N.K. Ohio St., Chicago SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Jan. 26 There will be no immediate withdrawal of state troops from Hirn, scene of a violent pistol blast late Saturday night which ended in the slaying of four men, cording to an announcement made here today by Adjutant Gen. C. Blaek. "We do not anticipate further trouble but we are going to take no chances." Gen. Black declares "There will be no removal troops until we are sure quiet has been restored." WHOS WHO IN THE DAYS NEWS ETIENNE CLEMENTEL Recent statements of Etiene Clementel, France's minister of finance, regarding his country attitude in the payment of war debt to Ameirea, have drawn much attention. M. Clementel denies urging repudiation of the debt, as first reports of a speech in the chamber of deputies timated he had done. M. Clementel, prior to his election as minister of finance at Herriot cabinet, held many other important posts in France. He has been minister of agriculture and commerce and co-ordinator minister. He was one of the Clemence government which ordered arrest of ex-Promier Caillaux a charge of high treason. Began his career as a lawyer and mayor of his native town Biom, in the department of Pue-de-Dome. Much of his life has been devoted to the economic problem of France, toward the betterment of which he sought to organize a national federation of employers as a counterpart to the General Federation of Labor. Minister of commerce he organized the National Economic Council, which dealt largely with the nation's food supplies. Dragged France's budget for 1934 and engineered the recent over subscribed American loan France. MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1925 DANZ Piano Co's Expansion SALE Five notable factories participating in most sensational price cutting ever known. Now nearing the end. NEW BEAUTIFUL GRANDS REDUCED NEW BEAUTIFUL GRANDS REDUCED Florentine Model ...$266 Queen Elizabeth ...$325 Baby Grand ...$250 Parlor Grand ...$175 Easy Little Terms Too. NEW PLAYERS REDUCED Mahogany ...$145 Fine Art Styles ...$29 Athenian ...$284 Studio ...$275 Minion ...$345 NEW PIANOS REDUCED Mahogany ...$175 Walnut ...$154 Mahogany ...$195 Fumed Oak ...$185 Walnut ...$132 Mahogany ...$185 HGHT USED PIANO BARGAINS Ebony, used ...$110 Ebony, used ...$125 Mahogany, used ...$75 Walnut, used ...$85 Oak, used ...$100 And scores of others Make your own terms now at this extraordianry sale We are selling all over Southern California. It's the little prices and easy little terms that's doing it Come in at once. Don't delay another day. DANZ PIANO CO. 162 West Center St. ANAHEIM Open evenings during sale