oc-plain-dealer 1925-02-21

Growth of Anaheim Shown by Census Total for 1910 was 2,263 For year 1920 was 5,525 Today Estimated at 12,000 Mall 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. ASSASSIN OF PRISON PLAN MERGER OF GREAT RAILWAYS Thousands of Miles of Lines East of Miss. River Involved WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—The inter-state commerce commission was today to approve the plans of O. P. and M. J. Van Sweringen for a merger involving thousands $10,000 Fire Sends Tailor to Prison WEAVERVILLE, Feb. 21.—Chas. G. Schu will spend from one to 14 years in San Quentin because a fire in his tailor shop caused a $10,000 fire Sunday morning. Over a year ago Schu was convicted on a charge of issuing bad checks. As Weaverville needed a tailor, he was released on probation, one condition being that he could not leave town. The fire of Sunday originated in his shop. He is alleged to have been drunk and was brought before the superior court and his probation revoked. Weaverville is again without a tailor. FIVE BANDIT CAPTURED BY CONSTABLE Quintet of Bank Robber Who Got $50,000 SKY By Lone Officer SOUTH BEND, Ind., Feb. 27 Ellias Ackley, tone constable New Carlisle, Ind., today shot wounded the five bandits robbed the Millburg State Bank Millburg, Mich., and, though Thousands of Miles of Lines East of Miss. River Involved WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—The inter-state commerce commission was today to approve the plans of O. P. and M. J. Van Sweringen for a merger involving thousands or miles of railroad east of the Mississippi river. The application asked authority for the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Co. to acquire the properties of the New York, Chicago and St. Louis, Chesapeake and Ohio; Hocking Valley; Erie and Pere Marquette. The application stated that a sufficient number of stockholders of each company had become parties to the agreement to secure approval by the commission of the merger plan and authorizations of the proposed leases. The control is to be acquired under leases of 999 years and acquisition of at least a majority of the stock of the remaining companies. The New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railway Co., under the merger plan, will operate all of the railroads now operated by each of the lesser companies. TURKS BOMBARD GREEK STEAMER ATHENS, eb. 21.—The Greek steamship Kronos was bombarded today by Turkish batteries while the vessel was broken down off Dikell. The Greek steamer Andros towed the disabled Kronos away. Recent maps do not show Dikell on the coast of Turkey. There is a Berekil in the vicinity of the Dardanelles. ASK PASSPORTS FOR GREEK CHURCHMEN ATHENS, Feb. 21.—The Greco-Turkish situation took on new complications today when the governor of Constantinople requested passports for six metropolitan bishops and 19 civil officials of the Patriarchate. Greece had been assured by Turkey that no more prelates would be expelled. Diplomatic relations between Greece and Turkey approached the breaking point recently when Turkey expelled Monsignor Constantinos, Patriarch, head of the Greek church, from Constantinople. Greece filed a protest with the League of Nations. DISARMAM’T DOVE-TAILED WITH DEBTS LONDON, Feb. 21.—The disarmament question was dove-tailed today with the problem of international debts by the British admiralty. “Any nation that can build submarines can pay its debts,” it was said. France and Japan are reported to oppose any curtailment of submarine construction at any probable disarmament conference. The admiralty is not entirely optimistic about another disarmament conference. It fears that such a conference might nullify the Washington treaty. The admiralty feels that the continental powers are not willing to give up submarines, and therefore a conference would be to no purpose. It feels further that such a conference “might stir up trouble.” If a disarmament conference is to be held it should be held quickly, the admiralty pointed out, adding “before any settlement of international debts is made.” LONDON, Feb. 21.—Fraude will be urged to co-operate with England to induce President Coolidge to call a disarmament conference, it was said today in diplomatic circles when the announcement was made that Austen Chamberlin, British secretary of foreign affairs, would depart on March 9 for Geneva. It is probable, diplomats board, that Chamberlin will stop over in Paris to confer with Premier Heriot on two important subjects. One will be the military control of Germany. The other would be the proposed disarmament conference. QUINTET OF Bank Robber Who Got $50,000 Shift By Lone Officer SOUTH BEND, Ind., Feb. 28. Elias Ackley, tone constable New Carlisle, Ind., today shot wounded the five bandits robbed the Millburg State Bank Millburg, Mich., and, though in the groin himself captured five. Ackley, warned of the apprehension of the bandit car, took three revolvers and a shot gun. When bandit car neared him, he in the middle of the road and it out with the desperadoes, of them were seriously wound the other three suffering no wounds. Ackley turned the prisoners to Chief of Police I. J. Laure South Bend, who arrived Ju-Ackley fell, his guns being fitted. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Feb. 28. Five bank bandits, two of apparently wounded, are enclosed in a woods near New Carlisle, after a morning and noon of wild pursuit by citiand Sheriff’s officers. Floyd derer, former Berrien-co shipper was shot in the leg. According to reports here bandits shot Deputy Sheriff Allen. Officers have surrogated the robbers near Miles, Mic was stated. Two bandits entered the according to reports here others stood guard outside cashier, Ben Kral, and his ant, a girl teller, were ordered “sit still and press no ala One gunman held them coi with a revolver while they scooped up the contents o bank vault, pouring the p into leather bags. They f their machine and raced town before Milburg clien knew what it was all about. Shortly before 2 o’clock bandits were reported by Galien and Three Oaks, Mich sheriff and citizen possess near Michigan and Indiana were rushed to the vicinity. COL. JOS. SIMMON FATALLY INJU GAINESVILLE, Ga., Feb. Col. William Joseph Sim founder and formerly imwizard of the Ku Klux Klan Capt. Morris Moore, formereral prohibition agent in were injured so badly in an wreck near here today that er is expected to recover. Simmons suffered a pun Diplomatic relations between Greece and Turkey approached the breaking point recently when Turkey expelled Monsignor Constantinos, Patriarch, head of the Greek church, from Constantinople. Greece filed a protest with the League of Nations. WIFE CLAIMS NOTE IS OWN PROPERTY Unable to force Laura B. Billingsley of Fullerton to relinquish a $6500 note on which he seeks an attachment, the woman claiming that the instrument is her separate property, Howard B. Irwin of Fullerton brought suit in the superior court. Irwin secured a court judgment of $603 from A. L. Billingsley, her husband, and sought to levy on the note, which was in the wife's possession. She flatly refused to give up the paper or to relinquish her claim to it maintaining that her husband has no interest in the property. MILITARY ACADEMY REDUCED TO ASHES LEWISBURG, W. Va., Feb. 21. The pictureque Green Briar Military academy here was reduced to a mass of smouldering ruins by fire that caused damage approximating a quarter of a million dollars early today. While the flames raged with an intensity that baffled the efforts of fire fighters, 200 students calmly marched from the dormitory to safety and no one was believed to have been injured. The fire gained headway with such rapidity that efforts of hastily formed bucket brigades to check the flames appeared puny and futile. CHURCH LEADER GOES TO PRISON OAKLAND, Feb. 21. — Clyde Blanchard, former business manager for the Berkeley board of education and a leader in Berkeley church circles, was sentenced to San Quentin prison today for a term of from one to ten years on conviction of embezzling $12,500 in school funds. END SESSIONS OF AIRCRAFT PROBE WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—The congressional aircraft investigation which has developed a series of sensations involving the conditions of the nation's aerial defenses, came to a sudden end this afternoon. After a two hour session behind closed doors, the committee decided to hold no further hearings and all sessions scheduled for next week were cancelled, including the examination of Sec'y of War Weeks. Criticism of the committee by higher administration officials is understood to have led to the decision to stop the investigation. Drs. B. Franklin and Jennie A. Badgley, Auahoin's leading Chiropractors, Dietitians and Iridiagnosticians, 406 N. Los Angeles St., phone service 1128, day or night. J. A. Chitty for orange trees, 204 Tushy phone 671-M—Adv. COL. JOS. SIMMONS FATALLY INJURED GAINESVILLE, Ga., Feb. Col. William Joseph Simmons founder and formerly imprimer of the Ku Klux Klan Capt. Morris Moore, former eral prohibition agent in were injured so badly in an wreck near here today that er is expected to recover. C Simmons suffered a punctum, both collar pones be several ribs fractured and cuts about the face and Captain Moore's neck was pinned to the mountains. The missing persons are W. P. Wyatt, Mrs. Ida S. her daughter, Catherine S. Mrs. Will Molar and J. Wson, a real estate salesman. The party left for the taining yesterday morning pocted to return last night. ALUMNI PLAY The last alumni play school year, "Seven Keys pate," last evening was was by an audience that made appreciation what it lacked numbers. There was a crowd out, altho the rail what checked attendance. The cast all did splendidly the socially constructed assisting in the play's success. CARS IN COLLISION An accident occurred at a m. today at Los Angle Center-ats., when a Ford driven by J. Nelson Bud West Broadway, and a Doing car came together. There slightly damaged was injured. 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The baby, born at the Soboa Indian reservation, has been named Ramona, too "She will be beautiful just like my mother," said Condino Hopkins, the only surviving child of the Ramona, who served as an inspiration for the Helen Hunt Jackson story, and the granddaughter's father. The grass covered grave of the original Ramona is only a short distance from the spot where the eyes of the baby Ramona first greeted California sunshine. RECOVER 28 BODIES OF MINERS Three So Mutilated That They May Never Be Identified SULLIVAN, Ind., Feb. 21.—Twenty-eight of Sullivan's 51 mine explosion victims had been removed from the cavern of violent death in the City Coal Co.'s mine before a rest was called by COMMITTEE FAR LAUSANNE TE WASHINGTON, Feb. Lausanne treaty, restore matic and trade relations Near East ruptured by was favorably reported b ate foreign relations o today after slumbering mittee pigeon hole for a Two reservations were to the treatyone provi the United States will n to arbitration, an issue American immigration a second providing that year's operation the treat suspended on 60 days' NEW ATTEMPT DISCREDIT CHICAGO, Feb. 21. plot to discredit Mrs. wood Stokes was reve with the arrest of one Corbett. Meanwhile assistants "She will be beautiful just like my mother," said Condino Hopkins, the only surviving child of the Ramona, who served as an inspiration for the Helen Hunt Jackson story, and the granddaughter's father. The grass covered grave of the original Ramona is only a short distance from the spot where the eyes of the baby Ramona first greeted California sunshine. DYNAMITE IS USED UPON BIG STILL SEATTLE, Feb. 21. — Federal prohibition agents brought dynamite into play today to destroy the biggest illicit distillery discovered in the northwest since the dawn of prohibition. The still, a massive concrete affair, with a capacity of 32,000 gallons, was found last night by a raiding party on a dairy farm owned by Henry Maggiora, 15 miles south of Seattle. The distillery is easily the most elaborate ever uncovered in this section of the country, being valued at more than $15,000 and comprising 22 steel vats of 1000 gallon capacity, five 2000-gallon wooden vats and more than 20 fuel oil tanks. RAINSTORM MAY CONTINUE SUNDAY SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 21. — The third big rainstorm of this month is likely to continue tonight and tomorrow, the weather bureau said today. The rainfall in California was general over the state. Mount Wilson reported the heaviest downpour for the last 24 hours with 1.01 inches. Eureka, one of the wettest spots in the state, had .56 and San Francisco .51 inches. Other 24-hour reports included San Jose .08; Santa Barbara .08; Fresno .36; Los Angeles .14; San Bernardino .24 and San Diego .06. Seasonal figures to date indicate in all parts of the state nearly double and in some second providing that year's operation the treasured on 60 days' worth of new ATTEMPT DISCREDIT. CHICAGO, Feb. 21. plot to discredit Mrs. W. E. D. Stokes, now ocharges of conspiring his wife, had in the time $200 in marked from Corbett last night. The plot was uncover Stokes and Roy C. Wood torney she has retained newest legal tangle, after told the attorney that O accused her of being a Stewart of 1636 Walter ver, who in the fall of retained him to find Ja sought at that time in with a diamond robbery manded $1000 from Stokes said. Wood arranged a twin between Corbett and Mrs. his office last night. Joining room two attack state's attorney's office while in another office the climax, were Assis Attorney W. W. Smith ton D. Smith, Wood, Hill Mrs. Alice Bennes, and nemenberg. Corbett came to the arranged and Mrs.' $200 in marked money count." As he left the bett was seized by the torneys' alces and the money taken from him. A raid on Corbett's closed a number of c Dorothy Arnold did in New York several and his papers indica had carried on an insultation of that case. He told officers thatvorced from his wife ago and that his son lived with him. "He said that I call the phone in the fall of I was staying at the hotel," Mrs. Stokes matter of fact, I was at the Ansonia hotel l as the wife of Mr. St CUSTOMS OFF STARTS II LOS ANGELES, FESTEGATION INTO THE LOoting of the million collection of Martin V German connolseur, w that $471,000 worth o OL. JOS. SIMMONS BEATALLY INJURED MAINESVILLE, Ga., Feb. 21. — William Joseph Simmons, leader and formerly imperial ward of the Ku Klux Klan, and St. Morris Moore, former federal prohibition agent in Texas, is injured so badly in an auto neck near here today that neither is expected to recover. Colonel Simmons suffered a punctured glove, both collar bones broken,eral ribs fractured and deep is about the face and hands. Stain Moore's neck was broken. EAR PARTY LOST IN CAL. SNOWSTORM LOS ANGELES, Feb. 21. — A city of four women and a man are believed lost today in a mountain snowstorm near Lake Crowhead. Searching parties were dispatch to the mountains. The missing persons are Mrs. P. Wyatt, Mrs. Ida Spencer, daughter, Catherine Spencer; S. Will Molar and J. W. Bennett, a real estate salesman. The party left for the mounns yesterday morning and expected to return last night. ALUMNI PLAY HIT The last alumni play of the school year, "Seven Keys to Baldest," last evening was witnessed by an audience that made up in appreciation what it lacked in numbers. There was a good crowd out, altho the rain somewhat checked attendance. The cast all did splendid work, be specially constructed scenery existing in the play's success. CARS IN COLLISION An accident occurred at 11:30 a.m. today at Los Angeles and counter-sts., when a Ford sedan driven by J. Nelson Budge, 907 east Broadway, and a Dodge touring car came together. The cars were slightly damaged. No one was injured. Class Ad will bring you results. Grand home ironing machine only costs a little more than old washers to use. Washer Wilson store, home of service. OFFensive Against Spending Scramble SACRAMENTO, Feb. 21. — Launching the expected administration offensive against a scramble in the forthcoming session of the legislature to spend the $16,000,000 surplus which the state government will have to start the new biennium. H. R. Braden, state maker, today declared that only minor increases will be made in the budget. "Most of this money should be kept in reserve to guard against emergencies," he said. Small increases will be granted some of the institutions, the governor's spokeswoman indicated, and bills carrying appropriations for the purchase of additional land for San Francisco and Freesoal College will probably be given executive approval. BORAX KING SUED SACRAMENTO, Feb. 21—F. M. Smith is defendant in suit on file in superior court here today brot by Cornelia E. Pratts, to recover $118,576.50, alleged due on two promissory notes. The court action seeks permission to sell securities of the former borax king to make possible recovery on notes. You can do your whole ironing on a Grand ironing machine. It has an open end. Washer Wilson Store, home of service. Another body, that of Earl Laughlin, was removed from the wrecked mine about noon, making a total of 18 recorded thus far. All the remaining 33 bodies have been seen, rescues reported and they are being brought to the bottom of the main shaft as rapidly as possible. With 16 identified dead removed from the pit and the 35 still in the pit reported as lost the total death list was set at 51 today. Seventy men have been rescued. At an early hour today, rescues working in the entry sent word thru the tubes to those above the ground that the roof of the entry had caved in and this will delay the work seriously. Rescuers are finding it difficult to work in the shafts for a few moments at a time, even with the aid of gas masks. Descending to a level of 55 feet in the main shaft at 5 a.m., today, rescues were forced to return to the surface by the deadly black damp fumes. The it was expected that several bodies would be removed today. It was said shortly before noon that the last of the 35 would not be taken out before tomorrow night at the earliest. Work had to be abandoned yesterday after 16 bodies had been removed. Gas fumes again and again drove workers from the shaft and four of them were brot out unconscious. Repairs on the ventilating machinery and the retimbering of sections badly torn by the explosion took five hours and during that period the rescue work was at a standstill. As soon as the repairs had been completed, two crews of ten men each went down into the shaft and started a new search for the dead. These crews are working for three hours each, then their places are taken by others. According to these who have been down in the pit since the explosion all the men in that part of the mine affected by the explosion have been killed. No straglers have come out of the wrecked part of the mine. The men had nothing with which to protect themselves from the deadly gases that formed after the explosion. About 120 men were working in the mine at the time of the explosion. The explosion occurred in what (Continue on Page Six) CUSTOMS OF THE STARTS II LOS ANGELES, Friestagation into the looting of the million collection of Martin W German connexion, that $471,000 worth of rings, lact and status stolen from his Holly took a starting turn customs inspectors b quiry to determine which the art object into this country. When Weinischcken country in December listed the articles she season as household total value of less than cording to the record flee of U. S. Collector E. H. Schwaebe. Acco newswear's possessio mitted duty free, tha clared. The customs depart form how recently reputed to be neighborhood of $11 tered this country, tha and how much duty any, the officials salai CLAIM JAPAN BACK MANCHU PEKING, Feb. 21 mate restoration of Manchu Emperor Has Manchuria, which waived from the Chih made a second plot charged today Japanese by the Chih per Ching Pao. The Ching Pao all first move is to haunt ex-ruler go to Japan that Hsuan Tung is refuge in the Japan here for Japan to be palace awaiting their coup de' estate. 200,000 FRUIT loading varieties, Gn to name Lowes pro ornamentals, Org Nursery Co., BBS N St., Anaheim, Phoca COUNTY aler RE IN ANAHEIM Progress of Anaheim as Told by Building Year Permits Total 1923 828 $2,269,271 1922 675 1,413,045 1921 564 1,253,870 1920 362 379,960 1919 174 464,500 Fair tonight and Sunday, with moderate temperature. 27th YEAR—No. 132 WAS NOT KILLED COMMITTEE FAVORS LAUSANNE TREATY WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. — The Lausanne treaty, restoring diplomatic and trade relations in the Near East ruptured by the war, was favorably reported by the senate foreign relations committee today after slumbering in a committee pigeon hole for a year. Two reservations were attached to the treatyone providing that the United States will not submit to arbitration, an issue involving American immigration laws and a second providing that after one year's operation the treaty may be suspended on 60 days' notice. NEW ATTEMPT TO DISCREDIT WIFE CHICAGO, Feb. 21. — A new plot to discredit Mrs. Helen Elwood Stokes was revealed today with the arrest of one Robert L. Corbett. Meanwhile assistants in charge of presenting the case against THIRD PARTY MEN HOLD CONVENTION CHICAGO, Feb. 21. — Adherents of the third party headed by Sen. Robt. M. LaFollette and Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, which went down to defeat in the late presidential election, gathered today in convention under the auspices of the conference for progressive political action. Three outstanding factions arose to the surface as the 300 delegates from all over the country assembled to decide the fate of the third party movement. One group struggled for perpetuation of the "middle party" movement on a non-partisan basis. Another faction, headed by prominent Socialists described the non-partisan idea and fought for an extreme labor party along the lines of the English labor movement. Still another coterie expressed bitter opposition to a third party plan of any kind. The latter group centered largely around the railroad labor brotherhoods who yesterday voted against a third party and who openly were called the "autocrats" BOOTH LIVED TO AGE OF 65 YEARS Family Breaks 60-Year Silence Regarding Fate of Slayer (Copyright 1925 by latl. News Service and the Minneapolis Daily Star) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb 21 — John Wilkes Booth escaped — This was admitted today by NEW ATTEMPT TO DISCREDIT WIFE CHICAGO, Feb. 21. — A new plot to discredit Mrs. Helen Elwood Woods was revealed today with the arrest of one Robert L. Corbett. Meanwhile assistants in charge of prosecuting the case against W. E. D. Stokes, now on trial on charges of conspiring to defame his wife, had in their possession $200 in marked bills taken from Corbett last night. The plot was uncovered by Mrs. Stokes and Roy C. Woods, an attorney she has retained in her newest legal tangle, after she had told the attorney that Corbett had accused her of being a "Miss Cora Stewart of 1636 Walton-st, Denver, who in the fall of 1911 had retained him to find James Ward, sought at that time in connection with a diamond robbery." He demanded $1000 from her, Mrs. Stokes said. Wood arranged a meeting between Corbett and Mrs. Stokes in his office last night. In an adjoining room two attachments of the state's attorney's office watched, while in another office, waiting the climax were Assistant State's Attorney W. W. Smith and Milton D. Smith, his secretary, Mrs. Alice Bennes, and W. C. Danemberg. Corbett came to the office as arranged and Mrs. Stokes paid $200 in marked money "on account." As he left the office, Corbett was seized by the state's attorneys' aides and the marked money taken from him. A raid on Corbett's room disclosed a number of clippings on the Dorothy Arnold disappearance in New York several years ago, and his papers indicated that he had carried on an insidious investigation of that case and others. He told officers that he was divorced from his wife two years ago and that his son, Billy, lived with him. "He said that I called him on the phone in the fall of 1911 when I was staying at the La Salle hotel," Mrs. Stokes said. As a matter of fact, I was then living at the Ansonia hotel in New York as the wife of Mr. Stokes." CUSTOMS OFFICE STARTS INQUIRY LOS ANGELES, Feb. 21.—Investigation into the spectacular looting of the million dollar art collection of Martin Weinschack, German connoisseur, who reported that $471,000 worth of rare paintings of the "middle party" movement on a non-partisan basis. Another faction, headed by prominent Socialists described the non-partisan idea and fought for an extreme labor party along the lines of the English labor movement. Still another coterie expressed bitter opposition to a third party plan of any kind. The latter group centered largely around the railroad labor brotherhoods who yesterday voted against a third party and who openly were called the "autocrats of labor" at the meeting today. WOOD HAS SPENT MOST OF MONEY (Copyright, 1925, by I. N. S.) PARIS, Feb. 21. — Lieut. Osborne Cutler Wood has turned his back on the gay life of Paris after a career as a spender and host that attracted attention even in blase Montmartre. The son of U. S. Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood was located in a small French town today by International News Service after missing from his quarters in the Crillon hotel for five days. That Wood has spent most, if not all of the money he made in two spectacular raids on Wall-st, was indicated by Wood's friends. Wood's account with the American Express Co. was said to have a lien entered against it preventing Wood from withdrawing any additional funds. Wood has given up his suite at the Crillon, stored his baggage and retained a room only for his Chinese valet. The required intention of Wood in the United States once him was said to have brought on a nervous breakdown. He was in bed for a week and his friends said he has been visibly depressed since. Wood's decision to quit Parisian gait was said to have been reached Monday. He departed from Paris after confiding to a few friends that he was thru with the "Monte Martre crowd" with whom he has been traveling since his wife went to America. Wood's Chinese valet, Chang, remained in the house all day waiting for news of his master. Tears of joy came to his eyes when he was assured that Wood was safe in southern France, resting quietly in a small secluded hotel at an ocean resort. Groups of Good's acquaintances loitered in the lobby of the Hotel Crillon today, apparently bent on making their own investigations. They expressed no doubt that his finances were much depleted when he left Paris. THREATENS WEST WITH TRADE WAR Family Breaks 60-Year Silence Regarding Fate of Slayer (Copyright 1925 by intl. News Service and the Minneapolis Daily Star) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb 21 — John Wilkes Booth escaped — This was admitted today by his niece, Blanche Booth, breaking the 60-year silence of the Booth family regarding the fate of Abraham Lincoln's slayer. In an interview given exclusively to the Minneapolis Daily Star and International News Service, Miss Booth refuted the statement made on Feb. 17 by Edward Harper Sampson of Molline, Ill., one of the guards supposed to have killed Booth, that with his death the secret of the burial place of Booth's body would be lost. She believes that Sampson knew that Booth was not killed by his pursuers. After fighting off interviewers for years, Miss Booth finally revealed that the story of Finis L. Bates was true, thus settling a controversy that has raged for years since it was announced that Booth was killed in a barn on the Garret plantation near Bowling Green, Va. "Wilkes Booth met his mother a year after the assassination and told her all about the plot, its execution, and his carefully planned escape," Miss Booth said. They met in San Francisco after he had gone from Canada to Mexico and had arranged for a meeting there. She repeatedly told members of the family that she had seen her son and that he had told her all about it." Miss Booth was for a considerable period a member of the company of her uncle, Edwin Booth. She has lived for many years in Minneapolis and was out of touch with other members of the family until the recent visit or a relative who continues to follow the stage tradition. Here are the highlights of her amazing interview: John Wilkes Booth lived 38 years after the death of Lincoln and of his supposed death and died by his own hand in 1803 in Enid, Okla., at the age of 65. He was seen by his mother in San Francisco a year after his escape. He revealed his identity twice once when he believed he was dying and once on his deathbed. He produced a photograph proving his identity that was identified by Edwin Booth and Joseph Jefferson. He left behind him a sworn CUSTOMS OFFICE STARTS INQUIRY LOS ANGELES, Feb. 21.—Investigation into the spectacular looting of the million dollar art collection of Martin Weinschack, German connoisseur, who reported that $471,000 worth of rare paintings, lact and statuary had been stolen from his Hollywood home, took a startling turn today when customs inspectors began an inquiry to determine the manner in which the art objects were brot into this country. When Weinschenck entered this country in December, 1923, he listed the articles then in his possession as household good with a total value of less than $1000, according to the records in the office of U. S. Collector of Customs E. H. Schwaebe. Accordingly, the newcomer’s possessions were admitted duty free, the officials declared. The customs department will determine how the collection, currently reputed to be worth in the neighborhood of $1,000,000, entered this country, thru what port, and how much duty was paid, if any, the officials said. CLAIM JAPANESE BACK MANCHU PLOT PEKING, Feb. 21.—The ultimate restoration of the young Manchu Emperor Huan Tung in Manchuria, which will then be severed from the Chinese republic and made a second Korea, is a plot charged today against the Japanese by the Chinese newpaper Ching Pao. The Ching Pao alleges that the first move is to have the young ex-ruler go to Japan and states that Huan Tung is leaving his refuge in the Japanese legation here for Japan to be housed in a palace awaiting the Manchurian coup de estate. 200,000 FRUIT. TREES; all loading varieties. Guaranteed true to name. Lowest prices. Full line of Ornamentals. Orange County Nursery Co., 885 N. Los Angeles St., Anaheim, Phone 654-J. THREATENS WEST WITH TRADE WAR WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Rumbles of a threatened trade war between the South and West were heard again in the senate today when Senator Smith, Dem. of So-Car., sounded a warning that the south was prepared to engage in a commercial fight with the west. Smith declared the south would accept the "passage of contemplated legislation in several western states, proposing prohibitive taxes on cotton seed products," as declaration of trade war. $50,000 FOR CALIF. FOREST STATION WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—The senate this afternoon passed the Johnson bill authorizing the secretary of agriculture to establish a forest experimentation station in California. The bill, sponsored by Senator Johnson, would also provide a fund of $50,000. BOOST FOR FLIERS WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—The eight American aviators who composed the round-the-world flight squadron were given a material reward today by congress. A bill passed by the house, was approved by the senate conferring promotions and distinguished service medals on the filers. ANOTHER DRIBBLE Another dribble of rain was added to the total of the season during the 24 hours ended at 8 a.m. today, when .05 rell, according to the Anaheim Orange and Lemon Assn., making 3.44 inches against 2.68 last year. Only .06 of an inch fell through February, 1924. J. A. Chitty for orange trees, 204 Bush; phone 671-M.-Adv, John Wilkes Booth lived 38 years after the death of Lincoln and of his supposed death and died by his own hand in 1903 in Enid, Okla., at the age of 65. He was seen by his mother in San Francisco a year after his escape. He revealed his identity twice once when he believed he was dying and once on his deathbed. He produced a photograph proving his identity that was identified by Edwin Booth and Joseph Jefferson. He left behind him a sworn statement declaring that Andrew Johnson, vice-president, who succeeded Lincoln, not only suggested the crime but arranged for his escape. "The man killed in the barn on the Garrett plantation near Bowling Green, Va., was named Ruddy." Miss Booth declared. "Booth had escaped from the Garrett place nearly five hours earlier." The story of Finis L. Bates, greatest authority on the subject, is true. Miss Booth said. At the time of his death, Booth was known as David E. George, and he pointed out physical characteristics that answered the description of Booth. The body has been embalmed so that it will remain intact for 100 years. It was examined in 1922 19 years after his death, according to the story Miss Booth has admitted is true. "John Wilkes Booth, the man who assassinated Pres. Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre on the evening of April 14, 1865, died by his own hand of poison in the Grand Avenue Hotel at Enid, Okla., on Jan. 13, 1903," Miss Booth said today. "Authentic photographs of John Wilkes Booth are in the possession of authorities. They were taken of him at the age of 27—before he murdered the president—at 38, eleven years after the assassination, and 15 years afterward in Enid." "Prominent men holding that Booth was not killed in the Garrett barn have exhausted the subject with their innuities only to (Continue on Page Six) Graig home ironing machine is fully guaranteed and is the latest improved ironing machine. 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