oc-plain-dealer 1925-03-03

Growth of Anaheim Shown by Census Total for 1910 year ..... 2,368 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. HOUSE ON RECORD ASK $100,000 TO LOCATE FACTORY If City Can Raise That Amount Fageol Motor Co. Will Come If Anaheim can raise $100,000 the Fageol Motor Co.'s plant at San Jose can be brought here, provided there is no hitch meanwhile. According to an announcement made last night by H. W. Says German Army Built on War Basis PARIS, March 3.—Marshal Ferdinand Foch's committee which reported yesterday that Germany's army built on a war basis and not as a police body, was asked by the council of ambassadors today to furnish further details regarding the gravity of Germany's default, it was learned from an authoritative source. It was expected that Foch's committee would require another week to complete this report from data of the military control commission. DUPLICATION OF BONDS FIND GUN IN SAN DIEGO MURDER Police Refuse to State Where Blood-stained Weapon Located SAN DIEGO, March 3. — The revolver, believed to have been used to slay George Byrnes, also known as Frank Harrington, and for whose death Hugh McGovern and Thomas A. Johnson, Chicagoans, are being questioned, was If City Can Raise That Amount Fageol Motor Co. Will Come If Anaheim can raise $100,000 the Fageol Motor Co.'s plant at San Jose can be brought here, provided there is no hitch meanwhile. According to an announcement made last night by H. W. Smith, president and general manager, the factory could be brought here within six months. The announcement, despite the great uncertainty of realizing the project as yet, was the feature of last night's Forum Dinner of the Anaheim C. of C. at the Elks' club. Some 175 were present. Smith declared he had been here three weeks and preferred Anaheim and vicinity to the Santa Clara Valley. He thanked the C. of C. directors for their courtesy to him. F. N. Gibbs of the industrial committee, who rendered the report for Chairman Ed Smith, said that within six weeks overtures from a dozen or more industries had been discussed. The committee, however, had gone slow because of the limited ability of the city to absorb much stock. The Fageol Co. would bring here $150,000 worth of machinery and equipment. The committee has endorsed the project of bringing the factory here. The plans of concerns which seek to locate in Anaheim or vicinity are on file at the C. of C. and can be examined. The program was carried out practically as arranged. Rev. A. G. H. Bode, rector of St. Michael's church, pronounced the invocation; the Hi School or chestra played; there was munty singing led by L. P. Bonnat; Mrs. J. O. Schwentker sang soprano solos and she and Mrs. Walter Ross sang duets; Miss Marcella Wetzel did some graceful Spanish dances and Miss Marian Wallace played piano selections and accompanied Mrs. Schwentker and Mrs. Ross. President Harry D. Riley kept up his usual running fire of remarks in his capacity of toastmaster. H. E. W. Barnes, speaking briefly on advertising, attacked schemes which he asserted brot no results to merchants, and reminded members that one of the functions of the C. of C. was to examine/new advertising stunts and endorse them or withhold endorsement. Barnes announced that the merchants no longer would have to pay for a private night watchman in the city doing this work. DUPLICATION OF BONDS DENIED WASHINGTON, March 3.—Secretary of the Treasury Mellon formally denied today in a letter to President Coolidge that the government had suffered any large losses because of alleged duplication of Liberty bonds and other securities in the bureau of engraving and printing. The charges were made by a congressional investigating committee. Altho bonds reached the total of $100,000,000,000. Mellon said no duplications had occurred and the government lost only $13,,100 as a result of these issues, several bonds of lower denominations having been stolen by treasury employees and resold to the government. The alleged irregularities complained of, Mellon said, had occurred during a previous administration and they had been found groundless, when investigated by former Secretary of the Treasury Houston. WASHINGTON, March 3.—A victorious denial that the government has lost any appreciable sum by the cashing of Liberty and other bonds, fraudulently issued in duplicate, was made at the treasury department today. The treasury's denial was in flat contradiction to the sensational charges contained in the official report of a congressional investigating committee, which late yesterday declared there had been widespread duplication of government bonds and falsification of records in the treasury to conceal the peculiations. While the congressional report did not estimate the sum supposed to have been lost by the government, committee members said it might range from $5,000,000 to $40,000,000. SAYS NAVY WILL Police Refuse to State Where Blood-stained Weapon Located SAN DIEGO, March 3. — The revolver, believed to have been used to slay George Byrnes, also known as Frank Harrington, and for whose death Hugh McGovern and Thomas A. Johnson, Chicagoans, are being questioned, was found this afternoon, according police. Where the gun was located the officers refused to state The weapon was blood-stained. When the questioning of Johnson and McGovern was resumed today by Lieutenant of Detective Paul Hayes both men stuck their original stories that they knew Byrnes but denied emphatically that they knew how he murdered Hayes refused anyone permission to talk to the men. The name of Byrnes was a other question the police were trying to straighten out today. Of the man called him Byrne while the other said his name was Frank J. Harrington. At a downtown hotel where the trio is said to have passed several nights or three weeks ago, the dead man was known as Harrington and said to have sent out laundry under that name. Byrnes, or Harrington, is claired to be well known in Chicago having worked on a newspaper there. In what capacity he may employed could not be learned Hayes said. Police today centered their forts on locating Mrs. Johnson and her father, who are known to have fled from San Diego within a few hours after the murder is believed to have been committed. FUNERAL SERVICES FOR CLARK THURSDAY NEW YORK, March 3—Funeral services will be held Thursday William Andrews Clark, 86, "per king" and former U. S. actor from Montana, who died from pneumonia in his Fifth-ave house. Wm. A. Clark, Jr., and Wm. Clark III., are coming from Angeles to the services. At his bedside when the son passed away were his wife his daughter, Huguette; Chas. Clark, San Francisco; Mrs. Le Rutherford and Mrs. Manius Brabant. Senator Clark was born in Chellsville Pa. He worked his through Mount Pleasant (Ia.) school. He never took up law moved to Missouri and tau school. After prospecting for gold Colorado, Clark moved to Montana where he wrested a fortune from the Rockies. Senator Clark's first wife President Harry D. Roosebrough up his usual running fire of remarks in his capacity of toastmaster. H. E. W. Barnes, speaking briefly on advertising, attacked schemes which he asserted brot no results to merchants, and reminded members that one of the functions of the C. of C. was to examine/new advertising stunts and endorse them or withhold endorsement. Barnes announced that the merchants no longer would have to pay for a private night watchman, the city doing this work. C. C. Lamb, chairman of the membership committee, prefaced his remarks on membership with the statement that he hoped still to put over the ornamental lighting project which has been considered for some time. Regarding new members, Lamb declared that many obstacles were encountered in obtaining them. One was criticism of various persons. Time, also, was money to men working for the C. of C. Lamb called Riley the most useful community worker he had ever been associated with. Any town in Lamb's opinion, would be dead without a C. of C. to act as a clearing house of local activities. There were three classes of people in a city, those who always joined the C. of C. as soon as they arrived another who joined, but drifted away and finally came back, and the third, those who were always criticizing the C. of C. The present problem for Anaheim, in Lamb's opinion, was to unite the town again. Roscoe B. Young, former president of the Kiwanis club and of the Merchants' Section of the C. of C., said the presence of the crowd showed that Anaheim still was back of the C. of C. Young's main object in speaking was to announce the annual Y. M. C. A. drive which began Wednesday morning. Some 50 workers will solicit funds which it is planned to have paid in four installments. C. R. Hanna of the Highway Bulb Gardens was thanked by Riley for the donations of jonquils, daffodils, amilax with which the tables were adorned. These flowers will be taken today to the (Continued on Page Two) J. A. Chitty for orange frost WASHINGTON, March 3.—A double-barrelled attack on the American air service and the navy's preparedness for war was made today. Rep. Roy O. Woodruff, Rep. of Michigan, declared in a statement that the army air service has been "grossly negligent" in the purchase of planes. Rear Admiral W. F. Fullam, U.S.N., retired, declared in testimony before the house alrcraft committee that the navy is prepared to lose the next war by its shortsighted policy of ignoring alrcraft in favor of battleships. THREE MEET DEATH IN TENEMENT FIRE NEW YORK, March 3.—Mrs. Ellis Carroll, 33 daughter, Ruth, 6,and son, John, 8, were burned to death and a dozen injured, two seriously, in a fire which destroyed a five-story brick tenement in Brooklyn today. Louis La Bruyere, 6, was thrown from a third-floor window by his mother, who became panic-stricken. The child sustained a fracture and leg. Six firemen and a policeman overcome by smoke. ACTRESS DIVORCED LOS ANGELES, March 3.—May Allison, beautiful film actress, was granted a divorce here today from Robert Ellis Reel, actor and director. Desertion was charged by the actress, who said Reel declared "married life was irksome." Des. B. Franklin and Jennie A. Badley, Anaheim's leading chiropractors, Dietitians and Iridiagnosticians, 406 N. Los Angeles St., phone service 1128 day or night. While the congressional report did not estimate the sum supposed to have been lost by the government, committee members said it might range from $5,000,000 to $40,000,000. Senator Clark was born in Chelseaville, Pa. He worked his through Mount Pleasant (la.) school. He never took up law moved to Missouri and tau school. After prospecting for gold Colorado, Clark moved to Montana where he wrested a fortune from the Rockies. Senator Clark's first wife Kate L. Stauffer of Connellsville Pa. After her death the senator hired his ward, Anna E. chapelle. Senator Clark's Fifth-ave he was one of New York's six places. The stone came from Clark quarries in Maine, its wood was turned in the Raw wood plants on Long Island, owed by the senator, and the brass was brought from the senator own foundries. PASTOR SPEAKS A CYPRESS CENTRE "A Trip Abroad" is the subject of a talk which the Rev. Gehayson, pastor of the First Christian church, La Habra, will at the Cypress Farm Center night at 7:30 p.m. M.J. Pickering, president of La Habra Farm Center, will give a talk. A number of business man are scheduled to come before members. Refreshments will served. $30 STOLEN ST. LOUISE March 3.—T bandits held up the Mound Trust Co. in North St. Louis day and escaped with loot imated at $30,000 incurrency. Twenty-four employees herded into a rear room after of the men had shot thru floor to expedite the journey. PLAN BIG BRIDGE SAN FRANCISCO, March Supervisors today considered application of the Bay Cliffs B.C., for permission to build a 1000,000 bridge across San Francisco bay from this city to meda. It will be 27,000 feet length. LEADING NEWSPAPER IN NORTHERN ORANGE COUNTY THE ORANGE COUNTY lain Dealer FULL REPORT OF INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE—FIRST LEASED WIRE IN ANAHEIM Anaheim, California, Tuesday, March 3, 1925 CORD IN FAVOR OF WAR 20 Millions Hear Coolidge Tomorrow WASHINGTON., March 3. — Twenty million Americans will hear ceremonies attending the inauguration of Calvin Coolidge as thirtieth president of the United States tomorrow by means of the greatest radio hookup ever attempted. The words of President Coolidge as he sounds the keynote of his administration in his inaugural address, will be carried to the farthest corners of the land. Details of the gigantic station interconnection project were completed today by the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co., and the Radio Corp. of America. The hookups include Pacific coast: KFI, Los Angeles; KPO, San Francisco, and KLX, Oakland. THOUSANDS POUR INTO CAPITAL Cloudy and Cold With Possibility of Rain Forecast WASHINGTON, March 3. — Thousands of inaugural visitors poured into the national capital today to witness the quadrennial drama of a change in administrations tomorrow. WRITE TO PUT too much sentiment likely to stray from alike are untrue, because Nevertheless, the come to be the wonted California—a good o' thy, happy human being its own results both to the third party, the B is the creative attitude, Furthermore, the together as nothing else mon something worth a city which for years A Virgilian who scenery as something phrase, but meant it. All the more creed It proves once more the These lines are we thinkery so that you w to relatives or to news So. Calif. to their own A PAVING CLAIMS REFUSE TO STATE WHERE BLOOD-STAINED REAPER LOCATED DIEGO, March 3. — The belief was to have been stay George Byrnes, also Frank Harrington, and the death Hugh McGovern Thomas A. Johnson, Chicago being questioned, was his afternoon, according to Where the gun was looted officers refused to state. Apon was blood-stained. The questioning of John McGovern was resumed by Lieutenant of Detectives Bayes both men stuck to original stories that they Byrnes but denied emphatically they knew how he met Hayes refused anyone per-t to talk to the men. Name of Byrnes was an assistant the police were try-strighten out today. One man called him Byrnes, one other said his name was J. Harrington. At a down-totel, where the trio is said passed several nights two weeks ago, the dead man known as Harrington and is have sent out laundry un-tit name. Osor or Harrington is claim well known in Chicago; worked on a newspaper In what capacity he was led could not be learned, said. He today centered their effort locating Mrs. Johnson and who are known to have from San Diego within a few latter the murder is believed has been committed. GERAL SERVICES FOR CLARK THURS. NEW YORK, March 3—Funeral will be held Thursday for Andrews Clark, 86, "coping" and former U. S., senmontana, who died fromonia in his Fifth-ave home. A. Clark, Jr., and Wm. A. III., are coming from Los has bedside when the sena-sessed away were his wife and daughter, Huguette; Chas. W. San Francisco; Mrs. Lewis erford and Mrs. Manus De at. Motor Clark was born in Conville, Pa. He worked his way to Mount Pleasant (Ia.) law He never took up law but to Missouri and taught prospecting for gold in Colorado, Clark moved to Montana he wrested a fortune from rockies. Motor Clark's first wife was Details of the gigantic station interconnection project were completed today by the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co., and the Radio Corp. of America. The hookups include Pacific coast: KFI, Los Angeles; KPO, San Francisco, and KLX, Oakland. L. A. PAVING CO. BEGINS DEFENCE Called as first defense witness, K. E. Tipton, for many years foreman on Bastanyury ranch and a horticulturist, today declared that in his opinion defoliation on the north side of the ranches of Geo. Cornwall and Charles Bean, nearby, was caused by frost and Santa Ana winds. His testimony was in the trial of the Cornwall and Bean suits for $17,900 damages brought against the Los Angeles Paving company, which operates a rock crusher on the Bastanyury ranch. It was in direct opposition to that given by a half dozen ranchers living nearby, who stated that the damages to trees on the north, during the years 1923 and 1924 was caused by dust and oily fumes emitted from the rock crusher. The defense contention is that so-called dust seen coming in clouds from the plant was in reality vapor, that if dust formed on the trees, it came from the roads nearby, that the Bean and Cornwall ranches were as productive as others in the vicinity of Commonwealth-ave, and that none had a good crop due to frost and winds, and other conditions. In their testimony late yesterday, the fourth day of the trial, Bean and Cornwall declared they received approximately 25 percent of the returns from their groves last years than they usually have received. The defense case was not expected to be complete before tomorrow night, if then. In the meantime it was expected defense counsel would call soil experts to testify as to the composition of the dusts that have been introduced into the trial as exhibits. Cloudy and Cold With Possibility of Rain Forecast WASHINGTON, March 3. — Thousands of inaugural visitors poured into the national capital today to witness the quadrennial drama of a change in administrations tomorrow. Led by nearly a score of state governors and executives, the visitors came by train and by auto, filling hotels to capacity. There will be upward of 50,000 people along the line of march, according to estimates. A note of concern was struck today by the Weather Bureau, when the latest forecast for tomorrow called for cloudy, cold weather, with a possibility of rain. The White House inaugural party is completed today with arrival of Col. John C. Coolidge, the president's father, who will have been one of the few Americans to have witnessed his son's being formally inaugurated. Mrs. Coolidge's mother, Mrs. Lamira Goodhue of Northampton, Mass., already is at the mansion, and John Coolidge, the president's son, arrived from college today to complete the family gathering. The incoming governors were headed this morning by Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, governor of Wyoming. Various receptions and entertainments are being planned, a governors ball at the Congressional Country Club tonight and an unofficial inaugural ball tomorrow night. Pres. Coolidge will take part in none of these social diversions. GRAND JURY VENIRE Thirty Orange-co persons today had been drawn by Superior Judge R. Y. Williams as prospective grand jurors to be called late this rail: R. S. Gregory, Pullerton; Henry N. Adams, Anaheim; C. L. McComber, Buena Park; William Berkenstock, Placentia; S. James Tuffee Placentia; C. C. Wagner, Placentia; Fred Struck, Olive; C. A. Palmer, Olive; Hugh T. Thomson, Villa Park; Jennile E. McPherson, McPherson; Dan Gruell, Orange; Mary Parker, Orange; R. C. Burkett, Orange Thomas Hunter, Garden Grove; H. E. Carner, Garden Grove; John F. Talbott, 710 Maybury st.; Chas E. Morris, 320 South Broadway; E. M. Sheard, 208 East Chestnut; Mary Esau, 1920 Poinsettia; Jennie Swanner, 715 Poinsettia; J.E. Livesey, sr., 105 Orange ave.; John L. Wheeler, 523 South Ross all of Santa Anch; Mae E. Forster San Juan Capitrano; W.J. Cheney Tustin; H.W. Lakeham,Tua tin; W.S. Thompson,Tustin; Ben L.CITRUS ASS'N In their testimony, the fourth day of the trial, Bean and Cornwall declared they received approximately 25 per cent of the returns from their groves last years than they usually have received. The defense case was not expected to be complete before tomorrow night, if then. In the meantime it was expected defense counsel would call soil experts to testify as to the composition of the dusts that have been introduced into the trial as exhibits. G. G. CITRUS ASS'N ENJOYS BIG YEAR At the annual meeting of the Garden Grove Citrus Ass'n, E. M. Dozier, manager, reported shipping 107,275 packed boxes of fruit of all varieties for which it received $309,030.45. The membership is 150 growers, representing 1300 acres. The business meeting before lunch was well attended. The banquet served at noon, was enjoyed by 180. The speakers and their subjects were: L. D. Palmer, sales manager of Orange-co Fruit Exchange; Need of Auction Markets in Larger Centers of Population; Loon Whitsell, county supervisor of Orange; "Eradication of White Fly in No. Calif."; Mr. Millican, manager growers' service department of California Fruit Growers Exchange; "How the Prices Are Affected When the Exchange Percentage is Reduced by Outside Shippments," and Mr. Nelson, member of field department of Calif. Fruit Growers' Exchange; "Developments in the Past Year by the Government in the Control of Green and Blue Mold by the Use of Borax Wash." Directors elected for the year were: M. B. Allen, president; W. W. Dungan, vice-president; E. M. Dozier, secretary; F. P. Rouselot, representative to Orange-co Fruit Exchange; A. R. Mott, Geo. W. Goodwin, J. O. Arkley and W. E. Schnitger. VANDERLIP SICK SCARBOROUGH, N. Y., March 3—Frank A. Vanderlip, financier, is ill with pneumonia. He passed a restful night and is making "satisfactory progress." H. R. Wildman, Dentist, F. & M. Building, Fullerton, Phone 332 REALTORS MOVE W. J. Vliott and J. L. Swarthout, have moved to their new location at 132 North Los Angeles at They cordially invite anyone interested to visit their commodious modern office. The firm is offering some very fine listings under "Opportunities," elsewhere in this issue. LEGION INITIATES The regular meeting of American Legion tonight is expected to be an unusually eventful affair. Several are to be initiated and those in charge say they are going to have a "goat" for the recruits. TURK GOV'T QUITS LONDON, March 3—The Turkish government has recognized because of its inability to combat the Kurdistan revolt, according to dispatches today from Constantinople. It is probable that Ismet Pasha will succeed Pethi Bey as premier, it was reported. HEAR PRESIDENT The lower grades of the intermediate school will hear President Coolidge's inaugural address and perhaps part of the other proceedings at 9 a.m. tomorrow. The upper classes will join high school students. J. A. Chitty for orange trees, 204 Bush; phone 671-M—Adv. The most economical little salosman is a Class Ad in this paper. A Class Ad will let you results. The invention was made two and one-half years ago only in the past two months exploitation has been done. Dr. Puntenney said. Tilton was made by Edgarton of Philadelphia, who superating from an attack berculosis at the Arizona Dr. Puntenney. The law issued its possibility took to obtain the patent ploit for him. An extinction appeared in The American a year ago ee the invention, and Isaac chemical editor of that element would be employ grating cars, railways plants and aeroplanes predictions have already filled. Dr. Puntenney says the horsepower plant can be by vaporene for about 15 day. An auto can be drive New York to San Francisco vapolene with artificial trille more than three and an aeroplane can be the air for days at a time mitted that these claims "fishy," but affirms that ready to back them up. Big companies who have interested in the proposal include the Pitcher plane Co., the Bethlehem Works, the Baldwin Ln Co., the White Truck Co., Westinghouse Co. W. W. engineer for the Western traveling with Dr. Puntenney are stopping at Valencia, where they are strating the superiority lene over steam. Dr. I is handling the territory the Missouri river and th patents. He says that high offi naval service, and eng many big companies hare to resign their present phe he will grant them on states in which to handle proposition. He says it is his int re protect the patent from capitalists, but was make (Continued on-Page) COUNTRY aler IN ANAHEIM Progress of Anaheim as Told by Building Year Permits Total 1923 828 $2,269,271 1922 675 1,413,045 1921 564 1,252,870 1920 362 379,950 1919 174 464,500 Fair, moderately warm weather tonight and Wednesday. 27th YEAR—No. 140 OF WORLD COURT WRITE THAT LETTER PUT too much sentiment into what you write and you are likely to stray from the facts. Optimism and pessimism alike are untrue, because tending toward extremes. Nevertheless, the attitude of "boosting", which has come to be the wonted thing in So. Calif.—and in fact of all California—is a good deal nearer the normal thing for healthy, happy human beings than one of criticising; and brings its own results both to "boosters" and "boosted" and the third party, the Back Easterner or Back Westerner. It is the creative attitude, the attitude of the builder and maker. Furthermore, the thing which has made So. Calif. pull together as nothing else has done is united praise of a common something worth lauding. Los Angeles pre-eminently is a city which for years has pulled together. A Virginian who had been out here criticised So. Calif. scenery as something "made to order." He didn't use that phrase, but meant it. All the more credit to So. Calif., where it is really true. It proves once more that man is master of nature. These lines are written to stir up your imagination and thinkery so that you won't forget those letters back home or to relatives or to newspapers in sections which are knocking So. Calif. to their own harm. VOTES 301-26 FOR PLAN OF PRESIDENT Proposal for Acceptance of Protocol Pending Now in Senate WASHINGTON, Mar. 3—The house of representatives this afternoon went definitely on record in favor of the world court. By a vote of 301 to 28 a resolution was adopted expressing approval of the proposal of Pro Clerk. A Virginian who had been out here criticised So. Calif. scenery as something "made to order." He didn't use that phrase, but meant it. All the more credit to So. Calif., where it is really true. It proves once more that man is master of nature. These lines are written to stir up your imagination and thinkery so that you won't forget those letters back home or to relatives or to newspapers in sections which are knocking So. Calif. to their own harm. CLAIMS TO HORSEWHIPS HAVE FOUND NEW POWER REALTY MAN OF ANAHEIM The probability of bringing a vaporene factory to Anaheim was unfolded by Dr. G.A. Puntenney of Los Angeles briefly before the Anaheim City club today. Dr. Puntenney appeared as guest of Fred L. Sexton, realtor, personal friend 30 years. Dr. Puntenney is very endemic over vaporene, a new chemical demonstrated 18 times more powerful and much cheaper than steam. He feels sure it is bound to revolutionize the industrial world. The patent office at Washington granted him a patent after a demonstration of 14 months to test all his claims at which they first had merely laughed. He has latternig offers for foreign rights, including $100,000 from Japan and $150,000 from Canada. He plans to let the Canadian government have the patent, but will not get Japan have it for any amount. When the electrical side of the patent is perfected he expects it to contain the nearest approach to perpetual motion that has ever been attained, and would be very dangerous in the hands of a hostile foreign power. He now has three factories operating in the manufacture of vaporene, one in New Jersey, one in Virginia and one in Florida, but is planning to put in a big refinery near tidewater in Los Angeles, and a smaller factory in one of the outlying smaller towns. For this latter he admitted that he is considering Anaheim very favorably. The invention was made about two and one-half years ago but it is only in the past two months that exploitation has been going on. Dr. Puntenney said. The invention was made by Edgar R. Brodson of Philadelphia, who was recuperating from an attack of tuberculosis at the Arizona ranch of Dr. Puntenney. The latter, conProposal for Acceptance of Protocol Pending Now in Senate WASHINGTON, Mar. 3—The house of representatives this afternoon went definitely on record in favor of the world court. By a vote of 301 to 28 a resolution was adopted expressing approval of the proposal of Pres. Coolidge for American entrance in the court and pledging its assistance in the adoption of any legislation necessary to assure American adherence. The proposal for acceptance of the protocol of the court is now pending in the senate. DENIES LEAGUE TO CALL CONFERENCE TOKYO, March 3—Baron Kiuro Shidehara, Japanese foreign minister, in answer to an interpellation in the house of peers today declared an armament limitation parley under auspices of the League of Nations was unlikely. He gave it as his opinion that an arms conference would have more chances of success if it were summoned by the United States. In this connection he said that the question of rationing auxiliary craft would be the most difficult problem facing such a conference due to France's opposition to submarine limitation. Shidehara expressed the hope that as soon as the Germans reparations problems were declared up the United States would invite the nations to another limitation discussion. In the meantime, the foreign minister asserted, Japan was not considering the question of preliminary negotiations. PLAN REFORMS IN DRY ENFORCEMENT WASHINGTON, March 3—Par reaching reforms in federal enforcement of prohibition laws were proposed this afternoon by Senator Couzens, Rep. of Michigan chairman of a special senator committee that has investigated quor law violations for many months. The principal change would be the transfer of all prohibition enforcement from the treasury department to the department of justice. The bill would create a separate prohibition commissioner, under direction of attorney general. SCUTTLE RUM SHIP SAN FRANCISCO—March 3—Details of sextling of the rum runner Guilla with a cargo valued at $260,000 off California coast following quarrels between off- The invention was made about two and one-half years ago but it is only in the past two months that exploitation has been going on. Dr. Puntenney said. The invention was made by Edgar R. Brodton of Philadelphia, who was recuperating from an attack of tuberculosis at the Arizona ranch of Dr. Puntenney. The latter, convinced of its possibilities, undertook to obtain the patent and exploit it for him. An extensive article appeared in The Scientific American a year ago concerning the invention, and Ismar Ginsberg, chemical editor of that magazine, predicted at the time that this new element would be employed in operating cars, railways, pumping plants and aeroplanes. All these predictions have already been fulfilled. Dr. Puntenney says that a 50 horsepower plant can be operated by vaporene for about 15 cents per day. An auto can be driven from New York to San Francisco on vaporene with artificial fuel for a trifle more than three dollars, and an aeroplane can be kept in the air for days at a time. He admitted that these claims sound "fishy," but affirms that he stands ready to back them up. Big companies who have become interested in the proposition, he said, include the Pitcheral Aeroplane Co., the Dethlehem Steel Works, the Baldwin Locomotive Co., the White Truck Co., and the Westinghouse Co. W.T.McCabe engineer for the Westinghouse, is traveling with Dr. Puntenney. They are stopping at the Hotel Valencia, where they are demonstrating the superiority of vaporene over steam. Dr. Puntenney is handling the territory west of the Missouri river and the foreign patents. He says that high officers in the naval service, and engineers of many big companies have offered to resign their present positions if he will grant them one or two states in which to handle the new proposition. He says it is his intention to protect the patent from the big capitalists, but was making no ap- (Continued on Page Two) In a moment of frenzy the woman purchased the whip and invaded the offices, stating she only had a few more years to live and she wanted to "bring the matter home effectively" before she passed; police reported. Investigating detectives, who released Mrs. Glass, said they believed Mr. Crawford was not the man whom the woman that saw was attacking. Mr. Crawford, in his statement, said: "My connection with this matter has been that of trustee and as such have been able to protect the interests of all investors who compiled with the conditions of the trusteeship. "Any and all of my actions in this matter have been from the best motives and the 150 or more investors whose interests I have conserved have in open meeting passed a resolution thanking me for the services I have performed in their behalf." Mr. Crawford recited in detail the activities of the original company, known as the Kellogg Guatemala Land Syndicate whose president was L.G.Kellogg, of Los Angeles. The company some time later received a charter from the Republic of Guatemala to operate as the Agricola Central Company, he declared. When stockholders became dissatisfied with affairs, the organization was again reorganized as the Associated Agricola with Mr. Crawford as trustee, he said, and the company had since progressed rapidly. "As trustee I secured a deed part of the land and since have given deeds to persons entitled to them where such persons have complied with conditions of the trusteeship," Mr. Crawford said. Mr. Crawford is expected to swear out a complaint today charging Mrs. Glass with battery. QUAKES IN ITALY ROME. March 3—Earthquakes were registered today in central Italy but there was no damage of consequence. SCUTTLE RUM SHIP SAN FRANCISCO—March 2. Details of scuttling of the rum runner Guilla with a cargo valued at $260,000 off California coast following quarrels between officers and crew, was told today at trial of crew on charges of conspiracy to violate prohibition law before Federal Judge Bean. H F.Creighton, chief clerk for collector of customs, read into court records alleged confession of Capt John O'Hagen and members of the crew. DOUBLE FEE FOR AUTO LICENSE NOW Auto Club of So Calif., today declared double fees were being charged, beginning today, for licenses. Passenger car owners pay $6 instead of $3. As soon as applications filed yesterday have been filled, persons not having the 1925 plates will be arrested. ANOTHER HOLIDAY SACRAMENTO. March 3—The assembly this morning passed a bill making Gold Discovery Day. Jan. 24, a legal holiday and sent it to the senate. A senate committee informed the lower house they too had made arrangements for radio reception of the presidential inaugural ceremonies tomorrow. DENY SETTLEMENT OF WOOD'S DEBTS PARIS. March 3—Published reports find the debts contracted by Leont Osborne C. Wood at the Blarrits Casino had been settled and the charges withdrawn, were denied today by managing director and the cashier of the gaming place. A Class Ad will get you row Dr. Clara Bakehouse, Ostec Colonial, 130 N. Lemon, F