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CV i 1 Martin Jehnoon and hla wif tared te Venture among them Hs tutk stsryMa i SWw if M0wncLlaL 1 1 fekttmm Clntonirl LEADIlrtEk COAST ZP REauaPATOFK POUNDED 1865 VOL CXXII NO 74 tremor jHI Frldey waeettledf Sisa I Jil rl eeutherly wlnee i gnsnLr Tamahpela i Unsettled 1 raodemte seat Wind II cc SAN FRANCISCO CAU FRIDAY MARCH 30 1923 TWENTY FOUR PACES DAILY 5 CENTS SUNDAY 10 CENTSt WJTV DRYS BATTLE AS CLUB IS RAIDED East and Midwest Hit by Record Match Cold Contest for Conventions Officially Launched nniLinH fl avl ti ON BARTENDER Federal Force Batters Down Barriers to Exclusive i Rendezvous FURNrrURTDEMOLISHED Leniency Promised In Return for Silence Prisoner Charges Unabta to tomach the beating which two of bis follow raiders wero glvtag Clarence Lewis steward of tho esclaslve Peerless Club tI Ellis street Prohlbttloa En forcement Offleor Edward Powers ftaterday afternoon threatened to thrash thorn It woo coir attar Towars layta hl gnu od a table and advancing toward hli eo raldera with clenched tit that Bar TtlL assistant to Wheeler hUf prohibition officer under Fed oral Director Rattor and Agent 1 Corey whom ho accused of aa due brutality toward Lewis de slated Officer Threaten to Thrash Two Companion MaM Sfefe 4iaJbwtt law Powers yelled at Harvtll and Corey Tm for fair aair and 1 wont bo a party to any esugbult Thari no war to treat a man otob If ha a bootlegger If you two dent leevashlm alone ril Uko both of you oa myself Boforo tho prohibition agsnts ad vanned further In their row ChUf Acont Wheeler shoved Harvlll and Corey aside Not oontoat with beat In Lewie who loot night waa teiibod by a spectator ai pretty badly need up ti raiders smaahed furniture future And bar In a search for liquor Whoa a croup of raldara damolUbod a writing desk Lewis protested What tho do yoa want of a writing doak in thla dump any way snarled ono of tho raldara and tho work of destruction want It la aald that tbo fix turoa la tho club ropraaantod aa outlay of IS 400 Whan tba prohibition aeon to departed tha Interior of tba club wao badly wreckod Tha raid began whan prohibition ejents unabla to batter their wax through gn Iron door leading Into tho olub quarter jeut a holo In tba wall through which Prohibition Agent llarvlll wao tho first to ontar Whan Harvlll gained entrance to tho club quartan Lewis waa aaated In a chair Steward Knocked tp Floor And UrtrtaUy Beaten An argument otarted botwaen Lewis and llama Hat rill aoeord Ins to Lewis struck him three tlmaa knocking hint to tho floor While Lewis was em tho floor cov orad with blood and with hU tsath looses Harvlll aided by Agent Corey wero eo geared In hoaUng Lewis when Powers together with Prohibition Agent William Lamels tor protostod and throatened to giro Uarvlll and Corey a dooe of their own medicine If they did nof desist la their attack on tba proatrate Lewie It was then that Wboaler dragged Corey and Merrill aside The raid had bean la progress for soma time when Federal Prohibition Director Rut tar appeared Informed by Wheeler of tha beat lag of Lewie by llarvlll and Corey Rutter according to Lewis said Dont say anything of this to any one ssd wo 11 taka care of you Rutter last Bight dooied sueo a remark to LswU but added Whee lor might have aald something like that to Lewis but I didat hear Mat nay so Although tbo prohibition agoata wrecked tho interior of tho club la aa endeavor to find aontrabaad lienors tbay did ao suooood la flalUg any according to Lewls Chief Aent Wboaler dMlared last OoatUsysd on Post Caaaaen Sunshine Rein Race tQReawr SF on Easter CUNSuTNle for tba Eatter hit or rain for the crop It a race bctwaen tha clood and tb aJendtr to decide Out quttUon The fog that blew In Uircmgh tba Gate yesterday wasibe adrance agebt of a fine young ttorm list reported about 1000 miles west of San Francisco and mot ing rapidly cast over tba Pacific If the slbnn gets here he fore Sunday the Easter bonnets win be eclipsed Present Indications are that the rain will start some Urns today The Weaiher Bureau makes no promise but say that things look that way FOURFflOZENTQ DEJt HUT SINKS IN SOUND Storm Capsizes Tug Near Norfolk Vci and Seamen Die In ley Waters RECORD COLD WEATHER Atlantic Seaboard Interior and Northland Have Zero Temperatures Air Service Head Due Here Soon following tha announcement of plana for the early establishment of a naval operating base for air for ces on Baa Francisco bay It waa disclosed at the Presidio yasterday that fhe coming visit gUJorT uonorai Mason la palrleaT htar tho army air sarrlea BaBrraaJ claoo ha for Its object tha aylng illThptiCrJrn tho oxtRrVot army aviation activities la this elnlty General Patrick aooordlnf to tho latest sdTloeo roealvod at CrUsy flytac flela wiu reach thla elty between April I gad fl The announcement of htg vfelt has aroused groat Interest among tho local dr aerrlee officers who believe that his visit wfll bh fol lowed by tho ordering of kabstantlal relnforoemonta both of ottooraand oallstad man to tho air has at Crlssy aald and tho earrylaa out of plans for tho Improvement of tha Hold which have boon under consideration for somo time As the oztent of tho Improvements la dependant principally upon recommendations which will be made by Ooneral Patrick soon after hla arrival here the officers of tho air sarrlce hero are sliest upon this subject Henry Dawes to Be Comptroller 8T AUOU8TINE Fla March lt President Hardln let it bo known that apon returning to Washington he would appolnj Henry Dawes of Chicago a banker and a brother of Charles Dawes former director of the budget to bo Comptroller of the Currency Dawes will take the ofDce fllled by Crleelngsr prior to his appointment to the governor ship of tbo Federal Raeervo Board Tho Chicago man will be tho second member of the Dawos family to be Comptroller of tho Curreaoy hU brother Charles havtag served as Comptroller In the administration of President McKlnley Speed Record Broken By US Army Flyer DAYTON Ohio March In setting a now world a airplane speed roeortf hero today Lieutenant Leater Maltland 8 A attained a pood of til 4 miles an hoar asd his avorags for four tripe over tho one kilometer course will exceed miles per hour OrrllloWrlg ht rep roseatiUaa of the Federated Aero aautlqse International said tonight Official time ea tho reoord will be determined tomorrow The former record of SSSA1 anllae per hour is hold by Sadl Leeoiata a Pranch aviator WHILE California enjoyed Palmy slrfes and brtltiant tanthine tempered with a refrtthlna btteie the Atlantic seaboard yesterday was vitlttd by a succession of violent ttorms accompanied by faOUtff ttmperalartt SOBFOLK tTaJt Marek Tear sea were fresea te aeatk te as la Alsemarkv senad aear aieath the Sort river thirty sallea below Elisabeth City IT when the tag Jallaa neetwae capstsed aarlag a sUrat Ttve othar mtmbers the crew were JWMrT Mgj ue aep Torkars wont to wot todtr ttW erlng In the coldest March weather oa record hero Tho temperature was IS degrees The oldest Marco weather previously recorded waa In UTS when It was 1 At earanno lake the raereury droppod to do gross below ero and temperatures Of IS below wsre roponeo iron several other up state points Although today waa the oddest spring day In the history of tha Now Tork Wsathsr Bureau Forecaster Bcarr refused to lino op with tho Canadian prophsta who pro dloted recurrence of the year without a summer as tho ysar lSlt Is known Of oourso It Is poiilblo that we will hire a recurrence of tho weather of ISIS Scarr said Anything that has happened once can happen again But I ahould say tho betting odds were about ISM to 1 against twelva oonsecutlvs months with frost NEW ENGLAND HAS RECORD COLD WAVE BOSTON March Tha temperature la Now England today makes now low records for the season in Boston early today It waa abovs making It one of tho coMaet morn ings of the year yne ww elal temperature la Now England waa IS below at OroonvUla Me PITTSBURG WEATHER COLDEST IN HISTORY PTTTBBURa March SS Tho cold est weather la tho history of tho PlttabursTwoather bureau for hi arch SS was rooordedaysarly today whsa tho mercury fall to IS dsgrees aboTO aero Tbo preylooo low temperature reoord for the data was In 1S1I whoa tho degroo mark was registered SEVERE BUZZARD RACES IN MICHIGAN DETROIT Maroh The upper half of owor Michigan and tha entire northern part of the Btate was today la tho grip of weather mere severe than any experteaeed during tha winter A bllssard that brought with It sub sere temperature was ragtag today Hugo Stinnes Buy Land in Argentina BERLIN March Uaso aUsaes has purchased largo tracts of land to Argentlaa primarily for oottea greweg purposes aooordlag to Xoa toktloaaar Sri Slays Rich Married Crab Man And Self finding HeHadFookdHer New Yorker Leads Amaz ing Double Life Meets Death When Duplicity Is Discovered NEW TORK March SS Fred erick Barnham noted contractor club man and owner of Rtvervlow Manor on tho Hudson died early today of a pistol wound Inflicted yes terday by Miss Hslena Zelgler lust boforo she shot and killed herself Mrs Bornham was at his bedside whsn tho end canje LED DOUBLE LIFE Burnham led according to reports to the police an amaalng double life A socially prominent club man and partner la a nationally known Arm of contractors ho deceived not only his wife whom ho married ten years ago but also Miss Zelgler pretending to her and her parents to bo a suitor for her hand Mlsa Zelgler acted according to Burnham Hands whsa shs dls corerod tbo duplicity which Burn ham bad carried out without sue plelontora da40r threvgh hit efforts to Vad their relationship Miss Xelgler made two visits to his effloeJn the Grand Central Tor tas4 iramUrd4y afternoon aooom panted oy a friend Mlsi Ida Murphy for whom police wsre search lag OIIL LAYS SELF Her parents Mr and Mrs Las Zelgler of Rlverslds Drive learned for the first time last night that tho man they had entertained aa a friend and with whom their daugh ter had become Infatuated waa the same Frederick Burnham who maintained tho magnlSoent River view Manor estate at Dobbs Ferry and With his wife was a social leader In that exclusive suburb The double shooting occurred In Burnham private office on the sec end floor of the Grand Central Terminal The wealthy contractor met Miss Zelgler at a social fuaetlon ten years ago her parents said Burnham and his wlfs wsre said to have been married about that time 81 nee thst occasion when shs was but a girl Burnham had boon a frequent Tlsltor at the borne and had boon considered a suitor for Helenas hand bsr parents said Helena waa warned the mother told police not to marry Burnham Cow Quaff 8 Wine Officers Emptied Then Storms Town MODERNIZATION PLAN 0 KD BY NAVALEXPERTS Proposed Program Cannot Be Construed as 5 5 3 Violation Authorities Say RANGE IS DISPUTED England Officially Denies Story Officially of Increased Gun Elevation SIMS ATMS Rear Admlral Speaking in Fires Broadside at Hyphenates OPPOSES SINN FEINERS Political BIoo Should Be Dealt With Hatred of England Resented Antl Brttlsh Influences Sinn Felnera political blocs the Ku MONTERET March I The eow of A Miller wbleh Is pastured on tho City 1U11 lawn drank copiously when the polios dumped 7 gallons of wine Into the gutter In front of the hall today Than she broke her retaining rope chased a calf through a fence took be corner oat of a barn and defied tha entire police force to round her up Now tho officer are wondering whether to list her oa the blotter ss srreated for being drunk and disorderly or resisting an offlosr or to tarn bar er to the pound master as a aulsenoe SMstMERLESS YEAR PREDICTED IN TORONTO TORONTO Oat March IIJ hv ertag Canadians who follow the forecasts of local weather prophets were all worked up today ever pre Cesttaae4 asj Pap Colaaaa THE MIKADO at the RlveU Teatght rosso star net 111 for seals Ad rt SUesftwawBMMaiSiSBEa Cat Recovering From Caesarian Operation baU to lemd WW I The ChnaMe NEW TORK March Mutile a year old Persian cat Is back at ths home of the owner Mlee May Smith oonvalesclag hap plly la ths distinction of being the first of her tribe to survlvs a Ceeearlea operation But MuUlee Joy at being alive Is tempered somewhat by the misfortune that aly one of three little furry replicas of herself survived the ordeal By GRAFTON WILCOX arui fc Leued Wire k7be OhraaMo WASHINGTON March It Naval Ku typfcnmtea In gen convinced that President Harding and Secretary of State Hughes wilt not decide that to carry oat a modernisation plan oa capital ships of ths navy would violate the nary treaty of the weeningion aava limitation conference Modernization Not Treaty Violation Say Experts Although speaking unofficially today high naval authorities aald that modernisation of the fleet oven to the extent of extending tho range of the guns could not be construed as a violate Ion of tho treaty and that It Is not being so construed even by Great Britain or Franc or JasJvriinpTalulhorlU admit that President Harding aad Secretary Hughes mcy decide that It would not be good policy from the standpoint of a spirit of naval limitation to spsnd the IUMIM ap proprlated by Congress for modern lsatjon of the American fleet The American naval experts Insist thst as the International fleets stand today the United States navy Is outranged by Great Britain by about two miles and that no one knows exactly what Japan has done and plans to do with respect to modomlxatlon Equalization of Range Question Disputed They dlsputs the range of British and American guns Is equalised when all capital ships la takan Into consideration The battle range of a fleet Is measured by she range of Us shortsst rsngs ships Naval authorities Insist that this Is a faot conceded by all experts A naral expert discussing ths actual situation regarding mod ernlsatlon of tho fleet today said Great Britain during tho war had etarted extenslrs modernisation and this hss teen continued ever ilnce Earl In the war the urgent need for torpedo protection wae apparent Bllstsrs hava been Coatlssed en Pago SV Colaae JohnDJrGets WW Year His Standard Oil Holdings 410674399 ByarM to Immt W1j to Tbo ChnsioW NEW TORK Msreh St John Rocktfller Jr owns Tlll IM btrri of stock i nlns of the mors prominent oompsnleaeompoalng ths so called Standard Oil group hav Ing a market value of IIS1I III from thess ha receives dividends at the rate of I11HM21 annually at the present rate of payments ac cording to a compilation made br Dow Joass 4k Company from test moor given at the recent Senate Investlgstlon of tho petroleum la dustry i Change Im Slight in Condition of Lenine MOSCOW March SS Tho oonJi tlon of the Soviet Premier Nikolai Lenine Is report el unchanged a though his temperature has Im proved slightly since yesterday The bulletin Issued by tho phys clans thla afternoon gave Us general condition as without change Temperature IM palae lea respl ration SS oral came In for bitter attack by Rear Admlral WUIIam 8 Sims re tired last night Speaking before the English Speaking Union at the Fairmont Hotel Sims launched broadildc after broadside against those forces that he maintained were Inimical to the best Interests of thd United States Ha admitted without heal tatlon that ha was guilty of the often repeated charges that he waa pro British la many ways Politically Controlled Hyphenates Dangerous The politically controlled hyphe aatss are mars dangerous to peaceful Velatlonaibia airv other miner Ity MeefffrevPi associations seeking to control oar Government Adtab at Sims ttf6utuuartv in elstlaf political blooa are domestic problems that our people will settle when safflclently aroused Introduced to the gathering as a seaman warrior aad teacher by Chairman Charles Mills Oaylay who declared that What yon have aald Is a truth wsll worth dying for Admiral 81 me lost no time replying to his crltlce aad attacking eltlseas Beglectlng their right of franchise Domocracy Is on Trial for Its Life Whlls organised minority groups are fighting for eoonomlo or political control while democracy la oa trial for Its life no man can Justly claim to bo a good cltlaea who neg lects his political duties or who ad hsroe blindly to a political party thus enabling dangerous bloes to exercise their balanoe of power said the Admiral A vote to maintain the democratic principles upon which our Oov erameot la founded Is necessarily mora Important than a ahasp llke party vote on local stats or national questions especially a vote against any oandldato who for personal reasons takes advantage of the hatred of a group of hyphenatee he con tinned Closer Amity With Britain Is Urged When this hatred te directed against Oreat Britain there Is all the more reason for ths defeat of the candidate seeking the votes of disloyal men and thla for the reason that It Is In any case essential to the peace of the world that we teeter a still closer amity and an derstandlsg with the English spsaklng peoples Admiral 81ms began bis speech by calling to mind his address be fore ths Loyal Coalition In Bos ton Ths Msyor of thla elty the Honorable James Ourley was vary properly Invited te ISnd hla support to this mission tho promo Uoa of Americas Ideals said Ad mtral 81ms lie declined aad la so doing stated la a letter to the see rotary I consider your peoullar so clety detrimental to the peace and welfare of the elty of Boston sad rspugnsnt to the principals of civil and rellgloua liberty and In charac lertolioell gentlemanly terms he declined to sit on the platform with a Beaedlet Arnold I doubt there being many people who really thlak that bis honor bo lleves a word of this but there are those who call themselves Americans who da belleVe It and the emotional feroe behind their belief CeaUaaed as Peers SV Colaaaa gga 1 PlnttintT far War Myeries of Seciet DiPIoma sJLaT SUNDAYS I lUllillg lUi If CiJi Revealed in Confidential LcUe of tS CHRONICLE Vu1 SF on Inside Track for Big Meets Miller CAN FRANCISCO baa the Inside track and a flying stsrt toward victory in the race Um Republican Na tlonal Con 8enuon of 1024 says Thomas MUIer alien roperty custodian who Is here for a weejfr stay on official business Thebusi nes capital jQSar of thf is Ssn Francisco of course offers every advantage for such a gathering he ssid It has the necessary facil ties the climate and the political importance CAMPAIGN FOB 1924 NUB IS UNDER WIT Citizens Committee Initial Session Palace Hotel HokS at 5 4 Wild Driver Gets 20 Day Jail Term i Edward BaeiUt Ml Leaesett streclaaeed SWOty to a charge of speeding flfty flve miles aa hour before Police Judge MoAtee la the Traltl Court yesterday and ai sentenced to twenty days In he county jalL According te the testimony Bo etUI was chased across tha elty by Motorcycle relloemaa Albert Birds all em Us night of February SS bat escaped BlrdsalL however suc eeedeefla getting hie license number and he later waa arrested Birdsall testified that bo flrat saw Bacilli speeding at Van Nesa arenas asd Fine street and chased Mm to Market street blowing ths siren to haU htev Bacilli did not heed the siren aad the chase led out Market to Guerrero aad out Guerrero to the Mission viaduct where Birdsall waa Jorced to abandoa the these because ho came upon a oobblsd street aad could not speed hla motorcycle While going out Guerrero street according to BlrdsalL he fired four shots In ths sir to try aad halt Bacilli and dropped and lost his pistol During the chase Birdsall asserts hs speeded his motorcycle op to seventy miles and hour Bacilli applied for a stay of execution uaUl Monday stating he had some buslassa te dooe Carnarvon Suffering From Pneumonia CAIRO Egyptr March II by ths Associated Prose A oonsulteUoa of tbo flvs physicians sttendlng tha Earl of Carnarvon waa hold this morning ana xour or ine doctors met again far consideration of the case thla evening While the payslalans Issued no bulletin It Is understood that Lord Carnarvon Is suffering from pneumonia of the right lung Ills condition la regarded as serious but hope la held out for hie reoovery King of Rumania Ka Constitution BUC11ARKST March IS King Ferdinand la the presence of the Crown Prises the Cabinet Minis tors and the presidents of the Chamber of Deputlea la tb Senate to day gars formal aanstloa to tns nsw eoar tltBllea which waa voted recently by both houses of Parlla meet The ooaetltutloa now semes law The new Ramaalaa coo stltutlon Insures te all Rumanians without Jlstlactlon of rose or llgloa ths same rlgnts aad liber tlea There Is but slight difference between the new eoasUUtloa aaJ the old i Condition of Gould Remain Dangerous MENTONE Urh IS by the A soclatad Free The condition of aeorge Oeuld Br of Mw Turk Ill at Cap Martin near herv remains stationary and unite opsatls factory It waa stated today No ImprevameaVhM hooa aotloed slsee yasterday whsa his tusese was tharnterUod an daagareaa EXECUTIVE BODY NAMED Many Practical Suggestion Offered by Men Prominent in Citv Enthusiasm enough to convince the most stubborn national commit teaman that Saa Francisco la tsf ono and only place for a naUenal political convention was msnlfasted yeatsrday Boon whoa the eltlseas committee named a fsw days age 1 I to launch tho campaign for tbo cos veatloasoflSKbaldlta flxst eestee at tho Palace RoteL fe Permanent organisation of the committee wtU bo effected by the i SAttAa of ma exeeatlte eemmlttse bf Uoa member with Supervisor Warj reo Shannon temporary chairman continuing la that offlee until a pare manent chairmen la named Men Prcninent in Affairs aj Of City Named oa Cormn xHaa This oommlttee appointed yeater If 4e of WUiBPa4f Crocker Pant Shoup Herbert Flatanw rheckef Gavin MuNah Wallaoe sV Alexander James Pholah Sana Ineth rstloifshury Miltoa bbera Postmaster lames Power aad Saper 4 I visor Shaanoa actus as etoeSsv meeUng will be held by the executive committee early next week and details of the permanent organisation will be discussed at that Urns The eyes of tho world wilt be facmnad an Ran raaaaaa If ftma conventions corns here aald8haa non In hli Introductory Ulk moauver ouuay may pa nocoa sary to make will be repsld maay Umee over by the tremendous amount of advertising saa FranciscoFrancisco aad California will reeetva Battle for Cooretxtions Excites Natsonal trttetast Vil Tha nraaa af tha mmaIm fl li 1 ready Uklng ap the Idea of1 Saa Francisco aa a eonventlost city 9ha people of the country are ilrisiTy Interested bU thoee wholkdva boon here before and wmat to pome again and those who have Barer been here i San Francisco a natural adrssv tag ss bar climate her bxnpttsJMs her eoaveatlea hall hap eseeueak organisation all argue In bar lavoK Money talks when yoa re tnife Ing to a national oemmiUeenaa The Colonial design rrt in rimless lenses cony tinues CTerincre ing populanty they are semi invisible duo to their octagon shape and eliminate sido re nections These slyl ish lenses are optically 4 correct and dutincthre with white gold eyeglasses or spec lades they are particuw larly smart for even i wg wear i iwnii eaa BU SWSSBaaSM sSiaj mSSSZ assa tMkStJSmBr 1.