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The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 19

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pn A- THURSDAY cc SAN FRANCISCO. MARCH 18. 1926 THURSDAY nPY A'fiPNT nun i nuLiu Uarrestedas BABY JS LEFT ON DOORSTEP IN RADIO BOX INSURANCE SUIT REVIVES MURDER CASE By DAVID F. HOUSTON DRUNK DRIVER Wteretary of Agriculture ani Later Secretary of the Treasury, in President WUson'i Cabinet for Eight Years. How the possibility of war with Japan was discussed in the Cajbinef asa Pear K.

C. B. Each day about 4:30 p. m. I see about ten teams of horses driven by, unhitched from their trucks, and apparently headed for their stables, through with their day's work.

Now, as they probably won't be called again until about seven the following morning, they have about fourteen hours to themselves. They are not sleeping all this time, so what do you they are thinking about, what mostly occupies their minds? Don't you think it would be a good investment to Stanford Professor Finds Two- result ol the passage of the California anti-alien law was related in yester day's installment of Secretary Houston's Diary of the Wilson War Cabinet 'Undercover' Prohibition Officer Attracts Attention as Car Zigzags: Along Ellis Street Week-Old Loud Speaker. De Widow of Schwartz, Who Killed Self to Avoid Murder Charge, Defends Policy on His Life Today after, telling of Bryan's conference with the Japanese ambassador serted in Jattery Receptacle have Horse I heaters or other tornts ot amusement tor them during on the exclusion act, Houston takes up the controversy over the sugar tariff, a conflict over the recognition of the Huerta government in Mexico, and a Euro A K. B. BOOSTER.

Has the radio gone "into competl 1020 Post street. pean trip over which Wilson and Bryan differed. Fred Edwards, literally worked last night. tlon with the stork Professor Ar himself Into Jail (Continued from Yesterday.) at the Cabinet meeting. He added: discussion and advice while some thur G.

Kennedy, Stanford University's learned English philologist heads of departments did not. Police Interviewed Edwards when they were Informed that his auto The President always welcomed and Chaucerian scholar, Is curious mobile was xig-taggmg strangely such topics, but he did not have them immediately in hand. The to know. It is Professor Kennedy's custom, Details of the sensational 'Walnut Creek explosion of last August and the subsequent suicide of Dr. Henrt Schwartz, while the Oakland polio were closing In upon his hiding place to arrest him for murder, were recited before Federal Judge Frank H.

Kerrigan yesterday In tha opetting of a suit brought by tha Northern Life Insurance company, of Seattle, to cancel an insurance policy of $15,000 held by Schwartx. The company seeks to show that truth is that the two Important do a habit of years, to close his tomes "There will be no war. I have seen the Japanese Ambassador and I am letting- the old man down easy." At lunch after Cabinet meeting. May 20, 1914, we discussed the tariff and particularly the duty on sugar. All seemed to think It a mistake for Congress to place a three years' limit on the one cent mestlo measures at the time, the of Chaucer, lay aside the dictionary be is working on, put out the cat and lock the front door of his house tariff and currency, were under the Treasury, and that Secretary Mo-Adoo Is a solitaire player.

He has many of the Qualities of leadership. uiong street. Patrolman Arthur La hey halted his progress. "You're drunk!" charged Lahey. "Sure that'a my Job," admitted Edwards.

"Don't kid me! How come?" warned Lahey. "Undercover prohibition man that's me," Informed Edwards. "Make a living hunting ud boots Garrison, Secretary of War, stated that he had canvassed the matter of defending the Philippines, and that the War Council, while thinking war a remote possibility, thought we ought to be prepared and that Manila could be defended for a year if some ships then in Chinese waters were sent to Manila, These could prevent the Japanese from crossing the neck of land. BRYAN FLARES UP IN ARMY DISPUTE. Garrison intimated that our views on military matters were not par-I He is self-reliant, and has dash, sugar rate.

It was believed that at 845 Coleridge avenue, Palo Alto, promptly at 10:80 every night. LOUD SPEAKER. Monday night he went through the customary 'motions. A little black box just outside the door ar boldness and courage, but he does it would injure domestic producers without benefiting the consumer. Franklin K.

Lane, Secretary of the Interior, thought that it would re and drinking it. Been working all evening. Tough Job hard on the inaidss. rested his final glance over his sult in the Democrats losing the porch. It waa the battery box of a radio Ucutorly valuable Hhat his Board of Senate and possibly the House.

Lahey ended further explanation by ruling that, federal man or by committing suicide. Schwartx violated a clause In the policy which makes It void In case the holder takes his own life within one year. It is said the suicide occurred a few days before the expiration of the, year a contention which the widow, Mrs. Alice Edith Schwartx. their off hours? DEAR BOOSTER.

I CAN remember. WHEN I was a boy. AND THERE wasn't a thine. IN OUR town. EXCEPT A circus.

OR SOMETHING like that. ONE DAY a year. THAT COST anythinr. TO GO and see. AND WE were happy.

and Invented games. AND PLAYED outside. AND FILLED every moment OF OUR wakeful days. AND IT was the same. AL'L OVER the land.

EXCEPTING MAYBE. IN THEblgger cities. AND THEN some guy. WITH A mind like yours. GOT A big Idea.

AND TOLD himself. WHAT WITH all these people. IN THEIR idle hours. SEEKING FOR means. OF ENTERTAINMENT.

plain citlsen, an intoxicated man and It contained a youthful and lusty baby. He picked up the box and the baby went on the air with all the strength of Its lungs. waa intoxicated and belonged in Jail Not Too Much Credit and not in an automobile. OR DO NT buy that. OR DON'T go here.

OR DO NT go there. THAT THEY can't be happy. AND THEY make 'em believe IL AND ALL the time. IF YOU have any children. IT'8t "KINI have a dime?" OR "KINI have a nlckler FOR THISand that, OR CAN we go here.

OR CAN we go there. ANDNOW you coma. ANDYOUD take the horaea, THE NICE gentle horses. THAT HAVE nothing to do. BUT PULL trucks around.

ANDSLEEP and eat- AN DYOU'D ruin them. SO WHEN night time came. THEY'D BE unhappy. IF THEY couldn't go out. TO A horse theater.

AND IF I were you. I'D LAYolTa It, AND LEAVE 'em alone. AND THINK of way. OF TAKING money from us. WHOAREalready ruined.

Edwards waa- taken to the city Delving into the philology of prison, where his credentials, and not cultivate teamwork and does not invite discussion or suggestions from the Cabinet as a whole. MEXICO LOOMS UPAS UGLY In reference to the sugar situation, I had come to certain definite conclusions after thoroughly canvassing It with experts of the Department of Agriculture. Briefly stated, they were, that Louisiana farmers ought not to be encouraged to grow sugar exclusively; that they should grow it only as an Incident and Hot as the main or sole reliance, and that beet sugar should not be produced unless as an incident In diversified farming except" in California, Montana, in places, Colorado, Idaho and Wyoming. The Louisiana climate Is not favorable for sugar production. It Is of Oakland, is expected to deny.

Chaucer's quaint vocabulary la one thing. Delving Into a radio battery bos full of a loud sneaker' Infant is further inquiry at prohibition headquarters, substantiated his claim HAD EXPLOSIVES-. It Is also contended by the com to Federal official' status. He was charged-with driving while Intoxicated. another.

Professor Kennedy let his wife do the In the box a baby boy about two weeks old, clean and white, with a fuss of blackish hair and not much clothes pany that Schwartx Invalidated his policy by concealing the tact that Mrs. Abner Doble Files Divorce Suit to speak of. No note nor any -mark of Identification. TRADE MARK ERASED. More than a year ago Abner Doble, president of the Doble tHeam too damp.

There la not enough Even the name the radio that had gone into the stork business was obliterated. he was dealing with dangerous explosives In his work as chemist and manager for the Pacific Celiuloae company. In the course of which ha waa at first thought to have lost his lITe. Investigation of the explosion which wrecked the Walnut Creek laboratory disclosed the fact that the man killed was not Schwartx. sunshine.

The sugar content of the cane Is low. The season lor mill Professor after a deep lng Is. too short, being about six weeks, as against five months In Motors Company, told his wife, she says, that he wished she would apply for a divorce. Yesterday he got hi wish. i In her divorce complaint she said Doble had frequently told her he did not love her.

that he was irritable and quarrelsome and refused to enter Into her social life, and that he the tropics. Labor is not efficient and is not well supervised; and the study, railed the police and the police took the baby to the Palo Alto hospital, where it now gurgles and sleeps. "Odd sort of thing to find on but an Innocent victim, who had been murdered by Schwartx In an IF HE could get something. one's porch, wasn't it?" commented Professor Kennedy. "Perhaps its attempt to establish his own death.

Schwartx shot himself a few dava business methods are not good. Mexico loomed up at the Cabinet meeting on May 23rd as an ugly problem. Several members expressed themselves as being In favor of the recognition of Huerta. The President and Bryan were opposed to recognition. I -emphatically opposed it as Immoral.

WILSON'S STATEMENT-ROUTS LOBBYISTS. was lndltrerent toward their three children. They separated in May of last year, she said, after having been married fifteen years. Mrs. Doble, who lives at 26 Pano parent didn want two loud speakers in their house." Plans Are Made to TH EY WOULD pay to see.

HE'DMAKE himself rich. AND SO It began. AND NOW we're ruined. later in an Oakland apartment to avoid arrest POLICE TESTIFY. Chief of Police James P.

Drew and Inspector R. F. Ahearn, of the Oakland police, were placed on tha ramic way, Berkeley, asks custody of the children Lee, 13; Dorothy, Welcome Paderewski Friends and admirers of Ignace 11, and Abner 6 division of I asserted that the Huerta gov community, property consisting largely of shares of Doble stock. jan raaerewsKi, the celebrated Po lish pianist, were completing plans ernment was bad both In origin and in purpose, that neither Huerta AND WE live In a country. WHEREONE-HALF the people.

TRY TO convince. THE OTHER half. IF THEY don't buy this. yesterday lor me reception of the artist and his party on their arrival nor his crowd had any Interest in and J00 a month alimony. Compromise on i I THANK you.

BUILDING IN the Mexican people, and that rec here Sunday morning. Selby C. Op penneimer, under wnose ognition would probably, make'' indirectly responsible for a large ment Pftderewskl makes his only Gas Is Delayed The question of whether the stand to establish the fact that Schwartx committed suicide. City Marshal Guy K. Spencer, of Walnut Creek, testified to the explosion and that Schwartx was not killed there.

Mrs. Ester HatfteM, secretary to Schwartx. testified that he had pointed out tanks in the laboratory and told her they contained high explosives. Mrs. Schwartx, the widow, waa In the court room and Is.

expected to take the stand today in an attempt to defend her rights under the policy. loan to Huerta which would fasten concert appearance In Northern California. Is in charge of the plans. him upon the Mexicans. It was replied that he would get The concert takes place Sunday the money anyway and hold the afternoon in the Exposition Audi SOUTH 0' SLOT people down, and that, If he did so torium.

and suppressed the revolutionists, Board of Supervisors will recommend that the city accept the compromise proposal, of the Pacific Qaa Electric Company to refund more than $700,000 to rate-payers on alleged excessive rates charged In 1914-15 and 1915-16. or that the city continue tts fight against the company, will be decided by the public utilities committee of the supervisors next Wednesday, Chairman Warren' Shannon announced last night. 1ES 4 0A1S TOUR ORCHARDS Bay Region Counties To Hold Boost Meet 'A program for the unified development of the entire bay region will be considered today by representatives of nine counties meeting at a luncheon and conference under Want Ad Fills Apartment Quick Neighbors along Clementina street thought it was a wedding or something equally important yesterday afternoon when the people began to file Into Burke's apartment house, at T44 Clementina street. AU day the people came and by sundown there wasn't a vacant apart, ment In the" buSMing. "Just a little Examiner', ai" said Burke.

The Examiner Is the only MARTSVILLE March IT. (By Associated Press.) Delegates to the California State Building Trades Council convention rested today and toured orchard districts of Sutter and Yuba counties, where 50 per cent of the canning peaches of the country are grown. Tonight they gathered with rltixens of Marysville in the high school auditorium to hear an address by Prest-I we would have to recognize him. I said that this would not necessarily follow and that if it did, we would not be responsible for hira. It was agreed that Bryan should sound the English and French Amr bassadors to see If their governments were back of the loan and to warn them that they could not enforce a loan guaranteed by a pledge of customs duties.

I read with delight the statement given out by the President on the lobby. It was short-and to the point. He said: "I think the publie ought to know the extraordinary exertions being made by the lobby -in Washington to gain recognition for certain alterations of the tar iff bill. Washington has seldom seen so numerous, so Industrious, or so insidious a lobby. The are being filled with paid advertisements calculated to (Continusd on Pegs 23.) the auspices of the Regional Plan Association.

Fred Dohrmann president of the organization, will preside at the luncheon meeting. llerzi Club to Hold Meeting Tonight The Herxl Club, formerly the Four bands will make music for the South of Market Boys', ball and Twenty Tears After celebration at the Civic Auditorium on April 17, It was announced yesterday by the committee. One will play in the main hall, one in each of the two side halls and the fourth will be held In reserve to answer the riot call when the trombone players are breathless and the fiddlers faint, playing old-time airs like "Annie Rooney." and the "Sidewalks of New Tork." The relief corps will be composed principally of remaining members ef the famous old Heffernan's Band that stirred the hearts and feet south of the slot In earlier days. Board Acts to End "Death Crossing9 Solution of an East Bay traffic problem was a sauted when the State Railroad Commission yesterday Issued a permit for the immediate construction of. an automobile and pedestrian subway under the Southern Pacific main line and electric railroad tracks at Goss street, entrance to the Oakland mole.

The Goss street subway will eliminate a grade crossing which has a long record of fatal accidents. Central Zionist organisation, will dent John A. McCIilvray of the State Industrial Accident Commission on the campaign to reduce labor hazards In the State. Last year there were 211.000 In hold its first open meeting tonight at Its clubrooms, 926 Grove street. way to advertise for quick and satisfactory results.

Kipl.ng made II cents a word, but I've made $5W a year by a two line ad. No more I-room apartments In this building," concluded Burke, as he removed hia "For Rent" sign from he front window. it Is announced by Miriam Llss, dustrial accidents in California secretary There will bo a special program of entertainment, including with 650 fatalities, McCilvray pointed out- music and talks. BY SOL HESS THE NEBBS Hi Victoriano Huerta, who, although dictator of the Mexican people, was looked on with disfavor by Secretary Houston. His request for loans from American banks was warned against and his downfall forecast by the cabinet member.

J- SEKTTLEMEM, 1 JUST SOT WAS CAVED imX JUST UKG TO OTV Ji- OOOt3Ve, POLICE POSLE, KEt PsC Wwe 60TTM 1 A LONJS OlSTAMCE FS-OWE IrJ A COAL MINIS WwJ WAS TUe FIRST i "OURSeLP KltCE- AMD TlCrV-1 WAS '-OW DEED TO TWE MESSASE1 SAVAJG WCAM II FDR. TOUS? OfifS OMCV BOlTf A MP05E IM lJjpV TO ASKOU FORONSOP 1 I vveuJLvou owm A7 leave this hem roost fl amo rr nwasmt as fa I -this towmtheres no our opjass bottoms for a i I IT NOW AMD WS I AMD GO BACK WWER.E AY LQeJESOME AS 'I REASON! TOg IT-HE MOST, 4 REMEMSRANJCr BUT 1 AM I I CAM LEAVE AMY- L--. 'V ALARM CLOCKS ANT M-iA. OlS 3URS A WAVE DOME HIMSELP A I 6O1MS TO TRV AMD REMErA3ER T-TA IOPtT --T'' A OIRTY TRICK AKJD TRlEq fv YOO Wm-OUT rTSOOO 6WE It was noted that lobbyists, and particularly sugar lobbyists, wtre everywhere. It was impossible to move around without bumping into them at hotels, clubs, and even private houses.

They were pests, but they seemed worried. They Army and Navy officer were the people who were competent to pass on Kuch things. At this. Bryan flared up for the first time. He got red In the face and was very emphatic.

He thundered out that Army and Navy officers could not be trusted to say what we should or should not do, till we actually got Into war; that we wre discussing not how to wage war. but how not to get Into war. were not msklrlg their usual headway. Somebody pointed out that all our discussions, or nearly all. had been over foreign matters.

Domestic problems of Importance such as and that. If ships were moved about tariff and currency were never In the East, It would Incite to war. Several members of the Cabinet said that they could not see why could not move our own ships from where Jhey "were to our own ports. My view was that we could, but that the real question was whether the ships could get to Manila and could ba of any real use tf they did. The President said that he would direct the ships to stay where thev were and that he would do so.

knowing full 'well that there would be bitter critioism if war should come and he had. not done everything possible to prepare for It. At a garden party at the White Houte a day or so later, Bryan raised by the President. Lane, in particular, waa critical. FOREIGN MATTERS FIRST WITH PRESIDENT.

I pointed out that the President had evidently and of necessity given his thoughts primarily to pressing foreign questions, that he regarded this as his particular field, one in respect to which he had unusual powers and responsibilities, that he was evidently depending upon the heads of departments Initially to handle domestic economic questions1' each in his particular field, and that ha complimented ua by presenting many matters for lot not getun- excited.

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