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mm URRENT OMMENT By-------------------Chester H. Rowell CITY, Kansas, advertises Sinclair newest novel by banishing it from its public library. The book is not lewd or indecent, or otherwise It merely satirizes the ministry, as previous volumes had satirized the business men and the physicians. It is of course exaggerated, and i may be unjust. So were its predecessors, which were JH not banished.

The 1 ion means that you may show up the faults and foibles of other professions, but not of the ministry. may be, from the standpoint of good taste, an entirely defensible distinction. The blunder is in making it a distinction in law. Bad taste is not a crime. Neither, in this country, is lack of respect for the clergy.

TpiIE lowly flivver ousts the still lowlier burro. So the stampede to Weepah and the other reported gold strikes, is all on rubber tires. The truck will follow the flivver and the paved boulevard, the truck; and towns will rise almost overnight, indistinguishable from the architecture of civilization. The frontier is no it disappears, as soon as it is discovered. The open are neither great nor open, in the age of gasoline.

Santa Ana VOL. XXII. NO. 98. 20 PAGES SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1927 Leading dally Orange pop.

only daily Santa Ana, pop. 27,000. Established 1905; merger 1918 65c PER MONTH Nevada vindicates itself by defeating the anti- gambling bill. If there is any gambling in the new camps, it will be of the bootleg variety, and the sheriff can close it if he likes. The chief applicant for a gambling license also showed how far the W'orld has moved by announcing that he would have no liquor in his place.

Modern bootleg booze is not fit to associate even with faro and roulette. OR that matter, the two never did mix. The writer recalls an all-night where the newspaper men of an earlier day used to take their meals at unseemly hours of the morning. In one corner was a gambling resort, none of whose assistants were allowed to drink. In another corner was a saloon, whose barkeepers w-ere not allowed to gamble.

In the third corner was a restaurant, whose waiters did both. The only respectable business was the only one that dared patronize either of the disreputable ones. A gambler who drank would lose. A barkeeper wrho gambled would steal. That was their opinion of each other.

ECRETARY Mellon also discusses the debt question as if it were a moral one. The American demand for payment, the reluctance, the criticism, and the defense, all assume that the question is whether the debtors pay, or whether we, in good morals, forgive them. All of which is precisely to no point wrhatever. HE question is not moral at all. It is practical.

"VVe have a moral right to collect that money, if vre can. We also have the moral right to refrain from doing so. And we have the right to consult our own interests, in deciding what we will do. It is all morally quite right, whatever we do or do not do. But the practical question is: Can it be done, and, if so, will it pay us? And the answer to that is not to be found in morals nor in emotions.

It is to be found in brains. If we will use our minds on this question, we can reserve our hearts for questions which concern them. MOB REPELLED BY U. S. MARINES a U.

S. Arms Embargo May Government Under No Obligation to Prevent Smuggling After March 28 CIVIL WARTOSSIBILITY Removal Considered Probable As Retaliation for Any Future Overt Acts MANUSCRIPTS CALLED FOR IN FORD CASE CANNOT BE FOUND EDITOR William J. Cameron, editor of Dearborn Independent, who testified today in court that manuscripts called for by counsel for Aaron Sapiro, plaintiff in the mil- (By United Press) ASHINGTON, March rogation of the Mexican anti- suit against Ford, smuggling treaty by the Unit- COuld not be found ed States re-opened general dis EXICAN archaeologists have found two more pyramids to the sun and moon, built, they estimate, more than 2,000 years ago. They will be only additions to a considerable series of the same sort, already discovered. These Mexican relics are among the most challenging objects in the world.

They fling questions at you, at every turn, but they offer no answers to any of them. There are pyramids, so like, in spirit and construction, to the Egyptian ones that you can not help asking if there is a connection. The only answer is that there is no evidence whatever on which to base any opinion, either way, and that therefore the only intelligent attitude is resolutely to have no opinion. There are temples so strangely similar to the ancient Buddhist ones of Borobodur and Angkor Wat as to challenge the same inquiry. There is no answer.

Nobody knows; it is impossible to guess and futile to speculate. Twice in human history, with no evidence that they had any knowledge of each other, human beings erected almost identical structures and apparently developed similar institutions and usages. The question asks itself. The trained mind refuses even to conjecture the answer. cussion today of possible lifting of the American arms embargo and consequent civil war south of the Rio Grande.

After March 28 this government will be under no treaty obligation to prevent arms smuggling to Mexican counter revolutionists and, the way thus is cleared for effective removal of the embargo. The United Press understands President Coolidge has no intention of acting immediately. But If and when Mexico commits an alleged overt act in the oil-land law dispute by seizing American property, removal of the arms embargo in retaliation is considered probable. There are evidences that the Calles government is in a conciliatory mood and trying to avoid any such overt act. Mexican Ambassador Tellez today said he believed the disputes could be settled by negotiation.

President Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg have expressed similar hopes. SOLQNS REACH Problem Remains As One of Biggest Before State Legislature PROTEST TREATMENT OF AMERICAN CITIZEN WASHINGTON, March protest is being made by the American embassy to the Mexican government over treatment of Marc Yohe Cuyas, American citizen, Ambassador Sheffield reported to the state department today. Cuyas was arrested and held incommunicado without charges in a Mexico City jail for three days and released after representations by the embassy, Sheffield reported. American now is charged with infractions of local insurance laws. Two Are Held for Death FRESNO, March for more than a wreek by deputies of the sheriff's office here, Alfred Didinato and George Martin are in.

the county jail here today on suspicion of slaying R. J. Foote, night watchman at Reedley, on March 15. Didinato and Martin were arrested on a ranch near here. Officers declare they found a large amount of incriminating evidence on the ranch, including a liquor plant, valued at $4000.

Foote was fatally wounded while he was watching over a pump house. He was detailed to the building after numerous reports of the theft of machinery from pump houses in the vicinity of Reedley. Hit, Run Driver Is Blamed for Death FOR LIFE SAN BERNARDINO, March Dr. H. W.

Mills, prominent San Bernardino surgeon, today won his life battle against septic influenza, according to reports of attending surgeons, who stated that he has passed the crisis. Some days ago, Dr. Mills, owner of Ramona hospital here, was stricken with a condition that developed into an abscess in the arteries near the heart. When an operation was found necessary, Dr. Mills directed the of his associates while under local anaesthesia.

Again on Monday night, the surgeon-patient superintended his own second operation. For several hours it was believed that he would succumb to the malady, but after a good sleep and a reduced temperature this morning his aides believe that he has won his life fight SANTA BARBARA, March 23- State, county and city officers today are combining their efforts to locate two hit-and-run drivers, believed responsible for the death of Frank Treanor, Santa Maria hay and grain merchant, and serious injury to Ramon Espinosa, city workman. automobile was forced from the highway near Los Alamos Monday night, turned over twice, killing him instantly and inflicting minor injuries on Helmer Johnson, who was riding with him at the time. Espinosa was knocked down, while crossing an intersection, by a driver who failed to stop. Chinese Stewards Will Man Vessels (By United ACR A MEN TO, March age old battle of the water hole, fought over again in the California legislature with all the spirit of the old frontier days, today remained one of the biggest issues awaiting decision at the capital.

After a lively hearing last night, before the assembly constitutional amendment committee, in which both riparian water right owners and advocates of state control of surplus flood waters took an equal part, the committee was no nearer a decision on the important water question today than before. The amendment, written by Assemblymen Crittenden, Bernard, Adams and Mixter, would place surplus floodwaters of California streams under the control of the a complete reversal of water policy established by the recent Herminghaus decision in the supreme court, upholding the rights of riparian owners. Importance Is Stressed Assemblymen Van Bernard and Bradford S. Crittenden opened the arguments for the proponents of water conservation explaining the measure and stressing the importance of water problem. legislature has a right and a duty to see that the use of the waters of the state is not a public declared former Justice Max Z.

Sloss, representing the Lindsey-Strathmore irrigation district. we ask Is that the waters of the state be put to their greatest beneficial he said. While the eyes of California farmers are turned toward the action on this new doctrine of water rights, a lobby of insurance men was massing its forces for a final attack upon the proposed compulsory automobile insurance bill, up for the final hearing tonight before the senate insurance committee. This measure, by Senator Sanborn Young, of Los Gatos, would require every automobile owner to carry liability insurance on his machine. Insisting that it would put the state in competition with the big insurance companies, their representatives are here to fight the proposal.

Assembly Passes Young Bill Governor reorganization measures continue to slip through the legislative machinery with well- ordered precision. The latest, passed by the assembly, establishes a new department of social welfare. The bill had already been approved in the senate, and now goes before Governor Young for signature. The new department replaces the present department of public welfare and provides for a board of seven members, including a director. The salary would be $400 a year.

The board would hold office at the pleasure of the governor, and present members of the public welfare board will automatically assume the duties of the new board. Search of Office Fails to Unearth Story, Editor Says (By United Press) DETROIT, March Original manuscripts of Harry H. story in the Dearborn Independent, basis of the Million dollar Ford-Sapiro libel suit, cannot be found, it was revealed in court today. William J. Cameron, editor of the Dearborn Independent, which is Henry weekly magazine, testified he had searched his office last night and could not find the manuscripts.

Henry Gallagher, Aaron chief counsel, had demanded production of the manuscripts in court. Presentation of the alleged libels, about half consumed yesterday, was then resumed by Gallagher. may be only a coincidence that the line of agricultural control in this country runs from Otto Kahn and Bernard Baruch (New York financiers) down through Aaron Sapiro and lesser Gallagher read from the Independent. Got Name Wrong here is an incident which may throw light on that. Because Aaron Sapiro, when he organized the Colorado potato growers, thought Erskine R.

Mycr spelled his name Meyer and was a Jew, enterprising young promoter of co-operative associations employed Mr. Myer as attorney for the Colorado potato The defense resumed Its policy of objecting to all questions and the court went to great length to explain to. the jury that some of the evidence being offered was presented as evidence of libel and some only as evidence of malice. Malice, he said, is a factor in determining the amount of damages. Under this ruling, an entire article was read to the jury.

Sapiro read the article personally, the first time he had joined in the pleading of his own case. The article dealt with the of Jew and It charged that the "Vulture lias on the $37,000,000 hay crop of Washington, with heavy losses to the farmers. Reads From Article "If a man will take a map of Idaho, Washington and Sapiro read, with a supply of red, white and blue pins, set a red pin where there is an outbreak of Communism, radicalism and T. W. stick a white wherever the Jewish farm exploiting association has founded one of its so- called California plan co-operative plans and put in a blue pin wherever one or more such associations have failed, he wilt find that he has a set of three pins at each The jury heard Sapiro read detailed charges that the Northwest Hay association was mulcted out of large sums; that one of the organizers in the Walla Walla district of Washington was an I.

W. W. agent and that the 1923 crop was sold at less than $13 a ton which the article said, independent growers received for their crop. It charged radicals, employed as co-operative organizers, weak-kneed into joining the hay association. Gallagher began questioning Cameron, when Sapiro completed the reading, as to the source of information for the article.

were several Camerson said. must have been letters on Cameron said this Included knowledge of the alleged connection 100 Chickens Roasted In Market Blaze LOS ANGELES, March 23. hundred chickens were roasted here today, but so far as known no invitations have been issued for a feast. The poultry was burned to death when a fire caused several thousand dollars damage at the new General market here. In addition to the chickens, some fixtures were destroyed and a considerable quantity of meat burned by a blaze believed started from an overheated smokehouse.

OH AS TAX Supervisors Repeat Action Approving Appropriation For Main Street Paving HEADED FOR COURTS? Goode and Purinton Before County Body With Request for Funds TO COLD FIELD CTION BY the board of county supervisors in approving, by vote of 3 to 2, the proposal to ppropriate $10,000 for the paving of South Main street, in Santa Ana. was repeated yesterday at the re- Crew In Danger As Fire Gains ASTORIA, March 23. fire in her hold gaining rapid headway, the British steamer crew is in danger, it was indicated this afternoon in a radio message from her master, asking that tugs stand by and escort the craft in her race for port. Shipping men consider this as evidence that the captain fears he may have to abandon his burning craft. The last radio message from the Belchers stated that she has a heavy list, due to the water which has been pumped into the bunkers, but that she was still making eight knots an hour under full steam.

The wireless said that her bunkers were all afire and that her holds also were burning. Buildings, Carried to Weep- quest of Santa Ana city officials, i i 1 who presented a resolution author- ah on 1 rucks, Kented For Big Sums izing the appropriation. The new step was taken, It was said, to smooth the way for a court decision on the question whether a mere majority of the board is nec- 23. It essary to appropriate the funds, or (By United Press) TONOPAH, March was moving day between Tonopan a four-fifths vote is required. That and gold-mad Weepah today.

But it was moving on a big scale, houses in fact. Two ambitious contractors from Bakersfield, came into town with two large trucks and purchased small houses here that were empty. They are moving the structures whole to Weepah and have them rented at fabulous sums before they are unloaded. The housing situation continues acute, as new arrivals increase practice population daily. The funus Elks and Rotary club met last night to consider the problem of handling the stampeders.

It was decided that a system of registering all available rooms and cabins at some central point would be instituted. It is believed this point is the crux of the controversy over the attempt by the city to secure the appropriation from county gas tax funds. Supervisor S. H. Finley, Santa Ana.

and Willard Smith, Orange, supported in the present instance by Supervisor George Jeffrey, of Irvine, voted for the appropriation, which Chairman William Schumacher, of Buena Park, and Supervisor John C. Mitchell, of Garden Grove, opposed. Jeffrey admits opposition to the of transferring county Santa Ana city paving, Head of Family, Injured in Blast, Not Expected To Live (By United Press) LOS ANGELES. March terrific explosion of accumulated gas, which completely demolished a five-room dwelling in Home Gardens today, caused serious in- but voted for the $10,000 appropria- jury to five persona, one of whom jn the tion because he previously had probably is fatally hurt, promised to do so. The blast occured when Nocho Nicoloff struck a match to light a gas stove.

A flash and a roar followed, hurling Nicoloff. his wife, two children and a lodger to Reappear Before Board Because the dispute over how large a majority vote was required to carry the appropriation appeared More Than 450 Foreigners Leave Chapei War Area For Safety WARSHIPS STAND BY Rifle Butts Used by Soldiers in Repulsing Attempt to Enter Quarter (By United HANGHAI, March 23. than 450 Americans and other foreigners today were evacuated from the Chapei war area, under direction of S. Consul General Edward Cunningham. The foreigners were brought into the comparative safety of the international settlement.

The steamer Poyang was expected to arrive in the morning with 175 foreign refugees from Nanking and 125 others were pected to arrive soon afterward. About 25 foreigners would remain at Nanking. American marines were fighting side by side with the crack Brit: tsh Cold Stream guards in a key 1 position on the first lino of de! fense of the foreign settlement this afterncon. Naval officers and the U. S.

consul general, fearing a Chinese assault on the settlement, perfected plans for evacuation of all foreigners at a notice. Warships and transports anchored off Shanghai were ready to take all refugees on board if it became necessary. Mob Storms Bridge Rain dulled the enthusiasm of rioters, but despite its influence and the work of 20,000 Cantonese troops striving to establish peace native section, a mob stormed the Markham road bridge this afternoon in a desperate effort to enter the settlement. The Cold Stream guards on duty there sent out a call for aid and two squads of marines, stationed win ho -innrpciitcd hv stnntrors headed for the courts, city officials the floor and burying them in the behind the guards awaiting such Vmif made their reappearance before the wreckage. Ian emergency, were sent into po- some of whom spend half the night trying to find places to sleep.

reappearance before tne wreckage, supervisors late yesterday to file The blast was heard within a ra- sition. formal request for the appropria- dius of a mile and broken timbers They repelled the mob without Would Take Fight Out of Committee SACRAMENTO, March bombshell was dropped into the senate today in the form of a resolution by Senator J. M. Inman, of Sacramento, to call out of committee the fight against San so-called as practiced by the Industrial Asso- cision of Building Material Dealers. The motion lost by a vote of 20 to 19 and Senator Inman served notice he would bring it up tion, the city council having on Monday night passed a resolution ordering the paving work done.

As explained to the board hv Mayor F. L. Furinton, Trustee Stanley Goode and City Attorney Charles D. Swanner, the city was repeating its request to fortify its legal position in the event of the anticipated court action. Swanner further explained that there are two statutes bearing on the legal question, one section of the motor vehicle act making no reference to the majority required for approval, while another section of the general laws specifies that a four-fifths vote is required.

It will be the contention, it is understood, that the four-fifths vote applies to instances where the supervisors and furniture were strewn about firing a shot, but several rioters nursed bruised heads from the efficient use of rifle butts by the Americans. One L'. S. marine, Raymond Walter Strauch, Lincoln, was slightly wounded by a spent bullet. Sixteen U.

S. marines were left 1 ed to recover. I on guard at the Markham road Mrs. Nicoloff and her two chil- bridge. With the Cold Stream i dren, Nick, 3 and George.

4, and guards, they formed the pick of a lodger, T. G. Nadjieff, suffered the defense troops. Howitzers and for several hundred yards. The house was completely wrecked, with the roof torn off and walls rent asunder.

Neighbors rescued the family from the ruins and the injured were taken to the Suburban hospital, where Nicoloff is not expect- serious burns and bruises. again tomorrow morning and warned his opponents to busy themselves take the initiative with their Youths Sentenced To Life In Prison (Continued on page 2) SAN JOSE, March With a sentence of life imprisonment meted them, Ross Moss and Joseph Gross today were awaiting transfer to San Quentin. The sentence was pronounced Judge J. R. Welch, when the two youths entered court and pleaded guilty to murdering Harry Morgan.

19-year-old Mountain View youth, during a holdup the night of January 9. BROTHERS SET FOR LEGAL STRUGGLE IN COURT WHERE FATHER SAT FOR 24 YEARS TOKIO, March ships of the N. Y. K. line will be manned by Chinese stewards from Shanghai and Hong Kong due to a strike of a thousand Japanese stewards.

All ships of the line were tied up today, while the Chinese stewards are being recruited by cable. Japanese strikers demand higher wages. Officials of the company laid their case before the government, which gave permission to employ outside help. At the start 250 will be recruited. Epidemic on Ship Is Under Control WASHINGTON, March influenza epidemic aboard the army transport Chateau Thierry, enroute to San Francisco, Is under control and 35 cases have been discharged from the ship hospital as cured, according to reports to the wax department today.

The of the is scheduled to open at 10 a. tomorrow, before a jury in Superior Judge E. J. court, where Raymond Remington, Folsom convict, goes on trial for alleged bank robbery. The trial will present one of the most curious features of court lore that has been observed here a circumstance never before occurring in this county; perhaps in this state or any other state.

District Attorney Z. B. West prosecutor of the case, will be pitted against his brother, Franklin G. West, counsel for the defense. And the trial will be for the press by West, of the Register staff, a brother of the two attorneys.

Had the trial occurred a few months earlier, it was suggested today, this curioua gathering of family might have been increased from three to four. The ease might have bean tried fore the late Judge Z. B. West, father of the attorneys and the reporter. Judge West sat in the court for 24 years.

The situation, it was pointed out today, arose through a coincidence. When Remington, the defendant, appeared in court to answer to the charge, he lacked funds for employment of counsel. It happened to be the turn of Franklin West on the list of attorneys to accept appointment to defend the case. Remington was agreeable to the appointment, regardless of the relationship between the attorneys, which seemed rather to please him. So it was arranged.

Remington is accused of holding up the First National bank, of Olive, in June, 1924, and escaping with $2400. He later was convicted of bank robbery in Watts and was serving a term in Folsom when indicted by the grand jury here for the Olive deciding to appropriate county funds for a city, while in instances in which the city requests the board for such appropriation, only a simple majority is required. The city is making the request for the appropriation in the present instance and will contend that the majority of 3 to 2 given the proposal is enough to authorize payment of the $10,000 to the city. County Auditor W. C.

Jerome, whose duty it is to pay the money or withhold it, also is known to favor the view presented by the city. In fact, it is said that Jerome was among the first to adopt the interpretation of the statutes that will form the basis of the city's side of whatever court action results. Court Action Promised In view of attitude on the question and the probability that he would favor payment of the money to the city, coupled with the recent declaration by Chairman Schumacher, of the county board, that he would stop payment of the money by court action, if necessary, it wras surmised that the legal question would be settled in the form of an injunction suit, filed against the auditor by Schumacher or someone else who opposes the appropriation. Since the statutes, according to City Attorney Swanner, provide that the county money could not be appropriated until after the city had ordered its work done, the city in this case desired to protect its legal position by renewing its request after the work had been ordered. Swanner prepared a resolution, which was approved by District Attorney Z.

B. Vest and which then was submitted to the supervisors, showing that the work had been ordered and that the board believed the street in question was one devoted to general use by the county. West advised the board that adoption of the resolution would in no wise affect the position of the board in the legal contest to come. It merely would open the way for a court decision on the point to be decided, he said machine guns were ready for use. i American women established canteens and served the marines with coffee and sandwiches.

A series of anti-foreign out' breaks was reported at Woosung. Foreigners took refuge in the customs house. A British warship was anchored net the town, ready to aid if necessary. Apparently the Cantonese troops gradually were establishing a WASHINGTON, March 23 Rep- order in the native resentative Taylor, Democrat, Col- part of shanghai, but defense au- orado, appealed to President Cool- thorities within the settlement idge today to seek a means of get- feared the Nationalists, themselves, ting interested western states to- mjght attempt to force their way gether on the Boulder dam pro- int0 the foreign district, ject. Prepared to Evacuate power trust has been able jt that possibility rather to prevent adoption of projects for than danger from mobs which harnessing the $10,000,000 resources caused authorities to prepare for of the Colorado Taylor said i instant evacuation, afterward.

may bo able to jn spite of rain and the police continue to thwart action unless duty of Cantonese troops, sporadic the seven interested states get to- I firing could be heard in the gether in agreement as to what! tive city. The rain assisted fire- should be done. i men attempting to extinguish we want is that Uncle flames which had destroyed 1500 Sam should sit at the power switch houses in the Chapel district, near board and allocate the power to the settlement, and it was be- the various Order Plans for L. A. River Bridge LOS ANGELES, March first step to create a boulevard' from the Santa Monica bay dis-! trict to the east city limits of Los, Angeles was taken here today.

lieved the fire would not spread across the line into the foreign district. The rain added to the suffering thousands of homeless refugees who streamed into Shanghai from outlying villages and who were forced to spend last night in the bullets continued flying into the settlement, but leas frequently than yesterday. At least 250 persons have been killed in the native Chapei district Instructions to the city possib5y as many as 100 to prepare plans immediately the native area south the construction of a bridge over.0f the river, a check revealed to- the Los Angeles river, at Wash-Iday ington street, were delivered and T'he Chinese Red cross today work will be started to open ash- wag caring f0r 200 wounded per- ington street from the east bank sona jn the international settle- of the river to Mines avenue as a part of the cross-town boulevard- to the-ea The Bonds in the sum of $350,000. French consul generals today con- have been voted to build the bridge, ferred with the Cantonese com- which will open an artery of traf- mander, General Pei Chung Shi, fie to motorists from the cities to the east and south of Los An- geles. FREIGHT TRAIN DERAILED SANTA ROSA, March freight cars went into the ditch last night near Gevservllle, conference With this tacit understanding of when Northwestern Pacific freight Japanese and French consuls gen- train No.

31, southbound, left the (Continued on page 2) No one was injured. (Continued on page 2) concerning the status of the International settlement and the French concession. Cunningham was too busy, he told the United Press, arranging the evacuation, to attend in which the British,.