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She FiRSTwith the LATEST Full Hilted Press lcascdWlrc mi OL XXII. NO. 249. catstep 18 PACES SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1927 PER MONTH MCADOO WILL NOT SEEK CANDIDACY qqqq OQQ'O oooo oooowwwww wwvwww Pershing Salutes Americans Who Lost Lives In War I HERO DEAD IRISH AVIATORS BEATER BY ELEMENTS Jensen Passes Chicago On Way to Gotham A E. F.

Commander, Head Of Legion, French Officers Attend Gathering PLANES FLY OVERHEAD toward Savage in Stirring Address to His Former Buddies of Battlefields (By United Press) nURESNES, France, Sept. Thirty thousand American soldiers, who died in France, saluted today by their war- leader and high officers of France and the American Legion, rhey gathered in the American here, where 1507 marble loadstones lie, row on row. Pershing and Foch, who ordered the men forward on their last ight; Howard P. Savage, national lommander of the American Leion: Generals Gouraud, De Beney, 3agenau and Hart were among hose who participated today in he tribute to those who died. This regiment of death had pa- aded for its officers in time of car.

The positions were reversed oday. In behalf of all the soldiers listed as dead or miss- ng after the great carnage, the nen of Suresnes took their salutes. From the small cemetery here, he homage of the war time lead- srs extended to other cemeteries in the western front, to forest md thicket where unfound bones lave bleached and mingled with he soil and to every spot which Aas baptized in 1917-18 with American blood. Planes Circle Above Overhead circled two army planned, as similar planes had levered as many of these men lied. In front of each headstone tottered two and American.

come this said he commander-in-chief of the NEW YORK, Sept. The Metro Goldwyn Mayer office here this afternoon said they had picked up wireless messages from Martin Jensen, flying from San Diego, to New York, saying that he had passed Chicago. Jensen has with him for company a docile lion from the Al G. Barnes circus, who aspires to the honor of being the first lion ever to fly without stop from California to New York. RENE LA COSTE BEATS TILDEN GREGG REPLIES Is Scored In Statement of County Commissioner A nn tic Frenchman Takes Match In Straight Sets, 11 -9, 6-3 and 11 -9 (By United Press) FOREST HILLS, N.

Sept. 17. The American singles tennis championship went back to France for another year today. William T. Tilden, the greatest player this country could send against the French, fell in three straight sets before the machinelike playing of Rene La Costa, of France.

The score was 11-9, 6-3 and (Continued on page 2) N.NOUNCEMENT of contribu- ons totaling $2370.29 to the Crippled Relief association and the Orange County Tuberculosis association for the period covering the last six months was made today by County Aid Commissioner Waiter S. Gregg. Gregg made known that this was his retort to criticism and complaint from these two organizations caused by the failure of his department to grant all requests for financial assistance to the private organizations. His announcement indicated his belief that all worthy cases of charity in which the county could legally give aid were being cared for. In a statement that accompanied the announcement of financial contributions, he struck at what he called in the ranks of his critics.

The Crippled Relief association has received $1340.79 and the Tuberculosis association $1029.50, it was stated. statement follows: For Information aid office wishes the public to know that the Crippled Relief association will have received, through this office alone, $1340.79 in cash for the care and massaging of cases that need home treatment after leaving the county hospital. This does not include hospitalization, operations, medicine, also furnished by the county. Orange County Tuberculosis association will be the re- (Continued on page 2) 1 DETROIT, Sept. report that Horace E.

Dodge arrived In Honolulu yesterday to obtain the custody of his two children tvas confirmed today at jffice here. Dodge intends to bring them back to the United States on first returning steamer, It was said. He anticipated no trouble in obtaining the children from his livorced wife. Under the divorce agreement between Dodge and his former wife, Lois Knowlson, who was married recently to Lt. Benjamin Manning, in army officer stationed in Hawaii, Dodge is entitled to custody the children six-months of each pear, it was said.

Redlands Clubman Victim Of Stroke RIVERSIDE, Sept. Harry Stephenson, of Redlands, prominent Exchange club official, suffered a paralytic stroke today nd was removed to the Community hospital here. Stephenson was enroute from Redlands to Long Beach by stage md during the stopover in the depot here was stricken. He was reported in no ite danger. Illness Cause Of Suicide FRESNO, Sept.

to Jesperation by an extended illness (rom which she feared she would never recover, Mrs. Iva Maud Mercer, 42, mother of four children, sommltted suicide In the bathroom sf her home here last night by firing a bullet Into her right temple. Samaritans Open First Convention FRESNO. Sept. first convention of the Ancient mystic Order of Samaritans opened here today with 200 delegates from Los Angeles, San Francisco Sacramento, San Diego, Marysville, Santa Ana and Riverside mending.

INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 17- Petition for reopening the contempt case against E. S. Shumaker, Indiana Anti-Saloon league head, in the state supreme court for the purpose of lengthening jail sentence was filed today by Attorney General Arthur Gtlllom. The ground was newly discovered evidence to the effect that Shumaker solicited and received aid of U.

S. Senators Robinson and Watson, of Indiana, to influence the court in his favor. Shumaker was sentenced by the court recently to a fine and 60 days in jail for criticizing the supreme actions in liquor cases. Sentence was suspended pending appeal to the U. S.

supreme court. LOSE LEOIL TILT SAN MATEO. Sept. California racing interests lost their first legal move to revive racing in California through adaptation of the certificate plan of betting today when Judge George H. Buck denied a writ of habeai corpus to James McDonald in a test case of the state statutes.

McDonald was arrested at Tanforan three weeks ago when he placed a bet on the certificate, or Illinois, plan for a regulation race The denial merely said the writ denied and the defendant could appeal to a higher court. Pomona Man Gets Ontario City Post ONTARIO. Sept. Burt, of Pomona, will succeed Otto S. Roen as city service manager here on October it was announced today.

Roen recently resigned to accept the city managership of South Pasadena. Prior to locating in Pomona, in 1925, Burt was engaged in public utilities service in Waterloo, la. TO CLAIM RELIEF ORGANIZATIONSS i EXPECT JULI AX RECEIVERSHIP TO BE LIFTED IX XEXT 60 DAYS (By United Press) (Continued on page 2) LOS ANGELES. Sept. men, whose actions are believed to have been prompted by insane motives, were held in the psychopathic ward of the General hospital here today, while police investigated two of the most sordid crimes in the history of Los Angeles.

One man, Dr. Karl Von Engle, 72, German surgeon, was held insane by a jury following the slaying of Mrs. Von Engle with a high-powered Mauser rifle. Mrs. Von Engle was an invalid.

A Jury also determined that John Minarich, ll, was strangled by his father, Matt Minarich, when the latter, fearing that he, himself, was dying, acted to protect his only boy from facing the world alone. LOS ANGELES, Sept. Prediction that the Julian Petroleum corporation woufd be out of the hands of receivers within 60 days brought new hope here today to thousands of stockholders, caught in the collapse of the oil company. S. C.

Lewis, ex-president of the company, declared here today that Julian could again be operating its own if receivers are successful in collecting $10,000,000 owed the oil company through asserted usurious interest operations. The arrival here of private records and papers of Jack Bennett, the is expected to give Receivers Joseph Scott and H. L. Carnahan the key to the whereabouts of these millions and they express the opinion that the situation was According to Lewis, tentative plans already are being considered to lift the receivership by the first of the year. This includes a complete reorganization program by the the stockholders, subject to the sanction of the federal court.

Race Flyers Cheat Death In Long Fall (By United Press) ALTOONA, Sept. The monoplane of Olym- entered in the New York pia, Spokane air derby, piloted by Lt. Valentine Gephart, Seattle, and Fred Parker, of Anderson, crashed and was wrecked near Grampian, Clearfield county, late yesterday, when the engine went dead 2000 feet in the air. Lieutenant Gephart, who is secretary of the National Aeronautic association, escaped by a parachute leap, landing, with minor bruises, in a clump of trees. Janeiro May Be Goal Of Fonck Flight (By United Press) CURTISS FIELD, NEW YORK, Sept.

Rene Fonck, French war ace, said today he was considering substituting for his proposed New York-to Paris flight a flight to some point in South America, in an attempt to set a new distance record. The start, he said, might be next week. Rio De Janeiro, or even Buenos Aires, would be the objective. Flight to San Francisco also might be made. He will use a big, new Sikorsky biplane.

BASEBALL SCORES (By United Press) UBLIN, Sept. of fog and wind that the north Atlantic holds for those who would fly westward over its restless wastes were described today by two men who turned back. With defeat inevitable. Capt. R.

H. McIntosh and Commandant James Fitzmaurice reversed the course of the monoplane after it had sped three hours from land and escaped the i rate of their daring fellow airmen, I who sought in vain this summer to trace an aerial path from Europe to North America. Encounter Heavy Weather The Irish aviators encountered the same sort of heavy weather which doubtless overcame the crews I of the and the "St. after they had passed out to the sea toward tragedy. McIntosh and Fitzmaurice hopped off from Baldonnel airfield at 1:34 I p.

yesterday, for New York. Two hours later they roared over Galway bay and headed out over the Atlan- tic, which never yet has been crossed in a non-stop flight from east to west. Then into fog and rain and head was very close to the Fokker monoplane for two hours. At length, beaten, the flyers elected to abandon their argosy, they regained the Irish coast over the mouth of the River Shannon and landed at 7:30 p. near Ballybun- ion, on the western coast of County Kerry.

The aviators, tired and weighed with the feeling that death had been near, went to bed in a hotel. Tells Flight In an interview with the press, Fitzmaurice sketched the hardships faced in the brief flight. had been over the sea between two and three hours when we encountered extremely heavy he said. was unutterably poor. top it all, we ran into a downpour or rain that forced us fre- quently to fly only 30 feet or so i over the water.

5 o'clock we found it lmpos- I sible to steer a true compass course Wants to Clear Field for Development of Effective Democrat Leadership CHALLENGE TO SMITH? Seeks to Prevent Individual Struggle at Expense Of Principles of Party TUGS SPEED TD ASSISTANCE DF DOLLAR VESSEL Ship Reported Wallowing In Heavy Seas with Propeller Gone (By United Sept. William Gibbs McAdoo on record today as declaring shall not be a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in The former secretary of the of the late President Wilson and himself aspirant in 1924 for the George F. Milton, of the Chattanooga News, under date of Thursday, the above declaration. Answering an appeal of Milton, his former publicity man, that he (By United SAN PEDRO, Sept. Two vessels were speeding through the Pacific today to a point 600 miles south of here, where the Dollar line freighter, Grace Dollar, was reported wallowing in heavy seas with a propeller missing.

The Coast Guard tug Caraorah and the salvaging tug Peacock answered radio calls last night from the distressed vessel that carries a crew of 39 men. The British motorship, Cape of Good Hope, and the Mexican steamer, Bolivia, are reported a (Continued on Page 2) SACRAMENTO, Sept. K. Harder, suspended chief state traffic officer, accused of insubordination, inefficiency and discourtesy to the public, today resigned under fire. resignation was promptly accepted by A.

R. Heron, director of the state department of fin- nance. Gigantic Lookout Tower Is Planned In Angeles Forest Passengers Hurt In Plane Accident HADLEY FIELD, N. Sept. 17.

airplane carrying several passengers fell near here today. Seven injured persons were taken to the Muhlenberg hospital, Plainfield. First were that the pilot had been killed. PASADENA, Sept. gigantic steel lookout tower will be Installed on Mount Islip in Angelus National forest, County Forester S.

D. Turner announced here today. The tower, located at an elevation of 8000 feet, will command a view of the Angeles forest and the reaches of the San Gabriel river and will augment the present outpost station on Mount Gleason. Steel for the tower will be hauled IO miles by mule pack train from the end of the nearest road, it was said. ON INSPECTION TOUR FRESNO, Sept.

Col. Robert Loghry, commander of the California and Nevada department of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, will arrive here today on an inspection tour of in his department. NATIONAL LEAGUE Brooklyn OOO OOO JO 0 Pittsburgh 020 IO 0 and Deberry; and Gooch. Brooklyn OOO 000-0 3 0 pSSSgh IOO ZOO 6 13 and Henline; and Smith. (First Game) Boston OOI OOO OOO IO 3 010 000 010 000 1-3 15 2 and Gibson; Chicago Bush and Hartnett.

New York IOO OOO 400-5 8 I Cincinnati OOO OOO 100-1 I New and Taylor; Kelp, Jablonowski and Sukeforth, Picinich. AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit T2 I Boston 9 4 Holloway and Sassier; Bennett, Lundgren and Hofmann, Moore. (Second Game) IE Boston 040 ll and Woodall; Welzer, Bushey, Bennett and Hartley, Moore. Chicago OOI OOO 6 I New OOO OOO 21x-3 8 I and Crouse; New and Collins. (Second Game) 010 0 New 110 2 and Crouse; New and Grabowski.

St 032 9 I Philadelphia 000 7 I St. and Schang; and Cochrane, Perkins. (Second Game) St Louis OOO OOO 0 4 3 Philadelphia 035 15 0 St. Ballou and Dixon; and Cochrane, Perkins. (Continued on page 2) LOS ANGELES.

Sept. 17. "Bandit whose activities with male accomplices have been widespread in the last week, were the objective of an intensive police search today. Three or more bands of thugs are operating in Los Angeles, police department officials said. Service stations and drug stores.

as well as individual pedestrians, have been held up in numerous instances in which girl bandits have brandished firearms. San Diego Man Enters Race For President WASHINGTON, Sept. While William G. McAdoo out of the presidential Democnpt, L. H.

Francipegr of San Diego, announced herA today that he hurling in. rn California'- real estate with experience In ranchjrg and railroad engineering, cfctclafed the ptiign mun fought on economic grounds. FRESNO. Sept. line with a policy of extending a curtailment program, the California Vineyard- association and the Fresno clearing house committee have made a mutual agreement to re- duce grape shipments next week preve-nt a repetition of the run, McAdoo maoiprThls definite declaration, coupling it with announcement that, a private he-will be ready th co-operate in furthering principles he long has He it clear that ha stand aside in order that the field may be clear, far as I can clear it, for development of a leadership that can more effectively" gain ends af of Democratic principles and siva McAdoo made It clear he desires by 20 or 30 per cent The reduction means that instead of 8500 cars called for by shipping requirements, only 5700 cars will be loaded by the C.

V. A. membership. The move, according to Donald D. Conn, managing director of the C.

V. was undertaken to check an existing surplus of fresh grapes to eastern markets and thereby prevent repetition of the disastrous days of 1926. conclusive and disastrous fight in (Continued on 2) California Takes Determined Stand In Water Question HESSES TELLOF WASHINGTON. Sept. of Agriculture Jardine haa banned all agriculture department than the regular forecasts by the U.

S. crop reporting board, authorized by that would tend to cause speculation in the cotton market. In this he has the support of President SACRAMENTO, Sept. not to surrender to Arizona a single drop more of Colorado river water than agreed at the recent seven-state conference of governors at Denver, members of the California Colorado rivers commission left for Denver today after a conference with Governor! INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. Coolidge.

Mayor John R. Duvall was plctur- Reports on the cotton situation ed today by state witnesses in his heretofore published in the trial on charges of violating the monthly review of crop corrupt practices act as having conditions will be eliminated, gone with 30 other candidates for! Senator Harris, Democrat, office to take the KU Klux Klan Georgia, announced he intends to oath during the 1925 campaign in introduce a bill in congress thin which he was elected. I fall prohibiting forecasts of The oath was taken at a meet- on any farm products. These de- in'' at the East Tenth Street I velopments followed cotton market Methodist church, the witnesses: fluctuations Thursday, following revelation of department figures said. Prosecutor William H.

Remy, on crop prices. Young. popi announced just before the court i commission, Including Earl, Mnounceoj Promoter Wanted Bacon San Diego, declared that ternoon. Arizona will receive approximately! Mayor Duvall was expected to Arizona will finjjt defen8e witness. 9 OOO OOO acre feet a ear irom the river, including that from the tributaries, as compared 4.600,000 acre feet with I LATE NEWS FLASHES Complete Survey For Airway Lights By Fresno Police Seized In Wichita HADLEY FIELD, N.

Sept. huge Fokker monoplane, owned by Reynolds Airways, crashed near the U. S. mail service flying field here today, It was carrying a number of passengers. Two are known to be dead, including the pilot.

Four others were believed to have lost their lives. PALMDALE, Sept. was reported here late today that two men had been killed in the crash of a naval airplane at Llano, 25 miles east of here. WASHINGTON. Sept.

of the Los Angeles-San Francisco section of Los Angeles- Seattle airway for beacon light installation has been completed, the commerce department announced today. Survey of the remainder of the line will start at once. The lighting equipment will be extended approximately 200 miles north of San Francisco. From there on to Seattle intermediate day fields will be established at intervals. FRESNO.

Sept. officer was dispatched today to return Lee Mancheil and his wife. Fern, arrested yesterday in in connection with theft two weeks ago of the receipt of the relief fund water Anita Peabody. J. D.

Ie MOW. wen the Belmont HlVttf. Futurity this afternoon and the with the thef richest stake ever offered for a which wai a aw I of a 1250 diamond ring, which race horse. The total value of the of affarded a prize purse was well over $100,000. Reigh Count, also owned by Mrs.

Hertz, was second, a length behind. P. Victorian was third. The seven furlongs was run la th j- 1:21 4-5, only one-fifth of a sec- ta end slower than the track record, and his wife fled. at show.

She alleged to have substituted a $25 ring, An automobile, offered aa first prize, was said to have been by Mancheil as a security paj.