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Watch Santa Ana Grow Building Permits, 1922 Building Permits, 1923 Building Permits, 1924 to date $806,857 Population, 1920 Census 15,485 Population now more than 27,500 ii VOL. XIX. NO. HO. A 4 EDITION and Santa Ana Daily News Leading Dally Paper of Orange County.

Population Over 100,000 Consolidated October 8, 1923 SANTA ANA, SATC RIMY, APRIL 5, 1921 20 PAGES The Register Established 1905. The Blade Established 1887 Merged 1918 65c PER MONTH SEEK WOMAN IN NEW HAMMER DEATH JEALOUSY GIVEN AS Defy Hughes In Mew Immigration Sill PLAGUE CASE BRUSH BLAZE FENCE ROADS President In Favor Of This Retreat As Summer White House FIND NEW Author of Measure Makes Strong Plea For Passage In Speech 1890 CENS ADE BASIS FOR QUOTAS Italians and Japanese Hit; Denies Treaty Rights Are Violated 30 ACRES DISEASE Fire Fighters, Early On County Employs 500 Extra Tijuana Mayor Opens War On Dope Dens SAN DIEGO, Cal, April 5. on orders of Gov. General Abelardo Rodriguez of Lower California, Tijuana police today were planning new raids In their drive to clean up vice conditions at the border city. A raid was conducted yesterday on one dive where narcotics have been sold openly, resulting in the arrest of five Chinese and two Americans, a man and a woman.

Mayor Talamentes announced the raids would continue until TiJuana is clean and plans another week-end expedition. Scene, Stamp Out Flames Near Pasadena Deputies In Effort to Halt Epidemic YEGGS FAIL IN ATTEMPT TO ROB BANK killing similar Los Angeles Beauty Beaten to Death After Terrible Struggle of Walter A. Brown, near Wilmington, has been offered President Coolidae mer White House, and it is said Coolige is inclined to accept the offer if he finds it possible to get his desk this summer. as a sum- SENATE FINANCE BODY CUTS PROPOSED INHERITANCE TAX OF HOUSE ALMOST IN HALF WASHINGTON, April that even without immigra- Hon Remoulded Measure Made to Conform to Suggestions of will be 200,000,000 in fifty rL A years, Representative Johnson I Mellon; Other Changes Will Wipe Out Washington, chairman of the house Deficit reared By Senate Leaders on Th-3 I im-1 in WASHINGTON, April Slashes the bi; inheritance tai almost migration bill which cam. up for uT" debate today much a c.nserva- TTt conform clot" of Secretary 3 of the Treasury Mellon.

natural Jhe committee completed a tentative draft of the bill, but will hold There are 600,000 Russians. another the day to hear senators who desire to revise OOO Italians and 70,000 Poles who provLs.onsalready accepted have already applied for passports of the bdl will go to the printers tonight and be ready and are endeavoring to reach the t0 the not bc made pubUc untiI United States, he declared. Cutting the inheritance tax from the forty per cent provided for in be an the house bdl to 25 per cent, as under existing law, will deprive the gov- ernmeut of an estimated revenue of $12,000,000. IllCCoa utCKS $510,000 Over Stage Contract This inheritance tax applies has become necessary that the United States cease to he said. For Border Patrol Johnson told the house that piementary hills were being pre- estates of more than $10,000,000 pared to create a border pafrol to Kj.l® complete accord with the to enforce immigration, customs, cpLJi'mhp8 Vn ii, health, liquor, narcotic and important changes laws which will put a nend to sur- vruoa fn i I committee voted Lo plaice Mex' in and five per ('ent tax on musical VO ments, eye glasses and spectacles, Japans real trouble which were exempt under the irHK Al A3 house bill.

It also cut the exemption ThiJ Infill colonizing her sur- on jewelry from $40 in the house population in the United bill to $25. This will increase reve- btates, he said. i nue $1,000,000 to $2,000,000. He denied that the Japanese ex-: Articles used for religious pur- rlusion feature of the bill violated poses were exempted by the corn- Japan treaty rights. I mittee.

The bill was brought up under The committee raised the ex- lule which permits general debate eruption on radio sets so that the, to continue, except for interim's- ten per cent tax will apply on sets on Monday until ll with a wholesale price of more Tuesday night. Thereafter debate than $50. will be limited to five minutes for A provision in the house bill each member on the bill or on tightening up the administration amendments. Leaders estimatd a of the law was adopted. Under this final vote could not be reached un-, provision tax payers may not de- til the end of next week.

duct interest from tax exempt se Would Deluge Country purities in their returns. Is a great migratory' The committee rejected the plea movement impending in Europe, of physicians for a reduction of which if wre set up no restrictions, cost of narcotic licenses and would deluge this country with im- the fee at $3 instead of piigrants because they all want to as physicians asked, come said Chairman Snell of Before these changes Chairman the rules committee in reporting Smoot of the committee had esti the bill. mated that the bill would lack believe this is the most im- of raising the revenue nec- portant measure that wil lcoine be- i8Sary for government expense, fore this house this The bill limits quotas to two per cent based on the census of 1890. Vigorous opposition to the bill has been expressed, not only by various elements in this country but through representations to the state department by foreign countries. Sqpretary of State Hughes Rise and Fall Of Lake Startles TORIO, April scientists have been startled by the discovery that the Lake of Reeds, located in the heart of the Hakene mountains, is rising and falling with the regularity of a person breathing.

The rise and fail amounts to several inches. The activity is attributed to the same volcanic disturbances which caused recent earthquakes in the Japanese Isles. Professor Nakamura, leading seismologist, has rushed to the Hakene mountains to make a study of the phenomenon. (By United Press Leased Wire) LOS ANGELES. April is- dis- (By United Press Leased Wire) PASADENA, April thirty acres of Nigger Canyon territory burned over, the forest, fire that other outbreak of the foot and away from waged through the heights back of mouth disease faced state and fed- Pasadena during the forenoon has eral health authorities today with been brought under control.

the discovery of a herd of 125 in- Anoefes fCCted ho9s in the t-ankerShim es Forest Protective asso- trict, where 1,000 were found elation, emerged from the smoke- eaSed earlier in palled area before noon with word This outbreak th that the flames have been sur- three new rounded and are burning them- the plague within the selves out, with no property damage resulting. A force of more than forty fighters labored during the morning to halt the flames, which spread up Nigger Canyon, connecting the Arroyo Seco and Canyon. The moist earth was dug up in Vault Doors Withstand Attacks TO MEADOWS CASE With Acetylene Torch; Phone Landlady Tells of Hearing Screams Coming From Apartment System Wrecked. past 48 hours, Supervisors from every county in Southern California were to meet here today and take drastic measures in the fight against the disease. Employment of 500 extra deputy sheriffs and IOO extra horticultural trenches, and the flames failed to commissioners in this county aione break over this barrier.

started today, following decision An unusual angle was given the of the local supervisors to hire the' fight in the fact that members of army of additional officials. They! the recently organized Forest Pro- will be paid $5 per day. tective association, including resi- Fencing Highways dents trom twenty-one cities and Fences were today being erected! towns along the foothills of the across the majority of roads lead-! Sierras, were gathered near the ing out of Los Angeles point where the. fire broke out, which so far contains the onlvi preparatory to starting a week-end outbreak of the disease in Southern uke into the canyons to study how California, with the exception of GI one discovery near Bakersfield. In fighting today blaze they re-, Qnly a few of the main hj hJ practfcal open, the others practical experience.

running through the rich dairy sections and agricultural lands being completely barred to traffic. MODESTO, April Bank robbers failed in an attempt to burn their way through a vault in the Commercial A Savings Bank at Waterford, near here, last night. An acetylene torch was used on the vault door without results and a second attempt made to burn through hte vault wall. The tanks were left in the bank by the robbers, who apparently operated several hours and then gave up in disgust. The main telephone cable into the Waterford telephone exchange was cut and the town shut off from communication.

The changes made today increase this amount materially. 75 Jailed in New Capital Dry War WASHINGTON, April by Asher, master of strongly urged the immigration disguises, the federal dry squad which drafted the today started another liquor clean of its restrictive! up in the capital. Up to 10:15 a. provisions, but in a sharply word-1 rn. seventy-five arrests had been I made and the raids were continua (Continued on Page 2) ing.

Place La Follette Under Guard To Prevent Overwork In Senate (By United Press Leased Wire) WASHINGTON. April of a roal split in the party faced Republican leaders today as a result of the increasingly bitter quarrel between former Attorney General Daugherty and Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania. Daugherty issued a statement last night lashing Pepper for his Maine speech and warning G. O- P. leaders he does not intend to be the butt of criticism for Republicans or Democrats.

Daugherty declared that a more keynote like would the death knell of Republican success in the coming Other Republican leaders were reluctant to discuss the matter. There were indications, however, that they would reply to Daugherty. NEW YORK, April Maria Martcha-Belli of Rome, Italy, today filed suit for $510,000 damages in supreme court here against Morris Gest, theatrical producer, alleging breach of contract and damage to her personal standing as an actress. The suit grew out of alleged contracts entered into between the actress and the producer, whereby Princess Matchabelli was to appear in production of 'O PREVENT PLAGUE SACRAMENTO, April I The conference of supervisors and district attorneys of twenty-eight 11 northern California counties on the boof and mouth disease, was to 4 NEHR DEAIR COMPTON, April 5. (By United Press Leased Wire) LOS ANGELES, April hammer murder mystery faced local police today in the search for the slayer of Mrs.

Vera Stone, beautiful beauty parlor employe, beaten to death late last night in her apartment, 1330 West Eleventh street. With the room and the condition of the clothing evidence of a terrible struggle, the body of the 29-year-old beauty was discovered by her sister, Miss Pearl Dunbar, when she returned to the apartment the two young women occupied shortly before midnight. 7 beory that Mrs. Stone may have been strangled to death by a jealous woman rival for some love was expressed by police today as search for the slayer continued. In many espects, the killing parallels the famous Alberta Meadows death, for which Clara Phillips is now serving a life sentence in San Quentin, detectives declared.

Strangled to Death. From discoveries today, it is believed Mrs. Stone was strangled to death with a towel, then beaten Four the head with a hammer, po- one Hee say. The dead woman's skull MILWAUKEE. April convene here at one this raen were seriously burned Only one Wisconsin delegate to afternoon.

perhaps fatally, in the local oil was crushed in by the instrument, the Republican national convention Representatives of several sec- fields today when a gas tank ex- and her throat cut and scratched will be pledged to Pesident Cool- tbe Strict north of fcan pioded. A water-soaked towel, with a knot idge, it was indicated today by the francisco Bay and the San Joaquin a J. Dugger, of Lomita, may die tied in it, was found near the almost complete count from Wis- met conference this morn- as a result of the critical injuries bodv. primary election. All the he received, being burned terribly While one squad of detectives other delegates, pledged to Senator afternoon conference is the face and chegt was working onl the theory thiH a Robert M.

La Follette won by two expected to produce a definite, E. j. Woods, foreman, and G. S. woman enemy may have commit to one over the Coolidge slate i coherent plan that will keep the Christian, both of Fullerton, and ted the crime, other officers were Delegates at large pledged to plague out of this part of the L.

S. Harret, of Long Beach, were seeking a Lester Gov. Al Smith at the Democratic state also badly burned but are expected have sought entrance to to recover. apartment early last night. x- men were ln the of Hear Couple Talking ihe Newton Process company, of Residents in other hfd a bif identify ANOTHER DRIVER oyer McAdoo delegates and gHOT AT BY GUARD indication points to this lead Identity of another motorist who IU ouier apartments I aS was shot at Friday night of last and were repairing a gas- told police today they heard some 1 sections of the week by guards patrolling the high- oline fank: for the Lnion Oil com- one knocking on the door nma 1,1 ways in the foot and mouth disease here, when its contents ex- Mrs.

Stone queried campaign was revealed at Ana-, I setting their clothing the man reDlied heim today when Lloyd Ross, I Pimped into a nearby on down stairs youth of a prominent family of that hole, filled with water and the the woman is place, told of an asserted harried mud, which extinguished the blaze, have answered experience on the road. i Otherwise, they would all have Returning from Long Beach Probably been burned to death, as where he attends school, young their garments were blazing torches Ross was driving on the Anaheim gasoline-soaked cloth. road along with his aged Mrs. W. A.

Ross, when a man, the! a 'LAKE rC0UNTRYWCLUB, Jrivf farted, flashed a light in Atlanta, April front of the ear and ordereJ him Havers, British open to halt. champion, Unfamiliar with existence of the es- WASHINGTON, April had Bobby Jones, the American natroI vouL Rnsr H. Votaw, superintendent of fed- open champion, two down as the Ttl eral prisons and brother-in-law of pair started out on their second thought to be i bandit6 After the late President Harding, maybe rounl of IS holes here this tnougtlt to be a bandlt- After a Youth Is Dragged To Deaf Ii Bv Cow SANTA ROSA. April Archedor Guerraggi, Mrs. L.

Sloane. the landlady, told officers she heard Mrs. Stone scream, in a choking voice: God, Bill, killing But did' not investigate the incident. A hair dresser by profession, twice married and divorced, the woman was known to have "manv her sister admitted. One of those said to have been with her frequently.

Frank Heyfron. of Hollywood, was arrested WASHINGTON, April Senator Robert M. La Follette, the hope of the third patty movement is to be guarded during the next two months to prevent him again endangering his health, upon which the measure of success to be attained by the Independents may depend. La Follette, now recovered from pneumonia, sat up today and his doctors said that within two weeks he probbaly can go back to the senate. But every means of persuasion will be used to keep him from plunging into the senate fight, now about to begin.

If La Follette follows his advice he wiir do nothing but rest between now and the date of the Republican national convention in June. In support of their contention that it is more important that he conserve himself for the coming campaign than that he get into the hurly burly of the tax battle, La progressive colleagues have been gathering data on the political situation in the middle and far west, which they will lay before him In a few days. Along with the information they have gathered which shows that the Independent movement is daily growing stronger, they will cite to him the report made to President Coolidge by Gov. Preus of Minnesota. Preus said La Follette stands to carry at least eight states against the combined strength of the Republican and Democrats and that unless something is done to stop the spread of the third party wave, other states will be carried along.

PEPPER STANDS BY PORTLAND SPEECH PHILADELPHIA, April I said in my Portland, Maine, speech, was said after careful thought and consideration. I have seen no developments since to cause me to think it necessary to add anything to it. I stand by everything I This was the statement of Senator George Wharton Pepper here today regarding former Attorney General Harry M. attack on him last night in Washington because of the speech before the Republican convention Permitted in the Maine city. As to Daugherty, Senator Pepper declared he had nothing to say.

Regarding the rumor circulated in Washington that Daugherty anil his political allies are preparing to desert the Coolidge standard, Senator Pepper declared that the former attorney general is possibly in a position to know what certain men might do, but indicated that he had no knowledge that important political leaders are allied with Mr. Daugherty in such a move. subpoenaed by the senate Dasher- ternoon. to deaTh Wb if investigating committee in con-! A large gallery followed the on- Alamitos the youth declared where "a5 Pocket can- Geor-e Dujba- -her of rho nection with testimony of William official international champion- the mistake was The near Sebastopol, ran away dead ii'a nnr J. Burns and J.

S. Dyche, former match the rain-soaked name was not learned. of balked over the telephone wifh morning It was on that night on the same his wJ his daughter early in the evening, warden of Atlanta penitentiary, course throughout the that he blocked investigation into and was repeatedly thrilled by road that R. Robinson of Long nis 00 the drug traffic at the prison, it the drives and accurate shooting Beach was shot in the shoulder the was said at Chairman of the British title-holder. by a guard thought to be named office today.

1 Bobby Jones, playing on bis Coffman. Robinson drove to the Votaw probably will not be sub- home course, fought valiantly for Seaside hospital iu Long Beach poenaed until after the committee every hole. where his wound was dressed cleans up some of the on Havers was leading 3 up at the When Robinson later learned he which it is now working, but com- 21st hole. was not being he took mittee members said they expect the shooting in good part and was eventually to summon him to ex- A qp said at Long Beach today to hold plain why he stopped the drug in- I OI ILC OCCX. I WO rancor against the suspected vc-stigation in the face of pleas of both Burns and Dyche that it be to continue State Rests in Case In Forgery Plot The Ross family, however, was they maintained they encountered.

body. then cow. tripped and she had said she fine following a slight heart attack. Seeks Death As Husband Places Ban On Dancing' OAKLAND, April band let 'n unsaid to be irked at the conduct I 10 wailed Mrs. Margaret Wittie, 21, at the Oakland SAN FRANCISCO.

April The guard in pursuit'used uncalled-1 uaKland receiving former employes of the Western for language, they claimed when I today as physicians fought TA L'Q va Ina I ITn tx a i electric company, whose names the car was stopped, are being withheld, were sought the west today charged QUARANTINE CARDS MAY INDIANAPOLIS, April The state rested Its case against Governor Warren T. McCray, charged with embezzlement and larceny of $155,000 of the funds of the state board of agriculture. Do not weep and walk the street, Rental ads will save your feet WRITE A WANT AD with forging duplicate checks on the account at local banks and realizing at least $9,000 from their operations. 4- BULLETINS BE OBTAINED BY RANCHERS Ranchers desiring to keep away visitors whose presence might endanger stock during the prevalence1 elsewhere of foot and mouth dis-j ease may obtain quarantine cards; at the farm bureau offices in the a of records here. APril Vincent making this announcement mcnards, national indoor tennis here today A.

M. Stanley, secretary- h's Ctle here manager, said the bureau had a Francis T. Hunter large supply of the quarantine I of New York 8-6, 6-2, 3-6 and 6-3. i cards which it would distribute I without cost. WENATCHEE, April Quarantine headquarters have the country safe been established at the farm bureau with John Gallatly, act- offices, where information will be mg as temporary state chairman, given on prevention of the hoof and indicated the intentions of mouth epidemic, ington Republicans to endorse is vitally important that alk wool loge for the presidential can- visitors be kept, away from live- aidac.y in his address opening the, ------state convention today.

I (Continued on Page 2) to save the life she had tried to forfeit by swallowing poison. "He let me have pretty Admits Murder of Wife, Man Friend PIKESVILLE. April Mrs. Eli Adkins and Charles Habeb were shot and instantly killed late yesterday by Eli Adkins, husband of the slain woman who surrendered to police. Adkins, who confessed, said he found his wife and Habeb in a compromising position.

Three children of the Adkins witnessed the killing. Veteran of Cattle Epidemic Claims Asafoetida Is Sure Cure LOS ANGELES, April 5. There is one sure cure for the foot and mouth disease, according to Charles C. Sewell, 87, employed by a local music company. the childhood lavalliere that smelleth unto heaven, will drive out the epidemic in short order, Sewell declared today.

in we had a real foot and mouth disease he reminisced. was along the Hudson river. Horses and cattle died so fast they be buried. Thousands of carcasses were piled along the river. someone brought out the asafoetida, and the disease was wiped out soon.

No, they didn't tie it around the necks- It was rubbed on the bits of bridles worn by horses, and shoved down in barn mangers where cows ate, but it.