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FORECAST: Exttutiv Associated Jrt' rf r1 Oakland vicinity Showers tonight, clearing: Saturday; mod- A i crate westerly winds. RAINFALL. (TO I A. (By Cbabot Observatory.) ar Seasoai to date. SST54 Normal to 2x.l Last year to M.M tlnttffdPrMc VOLUME XCVHITHREECENTS SUNDAY TEN CENTS OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 6, 1923 48 PAGES.

NO: 9G. I I LKfcSlrii i POLICE FOIL A I I I f. LS LAI PACIFISTS FROM AUTO Prohibition Commit' doner Hay ner says It is not to be wondered at that bootleggers and criminals will violate the law, but it is difficult to understand, how prominent clubmen, business and professional men become- parties to such violations. 30 RUSSIANS EXECUTED: 650 JAILED Oakland Population Is 240,891 PLOT TO ROB BUS HERE $2,500,000 Arrest of Suspected.Member ivof Gang Leads to" Finding of Plans for Raids On 3 Oakland Institutions Two Others id Scheme Are Expected to Arrive Sunday; Next Wednesday Was Time Set for Operations A far-reaching plot by a well-known underworld sang to rob three Oakland branch banks and their messengers next Wednesday Afternoon was frustrated tafiay it--wfeatrffgurea compiled on is believed, with the arresrifr i that growth -co Month Totals Trade, Homes, Industry Show, Great Increase OAKLAND'S development at a city of homes, a center of industry and a market of trade has been accomplished in such gigantic strides as to appear almost in-credible were it not for the corroboration of accurate statistic from three sources. Impartial figures of the government' census bureau, published today, show that the city's population has gained 25,000 since the last census of.

1920. Figure of the city building inspector show that building during March were over $650,000 more1 then for the corresponding month of list year. The largest single ground-lease in the business history of the East-bay was announced 'today in connection with the construction with-, in the next few months of a 13-etory commercial building for the Alameda County Title Insurance Company. Title Insurance Company to Erect Home at Fourteenth and Franklin. Another skyscraper for Oakland's business district, the first' eight stories of.

which are to be erected, at once and five more added later, at total cost of $750,000, was announced today. The structure Is to be located at the northeast corner of Fourteenth and Franklin streets by the Alameda County Title Insurance Company, which will occupy portions of three floors. Ai vVmj ground-leas be (Continued on Page, 1 9. Col. Rabbi Dies From "Attack in Hotel SAN FRANCISCO.

April ..6, Rabbi Alfred G. Lafee, found beaten and unconscious earlyWed nesdayjnornlng in a room aS the Gates Hotel, 1551 Fillmore street, died this afternoon at Mount Zlon hospital. He, failed to rally fol lowing an operation performed laot night on his skull. Rabbi Lafee registered at the hotel Tuesday night In company with a sailor. The latter, left at 4 o'clock next Two hours afterward the clergyman was found in a serious condition having been horribly choked arid beaten, and his money and jewelry taken.

The police have' been un successful in finding bis assailant. Armed Women Hunt a km jivr" COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa. April 6. (By, International News Serv. Ice.) Police Chief Nlcoll today admitted that women in pairs, armed with pistols and instructed to "shoot on the spot" are patrol ling the streets in the residence district hoping to lure the "monkey man," who has attacked at least fourteen women recently, to his ruin.

The chief frowned on unofficial attempt to catch the human "ape. Reichstag Leader Deported By French BY 'ASSOCIATED MISS LEASED WIRE TO COLOGNE. April 6. Max. Wall Bonn, Rfchatag national leader, who was minister of the in terior in the Mlchaells cabinet and Lord Mayor of Cologne for a de cade, has been deported the occupied area, it was announced today.

According to? German reports. the total number person deported now exceeds 8000, not in eluding families of the deportees. 261.082; Louisville, 257.671;- Providence, 242.378; St Paul, 241,891. OAKLAND, Akron (not estimated; 222.963; Omaha. Ban 'Antonio, 184.727; Syracuse.

Richmond. Dallas, 177.274; New Memphis, 145.630; Bridgeport (not estimated). Norfolk, ,169 9 Houatooltl, 970: Hartford, Gratfd Rap. ids, You ngst own (not estimated); Bprlngneld. Fort Worth, 143.821; Des Moines, 140.92$; Scranton.

140,636: Paterson. Bedford. Trenton, 127.399; Salt Lake City, 1I7J Nashville. Fall River, Wilmington, DeU 117.72$; Albany, 117.375; Kansas City; 116.781: Lowell, Cambridge. Reading, -Tonkers.

Spok BEBUILTATONCE to at Building for U. S. Census Gives 25, 000 as Three-! Year Increase San Francisco Advances to -Rank as Eleventh City Oakland has Increased in popu lation nearly 25,000 during the past three years. i This la indicated by new "census the as- conditions Prevailing in 1920 in the various localities are continuing. "According 'to this report, Oakland remains thirty-first on the list of the fifty, principal cities in with an official rating, of 240,891 as against the 1920 census reporting showing 216,261.

These figures vary from" those complied on the' first of the year by the, Oakland Chamber of Commerce, which gave Oakland rating of 266,000, which would move the city up four places on the list. The figures of the Chamber of Commerce were based on actual conditions taken from the Industrial, commercial and housing departments and not based, as is the government report, on a simple ratio of increase based on former conditions. OAKLAND'S ADVANCE IS REMARKABLE. Oakland's advance is one of the most remarkable In the list of cities, according. to the Official census report In 1880 the census showed the population of the city at 1543; ten years later the figures are in 1880, in 1890, in 1900, in 1910, 150,174.

and in 1920, 216,261. According to tne ratio, tne next official census In 1930 will find this city welVat the top of" the list, for, in the last two years, the increase Las averaged more than 8000 a year, a greater advance than ever before recorded in' the census annals of the community. The governmental report shows several changes in the rela4 iivjB uiz9- ox uie turgor Afiivriuun cities, with San Francisco now in eleventh position fn the race for population- -honors, although, its actual increase In persons been but slightly in advance of the metropolis on the east site of the bay. San Francisco rated 606,676 'In 1920 and the new government fig ures place its population at 539, 058. LOS ANGELES GOES TO NINTH PLACE.

The greatest advance In num bers on the Pacific Coast again goes to Los Angeles, with' an increase of, 90,180, giving it a new rating of 666,853. This pt the southern city at the head of Pacific municipalities and places it ahead of Pittsburg as the ninth on the list of largest cities. The new estimates show that eight of the fifty largest municipalities have replaced their nearest rivals, and that two have been shoved out of the fifty largest class. New York is shown to be approaching closely to the mark; Chicago is not far from the 8,000,000 mark; Philadelphia is neartng 2,000,000 and Detroit is near to 1,000,000. There have been no changes in the rank of the six largest cities.

Baltimore has gone ahead of BostonV and now ranks as seventh largest city. Los Angeles has passed Pittsburgh and taken ninth rank. San Francisco has grown larger than Buffalo and goes into eleventh place. MINNEAPOLIS HAS GONE TO SIXTEENTH. Minneapolis has outgrown two.

cities, Cincinnati and New Orleans, and now is sixteenth. Columbus, Ohio, has passed Providence and now ranks twenty-se enui; Birmingham, San Antonio and Dallas also have forged ahead. Scranton and Peterson, forty- seventh and forty-ninth cities, re spectively In 1920, have been forced out of the first fifty cities Into fifty-third and fifty-fourth places by Norfolk and dprlngfield, Mass. The rank of cities below the first-fifty and-which in 1920 had 100,000 or more populations shows many changes, tnose wnicn outstripped their nearest rivals Includ ing Fort Worth and Salt Laae City. The estimates for the sixty-eight cities In the 100,000 class, in 1926 show probable totals as of July 1.

1923, as follows New York. cmcago, Detroit, St. Louis. Baltimore; 778,860., Boston, Los Angeles. Pittsburg.

Ban Franeisco, 539.058. Milwaukee, 484.896; Washington not estimat ed); Newark, Minneapolis, 409,125: Cincinnati, 406.112; Mew Orleans, 404.676: Kansas City. 361.819; Seattle (not estimated): $40,882: Rochester. $17,867: Jersey City, 199.034; Port- Hand, Denver, 031: Toledo, 268,338 Columbus, Ov Flays Booze Buyers Law ViolatorsWarhed Hiynes Sees Danger BT ASSOCIATED UtEBS LEASED W1KE TO TEIBUME. NEW YORK, April The attitude of persons In "high official and professional" position who "tacitly aanotlon' violation of the prohibition law by purchasing "bootleg" liquor is 'matter' for serious Federal Prohibition Commissioner Haynea declared In an address here today before the New York annual Methodist Episcopal conference.

"It la not to be wondered at that bootleggers and criminals will violate the law, but it Is difficult -to understand how prominent clubmen, business and professional men become parties to such violations. ''If by their example in the non-observance of this particular law there shall develop a. lack of regard for other laws a lack of regard upon the part of other for the law upon which there men 1 depend for their large Interests, they could not be surprised in the breakdown of the governmental fabric and wnose -loss or property, happiness and prosperity would be so great a their." Commissioner Ha'yne. declared there I a "vigilance, a fixed purpose, an unrelenting spjrlt, organised and. equipped today," to support enforcement of the 18th amnedment, Census bureau statistics, Mr, Hayne said, thawed that the death rate pet 1000 In New York state from alcoholism decreased from 6.4In 1917, the last full year before the'prohlbltlon amendment became effeotive.

to 1.1 in J928. Figures also were ited by Mr. Hayne showing- that the number of arrosts for drunkennes In 26 eltles, in New York State, in-, eioding New York City in th year 1919 and 1920, decreased 64 per cent from the average number for the two year 1(16 and 11T. The decrease in "New Ytfrk City, he said, was 42 per cenfc. Rear Admiral Knapp Dies on Street Car associated ntjtsa LEASED Will TO TaiBUlfE, HARTFORD, Conn" Anrll 6, Rear Admiral Harry S.

knapp, V. n. retired, was stricken suddenly today. on a street car and oiea on the way to a hospital, near Admiral sKnapp was 67 years, old and, reached the retirement ag in the Navy June 27, 1920. He wh graduated from th U.

8. Naval Academy In 1878; wa chief of staff of the Pacific Fleet 4n 1907 and 1908 and, in 1917 and wa military governor of Santo Domingo, Later and up tin a snort time before retirement, he commanded the American Naval Forces in European Waters. Br anting Cabinet In Sweden Resigns LONDON, April 6. (By tho Associated Press). The Swedish cabinet, headed by HJalmar Brant-Ing as premier and foreign minister, tendered Its resignation today, says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Stockholm, Th Brantlng government was defeated In the upper chamber of the Swedish parliament last nlitht by a vote of 76 to 80 on a proposal by th government to distribute doles among the unemployed, Liver more Hospital Comes Up April 11 WASHINGTON, April 6 (By In-(ernatlonal News Service).

Director Hlnes of the veterans bureau this afternoon called a meeting of the federal hospitalisa tion board for April 11 to consider the building of a hospital for ex- service men at Livermors, Cal. Consideration also will be given to the taking over by the bureau of the Hahnemann hospital at Portland. and a hospital at Kerrvllle, Texas. 'Too Many Children Mother Slays One BT UWITED FBESS. LEASED WISE TO TKIBTTVI.

WAvERLY, N. April 6. Mrs. Fred Miller. Miller Hollow, seven mile from here, today told neighbors she had chloroformed her daughter, aged six, "because I've got too many children." The child is according to advices to the police here.

New High Mark Hit By Auto Production BY VKTIZIi FBESS LEASED VIRE TO- TBIBUHE. WASHINGTON, April 4. Production of motor cars and trucks during March broke all monthly the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, reported today. The total was 846,383 cars, or more-than the previous record. The 'prediction was made that metor cat production in 1923 will reah the 3.000,000 mark.

Secretary Weeks in Statement Characterizes Propagandists Public Enemies; Warns Citizens of Menace Figures Used in; Campaign Against Defense Policy Declared to Be Incorrect and Used for Misleading 1 LEASFD WIRE TO TKIIUNE. WASHINGTON, April 6. "fa-olfiat" propagandists and organlsa-. tlons In the United States, were denounced as public enemies today by etary Weeks in a statement pub-lio the war iepartment. 'v A I cans would do wejl, atement wid, "to inform of the facts and to examine into the char acter and patriotism of 'who are promoting th Sveroiary Utclu, clflst before taking a step that may' readily align them with the enemfes of the republic," Widespread circulation of "incorrect and misleading statistics," Weeks said, had.

been accomplished by pacifist including "those' forces in America who are preaching revolution and the, establishment of a communistic government and also those who seem to feelleve that any army or navy is unnecessary," UNINFORMED' CITIZENS AID PROPAGANDA. Uninformed i but patriotic citl-sens, it was are lending themselves to reduce if not destroy the military safeguards of the na tion as a result of pacifist propa The secretary said the following jenneared in a bulletin National' uounoii rofth preven tion of Wart- "The cfflclally prepared chart enclosed show that) we are of out budget for 1924 for the army and navy. More than 85 per cent of that' budget will go for past and future iwars." Secretary' Wek said the chart carried a' k-send stating that It had been prepared from the budget reported submitted to congress by President Harding In December, 1922. "This government, vis not and never has -been Spending 85 per cent of Its budget for military purposes," Weeks declared. SMALLER AMOUNT FOR DEFENSE THAN EVER, "The budget report of December 4, 1922, in a comparative tabulated statement numbered nine, show that approximately a lesser amount of the annual budget is being ex pended for the national defense now than In the fiscal year 1915.

In the latter year 24.8 per cent of appropriations were for national defense, whereas the appropriations actually made for the national defense for the fiscal year 1923 were 13.5 per cent of the total. "It Is an important fact that ths pacifists erect the figure of 85.8 as a moans of propaganda only. When they come to urging their view on congress they concentrate their entire effort on the purpose represented by the figure of 13. per cen. for national defense.

Including public debt, payments in the classification of military expenditures, as In the misleading chart, appears to have 'been done with the intent to deeelve the public. It Is In the same dishonest category as charging up to the army the civilian work which It obliged to perform under acts of congress. PACIFISTS BLAMED FOR INCREASED COWTS. "One may even, question the propriety of including the costs of the operations of the pension bureau and the veterans' bureau in the list of military expenditures. Those prodigious costs are to a large extent the direct result of our unpre-paredness, 'which was due to pacifist propagando in the past." Referring to the amount actually expended for national defense, Sec- Continued on Page 4 People to Demand Harding: Coolidge April O.

Re today- to. inquiries, as'to him ttJtnila V(n. I President Coolidge predicted that President Harding's renomlnation and re-election would be demanded by the people becaiiso of the record of his administration. -i The Vice-President declined' to predict -what his own attitude would be toward, re-nomination as Harding's running mate, indicating that he did not regard the present as an opportune time for Vr i Building Permits in March Increase $650000 Telephone and Water Companies Sh ow Great Gains Statistics of the building inspectors, wsOaaad. telephone companies, and commercial Institutions show that Oakland this year is experiencing a growth unprecedented tn the annals of the city.

Most salient In corroboration of this statement are the figures for building permits issued during the month -of March, showing: an lnr crease of more than $650,000 over the corresponding month laRt year. The total of building operations for March of this year amounted to $2,581,989, while 1014 permits were issued against 732 for the month last year. Of the total amount expended for new constructions, $1,263,183 Was designated for single story dwellings. Indicating the growth of Oakland as a city of homes. The second largest Item was for two-story dwellings and the third for apartment houses.

Simultaneously with this boom comes the announcement of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company that it has been required to Install two auxiliary exchanges in the Eastbay region to take care of the increasing telephone service. The new Thornwall exchange is In Berkeley and the Humboldt In Oakland. 2200 BUILDINGS IN THREE MONTHS. According to figures of the East Bay Water Company, the building boom in the Eastbay cities resulted in the construction of 2206 buildings during the first three months of the year. A total of 1532 meters were installed Piedmont, Emeryville and San Leandro during the first three months-of the year, which exceeds by 600.

the number, installed in these cities the first three months of -jaf'gntiwm Berkeley1" by an, increase of. from 260 to 886 for the first three months of 1923 over the same period in The Berkeley figures 'include Installations made in Albany. ''Alameda shows i a remarkable growth, with. 11,5 Installations during the first quarter of 1928 as against 41 during the first quarter of 1922. Richmond showed the greatest proportionate gain.

During the three-month, period 173 meters were Installed In Richmond, whereas but 44 were Installed during the same period last year. El Cerrlto is 1 Included in the Richmond figures. The plumbing permits for March totaled 615 as against 341 In March of 1922. according to a report tendered Commissioner Frank Col-bourn today by the city plumbing department. The.

receipts from fees for March were $1873 80. MANY FACTORIES ADDED IN PERIOD. Almost dally announcements have been made by the Chamber of Commerce of some firm that has determined to erect a factory In this community, or has sent representatives here to inspect the territory with a view to locating here In the future. Finally, the story of the growth of the city Is chronicled again in the announcements of business houses that they must extend their facilities to meet the expanding needs of their business. Destruction of old buddings in the heart of the city Is accompanied by the drum of riveting hammers on new steel structures, pushing the city's skyline continually Gotham Mail Robber Makes Third Escape ATHENS.

April 6. (By In ternational News Service.) Gerald Chapman, million-dollar New York mail robber, early today made his third escape in ten days. He was discovered by a nurse in the basement of the Athens General hospital, where he had hidden himself after escaping from his guarded room on the second floor Wednes day night. The terrified nurse fainted ana the desperado made his third get away. He was suffering irom serious wounds in the hip, inflicted when he was captured in a running gun fight after his flrt flight from the Atlanta penitentiary last ween.

TkreiMen Burned At Oleum Refinery RODEO. April -Three men were 'painfully burned in an explosion of gasoline at the laboratory of the Union Oil company at the, Oleum refinery at 11 o'clock this forenoon. -1. Maynard, chemist of Rodeo, was -burned on the arm and He was taken his home. Harold Blade, also of Rodeo was burned about the face, neck and body and was taken, with another worker, to.

a hospital Oakland. -Fir that followed the explosion i was soon controlled. Bolshevik Firing Squad Kills Army Officers Accused of Treason Georgia Republic Charges 200 People A. -V V' C' Vl Soviets Legation in Stormed by 50,000 Poles As Protest Against Death of Prelate 50 Wounded IjONDON, April 6. (Br l- i tornatkuial.

News Thirty Russian army officers were reported today to have) phot at Pctrogrnd after being found guilty of treason against tho soviet. 1 Six hundred and fifty persons were said to have been arrested in various parts of Russia, some charged with conspiring against the Moscow government, others with complicity in a plot to pol; on soviet officials. 'f LONDON, April 6. (By In- ternatlonal News Wholesale executions are being carried out by tlie Russiun Com- munlsts Jn the Georgia republic In an attempt to wipe out the country, it was charged by the ueorglan representative ncre to. day.

He claimed that the. Bol-, fchevtats shot too persons and aclaed SI of the most prominent citizens as hostages MOSCOW April a (By In- temaUonal News Service). peath sentences weg Dounced upon several Important government employees today af ter they had been found guilty of accepting bribes, 4 A. Tomsk head of the all-Russian labor anion, said he would send an Invitation to Eugene V. Dobs to visit Russia, and that similar Inventions wonlrt be sent to members of tho American worklngruen'r league.

LONDON, April 0 (United Press). A mob of more'than 10, 000 Poles attempted to storm the Russian legation at Warsaw today In demonstration of protest against execution of Catholic Pre- late Sutchkavltch, according to this afternoon's Evening New. Polish mounted police broke up the attack; Fifty persons were reported to have been Injured before the military Intervened. 1 Indignation over the execution of Vicar-General Butchkavitch now is mingled with the apprehension over the probable fate of the Most Rev. Dr.

Tlkhon, former patriarch of all, Russia, who will' be tried April 11 for resistance, to the Soviet i -t J. NOLAND ADVISED TO DROP INTERFERENCE. Russia has Informed Great Brit ain that it la impossible to revise an original Soviet reply to this country's protest against execution of the Catholio Hope la expressed that England now wilt refrain from Interference With Russia's IntejvwU.tftalrs." Pope Pius is understood to have abandoned the idea of protesting against the recent execution of Monsignor Butchkavitch. Patriarch Tlkhon will be put on trial next Wednesday on charares of high treason. in-connection with alleged counte'r-revolutlonary ac- nviiies.

wan mm wl 11 be- trlod Vlcar-Generai Oourlev and Bishop Arsertiev, all of Moscow, PATRIARCH ACCUSED OF URGING RESISTANCE. Prosecutor Krylenko charsres Tlkhon kept In constant contact with the foreign clergy Jn occu- pled territories and mads public sermons in which he- was fluotod as stating that "Christ loved armies of those fightlnr the Bol- shevikl' It is further charged that 1 tne iioiy Habor, held at Karlovitx, -In the autumn 'of 1921. the tatrl- arch at) vised, passlye and active re- -sis ta nee to famine relict measures the Volga region. 4 Dr. Tlkhon formerly was tried tin charges of speculation with church wincjiemicKs ana otner preeiot'9' material of the church.

The ra-trlarch at 6ne time wa a bishop in' i Canada and also in the United States. He speaks English fluently. I lUHte jiikts to Junk Entire Navy. BT ASSOCIATED PXESS LEASED Wist Tf TDinnv PARIS, April A guarantee "In the name of the French pat Ha-' ment that France will suppwt 5 ber entire If the other powers fj wilt do likewise," Is contained' Iln a statement given to the Assoolatert Press by Gustave de Kergiiereo'; president of the naval committee of the senate. Asserting that the world 4s-com- ing to "another Washington trean.

which wL'l make an honest revision of naval armaments." Jen ator de -Kergueseo offers a 'pro-J posal for a now conference fort scrapping the big U. S7BStieFleet "On Its Way Norih ABOARD U. 8. CAL1FOUNIA, IN SOUTH PACIFIC, Anra 6. (By Wireless to the Associated press.) The battle fleet Is profAedlng to San Pedro, Cat Maneuvers cn route have revealed excellent gun nery.

Slayers Cut Throats of Two Victims, Leaving Butcher-Knife As Only Clew to the Midnight Tragedy in N. Y. Cork Leg Leads to Identification Police Theory Is Lead to Tracing Threads From Previous Blackhand NEW YORK, April 6. (By In-ernatlonal News Service.) With thitJthroat8 slashed, the bodies Of JreneJBIandine, 18 years old, Jersey Jnty, and Bessie McMahon, of IlUm, N. were found today lying a road in Staten Island where they had been tossed from an automobile after their throats had been' rut with a butcherknife.

The bloodstained weapon was picked up In a field 100 feet from the scene, 1 The bodies were warm when found, and It Is not believed they had been dead more than an hour. The bodies, fashionably 1 clothed, were found on opposite sides of the road In clumps of low bushes. In the grass near one of the bodies, a how bloody butcherknife was found. IIQDIES FOUND NEAR BOOTLEG NEST. Irene aianamo appeared to oe about 24 year old and had auburn hair.

She had an artificial limb and a receipt for It wa found In her It bore the nam of Miss Irene Blandlno, 77 Cole atreet, Jersey City. Detective are following that clew. The McMahon girl had blonde hair and was about years of age. Both women, besides having their throats out, had gashes cut down their baoka between their shoulder blade. The wrist of the McMahon woman had been cut.

Th place where the bodies wr found 1 an exclusive section, but thinly settled and la the rendezvous of bootlegger. lNearby a creek trickle Its way to th bay, affording lust enough water to float small oraft of rum smuggler. Walter Donovan, the milkman who found the bodies, was taking a short nut back to his dairy about daylight when he saw something at tha roadside that arrested his attention. Investiga tion revealed a horribly murdered girl, lying face upward, with blood from th wound In her throat spreading over, the front of her dress sod neck. Donovan looked around and on the other side of the drive found the body of the second girl, face down, in the grass.

He leaped into his wagon and drove as fast as he could to the Staten Island police station, where he reported the trag edy. CLUE FOUND IN CORK LEG RECEIPT. The receipt tor the artificial limb was from John Eschen of New York and. dated March 28. and showed $65 was still due on the original bill of $112.50.

"Mrs. Blandlno came to my place for an adjustment Saturday," Eschen said. "I remember noting that it was the first time in more than a year I have known her that she ever came here without her husband. She was alone Saturday." Police are making a round of stores for a wide radius, trying to- find out whero the butcher knife was bought. A pool of blood was found In the middle of the road a short distance from the scene.

As soon as police finished taking pictures of the bodies and the spot where they were found, they were taken to the morgue where an autopsy was to be held. Mrs. Blandlno' first husband, Frank Bonglovanl, of Jersey City, was suspected of having since been a member of a blackhand gang. He was arrested a year ago in connection with a double murder. He was out on ball when 'attacked In a saloon by a gang of knifo men who slanhed arteries in his leg from which he bled to death, Jersey City police have advanced the theory that Mrs.

Blandlno was slain by th same gang who mur dered her husband, as added revenge, and that Miss McMahon wa killed because she was a chum of their enemy, or merely because she happened to be with Mrs. Blandlno when the latter w.is seized. This gang Is believed to be composed of Jersey City men. Towner Sworn in as Porto Rico Governor By KENNETH CLARK, International News Service Staff Correspondent. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, April 6.

radio) In the presence of Secretary of the Navy Denby and a number of senator and congressmen from, Washington, former representative Horace M. Towner or jowa, was sworn in today governor of Porto Rico, succeeding V. Vlnnt Rati of E. Mont Reily of Kansas. Mexican Plotters Arrested in Suburb MEXIQO CITY, April the Associated; Press.) More than thirty persons were arrested last night ar Santa Julia, suburb of Mexico City, while engaged in a meeting which th authorities charge wa held for the purpose of plotting against the goveraunent.

4 suspected member of the gang andM the subsequent discovery in his room of a complete layout of plans glvfng the location Of the banks' vaults and the exits and entrances of the buildings. Following" the arrest early today lft a Clay-street rooming houBe of C. 8. Cupp. alias Coupp.

alias Davis, three detectives searching the room found secreted In a leather couch evidence which police ajr proves conclusively that an attempt was to be made to hold up the Institutions by Cupp and two other -members of the gang who were scheduled to arrive In Oakland Sunday. Among the papers which Inspectors found in Cupp's room were the following: Detailed plans of the branches of the American Bank, Seventh and Henry streets; Oakland Bank, Seventh and Adeline street, and of the First National Bank of Emeryville, Adeline street and Ban Pablo avenue, Emeryville. These plans and diagrams gave the location of the vaults, positions of the employees and means of entering and leaving the buildings. LICENSE NUMBERS OF MESSENGER AUTOS, TOO. 'A list of automobile license which, It was discovered, "are the numbars of the machines used" by the messengers of the three banks to carry money back and forth from the branches to the main A memorandum fcaak giving the serial numbers of fifteen which Cupp had In his possession at the time pt his arrest.

card upon which the following was written! a. m. On Broadway. B. K.

P.Wi opens 3.0 pn Wednesday, Manager, heavy, dark, leaves i Acting upon a the nature of which police will ot rer eeived last night by Captain of De tectives Richard V. McSorley that the crimes had already been planned, and were-waiting only if or the arrival of two additional members of the gang, a posse of officers lead by Night Captain of Detectives William, Kyle, Inspectors Tom Woods and Tom Gallagher and Patrolman Frank Anderson, surrounded the lodging bouse at 717 Clay street and arrested Cupp. He was taken to the police station, where he was subjected to a rilling for several hours. Pending the possible capture of the two other men, who are scheduled to arrive in this city Sunday, police not disclose the statements made by the prisoner. MONEY AND PISTOLS FOUND IN ROOM.

When Cupp was arrested he hod In a money belt $1590, $1500 of Which was in $100-bills. At that time the officers found in his room two aatomatlo pistols, a box of car tridges and a clipping from Los Anegels newspaper giving; the account of a holdup of a grocery store collector by three men, who secured $30,000. The crime was committed on March It. One of the pistols, loaded and cocked, was found In the bed, under the pillow. A.

picture of Clara Phillips, escaped hammer murderess, was also among Cupp's In the hope that the two other members of the gang will appear at the rooming house to keep the appointment with the prisoner, the building is under police surveillance. 1 After Cupp was questioned at headquarters, police were not satisfied with his story, and Detectives Timothy Flynn, Eddie O'Donnell and Joseph Enright were assigned to make further search of his room. They found the' bank plana and other articles sewed Inside of leather couch which they ripped open. With 'this evidence in' their it Is believed that Cupp, who. it is understood, until the present has refused to make any 'statement of admission, will confess and furnish the authorities with Information which may aid In picking up the other two- mem According to the police, the prisoner' has been In the city or some time, making a detailed study of the.

three banks, and planning the robbery. Several ago. he received a communication from the (Continued oo Page 4. Col. 4) VITAL STATISTICS Marriage.

Birth and Death NoticeaV will, he found 'on, Page 6. discussion of the subject. -a i 1.