San Bernardino Sun, Volume 55, Number 65, 4 November 1924 — Page 1

Every American. Your Duty Today Is At the Polls. Your Vote Is Needed.

4 "To my father, wild is listening In my old home in Vermont, und lo my other invisible audience, I say 'Good Nlglit.' " J That bit of filial sentiment with which President Coolidge last night closed lils radio tulk to the millions of listening Americans, seems to us to have been quite the climax of hlB speech, - J "Vote'." urged the President. Not tome particular ticket or for some particular candidate. Mr. Coolldgc recognized that the time for partisan appeals had paused But Is was not too late to u:tc citizens to perform a citizen's duty, and that was the burden ' of his message, which was this time heard with marvelous clearness front ocean to ocean, and by millions, in the priacy of their homes, thousands of them in Jhls city. (J 'Twere folly In this column this morning to talk much about any other subject than lhat which marks the duty of the day. We are today forming our ro eminent for the next four years, seeding u President and Vice-President. 34 I nited States Senators, 4o5 members of Congress, the governors of 31 States, and countless local officers. It ought to be a holiduy, and It ought to command the very best rnergies of every man and woman who professes allegiance to the Flag. It ought not to be necessary lo haul any able bodied voter to the polls. II) But we demand so much of our candidates, at least custom has wmeil to make It a demand. John Davis, the Democratic nominei' for the Presidency, has traveled 12,000 miles since ho was notified of his nomination, and made 230 speeches in 17 States. CJeneral liawcs has traveled 17,000 miles and rIso spoken in 17 States. Senator Wheeler has covered 16,000 miles and spoken in 27 States, and only his weakened health perhaps prevented Senator La Kollettc from equalling or surpassing those political marathons. s s j f Custom seems to demand that candidates show themselves to the volcrs. Time was when it included shaking hands with tens of thwands. Yet very successful camVaigns have been made on the opposite plan, and.it will be remembered that most successful Presidential candidates within the memory of this generation, Jicginning with McKlnley In 1896, abandoned oa impossible the effort lo make peeches all over the country, and hat was Ions before the radio was Jrcamcd of. 5 2 2 It may be doubted whether evci OCIOIC U1C SlUCIV 111,11 lvt?L nuncu o confidently on the eve of a Natonal election. Forty different stocks esterday rojehed their highest iuation for the year. 'Which means hat business is not only certain of he election 'of Coolidge., but that lis election will be followed by ,-reater business activity, higher jrices. work for ever.vbody at renuncrativc wages, and an era of irosperlty that shall be general and mi versa). Here in California there is the widest range between t lie claims f political managers that we can member to have observed. Kepubcan .siuie lieauiiuaricrs raises us limate of the Coolidge lead from 25,000 to 150,000. Which ought to idicate that there is no unccrtainabout the result in the State. Yet ic La Folletle managers counter ith the declaration that the Wisonsin Senator will carry Califoria by 75,000, while in most unpreidiced estimates the State Is list1 as doubtful. J But there ought not to be the slightest doubt, and we do not 'licve there is. On the contrary, the ift to Coolidge has been so marked i rerent weeks that the figures isled by State Republican headquaVrs are well within the probabillos. There are many conservative emocrats who are forgetting their irty in order to make It certain at conservative policies shall be ipported, and ure casting their tes for Coolidge. This explains ic lack of interest In the Davia impaign. F This column docs not often adfc . . . . .. . . cn to local questions 01 conox ersy, but we cannot forbear to iggcst what seems to us involved the courthop.se bond issue which ill be determined at the polls to- !. What we have to" suggest apiea particularly to the voters of is city. In common with all other vpaycrs of the county, the peo- - of this city gain the advantage at comes Willi providing a safe d an efficient place for county flclals, their clerks and deputies work, and the protection of inluablo records from destruction. 1 the people of the county get at. But here in San Bernardino get mora than that we get a lendld public building in a propsetting, paid for In large part by pier Beclioni of the county. In May when the same bond issue wji submitted to the voters 'Continued on P t

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e Federal and County Medical Men Join in Conference FOUR DIE IN DAY Believe Vermin Is Cause, Campaign Upon Rats to Be Started (By Associated Tress) LOS ANGELES. Nov. 3. Four deaths here today from what state and city medical men have diagnosed as pneumonic plague brought the total mortality list attributed to the disease, since Oct. 19 to 23, according lo an announcement tonight by Dr. W. H. Kellogg, director of the California state hygeinic laboratory. Dr. , Kctlogg's list of remaining patients isolated at the l.os Angeles .general hospital showed six still afflicted with the malady there. Federal, stale, county and city medical men held a lengthy confer, ence today witli Mayor George K. fryer', discussing measures to eradicate the disease. All agreed that with prompt and drastic measures t he situation could be controlled. According to Dr. Kellogg and Dr. Kliiier II. Pascoe, acting city health commissioner of T.os Angeles, two localities in the city and one in the county are under quarantine for the disease. Fifteen Blocks In Quarantine The largest isolated district. ! where it originated, takes in ap proximately 15 blocks of the Mexican quarter and the Chinese section, approximately five blocks more. This area has been under strlck police cordon since midnight Saturday. One house on the edge of the main business district, on South Hill Street, whers two deaths occurred, also is quarantined. The third sector Is at Belveder, about eight miles north of here in the county of Los Angeles. Today's conference decided to conduct an exhaustive search for the actual origin of the malady in Los Angeles under the supervision of federal public health physicians, assisted by state, county and city experta. On the assumption that rats have played a prominent part in carrying the disease, a, campaign to kill these vermin also will be started, lice officials announced. In line with the move to meet the plague with prompt and drastic measures, the Los Angeles county board of supervisors appropriated $"3,000 toward financing the fight against the disease, and a squad of 14 men was detailed by the sheriffs office to assist In enforcement of quarantine. Indian Pays With Life as His Friend Is Killed (By Associated Press) RENO, New. Nov. 3. Harry Abe. an Indian of Elko county paid with his life today for the death of his friend, Johnnie Black. Abe drove an automobile Friday night which turned over killing his Indian friend and companion. Today, in the presence of several of his tribesmen w ho looked on with indifference, he took his gun committed suicide. Just before he died he said: "It was my fault. Johnnie Black, I pay." Harry Abe will be buried at the side of Johnnie Black tomorrow. Star Football Player Is Father of Three Kiddies CSy Associated Press) NEW YORK, Nov. J. Homer Hazel, star fullback on the Rutgers College team, has been married for eight years and is the father of three children. Hazel, named aa all-American end last year by Walter Camp, is the only four-letter man In Rutgers. He Is president of the senior class and of the athletic association and is 19 vcars old.

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Cole Dies At Age of 102 In Los Angeles I By Associated Press) I.OS ANCLLKS, Nov. 3 t- Iurh were half mast throughout l.os Angcels. tonight lor Cornelius Cole, I lilted States Senator of Civil war days, who died at his home here, today, aged 102 .eura and two months. The venerable legislator and "forty niner" had been in laMins health for several months. Death was attributed to Incipient pneumonia, a touch of heart trouble and old age. Funeral arrangements have not vcl been completed. ( By Aseoela tfd Press) WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.-Exeeu lion by the Persian government oi neyiu nussein, ringieaacr or me mob which murdered American Vice Consul I ul brie in Teheran, ivus reported officially today to the slate department. Another man was executed for the crime at the .same time. ' The death sentences were carried out after the Washington govern ment had insisted tliat the two men must receive the extreme penalty despite a decision by the Persian cabinet lo commute their sentences. A third man found guilty ;uid sentenced to death was executed some time ago. A score of members of the mob which killed Intbrlc have been given lesser sentences, as they were merely participants in the crowd. The Rersian government also has completed other phases of the program'announced at the time of the murder. It has made substantial payments to Imbrle's widow and has professed Its readiness to meet the entire cont of bringing Imbrie's body home for burial. Under the insistent pressure of the Washington government, the Persian army colonel in command of the forces in Teheran, which should have protected Imbrie, has been placed under arrest preparatory to trial, although the original action taken in bin case was merely to relieve him of his command. As done in the case of the first iecution, the American legation, Kaff in Teheran was requested by the Persian authorities to witness the execution of the two men who were put to death yesterday by a military firing squad. The advices reporting the executions brought relief to government officials here as the previous delay indicating an effort of the Persian cabinet to evade full responsibility for Imbrie's murder had brought relations between the two countries to a serious situation. Roosevelt and Smith End Exciting Campaign (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Nov. 3. The red Hares of hundreds of torch light parades burned on New York's streets tonight as one of the most exciting gubernatorial campaigns in the empire state's history came to a close. Indications point to a record vote tomorrow. More than 3,858,000 citizens will be entitled to cast their ballots,' a total greater by 175,000 than the registration for the Presi dential election four years ago. Governor Alfred Smith, in a driv ing finish against his Republican opponent, the youthful Theodore Roosevelt, concluded his campaign with a final appeal to the voters of his own district on the lower East Side. Colonel Roosevelt likewise chose home territory, addressing meetings at Glencove and Oyster Bay. Judge Dooling Is 111 in Hospital SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3. Federal Judge Maurice T. Dooling was tonight reported by physicians to be critically ill at a hospital here. Judge Dooling's health has been poor for several months. He was born In Aming a mining camp in Nevada in 1860

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G. 0. P. CLAIMS Ml EDGE Expect 123,000 Plurality for Coolidge South of Tehachapi . DEMOCRATS SILENT La Follette Backers See Absolute Majority of 75,000 (By Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3. The campaign closed tonight in California with both Republican and La Follette-Wheeler organizations Issuing statements Increasing the margin of votes by whie,h they predict they will carry the statf,. The Republican committee, in receipt of a report from its organization In Los Angeles that California south of the Tehachapi would give Coolidge a plurality of 123,000, increased lo 150,000 the majority by which it predicted Coolidge will carry the 3late. The La Follette headquarters asserted the independent ticket candidate will have an absolute majority of 75,000 in the state. The Democratic managers declined to forecast the size of the Davis vole. Outside of the national coutest principal interest during the campaign has centered around two proposed statutes, the so-called water and power measure, and one to legalize boxing buuta longer than the four round contests now permitted. In six of the state's eleven congressional districts campaigns closed tonight in political races for places in the lower house of Congress. The districts in which there are contests are the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, ninth and tenth. No United States senators are. to be elected in California this year. Asks Support For Constitution WASHINGTON, Nov. 3. Secretary of the Nay Curtis V. Wilbur issued the following statement t 0day: "To my fellow citizens of Cali fornia: "One of the candidates for the office of President of the United States declares that the courts are violating the Constitution by enforcing it rather than the sets of Congress and of state legislatures which conflict with it. If he honestly believes that the courts have no right to thus enforce the Constitution, what, if he Is elected. w ill he do with their judgment re leasing persons deprived of liberty in violation of the Constitution, or restoring property taken without compensation? 'If he Is commander in chief of the army and navy and the hrad of the executive officers of the courts, will he enforce such judgments or refuse to do so? "What will become of our gov ernment which for nearly a century and a half has trusted to the courts to enforce the constitution against the wishes and desires of either legislative or executive depart ments? Shall we vote for or against the constitution as we have known it, and as it has been interpreted for over a century? Or shall we re new a controversy settled one hun dred years ago." 1 California Wins in Livestock Contest (By Associated Press) PORTLAND, Ore.. Nov. 3. The University of California won the stock judging contest here at the Pacific International livestock show, in which teams from five schools completed. The scores of the competing college teams were University of California, 4.J7S; Washington State College, 4.316; University of Idabo, 4,193; Montana State College. 4.178; Oregon Agricultural, 4,079: British Columbia, 3.959. Elisabeth Craves. University of California, within 906 points was third in individual ranking.

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EXPECT 25 VOTES WILL BE Presidential and Courthouse Issues Paramount Questions DAVIS ELIMINATED Bulk of Vote Will Likely Go to Coolidge and La Follette Witli fair and mild weather promised for today, San Bernardino County, in common with the entire nation, will go to the polls in what is freely prcdlctqd will be the most widely attended assemblage of voters in the history of the county. Polling places will be open from (i a. m. lo 7 p. m. More than 5,000 votes will be cast. It is predicted by representatives of all political organizations. Aside from the Presidential cam paign, the courthouse bond issue has developed the greatest interest. Supporters of the bonds declared they believed the issue had an excellent opportunity of success. There Is no organized opposition to the bonds that is known. Expect Coolidge to Carry County The great bulk of the Presidential vote in the county will be split between Coolidge and La Follette, with Davis practically eliminated. Radical Democrats are for La Follette and large numbers of conservative Democrats have gone over to Coolidge. Davis will have a few thousand votes of party members unwilling to go to either Coolidge or La Follette. Coolidge will carry this county, according to political observers. The Republican.1! place the plurality in excess of 5000, while the La Follette supporters claim the county by a narrow margin. Cities of Rcdlands, Ontario. Upland, Chino, and Rialto ure conceded to Coolidge by a big margin. The city of Needles Is conceded to La Follette by an overwhelming vote, although much of this will be listed in the absent voters returns to be canvassed 15 days after election. Both Sides Are Claiming Victory San Bernardino and Colton are the battlegrounds between Coolidge and La Follette, with both sides claiming victory. The tounty territory outside of the cities and south of the mountains will go heavily for Coolidge, led hy the Highland and Mission sections. The county territory north of the mountains will go for La Follette. In Vietorvillc the result will be close, with indications favoring Coolidge. "Coolidge will earn- the county wit'' a plurality of 5000 votes or (Continued on Page Two Returns to Be Given by THE SUN Tonight Beginning at 7 o'clock tonight, election returns will be flashed from THE SUN office on a screen against the courthouse on' the south side of Court Street. The early figures will be confined largely to eastern states, foithe reason the California polls do not close until 7 o'clock and definite California figures will not bo available for at least two or three hours. The three hours difference in time, however, will make it possible to give important eastern figures beginning promptly at 7 o'clock. The Associated Press will maintain the greatest election return organization in history on Tuesday night. The returns will be received over THE SUN'S regular leased wire.

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Two leading Presidential candidates who last night appealed to the voters of the nation for support today at the polls. A record number of radio stations were linked together for the addresses.

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(fey Associated Press) . WASHINGTON. Nov. 3. Calvin Coolidge and John W. Davis com mitted their candidacies for highest office to the American electorate tonight In 'election eve addresses heard by unnumbered millions. Speaking before a microphone in his study at the White Mouse, Mr. Coolidge asked that every qualified voter exerclae his right of franchise lomorow as his own conscience should dictate. His words were carried to the farthest corners of the country by the largest combination of radio stations ever linked together for a single speech. A few minutes before, Mr. Davis had delivered from a radio studio in New York his final campaign speech, summing up the Issues on which he has made his fight for the Presidency and urging his fellow citizens lo make their decision on the "plain question of right or wrong." Broadcasting stations in the east; south and middle west enabled many millions to hear him. Although to those who listened it T E ( By Associated Press) tVANSTON, III., Nov. 3 Charles Ci. Dawes made something over 100 speeches in his campaign as Republican nominee for Vice President without a single "Hell and Maria" the phrase with which he broke into print and into national prominence in 1919, when he returned from franco after the World war. A backward look today over Mr. Dawes' campaign utterances showed lie had left a collection of such terms as "pee-wit politicians," "political demogogues" and "cowardly, trimming, time serving politicians" from Wyoming to Maine. But the "Hell-Maria" for which some of his audiences obviously waited never came forth. Mr. Dawes today, admitting he was "just a bit tired," rested and read "and smoked his pipe at his home here while waiting to see whether he would go to Washington next March to assume the A lee Presidency or return to the quiet life he planned for himself last spring when he laid down his work as head of the reparation commission experts committee. Menocal Is Defeated for Cuban Presidency (By Associated Press) HAVANA, Nov. 3 Announcement was made tonight at the office of the &ecrctary of the interior that General Gerardo Machado, joint candidate of the IJberal and Papular parties, had undoubtedly been elected president of the republic of Cuba over former President Mario G. Menociil, conservative. The statement gave Machado 183,296 votes as against 126,S:5 for Menocal. The figures were based on returns from all but 126 of the. 1.777 precincts throughout the republic. The statement added that if all the missing precincts in five provinces were found later to have gone solidly for Menocal the final result In favor of Machado would not e affected.

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DJZTL appeared almost as though the two were speaking from one platform, neither made a direct reference to the other or attempted to reply di rectly to the campaign utterances of the opponent. The greater part of the address of the President was devoted to a plea that no one negleet his opportunity tomorrow to make his opinions felt in the cause of majority government. He declared the element "inspired with more zeal than knowledge" should not be permitted to outvote the sober, thinking section of American citizenship who he said held an undoubted majority in many full canvass of public opinion. Then he closed his address with these words: "To my father, who Is listening In my old home in Vermont, and to my other Invisible audience I say 'good night.' " With Mrsi Coolidge, the President had gone to his study a half hour before he began speaking and (Continued on Page Two) (By Associated Press) MADrsON, Wis., Nov. 3. Senator Robert M. La Follette, independent Presidential candidate, came back to politics after a day of rest on his farm. In a formal public statement he challenged against this "time-honored threat of industrial depression" as a factor in the elei tlon. "Calvin Coolidge has authorized t lie Republican national committee to run an 'elect me or starve' campaign in the closing days of the contest," his statement said. "This' time-honored threat has outlived its effectiveness. Wage-earners, ini dependent business men and farm ers have learned from previous campaigns that such threats are only the bluffing methods used by desperate "parties and candidates Just before election and that they are never carried into effect. The very interests that makes such threats cannot afford to go through with them. "The cry was raised against Woodrow Wilson in the campaign of 1311. He was elected' and there was no shutdown in industry. "The American peoplo have learned their lesson and will not bo whipped into line with this stone ase propaganda. "Neither will they permit the boodling of this election by a huge slush fund. "Progressive oters will march to the polls by millions to vole their honest convictions and thereby to give the lie to the assumption of Coolidge and Butler that this country no longer boasts a free uncorruptible and courageous citizenry." Senator La Follette w ill vote early in the morning in Madison, will devote the day at the farm to various chorea and will receive election returns in the evening In the executive offices In the state capltoL FRANCE NAMES CONSUL PARIS, Nov. 3. Diplomatic appointments announced today Included: M. Hilmann. first secretary of the embassy at Washington, to be consul-general a' San Francisco. ' i

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corns A! EXECUTIVE 10 BE ELECTED Coolidge and Davis Wind Up Pleas With Talks Over Wireless WEATHER PROMISING Indications for Big Vote, to Be Cast Throughout Country (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Nov. t-The Presidential campaign was brought to a novel and dramatic conclusion tonight with an audience of millions listening In their own home: lo election eve addresses by two Presidential nominees. A far-flung network of rad stations took command of the i to carry to the country the fin pre-election admonitions of Pret dent Coolidge, delivered from h study in the White House and John W. Davis, speaking from radio studio In New York City. Never before had the voters wll nessed so near an approach to joint debate, a few hours befor the opening of the polla between two outstanding figures of a campaign-Never had so great multitude been able to hear as from one platform, the voices of two men who have been lifted to the highest pinnacle of party leadership. Both Candidates Ask for Big Vote Momentarily the spectacle jostled out of publio view the loud and persistent claims of victory, that emanated In the final hours of the campaign from the headquarters of all parties. It overshadowed for tonight even tomorrow's election itself at which the nation will choose between Coolidge, Davis and La Follette, will elect a ew Congress and will fill a governor's chair In each of 30 states. Both the President and his Dent ocratlo opponent choose the occasion to say a word for a full poll of voting strength an objective which kept party managers, great and small, busy throughout the day and far into the night. A forecast of fair weather for . virtually the entire country with dry roads In the agricultural sec ttons of . the middle west, led t predictions that tomorrow's vot would be by far the largest eve recorded in a Presidential eleo Coolidge Will . Keep at Work , On Election Day President Coolidge will remain at work In the White House, having sent his ballot by mail to his home voting precinct in Northampton, Mass. Mr. Davis will be at bis home on Long Island and Senator L Follette, the third entry in the threecornered Presidential contest, will cast his vote in Madison, Wis. All three have arranged to receive complete news reports of the election returns. Mr. Coolidge tn his study; Mr. Davis in his Locust Valley residence, and Senator La Follette in the governor's suite at the Wisconsin state capitoL Two vice-presidential candidates also prolonged their speaking campaigns until tonight. Governor Bryan spending the, final hours before election in a circuit of five Nebraska oities and Senator Wlieeler' winding up his long speaking tour in Baltimore. Having concluded . his campaign Saturday, Charles G. Dawes rested at his home In Evanstou. New Figures in Campaign Filed During the day new figures regarding campaign expenditure were filed in Washington but in no case did the totals given bring party statistics down to date. The -latest official reports made to any government authority show collections or I3.74S.OOO by the Republicans, up to Oct. It, of 1611,111 by the Democrats up to Oct. Zi. and of 1245.000 by tive L FolletteWheeler managers up to Oct. 14. Charlman Borah of the Eeaate campaign fund investigating com mittee announced that no statement 'of committee conclusions would be Issued pending a re-

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