Bakersfield Californian (Newspaper) - May 12, 1924, Bakersfield, California 8 OCLOCK THE GREAT NEWSPAPER OF THE SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY OCLOCK XXXIV 14 PAGES MAY 14 PAGES 245 DOWNFALL LOOMS MARTIN AND HARVEY SAFE AFTER NARROW ESCAPE IN ALASKAN WILDS LOST 10 DAYS Associated Press Leased Wire May escaping death after crashing against a mountain peak in a fog and com wrecking the former one of the Uni ted States globe encircling air Major Frederick Martin and his Staff Sergeant Alva were safe today at Port 100 miles west of on the Alaska according to a wireless message re here from that point via Paul island last The two American who emerged unscathed from the splintered parts of the plane on the mountain were forced down one hour arid a half after leaving Chignik for Dutch Unalaska isl shortly before noon April en route to join their three They rescued a fev of their records and food rations from the debris and started on a long tramp down the mountain side toward the north Pacific ocean shore After many hardships they finally reached u trappers cabin situated on the southern tip of Port Moller Lay last Wednesday where they obtained food and a warm place lo They were ut terly exhausted from the seven day trump under severe weath er conditions and they rested three davs in flic Yes WHEELER DENIES OIL MONEY Senator Declares Not Compensated by Standard Press Leased May Wheeler went back on the stand today before the senate committee Inquiring into his Indictment In and Chairman Borah announced that with his testimony the hearings would con Flat Denial A flat denial that any money paid by Condon the Montana oil was intended as fee for representation in oil permit matters he fore the department of as charged in his was enter cxl by Senator He specified that the paid him ny Campbell was a part of legal fees due for rep resenting the oil man in state court Letter Cited Senator Borah cited the letter pro by tho department of in which Wheeler in Washington gested that Campbell sent him some details of an oil permits The Senator Wheeler not in controversy and his recol lection was that Campbell was scoli iiiR to sell rights under It to the Stand ard Oil company of The Standard who had bought some felt they should have more from Senator Wheeler I never get the matter ti might because Campbell never an swered my Did the Standard company ever pay you a asked Senator No Standard Fee Senator Wheeler but Coolidge Is Warned of Disaster Associated Press Leased Wire May pictures of the governments fi should the tax passed Saturday by the and numerous pending appropriation bills become were painted for President and Secretary Mellon today by Chairman Smoot of the senate finance The senator told the president the situation was Los Angeles People Badly Hurt When Aulo Skids and the feeling re freshed in mind and walked lo the beach and were able to flash Die first message of their safety lo the world early today after being report ed missing 10 Nerve Saved Lives Only nerve and concentrated food rations saved their said the brief message broadcast from Port The trials and privations were ex but they plodded on persist ently and won a gigantic battle with the elements against great The brief radio they would re main at Poet Moller until receipt of further orders from headquarters in Intensive Search The of Major Martins loca tion has ended an intensive search by As the result of serious Injuries re when their automobile turned over on the highway near at 2 oclock this four residents of boa Angeles are in the Kan hos The injured are U Trice and her daugh Miss Sylvia Cox Is said to be the most seriously while each member of the party is suffering from severe painful bruises and brok en At a late hour who is taking care of the accident had not completed his diagnosis and it detailed account of the wounds and fractures could not be The party was traveling northward in a new car when the rear wheels of the machine left the pavement and the car skidded Jind turned The ambulance was called and rushed the injured members of the par ty to the San Hawkins of the Bakersfield branch of the Automobile flub of Southern Cali fornia was also called to the scene of the The party had arrived in Bakersfield about noon from Los passed the luncheon hour here and was en route to Berkeley when the accident Believing End of Her Life She Accuses Bert Webster PREVIOUSLY HAD CONFESSED CRIME Man Charged With Deed Immediately Ordered Arrested JAPAN Resignation of Cabinet by June Is Believed Inevitable Continued on Page Ticol Continual on Page Kine NELLIE MORSE WINNER OF Preau Wire May Morse won the Preakness Lup at this Trans mute second and Mad Time for tho nine furlongs Nellie by Bud with a great fondness for the sloppy led from to Two lengths finished Harry Trans mute with Linus the a half length further away flu stables Mart Jim Beans took clown fourth A mutuel ticket paid the winner and and Maa Play made a desperate under urging right as the imag inary ivin was but fell short of scaring the Tile plunge was so unexpected that Fator was tossed into the but escaped THE WEATHER San Francisco this to hight and Tuesday moder ate southerly Southern California and all valleys Cloudy and un settled tonight and Tues I Pruts Leased Win May senate today adopted a resolution declar ing agriculture to be the basic industry of the United which it IN the inj of the government tu and calling on the interstate commerce commission to rearrange with the least j possible delay rates on agriculture products so as to promote their easy Senator chairman nf the senate inter state and Sena tor in preparation of the resolu declared it represented a new policy in rate It Senator Smith that the interstate commerce shall that a per iud if depression In tiny basie Industry requires it tu at and use its ratemaking to relieve tho situation as as with a I view lo preventing the of j that Cummings said the shin already held Iho power ascribed to j it under the the purpose of which was tu call the commissions j attention to a basic lu guide Its There was little Senator the wisdom of tint government declaring its purpose tli foster any industry over I any Press raised May returns in from nil out lif the opposition is j assured of a majority over j the cabinet tn tho lower house of the It seems unlikely that government supporters will muster more than 170 seats in the new Kvery opposition leader was Among the prominent candidates dej were and ovs of the j Landslide Assured j With in opposition virtually a attention is n Minister who Is t hold li Marquis Sain of the elder st at and understood In have him tu approve an other dissolution of the It In t not that the aped autocrat wil Ida re t a move in face of the larity of The election results late this evening i follow M i 101 Business The certainly will be he largest party in the new en if the Seiyuhonto captures all the maining Defeat Is Crushing The that the ment received the most received by any in the last quarter nf a a s a the govern men t nearly always in this case i actually 1 nilt teal leaders declare the ra binets resignation but will await the ol Ihe relebra t Ion of the prince regents hi eh i ends June Leased LOS May Mar garet held In jail here charged with murder following con that she killed Benjamin believing she was dy recalled the confession and ac Bert with whom she had of the who the wom an on her gruesome auto drive several weeks when the body of the phy packed in a was carried out to San Fernando valley and thrown over a wus ordered ar rested The man is at liberty on bond as a material wit In Defense of Honor after the disposal of the drove to police headquarters and with the statement that she had killed Baldwin in defense of her gave herself Repeated grill ings failed to shake her A few days according to the Willis sent a message to her sister at San Nel saying she believed she dying and asking Nelson to Los i Today Nelson arrived and in Ihe j presence of her j Willis said to her this 1 did not kill 1 confessed to protect Heart Trouble Willis trial has been set for May and until that date officers and i the district attorneys office have rej fused to reveal any further details of the womans Willis Is i subject to a heart according to jail who say that she might succumb Lo an attack at any might live for Confession Repudiated MARGARET WILLIS KLAN FIGHT Hooded Organization Be Attacked by Senator Underwood Pittsburg Street Car Strike Is Settled i t Mny strike of imd tors of tin CMU in effort midnight last Kri fueled today the nnn voted tu return to work in id IT a plan liy tlie Thf to the ilm and a thousand of the platform men did ot vote put by hicom pany calls for n t at I he scale nf 7 an The company d tu pay half the price ol uniform for each man each Press Leased May to carry the fight against the Kti Klux Klan to the floor of the Democratic na tional convention wore announced hero today hy of Senator Oscar in his campaign for the presidential no mi It was said at ters here the subject In brought before the convention by Gov ernor Brandon of who is to nuiko the nominating speech for and that the forces would bring in a minority report from the platform commit tee if 1 lie committee failed to adopt a satisfac tory LONG PRISON TERM recently amMd in i and win pleaded guilty S tu of t state near last was today to from years io lif imprisonment in Sun in Massachusetts Trusts Subject to Federal Tax Associated Press Leased May trusts were declared subject to taxation under the fed revenue acts of by the supreme court but it was held that they were not subject to taxation under the revenue act of as associations having capital stock represented by FRENCH PREMIER IS DEFEATED IN DITTER ELECTION MILLERAND TENURE WEAKENED Associated Press Leased Wire May from the parliamentary elections early today showed tremendous gains for the parties of the with corresponding heavy losses for the Bloc Should the present ratio it will be impossible for Premier Poincare to remain in The official results of yesterdays elections show that the Poincare cabinet has lost its majority in the chamber of With only 16 seats official returns show that Poincare will be in a minority of more than fifty votes in the new Official with 16 show the cham tier divided as follows Opposition Poincare parties Opposition majority The government claims that 49 out of the 186 radicals elected are dissident and will vote with the government in matters of foreign Even if this is how the government will still remain in the Political observers pointed out that a swing in the balance of the bringing into power a premier of the might affect the tenure of of fice of President who was a great proponent of Bloc National in 1919 and its first Those claim ing lo be in his confidence declared he would prefer to resign rather than become a rubber stamp for a majority with which he was not in sym organ of the radical So prints an editorial on Two WEST SWEPT BY Heavy Damages and Cumberland LAST MINUTE NEWS Leaned Wire May Hooper was reelected chairman of the United States railroad labor board today on motion of former Governor Edwin Morrow of Ken public Hanger of Washington and Virginia was reelected vice May heavyweight match between Harry Wills and Hartley sched uled for tonight at the has been postponed until next Friday night because of l SIVIM in nnd plants Mini tin rily iin ntl and stnil car nf was fi Ifi all at plant of the n mills is ti this at age tn was CUMBERLAND AGAIN MENACED BY FLOOD t II if than im ti HI tinInart nf the rla nd business district this Wills taking Its the 11 in M f the principal I Ih tii I has a pth l h Province of Alberta Becomes Wet Again Leased Wire an stale of the American which had been aut for Iton 11 to will in Santa Crux on the same dates because of fool and mouth epizootic restrictions in Monterey it announced I The order changing the convention came legion headquarters ipt of a telegram from tho i peninsula ing that the convention could not ho held in its headquarters city of Jlon The Santa Cruz hid for the con which received the second holiest vote in the state convention thereupon Plague Claims Many Victims in Lahore j May vir plague Is raging here it ami of tlm imt Iving mi an average In Knur and it K cxi that inst will 1iMil Tlir Council nf y Mill ill tll KIy Ml I Jl I tll 111 i ut iik In iim hai ill n of tli 1iiiiat t M of gen FRANZ DEATH Former Official of Kern Passes at Home in North at Age of 78 Years Franz for nearly a half century a resident of Kern superintendent of the county hospital for many yours ana for three terms coroner and public passed away In San Francisco early Sunday morning after a prolonged Ill ness at the age of 78 Funeral services will be hold at Marys cathedral In San Francisco on day and Interment will take place In that was born in Germany on November Ho served his country In the coming to America shortly after the plose of and la 1875 he took up his residence in this His first official position WHS that of health and as early as 1883 he was named as superintendent of the holding that place continu until In 1S90 tho vacancy occurring in the office of coroner and public admin lie was appointed to that and was subsequently For the past several the de ceased has resided in San Francisco with his Miss Anna his only In this He was u member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of The local lodge has been notified of his Among the old time people of Kern Buckreus had many life time who will regret to learn of his Teapot Dome Oil Case Heard 7 Press Wire May October 7 be set as tlm date for hearing the Teapot Dome oil lease annulment suit In States district court it was announced The date was chosen by counsel for both Fur Swindler Given Two Year Sentence SENTENCED TO FOLSOM Antonio who had pleaded guilty without trial to a statutory was today sentenced tu serve an Indefinite at jiri made pro ing uf tlu Hough lur Trail ing ut swindling fur trappers In all parts of tlic try by failure to pay for skins shipped to the was to for The to Mary of who to aid in and 10 the owed May message from Deal says a steamer ashore on the Goodwyn sands is a large cargo The vessel is high and May tax was ordered to conference by the house today for adjustment of differ ences the May conference report on the immigration setting July as the effective date for Japanese will be called up in the house May yars of if up Last liLT of to Ml for n uas li In anil ait III to HUNTER SAYS RULE UNJUST VEW I Francis of the and No f In a today his i that i and its a i Ion ilie i National League Vance alid Ald ami May Roston 1it rain Philadelphia t I i aui i I L 1 1 II ami ADD SMALL FRUITS AND PERMANENT VEGETABLES TO YOUR GARDEN V home is Incomplete unless includes some of the perman ent vegetables and small in to the regular annual veg etables that are usually A bed of several hills of a few plants of horse currants nnd are val additions 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