Bakersfield Californian (Newspaper) - September 15, 1924, Bakersfield, California OF TUB SOUTHERN SAM VALLEY 6 OCLOCK XXXIV 14 PAGES SEPTEMBER 1924 14 PAGES RACER JIM MURPHY DIES Infuriated at Spouse Over Refusal to Withdraw Divorce Suit HER DAUGHTER AND HIMSELF KILLED Slain Woman Was Heavily Armed and Expected His Assault Quinn Praises Legion Work Hines Pleads for Veterans at his wifes refusal to drop divorce proceedings and her continual alleged attacks on one of his by his sec Emery wealthy rancher In 12 miles southwest of and a former and grain dealer at 1512 Twenti eth San shot and killed and her Mary aged After writing a con of the crime and calling and in forging two of hn neighbors of his at 8 oclock morning with Instructions to call the sheriffs Crosby ended his own life by blowing off one side of his face and a portion of his head with a shot The heads of both Catherine Crosby nnd her daughter were only Pierced with a rifle bullet but were terribly having been beaten with the stock of the rifle and struck n number of times with a blacksmith Sheriff Grat Wife Plant Protection That Crosby had attempted to frustrate tho attempt of her husband ta slay her Is evident from the fact that a caliber fully was found by the officers In the center of the floor where the tragedy was enact together with a claw hammer that Sheriff said he took from beneath the pillow on herv Prom the which Crosby penned In ink after the shooting It Is evident that his step daughter told him who had caused her mother to start divorce the name of a woman neighbor being men killed his stepdaughter after told him authorities be Tho body of Crosby was found in sitting position in a rocking chair Continued on Page Two Commander Says Land Act and Compensation Are Two Big Triumphs Gained by Organization Associated Pros Leaned Wire by its commander a proved the American Legion opened Its sixth annual national convention here today with proposed changes In policy the most Important matter likely to come before National Commander John Quinns in which he said the legions prestige had been doubled by accom in the last arid an address by General Frank director of the veterans were among the first sessions A tew hours after the opening the legion the forty and eight the fun organization of the and the composed of women related closely to legion were scheduled to start their Throughout the night and early to day additional legionnaires streamed into Paul and and convention heads estimated nearly were In the two cities first session was called to President in a letter to the convention and read to the first ses expressed regret at his inability to attend nnd expressed a in terest in the proceedings and every convention ACHIEVEMENTS QF LEGION ARE RECOUNTED BY QUINN by congress of legislation for the and the enactment Into law of the ad justed compensation were two triumphs for the American Legion which has doubled its prestige and made the organization more cohesive for service to the nation in the years before John retiring said in his address before the national convention here The American Legion has answered any hopes or suspicions of the Quinn Continued on Page Detroit Tigers Check On ward Rush of Griff men Toward Pennant MISS FORKER SINGS BEFORE PAUL MEET Special to flic Alma contralto and official of the American aang today at the opening of the convention and also at the tettion of the women auxil Mila Forker served In the chemical warfare department during the world and li a member of the American Legion and temporary chairman of the womans Her cycle of included The gled America and There It No DEFEAT Both Jones and Faber Give Excellent Pitching Exhibitions Associated Leased Wire New Yorks Yankees scored a run in the first in ning of the game with the Chicago White Sox today on Witts a sac rifice and Ruths Ruth struck out in the third Inning with men on first and Faber for Chicago was pitching in fine Yankees added another run In the Pipp walked and pulled up at hit into a double third on and Dugans catch of a line drive off Kamms bat doubled Sheely on third in the fourth and wrecked Chicagos chances of The score York 2 4 0 Chicago o 7 o Batteries Jones and Hofmann Fa Connally and IS KILLED AT BERKELEY mixup In identifications whereby Dale University of California who was killed In an automobile accident near here was to be Aian Dale another was cleared up by the authorities here to Alan Dale Smith had no connec tion with the they Dale who was the pres ident of the Alpha Beta Phi was a resident of Kern while the other Smith lives in Santa An inquest into the death of Smith will be held at Contra Costa Collector for Oil Company Is Held Up Associated Pram Leased Wire LOS high waymen held up col lector for the Richfield Oil here today and escaped with upward of according to Towers report to the Towers said that he pursued the pair In his own but lost them when they abandoned their auto mobile In an THE WEATHER San Francisco Fair tonight and except cloudy Tuesday morning moderate temperature gentle west and northwest Southern California Fair tonight and Tuesday no change in temper ature light variable Sacramento valley Fair tonight and Tuesday slightly cooler Tues day gentle variable Santa Clara and San Joaquin val leys Fair tonight and Tuesday no change in temperature vari able Associated Press Leased Wire in Tare pitched Detroit to a victory over Washing ton making It two out of three for the Singles by and ORourke each drove in a run in the third and fouth both following two first by Collins and the second by Washington got a man to third in the seventh on two but a fast double to pre vented a Russell pitched the eighth inning fur the The score Clubs Washington 0 4 1 Detroit 2 9 1 Batteries Russell and Ruel TO Press Leased Wire The state board of chiropractic It was announced here today by James secretary and executive Is determined to put a stop to the activi ties of students in chiropractic who have been opening offices in certain parts of the state and beginning the practice of their profession before being graduated from school or before obtain ing the necessary license from the state Compton said he bad been instructed by the board to take such legal action as is necessary to stop the practice In the Compton said the practice has been common of late among Salingers Bondsmen May Press Leased Wirr The government Is entitled to collect from bondsmen for 13en I of Sioux under Indictment for using the mails to defraud in connec tion with the promotion of the defunct Midland Packing It has been ruled by Judge Wilbur Booth of Minnesota federal district Press Leased Wire 10 The heaviest fighting done so far in the civil warfare between rival Chinese military factions striving for posses sion of Shanghai took place yesterday and today along the directly west of the Casualties of the Chekiang army de fending Shanghai were estimated to night to have totaled over of which half were Tho Kiangsu attack ing army was said to have lost about the same Impartial observ ers declared the lines of the two armies were virtually unchanged in the although Chekiang ers claimed substantial advances south of the Director of Relief Bureau Asserts His Department Has Been Cleansed of Graft and Inefficiency Leased Wire United States veterans bureau has been cleaned but It cannot take an other forward step unless public con in our work Is preserved and there is a cessation of turmoil and baseless declared Gen eral Frank director of the bureau in an address today before the convention of the American General Hines complimented the legion for responding to his appeal for Its wholehearted and lend ing ungrudgingly an in cooperation of the highest degree of Are I said General that never before has it been so necessary for us to form a just and true apprecia tion of what has lately been accom and then to see to by every means in our that the people of the United States have an under standing concerning the great work that has been done for the disabled In the service in time of I find the air at this is full of presages and that attacks shortly again be made the veterans that propaganda of a certain sort is in preparation for use in purposes not at all connected with the interests of the men and that publicity campaigns are pro In which It is intended to drag out the mistakes nnu errors of the before you and I put our shoul ders to the wheel to as it the sins of the father upon the children of the third and fourth genera Something Wrong Once You and 1 know very well that there was at one time something amiss in the United States veterans That until lately there was something considerably wrong in the administra tion of its soldier The roots of Continued on Page Tico WELL LOS Gus Le well driller of north of was killed Sunday in a gun battle with two constables whq attempted to arrest him on the complaint of Miss Nellie formerly known to the stage as One of the Kd was critically Miss Bayles said Brun threat ened to kill her because she refused to marry a statement officers said was borne by a suicide note found on the dead mans In which he explained that he was about to kill but first Intended to make sure that Miss Bayles would not stay on this earth to give me the horse TWO mm 61 GOLF Associated Press Leaned larrell of New Vork today led the til players in the first elimination rounds ct the national professional golf cham with a record score of Gt for the French Lick championship which has a par of Gene defending was only one behind the leader at thf halfway mark In medal while Walter British title in spite of losing two strokes for a landing out of bounds on the ninth finished the first IS boles with Selling Sends Down Cotton a Bale I Leased Wire NEW A break of approximately a bale occurred In the cotton market here today under a renewal of the selling movement re sponsible for the severe declines of last Many Are Injured When Lightning Hits Barrel Tank TWENTY ACRES HAVE BEEN BURNED OVER Standard and Associated Heavy Losers Army in Command The fire which the tank of the and Standard Oil companies and the adjacent waterfront between Monterey and Pacific a toll of at leatt two lives and causing damage conservatively estimated at was said by the fire fighting forces to Je under control at 9 after having burned for nearly 24 Six large tanks of the Associated Oil five smaller tanks of the Standard Oil two sardine can and a government grain ware house were The canneries and the warehouses were fired from a river of blazing which ran 500 feet down a wide avenue to the waterfront and as many more feet info Monterey Two Perish The dead Private George headquarters presidio of at to the eleventh Private Eustace presidio of field Peterson was so severely burned that he may Alfred Gon zales and Joseph members of the Monterey fire were turned and overcome by but their condition Is not considered seri A third who had not been id up to 9 is Three gasoline stations and two pumping stations and the mortuary of the Associated company were also de Company experts placed the companys loss at exclusive of the tank The spread of burning oil on the waters of the bay was moved by the tide In tho direction of Pacific it threatened the ocean front mansion of The home was saved after a battle Fire Controlled Driver Killed at Associated Prcm Leaned Wife driver in the 150mile automobile race at the state fairgrounds here received fatal injuries in the 138th lap of the race and died a few minutes after being taken to a hos Murphy was injured in the 138th lap in a desper ate bid to who had been leading in the race from the Phil Red Shafer won the 150mile national speedway automobile championship race here this Ben ny five miles behind finished second in the Harry driving Fred Comers was third De Paolo and Cooper was The time was one 50 minutes and 20 Four Parties Are Holding Meetings At Sta te Capital But a single tank was burning at Associated Prcm Leased Septi representing the four recognized po parties of California will meet at the at 2 tomorrow to nom inate presidential adopt their party platforms and select their state central The parties to hold conventions are the Demo Socialist and Prohibition All congressional and legislative nom victors at the August 26 and the holdover state senators un der the primary delegates to the In where par ties have no nominees In where candidates of the opposing faith hold delegates to represent such dis will be named by the As Law Requires The state primary law requires that the conventions meet at 2 and that they make public their platforms by G In past platforms sometimes have been held up by long discussions and were made public much later than 0 The Republican because normally Is overwhelmingly Is expected to attract the greatest but In view of the statements of party leaders In favor of for the sake of the national It was expected there would be of a controversial Senator of a reputed Coolidge supporter and recognized as a was the leading candidate for chairman of the Democratic Program The convention Is expect ed to endorse the candidacy of John Davis nnd Charles Bryan and o adopt a platform In consonance with of tho national Endorse ment of Claude of chairman of the state central commit watt believed be on the oclock It was In the farm of the Associated company and had been Isolated by the The full force of the approx 600 tbn departments of Monterey and Pacific Grove and hun dreds of workers of tho oil companies and canneries fought the The two were killed In tile explosion of a tank at this explosion having been caused by the breaking away of i burning stream of oil from another The canneries destroyed were those of the Gross company and Tho owners announced that the damage there would exceed Since the national Socialist party has endorsed the candidacy of Senator Rob ert La Follette and Senator Uheeler as Independent candidates for president and vice respect it was assumed that tho Cali fornia Socialists would do al though no party leaders bad been The Prohibitionists are expected to endorse the prohibition Persons Are Stain as Result of Ukrainian Pogroms Leaned Wire According to the findings of special commissions which have been In the loss of life end prop erty caused by Intervention and the Russian civil Jewish po groms occurred In the Ukraine re gion In which persons were driven from their homes and children rendered Large numbers of small towns and villages were Several Communists stated that they had lived through as many as 17 SAN GABRIEL FIRE Evidence of Incendiary Attempts Found in Rancho Cabins 4 LAST MINUTE NEWS i Associated Press Leased Wire automobile bandits driving a car with a Washington state license at noon today drove up to a store conducted by the Japanese association at near bound and gagged the five Japanese clerks in the place and escaped with in coin and Refined Sugar Price i Increased 15 Cents i Automated Leased Wire SAN The price to wholesalers of refined sugar at the refineries was increased 15 cents a hundred pounds making the cane base and the beet base ASK PERMIT SAN The Southern California Gas company peti the state railroad commission to day for a permit to Issue OUU In per series first mortgage bonds for betterments and improve world flyers will leave Chica go at 9 tomorrow on their 440mile hop to Lieutenant Smith said that leg would require between six and six and a half a rising the Amer ican Legion at its first session instruct ed that the army world flight aviators be invited to visit the convention and that the secretary of war be requested to make possible acceptance of this SAN response to an urgent sum mons to return to without Sec of the Navy Curtis Wilbur will leave the North Island naval air station here by airplane at 3 i Wire ntW world of If seconds WM for tho sulu motorcycle championship met at the staff fuir today of Two other world also wont down lu I ln milti side car Andy Hepburn and Dynamite Scott both inw 1 the had i of I In imi I sidt car Hepburn also M a new mark of 4 minutes and i Craig Sentenced to Be Hanged on 12 court at San Qurti 1L for I forI 1 HKD was sentenced in the to lc hanged tin scale prison on the murder of Sam a cst following the robbery of the Hank of here by two bandits for whom was look was found guilty by a jury last ills wife and mother were In the court room today and heard the verdict in an undemonstrative man ner appeared to bo un I Press Leased houses in the foothill section back of Duarte arc today threatened by the forest fire In the San Gabriel district and guards have been placed on duty In this The moment It becomes the inn of the Angels Forest Protective as sociation will backfire under orders of federal forestry will follow completion of the fire break from Monrovia peak to the head of Clamshell canyon to check the blaze In Monrovia canyon as a pro measure to the In observatory at the top of Mount Wilson as well as the Santa Anita can The fire has licked Its way Into thu north fork of the San Gabriel canyon and at this point 200 men have been stationed to hold the fire Fire fighters saw flames In a dance hall at Wildwood a resort ut the mouth of the and In put them out found them to have been from kerosene from an overturned lamp The other Incendiary attempts were In cabins on the Wildwoud and In a pile of leaves near the trail In the NOTED ATHLETE TO BE i used Win i negro reported one of the high school track men ever de in a member of University of California fresh man anil track teams last will when he obtains his degree of of Arts at the California according to message received here A cousin of who died left money to him with tlm proviso that tho I League 1 S 1 Host em i lu 1 and Schmidt and 4K Make Voyage From to Windy in 165 Minutes V HAVE MILES STILL TO TRAVERSE f Next Jump to Omaha and Thence to Paso and Los Angeles Allocated Leant Wire Am MAIL and at air mail field at thoir trip from Dayton In two Noun and SB Lieutenant ling plane struck the earth at Chicago Lieutenant in the New landed at and Lieutenant Leigh with his Boston followed at The first view of the flyers brought tumultuous The band blared the snappiest deafening that It drowned out the roar of a plane standing with motor rac As the three with their es circled slowly over the the crowds virtually went with ap endeavoring todo the celebration of Armistice Lieutenant Wades father and who live at were the first to embrace It was done over the struggling forms of others sur rounding hla Palmer of a Chicago a long Friend of Lieutenant succeeded in giving him a resounding smack on the The procession around the field was preceded by an escort qf motorcycle by mounted A long trail of motor and people aloot fell In back of them and stumbled and stomped their way around the speedway race Police The three before anyone could jumped briskly from their planes and were by there party and tho The which up to this had suc held the people were The flyers had great difficulty in entering the three auto mobiles which took them on a tour of the field In order that everyone might have a look at Lieutenant Smith was unanimously chosen Ills first reply brought out that nothing unusual oc curred during tho flight Treated Royally We have been treated royally wher ever we stopped our but I vant you all to know that Boston or any we been greeted as we have In I am proud to K s Continued on Page Nine ATTENTION The open season for and at hand and every sportsman should be searching for his hunting cleaning his and getting ready to fare But in order to have an enjoyable and successful hunting trip you must know tho ijame wise you may come In conflict with the game warden anil run Into A complete digest of tho laws of United Suites has been published In an Illustrated pamphlet by tho biological This Is u free government publi cation and our Washington informa tion bureau will secure a copy for any reader who fills out and 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