San Mateo Times (Newspaper) - March 30, 1927, San Mateo, California San Mateo County's One Big Daily the Local News All the Time It Is News DEVOTED TO THE I I OF SAN COUNTY ri i FORECAST J San Matco rain ji Thursday to AND DAILY NEWS LEADER Henry Ford richest man in chose to drive one of hiv own automobiles and crowded off road Manufacturer Is Now Convalescent After Operation DETROIT March Henry Ford the richest man in the world is in his own pital here the victim of an auto- mobile accident The accident occurred night this who could buy countless automobiles of the most expensive make and hire many chauffeurs to drive them for him was chugging along alone driving his Ford coupe a chine that he retails at his tory here for about Only his wife and the keeper of his garage knew he ivas out of his home He had been at his born a lone San Francisco Superior Judges Recommend Character and Ability IN STATEMENT Qualifications Of Martin A Poss and Aylett E j ton Stressed Crowded Off Road Returning along Michigan vard near the River Rouge bridge and not far from his estate an driven by some one whose name if it is known has thus far been withheld crowded this and his car over an The car toppled rolled and slid some 20 feet until it struck a tree Ford became dazed or scious doctors could not determine which He did not know how he remained in his damaged car in that condition but judging from the time elapsed between his de- parture his laboratory and the time first word of the accident reached his home it was but a few minutes Walks for Help Then Henry Ford pulled himself looked dazedly around him scrambled painfully up the embankment and walked several hundred yards to the gate of his Dearborn residence There he stumbled forward to he received bv the gatekeeper to whom he related his story The gatekeeper told Mrs Ford and she in turn Dr R and of the accident became a closely guarded secret But yesterday physicians remained with Ford constantly de- that hospital care and 1 mi- nor operation the exact nature ff which not disclosed necessary Under Knife So last night the billionaire was bundled into one of the lances which attend Dearborn and the Henry Ford hospital and he taken to the where the operation was At noon today he was resting and cos were given by attending that no serious iis were expected Numerous endorsements have corne into headquarters of Good Government League for port Martin A Poss and i ney Aylett R Cotton league in the Sap Mateo city council race which was growing hotter today as the time for j up big city campaign toward its close Chief among them was an en- for Attorney Cotton signed by judges of the San Cisco superior court all well with the record of San Matso candidate as a in San Francisco j Judges Unanimous 1 The endorsement the judges of the superior court of 1 the state of California in j L the city and county of Sair i cisco take pleasure in the candidacy of Aylett R Cotton I as a member of the city council j city of San Mateo the election to be held on April 5 1927 During the 30 years as a practicing ney ten years of he j ated as assistant district of San Francisco we came in con- tact him and gladly testify to his sterling character marked ability as a member of the California bar I The statement is signed by Judges F J Fitzpatrick i J Van Nostrand Edmund P Mogan Daniel A Deasy E P i Shortall Frank H Dunne lin A Griffin James M Troutt Michael J Roche and James G I Conlan Figures Cited j Statements were also offered 1 league officials by San zens calling attention to ments published by those the league candidates in the race to retain the present efficient city form of government it stated at the headquarters where committees were in session today Among them a statement made public by J E San Mateo attorney which lows I was interested in the statement published last over the names of two officials of the Federated Civic Council which demanded that city officials duce figures that would comparative per capita coses of the government under the old and the new form This was after a ment bv the taken from of- figures showing that per operative costs have been reduced Mrs Abbott HeartBroken For Husband By WILLA OKKER To the world Archie Abbott is listed as just another to be sought over the face of the globe and perhaps ally victim play or an amnesia to nib Dorothy who jumps at the sound of a footstep or the ring of the telephone bell as she sus for some word of listing of Ab- bot as missing means something infinitely greater He is the mail with whom she cast her lot in life many years ago and they have been very happy together The terrible suspense of not knowing what has happened to Abbott a carpenter who left his home at 7 South E last Saturday for labor headquarters and has not been seen or heard from since has thrown Mrs Abbott into a state of collapse Alw avs Happy have been so happy gether and just our little home and paying for it slowly and everything was going so sobs out Irs Ab- bott On Friday we had a party for the Ladies Auxiliary and the men of the union here the house We had borrowed some chairs from the union hall Aichie laughingly loaded them into the car early Saturday morning to return them As he drove off he laughed and he guessed have to hustle along because he bad attend a committee ing at labor headquarters Paces Floor As she talked she paced the i floor and stopped beside a pair f of his house slippers and pipe She walked slowly to his room and made a helpless ture A brother in Vinesburg says he has not seen him for two months Home Of E L Norberg En- tered By Means Of Pass Key Police Find JEWELS AEE MISSING Clothing and Other Valuables Scattered Over Floors In Bedrooms Face Punching Friend Lands Girl In Hospital Because her boj friend had punched her according to her report to Sergeant George Martin of the San Mateo police of hospital San Mateo at o'clock this morning Miss Williams said her boj friend name was Philip at her residence and lhat a slight misunderstanding had arisen after midnight Miss Williams treated for a I blackened eye the re- port said PLANNING BODY SCHEDULED FOR MEETING TONIGHT Loot valued at more than was stolen by buiglars lust night from the fashionable home of Cap- tain E L Norberg 407 Occidental avenue while the family out for the evening Entrance was gained a pass key used in the is the belief of the polite who were culled to thi morning J The loot consisted principally of wearing apparel including two fur coats to Mrs Several expensive dresses spt coats and were taken bar pins set with diamonds valued at each were taken from a jewel case while the remainder of the contents costume jewelry and beads were strewn the ing table Top and Room Ransacked A bedroom floor was covered with dresses and shoes the glars had evidently decided not to take with them Lights in the room had been left by the The rest of the home gave no evidence of having been ransacked police said Upon returning home jate last night Norberg made a search of the house and grounds but could no trace of the Three San Mateo County Scouts Elevated To Rank Of Eagle Scouts A meeting of the San Mateo City Commission at which tentative plats for a portion of the big Parrott estate tract are 10 be submitted is scheduled for tonight at the San Mateo city hall t Through a misunderstanding the i announcement of the meting was i given as last night members of the commission said today The public is being invited to at- i tend at the council chamber in the city hall when the plats which are the first to be shown for the big residence tract will be presented by neer George A Kneese in charge i of engineering on the subdivision i Plats for subdivision and zoning on a tract on the Bay Shore way in East San Mateo will also r come before the commission night officials of the body said SAN BRUNO MAN BRINGS ACTION FOR DIVORCE Mrs Alice C Craig of San no has made a practice of Visiting with John Doe Dean at South San Francisco to such ar extent that Frederick Craig also of San no wants a divorce her cord ine to a petition filed in the court at Redwood today The husband asks custody of three minor sons alleging that Mrs frequently one of the boys with her on her trips to see the South San Francisco man named as the di- vorce The couple married at San in 1907 and separated last Sunday the says On ion a Less Than Half those the candidates believed that if the total costs were figured on a per capita basis the present ad- ministration would be shown in an bad light undertake to speak on such questions these gentlemen believe that total costs would show such ex- as has been publicly charged As a matter of fact the per capita cost last vear less than half the same cost four years when totals are figured even in the face of the feet that there is most double the amount of work for department to do because of an increase of more than GO cent in population Judge in Statement Police Judge George A Kertell San Mateo one of tho best known magistrates of Pan Mateo county today made public a statement di- against attacks on the manager form of Judge is the last ing member of the committee founded trie city of San teo more than 35 years ago irg served as secretary of that committee as well as two terms on the board of trustee As chairman of the water commission Kertell led the fight for a San Continued on Page S TOMORROWS NEWS TODAY Last minute dispatches received over United Press leased wire This news without leased service would not be read by Peninsula people un- til tomorrow morning JOHNSTOWN Pa March five lives arr to have been lost in the three explosions in No 3 drift of he Coal Coke Corporation mine at which trapped miners today according to rescue workers A check up late in the day revealed that 113 men had emerged safely torn the blasted interior of the mne Eight of miners reached safety throuch main entry reported seeing only four bodio None of the dead had been removed at I p m PITTSBURGH Pa March V representative of the National Casket Company returning to Ehrenfeld from the scene of the mine explosion near Johnstown which trapped InO men telephoned the United Press late afternoon that probably all except of the imprisoned men would be rescued alive The informant A W said that many miners were from the pits most of them uninjured III eight entombed in the steel Tipple mine of the Saline County Coal Corporation by an plosion this morning were found dead this hy rescue The bodies were hoisted to the surface and brought to undertaking establishments here All the were burned and gled Scoutmaster R A Crane Jr of Troop i2 Kenneth Ohren and Billy Clinite members of Troop 117 were raised to the rank of scouts the highest honor in the tion last at exercises held in San Mateo city hall Ten scouts took scout als nine life medals and 50 re- merit badges Last night's session w as presided over by Frank H- Thrall chairman of the court of while Charles J Eldridge Norman Rushton Dr AV H Macomber Dr F H Smith L Q Haven and Charles assisted in conducting the nations for the various According to A Barrer county executive San county stands high in scout activities Lauds Scouts found that the work our boys have done in merit badge ments has not been equalled said Barrer and effort will be made to retain tht supremacy The scouts receiving merit badges last night were as per list Ed Troop 10 Jack Kimbail Troop R L Crane Jr Troop George Fuller Troop 02 Farmer Fuller Troop Pier Troop Jack Kulm Troop Charles Ruegg Troop 92 Robert Smith Troop tor Richard Barnes Troop 98 August ata Troop Robert Troon Victor Troop 98 J K Mathison Troop John Troop Harvey J Shields Troop OS Gillis away Troop 117 Billy Clinite Troop Edwin Dirr Troop Norman Dole Troop 117 Rork Eaton Troop James ald troop Kenneth Troop Troop Clyde Ryan Troop Fred Schroeder Troop 117 Russell Troop Albert Arthur Troop Harold Braunstein Troop lift Frank Brown Troop 119 Robert Dodson Troop 119 Dick Troop Troop Howard Irving Troop Troop Wagner Troop Troop Harry McCool Troop Roderick Neale Troop 119 Dan Rudolph Troop C- tine Haven Troop George Bank Troop Walter Bank Troop 141 Wilbur L Valentine Troop Robert Simpson Troop Ronald Born ald Allen Troon R L Crane Jr Kuhn Jr Richard Bains Troop Richard Barnes Troop Clark Troon 117 Billy Troop 117 Ed Dirr Troop 117 Ernest Elliott Troon Lord Troon Marshall Moore Troop 117 Kenneth Troop Clyde Rvan Troop James McDonald Troon Troop Ronald Born Troop March Woodward cotton was held in the county jail here today following his preliminary hearing on a charge of killing Mary Roberts hahy and throwing A into an ditch Woodward was accused of thf slaying by Miss Roberts after charges of murder her had been dis- missed The pair was arrested recently in El Centre WINS GOLF CROWN X C March 30 Collect of Providence R I annexed another golf crown here today defeating Miss Virginia Van Wie of go 4 up in the finals of he men's North and South ship ElOTt Militant S M Plasterer In Bombardment fl M fj OP IT Of tive Districts Not proved In Principle SYSTEM IS ATTACKED To Prevent Permit tem By Material Men Leaves Committee SACRAMENTO Cal March 30 Farm bureau plan of legislative was adopted by the state senate oy a vote of 37 to 0 01 the Francisco Angeles and Alameda delegations explained that their aye votes merely to the constitution as amended by the anil not an ol pro ni 01 tht principle ot Measure Opposed plan was contained in a by toio r runic S Hoggs C C Baker Salinas H- C Nelson Eureka and A Mueller of San This is by which we legislate ourselves out of a said Senator of San Francisco in explaining Although I expect to tor the when it comes up lor vote I expect to go out anu talk against it tor I don't think the people ol knew uhat they were voting on when they adopted this measure at the last election Senator J M Inman of mento in his aimed at permit as by materials dealers of -San Francisco against laboi un- withdrawn from committee The was 22 to 16 Affects Labor The motion lost last week by a single vole and Senator Inman sei ved notice upon the upper house that he would make another at- tempt to haul the from com- and warned the un- ions to get busy with your lobby ists Under the Inman proposal the building material dealers would not be permitted to require of con- tractors that they employ a certain proportion of labor To Decide The assembly started off the days session with a verbal fight that ended in killme a resolution recommending a convention to re- vue the state constitution The measure lost by a vote of -42 to 21 This was the first legislative of the present session voted down on the floor of the lower house The concurrent resolution by Assemblyman Z S mel of Fresno proposed to put such a proposition on the ballot at the next election ting the people lo decide whether or not such n convention should be called Assemblymen and were the only members to argue in favor of the resolution Those it included West Heisinger and Coombs You can't tear a street car con- into after giving him a couple of and a of wandering i teeth then play hide go seek a tree trunk a police officer pacing for in a I1 sports come h gh Howard Dillon 24 a of San Mateo living at 1C North E did all that and the police and R H Hunter of San Francisco hac arrested on a charge last night utter Dillon en- gaged in a demonstration of his pugilistic wares by out Hunter following an ment over street car fare cei Lawrence Furio played tug a tree trunk with the tler before he was taken into custody As a result of his out Dillon will have to buy a for and a fine in the baigain That Mas the sentence meted out by Joseph V Griffey of this morning when lon appealed him Till I Court Considering Sinclair's Motion WASHINGTON March Hitz in District Supreme Court today took advisement the new trial motion of Harry clair oil magnate his con- viction on charges of contempt of the Senate and de- argued lengthily on ed legal points OIL CONTRACTS LET WASHINGTON March Navy Department today contracts for fuel oil to Los 000 the General Company and from the Richfield Oil Com- pany a total cost of The oil will he for coast ships until June 1 SAN KRANCISCO March Dollar liner President 1 Garfield suffered a small fire in one nold four days ago while the ship through the Panama Canal officials of the line revealed here today denying radio that the sel was fire The Maze was extinguished and was lot of sufficient size to warrant other a brief official report the company Fragmentary radio reports received at San Pedro day indicated lhat the fire still blazing hut this was emphatically denied hero WILL HUTCH SACRAMENTO Mar 50 California officer will be sent to Now York to bring erett A Hutch hack to complete a year i sentence it was at Governor Young's today l HE Another General Strike In Shanghai As To British BRITISH HOLD COLONY American Catholic At Fuchow Reported Looted Flee PEKING March Chinese mob stoned 47 Americans and British who were evacuating aboard the U S bert a dispatch said Nationalist have occupied he Oil at without ntr it- The American Baptist -ion at Province of was It had been evacuated Man Leaves San Mateo TT J 13 J Writing Strange Note Albert Salven year old World War veteran of San Mateo who recently underwent an tion was to relieve him of amnesia is believed to be suffering from another attack of loss of memory and to be wander- jne helplessly about the Peninsula His bride of less than two months Mrs Clarabelle Salven whom he man ied alter his operation was pronounced a success his nurse in both the San Francisco hospital and the Community pital at Beresford Salven was suffering from headaches for several days prior 10 his disappearance said today at the home of her mother in Atherton Is Left Since the operation performed under the direction of the San teo county chapter Red Cross when a hyperthyroid was removed i from the base of throat the youne man has been well uai considered cured of the spells which had lasted five and six days at a time and occurred every two or three months before the ation Since tho marriage culminating a romance of many months Salven and hib bride have been living in San Mateo Last Friday Mrs ven returned to their apartment and found a note saying that he was leading for New York ven's aged live in tady N Y and it is believed that returning to see them become an obsession uith him and thai the attack commenced he wrote the note his wife declared Fire Aboard Dollar Liner Is Revealed Xew Strike Looms SHANGHAI March day a m general strike similar to which caused trouble several weeks ago tonight seemed to bP called n Shanghai It was learned from a reliable source thai ths general labor union had decided to call a general strike aimed solely at British Will Hold Colony HOX March Great Britain will retain Hong Kong as a colony the governor of Hong Kong announced today Acting on instructions fiom London the governor informed the community that Great Britain would not surrender either the land of Hong Kong or leased land territories in response to tive demands The nationalist government in China includes in its platform nese control of Chinese territory including foreign settlements and concessions The Island of Hong Kong is owned by Britain but ad- jacent mainland territories are leased from Chink under treaty lor defense purposes Mission Looted March Catholic mission at Fuchow in Kartung province was reported today to have been looted and its fathers have fled to Kochow Other missionaries ing Nanking stoned Cantonese continued firing on and ing from Nanking other river points Av Nanking there no com- between the ships and shore Forty-seven British and missionaries for Shanghai and wore stoned by Williams confirmed reports that Dr Taylor an American arj and children though warned in remaining at For Pure Alliambra Spring Water Phone San Mateo SAX MATEO
