anaheim-gazette 1917-12-06

OUR DOMESTIC POTASH SUPPLY It is Rapidly Developing as a Result Of War Protection This country has always depended upon Germany for its supply of potash. Germany is no longer a source of supply. Consequently, since the declaration of war potash has jumped from $39 a ton to a price ranging from $250 to $600 per ton. The problem of producing a sufficient quantity at home to bring the price down to normal has proved a serious one to the government. Upon its answer depends the existence of many important industries. In Searles lake lies the solution of the problem. It contains the largest deposit of potash in the United States, according to the reports of the geological survey, and is the only deposit of sufficient size to break the German monopoly. Searles Lake forms a great white patch on the boundary line between Inyo and San Bernardino counties. Below the surface of this "lake" which is a glaring mass of crystals, lie buried thousands upon thousands of tons of potash—enough to supply the demand of this country for many years. The legislation in relation to the potash industry was passed shortly before congress adjourned. It withdraws the Searles lake lands from entry and provides that the potash deposit may be operated by the United States or may be leased by the United States upon satisfactory terms. In case the land is leased it is the right of the president to regulate the price of the potash extracted and to regulate its disposal in such a manner as to secure its distribution and use within the United States. MEETING CALLED FOR NEWPORT HARBOR Caph, Leeds Will Hear Evidence For And Against Work Dec. 11 Governmental recognition of Newport Bay as a prospective harbor site will come through the holding of an investigation within a week by Charles T. Leeds, captain, U. S. A., retired, district engineer. The hearing will be held in the room of the Board of Supervisors at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 11. The River and Harbor Act of August 8, 1917, calls for a preliminary examination and, if necessary, a survey of the harbor at Newport, and the purpose of the hearing is to determine whether or not it is advisable for the United States Government to improve this harbor, and if so, the character and cost of the necessary work. The hearing will be public and every one will be given an opportunity to express views on the subject. In advising of the hearing Captain Leeds suggests the following: "While oral statements will be received, it is desirable that all ideas shall be reduced to writing and submitted, in triplicate, as thereby they will be on record and will be given full consideration, which may not be possible in the case of oral statements. Written communications will be forwarded to the War Department with the report on the preliminary examination to be submitted by the undersigned. "The points on which information is desired are: 1. The character and location of the improvements desired. For what draft of vessels intended? For what" RED CROSS In response to a request Davison, chairman war council, for a call on the work being carried out Red Cross in hiding cable has just been laid in Paris headquarters can Red Cross: We have just co- Fcs. 5,000,000 to need French soldiers in soldiers. We have established liaisons in the American for the resident clergy prove health condition before the commission. We are providing lance at a port in all of our soldiers and organized a nurses' can army use. Our hospital disbands supplies to 3,4 hospitals and is lay stock for future new dressings service su hospitals, and is providing supplies for our own. We are operating in cooperation with Cross, ten canteens to establish twenty. We are operating use of French soldier railway centers, with 000 soldiers a day, many more. In Paris canteen with the French, we mous numbers of come and go. We soon expect rest stations for our important railway central camp at many of our soldiers. We are providing factory near Paris. potash industry was passed shortly before congress adjourned. It withdraws the Searles lake lands from entry and provides that the potash deposit may be operated by the United States or may be leased by the United States upon satisfactory terms. In case the land is leased it is the right of the president to regulate the price of the potash extracted and to regulate its disposal in such a manner as to secure its distribution and use wholly within the United States. There are two companies now operating in the Searles lake basin, the American Trona company and the American Borax company. It is probable that the government will lease the land to one or both of these companies. The Trona company has already expended several hundred thousand dollars on development work and in the construction of experimental plants and a railroad, but owing to the fact that it has been involved in litigation over title to the lands only a comparatively small amount of potash has been produced. Under a lease granted by the United States it will be in a position to push its enterprise with safety and the assurance that its investment will be protected. The normal consumption of potash in this country is about 230,000 tons per annum. To produce 100 tons a day at Searles Lake would require a plant costing over $1,000,000. It is stated that the Trona company stands ready to make an investment of between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000 should it secure a satisfactory lease from the government. CHAMPION STEERS AND SHEEP "The best shorthorn steer ever shown in this country" such was the characterization given by eastern judges of Marvel, the steer bred and fed by the University of California which has just won the Grand Championship at the Pacific Livestock Show at Portland. Marvel is a brother of the steer which won for the university last year's grand championship at the International Livestock Show at Chicago. St. Patrick, also bred and fed at the university farm, won the reserve championship at Portland. Also the university won first prize for the best herd at the Portland show. first and second prizes for wether lambs, first prize on a pen of lambs, and second and third prizes for yearlings. The fullerton peeved at state mining bureau name of Fullerton Oil Field Changed to Coyote Field Fullerton is considerably peeved over the recent action of the State Mining Bureau in changing the name of its oil field from Fullerton to Coyote. The Tribune says: A letter received here a few days ago from the California State Mining bureau requests that the oil operators take note of the fact that the name of this field has been changed from the Fullerton and East and West Coyote fields to the simple name, Coyote field. This new designation includes all the properties embraced in the low range of hills known as the Coyote hills, commencing on the Emery lease and extending eastward to the Quintuple property west of Olinda. The name, Coyote field, is understood to include the Standard Oil company's Emery and Murphy leases, 1000 soldiers a day, many more. In Paris canteen with the French, we mous numbers of our soldiers. We are providing factory near Paris, for the manufacture trous oxide gas. We have contract hospital in four units 1000 men. A recreation center with hospitals and a casualty service formation in regard missing, and a medical reau. Our work with the covers mainly child tuberculosis. We have undertaken work for the re Evian, about 500 of which turned to France from the German lines. We have also opened convalescent home at Evian, where we an ambulance service repatriates who are at a rate of 1000 a day. We are about to welfare stations in each dispensary in system planned by Foundation. We have taken over ing on and develop tuberculosis work for Mrs. Edith Whart Americans. We are completing an unfinished tubercle near Paris, and are sracks erected by This means adding 10 now available for SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE Lloyd P. Emerick, who is with the American forces in France, writes to his mother, Mrs. H. A. Emerick of Fullerton, as follows: "Am located somewhat permanently at last. Have had quite a number of varied experiences and have seen much new country, peoples and dwellings. It rains almost continuously with an occasional sunny day. The people are very friendly, and the little children hang on to our hands as we walk along the streets and cry "The Americans, they have come to give us liberty." We are the first Americans in this part of the country, and I have crossed the very heart of France by motor truck and have had a wonderful trip. Slept in haymows at night. It is somewhat like Southern California, walnut trees, sugar beets and lots of pears and apples and chestnuts. Have not heard a word from the United States for over a month." C. J. Mauerhan and wife were visiting in Los Angeles last week. F. W. Schmidt and wife and Miss Margaret Junge spent Thanksgiving with friends in Los Angeles. This new designation includes all the properties embraced in the low range of hills known as the Coyote hills, commencing on the Emery lease and extending eastward to the Quintuple property west of Olinda. The name, Coyote field, is understood to include the Standard Oil company's Emery and Murphy leases, the Union's Bastanchury, Hole and Graham Loftus properties, and all the properties of the smaller operators east of the Graham Loftus lease, running up to the old Olinda field. For years the oil district here—even within the city limits of Fullerton—has been known as the Whittler-Fullerton oil fields. That was bad enough, but now the word Fullerton is to be dropped altogether, but we suppose the small district over Whittier way will be known as the Whittler field. The Fullerton Board of Trade directors are opposed to the change and will take the matter up with the State Mining Bureau, asking that this section be known as the Fullerton-Coyote or Fullerton field. Not one person out of a thousand, outside of this part of the county, knows where the Coyote field is located, so when reports are published on the local field the reader will have no way to know whether the Coyote field is in Northern or Southern California, or hades. If the people of Fullerton stand for such a deal, we suppose the state mining bureau will next ask Fullerton to change its name to the "City of Coyotes." F. W. Schmidt and wife and Miss Margaret Junge spent Thanksgiving with friends in Los Angeles. We have taken over ing on and develop tuberculosis work for Mrs. Edith Whart Americans. We are completing an unfinished tuberculosis near Paris, and are also racking erected by this means adding 10 now available for patients. We are organizing health center in one mentions of France. We are making large scale to help through the winter wiand shelter, and for tire devastated district been divided into six resident Red Cross ores and warehouses have ed at four points to ped food, clothing, household utensils and impliments. We are carrying out four villages in the da to enable returned throughout the winter. We are cooperating agencies in various work in the principalaters in the devastated supplying portable house of families which ha this region. We are providing back in the work of trainers and we expect them experimental actions. We are organizing for relief of Belgians and grown people, and tion we are establish Anaheim Gazette RED CROSS IN FRANCE In response to a request by Henry P. Davison, chairman of the Red Cross war council, for a complete report on the work being carried on by the American Red Cross in France, the following cable has just been received from the Paris headquarters of the American Red Cross: We have just completed a gift of Fcs. 5,000,000 to needy sick and wounded French soldiers and needy families of soldiers. We have established 20 dispensaries in the American army zone to care for the resident civilians and to improve health conditions in that section before the coming of our troops. We are providing a dental ambulance at a port in France for the use of our soldiers and sailors, and have organized a nurses' service for American army use. Our hospital distributing service sends supplies to 3,423 French military hospitals and is laying in a large stock for future needs; our surgical dressings service supplies 2,000 French hospitals, and is preparing immense supplies for our own army. We are operating at the front line, in cooperation with the French Red Cross, ten canteens and are preparing to establish twenty more. We are operating six canteens for use of French soldiers at important railway centers, where we serve 30,000 soldiers a day, and are planning many more. In Paris canteens operated by us with the French, we are serving enormous numbers of soldiers as they come and go. We soon expect to have ready 12 rest stations for our own troops at important railway centers; also recuperation camps at suitable places for many of our soldiers. We are providing an artificial limb factory near the Belgian front in order that we may be ready to assist the Belgians who may be liberated by a change in the fighting line. We are alding the queen of Belgium in her work for the children, and are assisting in the support of hospitals and other work for relief of Belgian soldiers. In addition we are bringing a certain number of children from occupied Belgium into France where they may be cared for. To enable us to carry on our work we have established large central ware houses in Paris, and distribution warehouses at important points from the sea to the Swiss border. In these warehouses will be stored hospital supplies, food, soldiers' comforts, tobacco, blankets and household goods, kitchen utensils, clothing, beds and other articles for relief. Two hundred tons of supplies are arriving in Paris daily, and 125 tons are being reshipped to various branch warehouses. Our total warehouse capacity is 100,000 tons, and the warehouse personnel at present numbers 125 men, many of whom are volunteers—American men of education and business training not eligible for military service. Our transportation department, with a personnel of about 400 handles our supplies and furnishes automobiles for use in our work. It has an organized force at every pore in France, and is able to handle about 350 tons of supplies daily. We use 400 motor car vehicles, 250 of which are trucks of various sizes. In addition we are preparing to operate a motor bus line through Switzerland from Germany to the French border to aid in transportation of repartries and exchanged prisoners. We operate seven garages and make all repairs on our own cars. every ton of structural steel suitable for ship building purposes. Such material could be released to foreign use only if, in exchange, a reasonable equivalent of shipping tonnage were placed at the disposal of the United States. There is no hostility toward Japan in the action that was taken in this country. The United States acted under the compulsion of imperative necessity. Japan wanted the steel to build ships actually needed in its trade and commerce, but every ship so built would be built at the cost of the fleets we must build ourselves if we would win this war, in which every vessel counts. Japan cannot spare the ships that represent the price we demanded for the ship building steel she needed and we cannot spare the material unless we got the ships. We think the enlightened Japanese authorities must perceive the absence of any unkindly animus and recognize the necessities that bind us to the policy we pursue. All we have and all we can achieve must be devoted to the single purpose of the winning of the war. TUSTONITES OPPOSE CHANGE IN DISTRICTS Don't Want a Block of Santa Ana Thrown Into the Fifth Tustin has gone on record as being unalterably opposed to changing the boundaries of the supervisor districts because it will throw so large a portion of the city of Santa Ana into the fifth that it will dominate the district. "We like Santa Ana for a neighbor, and she's a very good neighbor to have, but we do not like the idea of having her control the general road fund." This statement was the opening blast in a storm of general opposition 000 soldiers a day, and are planning many more. In Paris canteens operated by us with the French, we are serving enormous numbers of soldiers as they come and go. We soon expect to have ready 12 rest stations for our own troops at important railway centers; also recuperation camps at suitable places for many of our soldiers. We are providing an artificial limb factory near Paris, and special plants for the manufacture of splints and nitrous oxide gas. We have contracted for a movable hospital in four units accommodating 1000 men. A recreation center in connection with hospitals and diet kitchens. A casualty service for gathering information in regard to wounded and missing, and a medical research bureau. Our work with the civil population covers mainly children refugees and tuberculosis. We have opened a children's refuge and hospital at a point in the war zone, where several hundred children have been gathered to keep them away from danger of gas and shell fire. At another point among the wrecked villages we have established a medical center and a traveling dispensary to accommodate 1200 children. We have undertaken extensive medical work for the repatriate children at Evian, about 500 of whom are daily returned to France from points within the German lines. We have also opened a hospital and convalescent home for these children at Evian, where we are also operating an ambulance service for the returning repatries who are now coming in at a rate of 1000 a day. We are about to establish infant welfare stations in connection with each dispensary in the nation wide system planned by the Rockefeller Foundation. We have taken over and are carrying on and developing an extensive tuberculosis work formerly in charge of Mrs. Edith Wharton and other Americans. We are completing, for the French, an unfinished tuberculosis sanatorium near Paris, and are adding to the barracks erected by the city of Paris. This means adding 1000 beds to those now available for tuberculosis pa- DELHI BLIND PIGGER LEARNING BY EXPERIENCE Mrs. Measor Thinks She Is Competent To Defend Herself This Time Catherine Measor, on trial in the justice court at Santa Ana on three charges of selling booze and one of keeping a place where booze is sold, announced in court Friday morning that when her case came to trial in the superior court that she would demand a jury trial and that she would defend herself. "I am not going to hire attorneys to defend me," she announced. "They have never cleared me, and this time I will keep my money and pay my taxes with it." She also asked Judge Cox if she would have the right to select the judge before whom her cases should be heard, and when advised that she probably would be accorded the privilege expressed her preference. It was Judge West who handed her a stiff sentence on a former conviction and she said that she would rather appear before Judge Thomas this time. Her preliminary of two of the charges was heard and completed before noon, and in both instances she was held to answer to the superior court with bail fixed at $200 on each count. Both of these cases were for selling booze. That afternoon at 3 o'cock, the third charge for selling liquor was called and this case and that of maintaining a place where liquor is sold were completed and she was held for trial. She is charged in the three cases with having sold beer on November 7, 14 and 16. ELUSIVE AUTO Dr. Charles E. Marsh, of San Diego, is having a hard time holding on to his Oakland Six automobile, as joyriders seem to keep an en- Unalterably opposed to changing the boundaries of the supervisor districts because it will throw so large a portion of the city of Santa Ana into the fifth that it will dominate the district. "We like Santa Ana for a neighbor and she's a very good neighbor to have, but we do not like the idea of having her control the general road fund." This statement was the opening blast in a storm of general opposition that was registered at the Tustin chamber of commerce meeting when the plan of redistricting the supervisorial boundaries was brought up for discussion. The plan suggested to the supervisors was brought up by Jasper Leck, who explained briefly the boundary changes to be made if the Finley suggestion was carried out. S. W. Stanley stated that a part of Santa Ana was at one time in the district and that it was not at all satisfactory. He urged that the chamber go on record as opposed to the plan. S. E. Tingley of the Tustin Lumber company showed that the plan would take enough votes out of the first district to control the fifth, and would thus place the control of he general fund in the hands of Santa Ana. It would make it impossible for the fifth district to elect a supervisor who is not sanctioned by the city. Others remarked that Tustin had had one taste of Santa Ana trying to control the outside business of the county, and the taste was still lingering. The impression was given out that Santa Ana has not been too forward in keeping up the roads in the fifth district, with the exception of those that lead straight to the city. "I believe the supervisors are just marking time now, to find out what the people think," said S. W. Stanley "and we have gone on record as showing them what we think. You may look for good, strong opposition from Tustin if this thing is attempted." We have taken over and are carrying on and developing an extensive tuberculosis work formerly in charge of Mrs. Edith Wharton and other Americans. We are completing, for the French, an unfinished tuberculosis sanatorium near Paris, and are adding to the barracks erected by the city of Paris. This means adding 1000 beds to those now available for tuberculosis patients. We are organizing a comprehensive health center in one of the departments of France. We are making arrangements on a large scale to help refugee families through the winter with clothing, beds and shelter, and for this work the entire devastated district of France has been divided into six districts with a resident Red Cross delegate in each, and warehouses have been established at four points to which are shipped food, clothing, bedding, beds, household utensils and agricultural implements. We are carrying on repair work in four villages in the devastated region to enable returned families to stay throughout the winter. We are cooperating with French agencies in various kinds of relief work in the principal agricultural centers in the devastated region, and are supplying portable houses for the use of families which have returned to this region. We are providing barracks to assist in the work of training disabled soldiers, and we expect to establish for them experimental agricultural stations. We are organizing extensive work for relief of Belgians, both children and grown people, and in this connection we are establishing warehouses. ELUSIVE AUTO Dr. Charles E. Marsh, of San Diego, is having a hard time holding on to his Oakland Six automobile, as joyriders or thieves seem to keep an envious eye on it. Santa Ana officers received a report last week of it having been stolen at San Diego. It was just four weeks Friday since City Marshal Jernigan and Joe Ryan stopped a couple of boys from San Diego as they passed through after having stolen this car. The boys were C. M. Glenn and D. W. Wrotenberg and they said they had stolen the car for the purpose of going to Long Beach where the San Diego and Long Beach football teams were to mix on the following day. The story proved to have been false. The lads were kept in jail there for a night and a day before San Diego officers came after them. AN IMPASSE There never has been a moment during the whole time Japan and the United States were negotiating in respect of the embargo laid upon the exportation of steel ship building material that any other issue of the controversy was possible than that which has been reached. The United States has committed itself to the greatest ship building program any nation ever pursued. We propose within the space of a year to build almost three times the tonnage that was ever constructed by any nation in its topmost year of peace. Self preservation absolutely requires the conservation of THE DAYTON Gold Medal Bicycle W. H. HOUTS DIAMONDS FOR CHRISTMAS CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR ALL You are going to be a Santa Claus, too. DIAMONDS FOR CHRISTMAS CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR ALL You are going to be a Santa Claus, too. You will give presents this Christmas, of course. Now is the time for economical and satisfactory Christmas buying. Our large new holiday stock offers in great variety really desirable and useful presents. Come and look over our stock. We are glad to show you. A small deposit will hold any article for later delivery. Our prices are reasonable. Quality counts. THEODORE ROBERTS JEWELER At the Sign of the Big Clock. Anaheim, Cal. The Gazette Reliable Clean Newsy Official Paper $1.50 Per Year Good Advertising TOO MANY VISITORS AT MILITARY CAMPS Army and Red Cross Being Embarrassed in Work The secretary of war authorizes the following statement: The army and the American Red Cross are being embarrassed because a large number of the relatives of men in training camps have undertaken to take up their abode near the cantonments and ports of embarkation. In many instances there are no facilities near camp for taking care of such visitors and would be residents, and difficulty is found in comfortably housing these well intentioned relatives. Protected visits are especially undesirable. So far as possible the war department at the suggestion of the civilian relief branch of the Red Cross, desires to discourage families from leaving their homes and attempting to take up a new residence near the train-ing camps. The department has no disposition to deny the soldier in training occasional visits by his relatives, but unless a relative shall have been able to arrange for accommodations in advance it is unwise that he or she should go to the cantoment sites only to find difficulty in obtaining a nearby place at which to stay. The civilian relief work of the Red Cross, which embraces the care of any needy families of sailors and soldiers in their own homes, encounters unnecessary burdens through the influx of relatives of soldiers and sailors to cantonments, naval training stations, and ports of embarkation. Military and civil authorities are seriously embarrassed in a number of instances by the problem of caring for thousands of members of families of enlisted men. Feeding and housing conditions at some of the training sites make it almost impossible to provide accommodations, and when visits are made to such camps the visiting relatives should make advance arrangements.