anaheim-gazette 1918-08-01

NEWPORT SOON TO HAVE LARGE SHIP PLANT WORK TO BEGIN WITHIN THIRTY DAYS AFTER CITY SIGNS THE DREDGING CONTRACT THIRTY-ACRE SITE HAS BEEN ACQUIRED BY THE COMPANY AT A COST OF $30,000 The contract for dredging the channel from bulkhead station No. 107 to No. 121 as defined by the United States government engineers, by the Pope Shipbuilding and Construction corporation and their agreement to begin the construction of a shipbuilding plant, was presented the board of trustees of Newport Beach by City Attorney Clyde Bishop at the meeting Monday evening, and after being discussed from every angle, received the approval of the members of the board. The city attorney and the shipbuilders' consulting attorney, H. F. Scoville, had previously met in conference and every point to insure the interests of the city was covered and met with the approbation of both parties in the contract. The readiness with which every term was met by Mr. Scoville indicates that his clients are willing and anxious to meet the city more than half way. The shipbuilding company has applied to the corporation commissioner of the state for a charter to do business and just as soon as this is required, the company will organi-mitting the fullest protection of all the city's rights and interests, and the high financial standing and ratings of the members of the company, would indicate that they mean business. The developments of the next few weeks will be watched with a great deal of interest by everyone in Orange county. SPANISH WAR WIDOWS TO RECEIVE PENSIONS Dependent Pension Bill Became Law By Executive Signature July 16 The following letter relative to the new pension bill providing for the relief of dependent widows and children of men who served in the Spanish war, has been received at this office from Congressman Kettner. It is dated July 17: Dear Editor:—The president yesterday signed the bill so long known as the Key Bill and it became a law and will be known hereafter as the Act of July 16, 1918. This law provides a pension of $12 per month from date of filing claim for widows of officers and enlisted men who served in the U. S. army, navy and marine corps for a period of 90 days or more during the war with Spain and received an honorable discharge, provided the widow married the soldier, sailor or marine prior to July 16,1918, and has a net income not in excess of $250 per annum, from money loaned or property rented or property of a potential value which, if rented or sold and the purchase money loaned would produce more than $250 per annum. Money earned by personal work of any character is not counted as income, under the direction of the interior department. This law provides $2 a month additional to the widow on account of each child under 16 years of age until it reaches 16. In event there be no received federal or local horticulture tains a fruit fill it is to gather regarding this in foreign lands with specialist errnments. Travelers have been called up most in seeing come the carry Printed matter serious conseqe the careless adduction of fruit distributed to cific ports from Each passenger vit stating tha gage no fruit tack. Inspecte gage of income carrying fruity find infested one of these with promptly mean the loss of dollars to fruit men. DISLOY The text of cently passed loyalty in any ed by the act to $10,000 and years, or both that should be Section 3 can follows: "Section 3. United States fully make on false statement fere with tha of the militar United States ess of its e vine, had previously met in conference and every point to insure the interests of the city was covered and met with the approbation of both parties in the contract. The readiness with which every term was met by Mr. Scoville indicates that his clients are willing and anxious to meet the city more than half way. The shipbuilding company has applied to the corporation commissioner of the state for a charter to do business and just as soon as this is received, the company will be organized, the officers elected and instructed to sign the contract with the city and "dirt will begin to fly." The contract and agreement have not yet been signed by the city, but the board has authorized the chairman and clerk to sign these instruments as soon as the company receives the charter. According to the terms of the contract, the shipbuilders must exercise their right of option to the land chosen for the ship yards site and immediately begin the construction of a bulkhead and expend the sum of $15,000 in improvements on the land. When this has been done the city will pay the company $10,000 which is to be withheld on the amount to be paid for dredging the channel. All sums received by the city for dredging material for filling are to be placed in the dredging fund and used for continuing the channel and in case the material is carried for a distance of over 1600 feet the city agrees to pay additional cost. Payment for dredging for the previous month will be made on or before the 10th of each month, except that 10 per cent of the amount will be retained by the city until the completion of the contract and the acceptance of the work. If the $50,000 voted for the channel proves to be inadequate to complete it, the board of trustees agrees to submit to the city electors at a special election the proposition of voting enough additional money to complete the work according to the plans of the city engineer. The board also agrees to grant the shipbuilders a right of way over such streets as might be needed for side tracks from the railroad lines to their site. The site chosen by the shipbuilders lying easterly of the road between the city and the Santa Ana river bridge, known as the Stevens and Gleason tract, comprises about thirty acres. The option secured on this tract calls for the payment of $1000 per acre or a total sum of ap- FRUIT FLIES BARRED BY STRICT WATCH Many Pests Have Not Yet Secured a Foothold Here More than half of the insect pests that annually cause immense losses in fruits and vegetables of the United States could have been kept out of this country by thorough quarantine against them, according to officials of the United States department of agriculture. To guard against more injurious insects being brought in from other countries is the object of the federal plant quarantine act of 1912 which, with the development of knowledge of insects throughout the world, has resulted in the bars being put up wherever the pests are likely to enter. Among the insects of other lands that have not yet become established in this country are the serious pests known popularly as fruit flies. They resemble ordinary house flies but are far more beautiful, inasmuch as their wings are prettily spotted and banded and their bodies are usually more brightly colored. They are like house flies also in that they lay small, white eggs that hatch into whitish maggots. However, the maggots do not develop in refuse or decaying matter as do those of the house fly, but they feed upon the living tissues of fruits, nuts and vegetables. Eggs are laid just under the skin of the host plant or fruit and these hatch into the maggots which burrow in all directions not in excess of $250 per annum, from money loaned or property rented or property of a potential value which, if rented or sold and the purchase money loaned would produce more than $250 per annum. Money earned by personal work of any character is not counted as income, under the direction of the interior department. This law provides $2 a month additional to the widow on account of each child under 16 years of age until it reaches 16. In event there be no widow, the law provides pension for minor children until they reach the age of 16 years. If there be one minor child it will receive $12, the widow's rate, plus the $2 per month, the minor's rate. If there be more than one minor child, the widow's rate of $12 will be evenly divided between them and $2 per month is allowed on account of each of them. As each minor child reaches the age of 16 years, all pension in its behalf terminates. In this military structure or attaching or United States Army or Navy or any lau-tion form of Stotes, or United States continually, or fully utter-any language voke or ence-United States cause of its fully display-enemy, or s-ance, writ-or language advocate an-tion in this things, pro-cessary or ess-of the war in may be engra-curtaliment United States war, and advocate, te- The site chosen by the shipbuilders lying easterly of the road between the city and the Santa Ana river bridge, known as the Stevens and Gleason tract, comprises about thirty acres. The option secured on this tract calls for the payment of $1000 per acre or a total sum of approximately $30,000. The land is barely above the high tide line and during extreme high tides is partially under water and will require considerable filling before it can be used. It is estimated that $15,000 will be required to build a bulkhead on the channel side of the site to protect the property, and after the contracts are signed, this will be one of the first things to be done. The construction of a dredger by the shipbuilders, which company will be known as the Pope Shipbuilding & Construction corporation, will be commenced simultaneously with the construction of the bulkhead and the driving of piling for the ship ways. Actual work on the ship yards however, cannot be expected until the dredger is built and the land brought up to the required grade. With every possible contingency apparently covered and mutually agreed upon by both sides to the contract, it seems that Newport Beach, after many years of hustling while waiting, is now given an opportunity for development and expansion in the industrial world. The fact that these men were ready to accept any reasonable terms or conditions demanded by the city, and that there was no quibbling over trivial matters, no objections to per- wings are prettily spotted and banded and their bodies are usually more brightly colored. They are like house flies also in that they lay small, white eggs that hatch into whitish maggots. However, the maggots do not develop in refuse or decaying matter as do those of the house fly, but they feed upon the living tissues of fruits, nuts and vegetables. Eggs are laid just under the skin of the host plant or fruit and these hatch into the maggots which burrow in all directions through the pulp. As the maggots tunnel about they cause decays to develop, and these rotting areas often produce greater injury than the maggots themselves. Increasing imports from the countries where fruit flies now abound, extension of trade to remote corners of the earth, increasing density of population in the warmer portions of this country, are making greater each year the danger that fruit flies may become firmly established in the United States. To intercept and destroy fruit flies as well as other pests, the Federal horticultural board of the department of agriculture, charged with the enforcement of the plant quarantine act, prohibits the entry of all horticultural products likely to carry insect pests unless they have been rendered free from danger as pest carriers. The department also has established in the Hawaiian islands a system of inspection that is heartily supported by fruit growers and transportation companies whereby all plantations and packing houses from which fruit is shipped are kept from becoming sources of fruitfly dissemination. No shipments of fruit can be made from Hawaii to the Pacific coast or unloaded there unless they have first ANAHEIM GAZETTE ANAHEIM GAZETTE of all and the ratings of any, would business. next few in a great time in Orders CAME LAW July 16 live to the for the reland childd the Spanat this offtittner. It ent yesing known name a law as the Act of $12 claim and enlisted S. S. army, a period of war with vorable disw married prior to get income annum, from rented or which, if chase monmore than earned by acter is not the direction month adcount of of age until here no received federal approval. The federal horticultural board also maintains a fruit fly specialist whose duty it is to gather available information regarding this pest either by travel in foreign lands or by correspondence with specialists serving foreign governments. Travelers from foreign lands have been called upon to help to the utmost in seeing that they do not become the carriers of insect pests. Printed matter calling attention to the serious consequences that may follow the careless and unintentional introduction of fruit flies from Hawaii is distributed to all persons entering Pacific ports from the Hawaiian Islands. Each passenger must sign an affidavit stating that he has in his baggage no fruit subject to fruit fly attack. Inspectors who search the baggage of incoming travelers for fruits carrying fruit flies or their maggots, find infested fruit every month. Any one of these instances if not dealt with promptly and properly might mean the loss of thousands or millions of dollars to American farmers and fruit men. DISLOYALTY DEFINED The text of the Espionage Law, recently passed by congress, makes disloyalty in any of the forms designated by the act punishable by fines up to $10,000 and imprisonment up to 20 years, or both, and carries information that should be known by every citizen. Section 3 carries the information as follows: "Section 3. Whoever, when the United States is at war, shall wilfully make or convey false reports or false statements with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the military or naval forces of the United States, or to promote the success of its enemies, or shall wilfully received federal approval. The federal horticultural board also maintains a fruit fly specialist whose duty it is to gather available information regarding this pest either by travel in foreign lands or by correspondence with specialists serving foreign governments. Travelers from foreign lands have been called upon to help to the ut- most in seeing that they do not be-come the carriers of insect pests. Printed matter calling attention to the serious consequences that may follow the careless and unintentional introduction of fruit flies from Hawaii is distributed to all persons entering Pacific ports from the Hawaiian Islands. Each passenger must sign an affidavit stating that he has in his baggage no fruit subject to fruit fly attack. Inspectors who search the baggage of incoming travelers for fruits carrying fruit flies or their maggots, find infested fruit every month. Any one of these instances if not dealt with promptly and properly might mean the loss of thousands or millions of dollars to American farmers and fruit men." It is estimated by General Manager George B. Keefe, that the frame work of the exposition will be ready for the decoration August 15th and that the army of workmen to be employed will be through the decorations inside and out in time for the exhibitors to commence installation two weeks ahead. The exposition will open with a Native Sons and Daughters celebration, Admission Day, September 9th, 1918. GOVERNMENT TO PROTECT LUMBER OWNERS FROM FIRE In accordance with the state wide movement to save food, forage and forests from fire, as a war emergency measure, the forest service for California has completed cooperative arrangements with 126 individual owners of more than 250,000 acres of timber lands by which all fires are discovered, reported and put out by the government. These lands are located in Amador, Eldorado, Placer on Nevada counties, and come within the territory covered by the rangers of the Eldorado and Tahoe national forests. The forest service, after accepting deposits, averaging 1½ cents per acre from the owners, guarantee to protect the timber and to fight all fires at government expense. IMPORTING MEXICANS Two ways for obtaining Mexicans from Old Mexico are open to California farmers. VICTOR CEMENT AGENCY GIBBS LUMBER East Broadway ANAHEIM CAL. OFFICE PHONES HOME 753-1 SUNSET 341-J. Res. 125 E. Broadway, Cor. Claudina RESIDENCE PHONES PACIFIC 341-M HOME 753-2 J. W. TRUXAW, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON HOURS 11-12; 2-4; 7-8 GERMAN AMERICAN BANK BLDG. Cor. Center and Los Angeles Sts. ANAHEIM, CAL. J.C.Osher,D.D.S.,M.D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT—ORAL SURGERY—GLASSES FITTED SUITE 1 CENTRAL BLDG. PHONE SUNSET 337 Dr. G. A. Neth General Drugless Practitioner SUITE 4, CASSOU BLDG., ANAHEIM Our treatments are especially advantageous for alliments of the Nerves and pains in the muscles and joints. Acute or chronic diseases of the various organs often yield with surprising alacrity to our modalities. Fees reasonable. HOTEL VALENCIA Modern in Every Respect Finest Hotel in Orange County Accommodations Unsurpassed By any hotel in the Southland and prices reasonable. Corner Lemon and Center Sts Anaheim, California Rates, $1.00 per night, up. Special Rates by the week or month. being arranged between the United States employment service and the farmers committee of the state council of defense. SOLDIERS' FAMILIES Home service sections of the American Red Cross are organized with just one purpose, to see that all families of soldiers and sailors are maintained in comfort and peace of mind while the men are in service. Any soldier or sailor who knows or fears that his family is in trouble should appeal at once to the Home service. He should go at once to the Home service man attached to his division here or abroad, or write to his family to take their troubles to the Red Cross Home service section in their home town. Men in service know they will be taken care of if they are wounded or sick; they should know also that the Home service workers of the Red Cross are willing to relieve them of worry concerning their families so far as that is possible. Relations between Home service workers and families are as confidential as those between doctors and their patients. Home service means sympathy advice expert information. IMPORTING MEXICANS Two ways for obtaining Mexicans from Old Mexico are open to California farmers. Direct importation is possible under certain restrictions. To bring Mexicans into the United States requires that application be made to the United States immigration service. For use of Mexicans in this state, application should be made to W. T. Boyce, 804 Claus Spreckels building, San Francisco. If the application is granted, an agreement will be drawn up between the importer and the United States department of labor. This agreement is a specific working plan binding the employer to certain well defined acts and responsibilities. It stipulates the kind and period of employment, holds the importer morally responsible for keeping the government posted as to the desertion of this labor or its change of employer, and provides that the employer shall advance transportation to the place of employment. It contains also the important provision that 25 cents per day must be withheld from the laborer's wages and put to his credit in the postal savings bank, until the accumulation amounts to $100 the deposit to be payable to him upon the holder's return to Mexico. The gathering of Mexicans in Mexico for shipment to the United States is optional with the importer. The method will be determined entirely by local conditions in the section across the border from which the supply is to be drawn. Once at the border the importer must pass the Mexicans through the United States immigration service, submit them to a physical examination, furnish two unmounted photos, and provide board and lodging to the place of employment. Compliance with the federal terms permits importation without payment of bond or head tax, and sets aside both the literacy test and the contract labor clause. Indirect importation by farmers who prefer to use existing agencies for importing is possible through the facilities of the California- and Colorado Agricultural Labor association, whose scope is outlined under Emergency Eldorado and Tahoe national forests. The forest service, after accepting deposits, averaging 1½ cents per acre from the owners, guarantee to protect the timber and to fight all fires at government expense. HOTEL VALENCIA Modern in Every Respect Finest Hotel in Orange County Accommodations Unsurpassed By any hotel in the Southland and prices reasonable. Corner Lemon and Center Sts Anaheim, California Rates, $1.00 per night, up. Special Rates by the week or month. being arranged between the United States employment service and the farmers committee of the state council of defense. SOLDIERS' FAMILIES Home service sections of the American Red Cross are organized with just one purpose, to see that all families of soldiers and sailors are maintained in comfort and peace of mind while the men are in service. Any soldier or sailor who knows or fears that his family is in trouble should appeal at once to the Home service. He should go at once to the Home service man attached to his division here or abroad, or write to his family to take their troubles to the Red Cross Home service section in their home town. Men in service know they will be taken care of if they are wounded or sick; they should know also that the Home service workers of the Red Cross are willing to relieve them of worry concerning their families so far as that is possible. Relations between Home service workers and families are as confidential as those between doctors and their patients. Home service means sympathy advice expert information. PACIFIC LAND SHOW The Pacific Coast Land and Industrial Exposition will out circus any circus in the country, four mammoth tents having arrived to house the big exposition and which, when completed could accommodate a three ring show, an apple and a national orange Photos, writing, printing, publication or language spoken, urge, incite, or advocate any curtailment of production in this country of any thing or things, product or products, necessary or essential to the prosecution of the war in which the United States may be engaged, with intent by such curtailment to cripple or hinder the United States in the prosecution of the war, and whoever shall wilfully advocate, teach, defend, or suggest the doing of any of the acts or things in this section enumerated, and who ever shall by word or act support or favor the cause of any country with which the United States is at war or by word or act oppose the cause of the United States therein, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than 20 years, or both: Provided; That any employee or official of the United States Government who commits any disloyal act or utters any unpatriotic or disloyal language, or who in an abusive and violent manner criticizes the Army or Navy or the flag of the United States, shall be at once dismissed from the service. Any such employee shall be dismissed by the head of the department in which the employee may be engaged, and any such official shall be dismissed by the authority having power to appoint a successor to the dismissed official." Indirect importation by farmers who prefer to use existing agencies for importing is possible through the facilities of the California and Colorado Agricultural Labor association, whose scope is outlined under Emergency Commercial Organizations. To use the machinery of this organization necessitates the furnishing of evidence as to the moral and financial responsibility of the employer who desires the labor. Cost of importation and prorata of overhead charges are to be borne by the importer. Permission to import must first be obtained from the United States department of labor as outlined in the preceding paragraph. Application for use of the service should then be made to the state farm labor agent, 309 Hilgard Hall, university of California, Berkeley, who will arrange the necessary details with the California and Colorado Agricultural Labor association. A third method of importation by which the state in cooperation with the United States department of labor will undertake to bring in and house the necessary Mexicans is now being worked out. These men when imported, however, will be drawn only on order of the United States department of labor. Farmers needing Mexican labor should make application to the nearest public employment agency for what help they need, with the understanding, however, that the men are not as yet in the state and some time must elapse before the plan will be in full working order. Details are AMERICANIZATION BUREAU FOR ORANGE COUNTY Temporary Organization by the County Council of Defense Temporary organization for an Americanization bureau for Orange county was made at a meeting of members of the Women's Americanization committee for the county and of the county council of defense last week. Dr. E. J. Jack, state director of Americanization working with the state commission upon housing and immigration, had hoped to secure a permanent organization but that was continued until a later date. During the interim a permanent director for Orange county will be selected. Tuesday Mrs. A. J. Lawton was selected as temporary director to take charge until a permanent chairman is appointed. Selected upon a temporary county board were Mrs. A. J. Crookshank, C. MENT AGENCY BBS MBER broadway HEIM CAL. PHONES SUNSET 341-J. roadway, Cor. Claudina NICE PHONES HOME 753-2 JXAW, M. D. AND SURGEON 11-12; 2-4; 7-8 AMERICAN BANK BLDG. and Los Angeles Sts. HEIM, CAL. ,D.D.S.,M.D. AND SURGEON SEE AND THROAT— GERY—GLASSES MITTED ENTRAL BLDG. SUNSET 337 A. Neth less Practitioner OU BLDG., ANAHEIM ests are especially admilments of the Nerves the muscles and joints. c diseases of the varen yield with surprisour modalities. Fees HOTEL LENCIA Griffith Lumber Co. SEE US FOR YOUR BUILDING MATERIAL In Any Amount, Large or Small South Los Angeles St. H. M.' ADAMS, Mgr. The Best Meats of All Kinds always in stock City Cash Market Schneider Bros., Props. Sunset 20 and 362 Home 1053 ANAHEIM FEED and FUEL CO. Successor to R. W. McClellan Wood, Coal, Hay, Grain Seeds and Flour Choice Seed Potatoes Phones: Pacific 317, Home 294 R. W. McClellan, W. D. Grafton, Props. The DAYTON Seeds and Flour Choice Seed Potatoes Phones: Pacific 317, Home 294 R. W. McClellan, W. D. Grafton, Props. The DAYTON Gold Medal Bicycle 5 year factory guarantee. W. H. HOUTS, Anaheim New store, 2 doors east of Post Office Good Place to Buy— G-O-O-D L-U-M-B-E-R C. GANAHL LUMBER COMPANY Anaheim. : : : Cal E. Utt, Judge Z. B. West, and Mrs. O. Rodriguez. In his address Dr. Jack outlined the work that the Americanization bureaus are planning to do all over the country. He said that the move- E. Utt, Judge Z. B. West, and Mrs. O. Rodriguez. In his address Dr. Jack outlined the work that the Americanization bureaus are planning to do all over the country. He said that the movement is one of the big things under way in this country. American ideals and principles are to be taught. "Our problem," said he, "is not alone with allens, but also with native born men and women and children. As a rule all foreign born residents want to become citizens of this country. We must go to them, and let them know that we are with them and they with us, that we are all together in this great war. We must make them understand just what this war is about. To work in this nation without lost motion, we must get the foreigners who are here with us. We want them to always speak of America in loving terms. "I understand that in this county you have few allens except Mexicans. It is planned before long to have Mexican speakers who can go among Mexicans all over this state and do the work that should be done among them." St. John's Lutheran school at Orange has decided to discontinue the teaching of German after the present term. A man tells of a country editor who started out poor twenty years ago and has retired with the comfortable fortune of $50,000. This money was acquired through industry, economy, conscientious efforts to give full value, indomitable perseverance and the death of an uncle who left the editor $49,999.50.