anaheim-gazette 1919-07-17

HARBOR BONDS SELL FOR BIG PREMIUM ELEVEN FINANCIAL FIRMS SUBMIT BIDS FOR THE COUNTY IMPROVEMENT SECURITIES San Francisco House Pays Nearly Twelve Thousand Dollars Premium.—Money will be Available Within a Month. McDonnel & Company of San Francisco were the highest bidders for the Orange county harbor bonds Thursday, offering a premium of $11,887. There were eleven bids for the bonds the First National Bank of Santa Ana being the only local bidder. The buyer's attorney was furnished with a transcript of the bond proceedings. As soon as these are approved, the money will be paid for the bonds, and the Harbor Commission will be ready to proceed at once with the harbor work. The first job to be gotten under way is diversion of the Santa Ana river from the bay before it can dump more silt into the harbor. Orange county bonds offer the best security obtainable, and local issues always bring good premiums. That these county harbor bonds were looked upon with favor by bond buyers was shown by the fact that eleven bids for by his attorney, when the bonds will be paid for. The $500,000 issue is in denominations of $1,000, twenty bonds being payable each year for twenty-five years, and they bear interest at the rate of five per cent per annum. The bonds will be dated September 1, 1919. SOLDIERS ARE HAVING THEIR DISCHARGES RECORDED Miss Justine Whitney Urges All the Boys to Have Them Listed. Miss Justine Whitney, county recorder, believes that every returned soldier and sailor should have his discharge recorded at the county recorder's office. Recording of discharges means more work for Miss Whitney and her office but that does not deter the recorder from urging the advisability of having discharges recorded. "The last legislature provided that the discharges be recorded free of charge," said she. "So far only about 100 discharges have been left at my office. These have been copied into the county records, word for word, and have been returned to their owners. "I feel that every returned soldier and sailor should have his discharge recorded, for in every case a record may prove of real consequence either to him or to some of his relatives. The discharge bears his serial number, and that ought to be kept of record in this county." "Recording of a discharge is optionally with the soldier or sailor, but I am strongly of the opinion that it is advisable." In years to come the record may prove valuable to a man or to his widow. If the original is lost or de- cross, are being struck States Department of the Government 24th periment ranch at Lafayette are at present about project divided in Australians claim better mutton for more weight, and you about three-eighth result in a beast as to mutton carcass now on the market. Introduced into the Federal department time, many large pigs have been made. On the Dubois range straight Corriedale being crossed with breeds. WANTS THE PRINT TO Congress May Enforce Him to Stick Representative Kansas has introduced house prohibiting leaving this county of office. Mr. Cain. "The President's was marked with that have ever been of the royal blood, imperial power. In Rome, every a was exhausted up approached royal plause of the most royal banquet hall gal processions; dined in royal st and the Harbor Commission will be ready to proceed at once with the harbor work. The first job to be gotten under way is diversion of the Santa Ana river from the bay before it can dump more silt into the harbor. Orange county bonds offer the best security obtainable, and local issues always bring good premiums. That these county harbor bonds were looked upon with favor by bond buyers was shown by the fact that eleven bids for the issue were received. The bids were opened at 11 o'clock Thursday morning, the premiums offered by the different bidders being as follows: Cyrus Peirson & Co., San Francisco, $8,033. Torrance-Marshall Co., Los Angeles, $6,051. E. H. Rollin & Sons, Los Angeles, $4,200. E. H. Rollins & Sons, Los Angeles, $7,900. Harris Trust & Savings Bank, Chicago, and Union Trust Co., San Francisco, $9,000. Wm. R. Staats Co., Los Angeles, $10,418. First National Bank, Santa Ana, $5,250. R. H. Moulton & Co., Los Angeles, $10,300. Citizens' National Bank of Los Angeles and Schwabacher & Co., $5,000. Perrin, Drake, and Riley, Aronson & Co., and Carston & Earles, $5,653. McDonnell & Co., San Francisco, $11,887. Accompanying the bid of the First National Bank of Santa Ana was a statement that the bank would sell the county Victory bonds for any part of the amount at par and interest, and buy them back at par and interest as the county needs the money. This would give the county 4% per cent interest on all unused money in the harbor fund, which would effect an estimated saving of $20,000 to the county during the period that the bond money is being spent. A. J. Crookshank, president of the bank, addressed the board briefly, holding that in the long run his bid was the highest of all through the fact that he would guarantee the county 4% per cent on all the harbor money until it is used, which would amount, he believes to more than $20,000, in addition to the cash premium of $5,250. He pointed out that the First National of Santa Ana would sell the Victory bonds at par to the county and would buy them back at par, while if they accepted may prove of real consequence either to him or to some of his relatives. The discharge bears his serial number, and that ought to be kept of record in this county. "Recording of a discharge is optional with the soldier or sailor, but I am strongly of the opinion that it is advisable." In years to come the record may prove valuable to a man or to his widow. If the original is lost or destroyed, the record will be available for reference. FACING ANOTHER TERM IN THE PENITENTIARY Erwin Weaver to be Tried for Defrauding Anaheim Bank. Erwin H. Weaver five months ago finished a two-year prison term in Ohio, then was taken to San Quentin to finish out a previous term as a parole violator, and now faces another San Quentin sentence for alleged forgery and embezzlement in Orange county three years ago. He was brought from San Quentin to Santa Ana Wednesday by Sheriff Jackson, taken before Justice Cox, and his preliminary examination set for July 23 at 2 p.m. He is now in jail awaiting the hearing. The complaint against Weaver, charging forgery in endorsement of a $1247 check on the German-American Bank of Anaheim, was signed on June 8, 1916, by Chas. L. Davis, local automobile dealer. Weaver is the youth who, shortly before that time, gained temporary notoriety by his alleged illegal operations with automobiles belonging to Davis, Rev. J. A. Stevenson, who had given Weaver a home, and E. J. Marks of Fullerton. Weaver was on parole from San Quentin and first came to Villa Park, and later to Santa Ana. Several local men, including Davis, Rev. Stevenson, and Judge Thomas, interested themselves in him and gave him every chance to make good. Weaver "rewarded" their friendship, it was charged, by selling the Stevenson auto and pocketing the money, selling Davis' new car to E. J. Marks of Fullerton, taking in Marks' old car and over a thousand dollars cash besides, and then disappearing in Marks' car. After these operations, the youth was arrested in Columbus, Ohio, on a felony charge, and sentences to two offices. Mr. Caesar was marked with that have ever been of the royal blood; imperial power; in Rome; every art was exhausted up to approached royal plause of the mourn royal banquet hallal processes; dined in royal staithe entered. He every attention tha to man. He liked "Diplomats and men constantly at him homage. If encouraged. Not him was omitted les that marked a table. The states intent upon the tries, artfully leased countries' needs.guiled into assume been carefully cogovernment and States are to pay attentions in there. "The President Nations—it was who sat with him wanted to add my domains; wanted bors at the doors at the ends of the on the seas; want trol over smaller wanted indemnities sustained in the and prestige for people for future United States to policing Europe boundaries of what they wanted. "The Peace Co.of its work a fePresident left Euof the multitude honor of attentic flatterers. If Were concerned without serious returned traveler port from European American unpopular overseas. "The cordial fement and the peStates that exist wanting now.Copeople covet tha A. J. Crookshank, president of the bank, addressed the board briefly, holding that in the long run his bid was the highest of all through the fact that he would guarantee the county 4% per cent on all the harbor money until it is used, which would amount, he believes to more than $20,000, in addition to the cash premium of $5,250. He pointed out that the First National of Santa Ana would sell the Victory bonds at par to the county and would buy them back at par, while if they accepted some other bid and invested the money until used in government bonds, the county would have to buy at the market price and sell at the market price, which might entail a loss between the cost and selling price. District Attorney L. A. West, upon whose opinion the board must rely in matters of this kind, said he would like to see the bonds remain in Orange county and had no doubt the First National's estimate of the saving to the county through acceptance of its bid was correct, but West held that there are certain conditions involved which the supervisors had no power to say at this time would be fulfilled, and for that reason he advised that the First National's bid could not be accepted. In order to expedite the proceedings so that the money may be paid in and the Harbor Commission be ready to proceed with the development work at the earliest possible moment, West had prepared a transcript of the bond proceedings, and promised the successful bidder's attorney that within an hour after the bid was accepted the transcript would be ready to be certified to, and would then be presented for the attorney's examination. The bond purchaser has thirty days within which to have the legality of the proceedings investigated and approved AIRPLANES FIND FOREST FIRES Reports to the Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, from the national forests in California, where army aviators are making daily flights in search of forest fires, indicate that the innovation has been decidedly successful and that air patrols of the forests will prove so valuable that they will eventually become a permanent part of the work to shield the great woodlands from conflagrations. Numerous fires have been discovered in their early stages by the aviators and have been reported immediately to the forest rangers. It is believed that considerable loss has been prevented by such early discovery. Lack of suitable landing places in this rugged country has proved a handicap in some instances and has caused a belief in some quarters that dirigible baloons will finally be found more suitable than airplanes for forest flying. STUDIES NEW BREED OF SHEEP Corriedale sheep developed in Australia mainly by a Lincoln-Merino ANAHEIM GAZETTE cross, are being studied by the United States Department of Agriculture at the Government 28,000-acre sheep-experiment ranch at Dubois, Idaho. There are at present about 1,500 sheep on the project divided into various classes. Australians claim for the Corriedales better mutton form than the Merino, more weight, and yet a good fleece of about three-eighth blood quality. It is expected that the tests now being conducted by the department will eventually result in a better average sheep, as to mutton carcass, than the breeds now on the market. The breed was introduced into this country by the Federal department, but since that time many large private importations have been made. Part of the sheep on the Dubois range are being kept as straight Corriedales., while others are being crossed with American cross-breds. WANTS THE PRESIDENT TO STAY AT HOME Congress May Enact Law Compelling Him to Stick to His Job. Representative Phil Campbell of Kansas has introduced a bill in the house prohibiting the President from leaving this country during his term of office. Mr. Campbell says: "The President's arrival in Europe was marked with the usual attentions that have ever been given to princes of the royal blood, or to emperors with imperial power. In Paris, in London, in Rome, every art of the entertainer was exhausted upon the President. He approached royal palaces amid the applause of the multitude; he entered royal banquet halls in ancient and regal processions; he was wined and dined in royal state in every capital ing the war. An outstanding feature of the increase in acreage this year is the development in the San Joaquin Valley, where possibly 10,000 acres will mature this year, and also an experimental plantation in Shasta County, the farthest northern acreage planted to rice on the continent. Weather conditions in June have not been the best for a young growing crop, but the advantage of early planting this year will offset this and the rice harvest should be in full swing early in September or two weeks earlier than any previous year. There has been a large increase in the acreage planted to the young berries showing the disposition on the part of the growers to reduce the great percentage of what are known as Japanese rices, the small round berry in California. From a $75,-000 crop in 1912 to a $20,000,000 crop in 1919 is a significant difference. FAVOR TAX LEVY FOR SCENIC HIGHWAY Proposal to Make Popular Resort of Saddleback Mountain. A ten cent tax rate for the annual extension of the good roads in Orange county is proposed as a means for giving the county one of the best highway systems in the state, and the building of a good road to the top of Saddleback as the first use for that fund. At the next meeting of the Associated Chambers of Commerce recommendation will be made that the big county boost body make this the first order of business until the object is accomplished. The subject of building a road to the top of Saddleback was presented at last meeting of the Associated INVEST Southern Californi At Pays You 7 It can be purchased Or, $90 in installment IT IS SAFE, because large property $80,000,000. Its affairs are run California, and this stock is sold. DIVIDENDS ARE ASSURED, but and its earnings over a long period Its 38th Common Stock Dividend. ITS BUSINESS IS VARIED AND electricity. It serves 212,000 Valley with electricity for light-stantly being developed. ITS FUTURE IS ESTABLISHED growth, and our cheap electric tries in Southern California, power is assured through these its present total capacity. "The President's arrival in Europe was marked with the usual attentions that have ever been given to princes of the royal blood, or to emperors with imperial power. In Paris, in London, in Rome, every art of the entertainer was exhausted upon the President. He approached royal palaces amid the applause of the multitude; he entered royal banquet halls in ancient and regal processions; he was wined and dined in royal state in every capital he entered. He was flattered with every attention that mankind can give to man. He liked it all. "Diplomats and international statesmen constantly attended him and paid him homage. If he had vanity, it was encouraged. Nothing that could please him was omitted from the preliminaries that marked approach to the peace table. The statesmen of other lands intent upon the welfare of their countries, artfully led him to see their countries' needs. He was easily bequeiliged into assuming the role that had been carefully created for him. The government and people of the United States are to pay for all these honored attentions in the years to come. "The President wanted a League of Nations—it was given to him. Those who sat with him at the peace table wanted to add more territory to their domains; wanted more friendly harbors at the doors of teeming millions, at the ends of the paths they controlled on the seas; wanted dominion and control over smaller and weaker nations; wanted indemnity for the losses they sustained in the war; wanted security and prestige for their government and people for future wars and wanted the United States to share the burden of policing Europe and maintaining the boundaries of their nation and they got what they wanted. "The Peace Conference ended a part of its work a few days ago, and the President left Europe amid the silence of the multitude and without even the honor of attention from his former flatterers. If Woodrow Wilson only were concerned, the affair might pass without serious comment. But every returned traveler and uncensored report from Europe tell the story of the American unpopularity in every country overseas. "The cordial feeling for the government and the people of the United States that existed six months ago is wanting now. Civilized and Christian people covet the good opinion of man- way systems in the state, and the building of a good road to the top of Saddleback as the first use for that fund. At the next meeting of the Associated Chambers of Commerce recommendation will be made that the big county boost body make this the first order of business until the object is accomplished. The subject of building a road to the top of Saddleback was presented at the last meeting of the Associated Chambers of Commerce by Linn L. Shaw of this city, who sees in that improvement one of the greatest attractions in Southern California. He declared that Orange county had been neglectful of its natural scenic attractions, while other Southern California points had taken advantage of them and profited thereby. The view from the lookout station on the mountain top cannot be duplicate anywhere in Southern California. It is declared that if the road is built and a hotel erected there it will become more popular than some of the high point resorts in Southern California that now are more or less famous for their scenic beauty. The ten-cent fund would raise close to $90,000 annually for the improvement of roads, and with this amount available it would not be many years hence before every road of consequence in the county would be a paved boulevard. Charles Eygabroad, chairman of the good roads committee, and supervisors Talbert and Edwards have expressed themselves as in favor of the levy. The Garden Grove boosters met with the Talbert people and discussed the issue some time ago and at the Orange conference Supervisor Edwards was present. "A number of new road districts are being formed for the purpose of improving thoroughfares," said H. A. Lake of Garden Grove recently. "The districts are small and their creation is liable to become more numerous. We believe that the better way to provide for such improvements is to levy a ten-cent road tax for continual improvements of roads throughout the county—that the interest is county wide, and that the work can be done to better advantage and more systematically." AERIAL PATROL OF BORDER Military aerial patrol of the Mexi- If Woodrow Wilson only were concerned, the affair might pass without serious comment. But every returned traveler and uncensored report from Europe tell the story of the American unpopularity in every country overseas. "The cordial feeling for the government and the people of the United States that existed six months ago is wanting now. Civilized and Christian people covet the good opinion of mankind. The President's presence in Europe, his absence from his own country, has left the people of the United States without that good opinion. "No country can safely permit its chief executive to intrude himself into the domestic affairs of another country. When the President of the United States in France, in England and in Italy mistook the royal reception he had received from those in high places and the applause that was given him by the multitude for an invitation to become their political master, he lost his own prestige and that of his country. It will require the work of years to restore the government and the people of the United States to the former cordial and congenial relationships with the other countries of the world and with those people the President has recently come in contact." RICE PROSPECTS FOR 1919 With an increase of probably 25,000 acres over the 1918 acreage, the rice crop of California this year promises to reach around the twenty million mark if the prices of paddy rice bring the average for the last season. There are some who predict even a higher price because of the shortage of rough rices due to heavy buying season dur- WAR INSURANCE CAN BE MADE PERMANENT Soldier Can Convert Them Into Old Line Policies. Conversion of War Risk Insurance into old-line policies by returned soldiers, sailors and marines of Orange county is now possible and the conversion office at the navy recruiting office in the Santa Ana city hall, is in charge of Chif Carpenter's Mate W. P. Hughes. Hughes has all necessary blanks which must be filled out and will be glad to assist returned service men in converting their war insurance into peace-time policies. Hughes' hours next week will be from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. War Risk Insurance may be converted into either of six different kinds of permanent old-line policles; ordinary life, 20-pay life, 30-pay life, 20-year endowment, 30-year endowment or endowment at age of 62, and the first premium payment under the converted insurance is made at time the proper blanks are signed. Official information bearing on this subject is contained in a circular received by Hughes from Chas. A. Harris, lieutenant commander U. S. Navy in charge of the navy recruiting station at 318 Union Oil Building, Los Angeles, as follows: "In accordance with our recent correspondence, there is enclosed a number of conversion blanks whereby the ex-service men in your community will be now enabled to convert their term insurance to "old line" plans, issued by the United States. These blanks must be executed in duplicate and forwarded to this off- INVEST YOUR SAVINGS Southern California Edison Company Stock At the Present Dividend Rate Pays You 7 3-4 per cent on Your Savings It can be purchased for cash at $89 per share or $90 in installments of $5 per month per share SAFE, because large properties are owned. The Company's total assets are over 1,000,000. Its affairs are regulated by the Railroad Commission of the State of California, and this stock is sold under its authority. 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"At the time you secure the execution thereof, the first premium must be collected, whether monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual, and it is suggested that it be in the form of cashier's check, personal check or money order, in each case made payable to the Treasurer of the United States and this premium must ac- TEST FOR EGG PRODUCTION During the six weeks' poultry short course beginning September 29 at the University of California Farm, Davis, various methods for testing for egg production will be shown, it is announced by Dean Thomas Forsyth Hunt of the College of Agriculture. One of these tests, known as the color test, and based on the theory that the bright yellow color in the War Risk Insurance rates by returned solderines of Orange possible and the control the navy recruiting at Ana city hall, is in Penner's Mate W. P. has all necessary be filled out and first returned service their war insurance policies. Hughes' will be from 9 a.m. MOOSE TO BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS The New York State Moose Association, at the annual convention held recently in Rochester, N. Y., voted unanimously to purchase $1,000,000 worth of War Savings Stamps before January 1, 1920. An intensive drive for stamps will be started among the members of the order in Septmeber The campaign will last one week. This follows closely upon the action taken by the New York State Elks in their annual meeting at Albany pledging the purchase during the balance of 1919 of $500,000 worth of Savings Stamps. Each lodge of the Elks in the State will be allotted a fixed quota of stamps, and the sales campaign will be conducted by a "Government Thrift Commission" of Elks. The action of the New York Moose and Elks associations is in line with the thrift campaign being conducted nationally by the Savings Division of the United States Treasury Department through agricultural, church, commercial and professional, fraternal, women's, labor and school organizations. TEST FOR EGG PRODUCTION During the six weeks' poultry short course beginning September 29 at the University of California Farm, Davis, various methods for testing for egg production will be shown, it is announced by Dean Thomas Forsyth Hunt of the College of Agriculture. One of these tests, known as the color test, and based on the theory that the bright yellow color in the shanks of yellow legged fowls fades out in proportion to the number of eggs the hen lays, is said to be of great value in culling out the slacker hens in July and August. Careful investigations conducted by the Poultry Division of the University of California College of Agriculture are declared to show that in all yellow legged fowls, such as Leghorns, Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes and Reds, the yellow color in the shanks, beak, ear lobes and skin slowly fades out as the number of eggs increases during each laying season. While this method is not as accurate or as expensive as trapnesting, flocks of layers can be culled quite accurately by the use of this color test, in connection with other physical indications, according to poultry experts. Marslo Baiza, charged with burglarizing his father's house on two occasions and stealing $340 from same, was bound over to superior court Thursday, his bail being fixed at $1000. He is now in the county jail. Charles S. Jacobwitz has filed suit to collect $1400 alleged to be due for a carbonating machine and gas collecting outfit sold to the Anaheim Products Company, located at the Union Brewing Company's plant.