anaheim-gazette 1920-07-29

SUPERVISORS' PROCEEDINGS The county auditor was ordered to draw a warrant on the advertising fund for $1500 in favor of C. E. Lavering, treasurer, for advertising Orange county at the fair to be held at Huntington Beach in October. Bonds of Fullerton school district were ordered issued in the sum of $240,000 and the clerk was ordered to publish notice of sale of said bonds in the Fullerton News. Bids to be received up to August 3 at 11 a.m. Application for special emergency permit for excess of maximum specified in ordinance 176 was referred to county engineer. The chairman was authorized to approve bond of Petroleum Midway company on ordinance 177. Petition of John O. Forester, et al., to vacate and abandon a portion of public street known at Battery street in San Juan Capistrano, fifth road district, was granted. The petition of Albert Pryor, et al., to vacate an dabandon a portion of those certain public roads, streets, and alleys known as Central, Oriental, Water, Occidental and Garcia came on regularly for hearing. H. A. Stewart objecting to petition as a whole. Hearing was continued to August 3 at 11 a.m. Bids were opened for the construction of Anaheim-Olive bridge in third road district. The bid of George R. lowest responsible bidder, contract was awarded to him. Bids were opened for the improvement of County Park road, fourth road district. The bid of eorge R. Curtis was rejected and bid of Wells & Bressler was taken under advisement until July 27 at 10 a.m. have not been very successful in the satisfactory control of this pest. The results obtained in the control of the walnut aphis by the dusting method developed by the California Walnut Growers association have been so good that many have asked whether the citrus aphis could not be handled in the same manner. The principal advantages of this method over liquid spraying are that it is quicker, easier, less weight has to be hauled about the orchard, the dust penetrates the curled leaves better than a liquid and, in the case of small trees, the grower can often do the work himself with a hand duster and save the expense of hiring a spray rig. It is easier and cheaper to dust several times than to spray once. The orange aphis is considerably harder to control than the walnut aphis because it is more resistant to nicotine and is protected by the curling of the leaves. The latter difficulty is best overcome by dusting the new growth before this curling takes place. If young orange trees be examined at the present time there will be found on many of the newest leaves single aphis or small colonies where no curling has developed. ARMY BRUTALITY IS HIT BY WAR INVESTIGATORS Republicans Map Means for a Change in Future by Revision of Code Determination to do away with the system of military injustice which was practiced upon the American soldiers who participated in the war is expressed by the house select committee on expenditures in the war department. gard for the enlisted man code a man may lunge in prison without a hull. The accused enlisted man that assistance of court trial requires and wholly be provided in the conditions." FUMIGATION OF CORE Is it possible to fill infest citrus trees so acid gas that they thrive upon it? In other black and other scale trees becoming immunity fumigation dosage? Years ago: "Only 'Easily controlled.' We marks. Today: 'The best citrus pest' is citrus growers meet. Last week they—30 at Covina because of natural Commissioner Red fumigation. R. S. Woglum of the bureau of entomology speaker. He presented from experiments and tions made during the mentioned various faeces the kill of black scale, temperature condition crops, resistant scale, age, poor equipment and he stated that the pcover crops at the time militates against efficient venting the skirt of the ring close to the groove the liquid gas, which tremely low tempera- ing the pump nozzle, cover crop and vaporize." August 3 at 11 a.m. Bids were opened for the construction of Anaheim-Olive bridge in third road district. The bid of George R. lowest responsible bidder, contract was awarded to him. Bids were opened for the improvement of County Park road, fourth road district. The bid of eorge R. Curtis was rejected and bid of Wells & Bressler was taken under advisement until July 27 at 10 a.m. Franchise under the application of the Petroleum Midway company was sold to them for $50. Ordinance 177, granting the Petroleum Midway company a franchise, was passed. Personal property belonging to the county of Orange, being one Ford touring car No. 9, was sold to the highest bidder for $287.50. W. C. Roberts was appointed attendance officer for Orange county commencing September 1 at a salary of $1800 per year. The board appointed August 10 at 10 a.m. as the time of hearing petition of Cypress drainage district, revoking and reconsidering June 22 as day of hearing. The purchasing agent was authorized to purchase a C. L. Best sixty-track layer tractor. Specifications, plans and profiles as presented by the county engineer with his recommendations for the improvement of Fairview road in the fifth road district was adopted by the board. Bids to be received up to August 10 at 11 a.m. The county auditor was directed to transfer $5,975 from the general road fund to third road district fund. AUCTION SALE OF SCRIP Surveyor General W. S. Kingsbury will hold a public auction sale of scrip in the senate chamber at the capitol, Sacramento, Tuesday, September 7, 1920, at 10 a.m. State scrip is not transferable. No scrip on the market today. Scrip can only be purchased by citizens of the United States who are residents of the state of California and can be located on any vacant non-mineral government land in California. State scrip is ot transferable. No purchaser can buy more than 640 acres of scrip. BY WAR INVESTIGATORS Republicans Map Means for a Change in Future by Revision of Code Determination to do away with the system of military injustice which was practiced upon the American soldiers who participated in the war is expressed by the house select committee on expenditures in the war department. Representative Royal Johnson, chairman of the subcommittee which made the report, served as a major in France and he and his republican colleague, Oscar E. Bland of Indiana recommend that the existing articles of war be so changed as to require: That charges shall not be preferred except under oath. That before the accused is held for general court-martial there shall be a thorough and expeditious preliminary examination to determine whether or not there is a prima facie case against him. That he be promptly released from arrest or confinement if charges have not been preferred and the preliminary examination made within a specified reasonable time. That the accused shall have the assistance of counsel from the time of his arrest until the final result of the proceedings of his case. That the proceedings of the court martial be regulated by law rather than by the unguided judgment of the officers who compose the court, and that the rules of evidence ordinarily applicable in criminal cases be applicable to court martial proceedings. That there shall be a review independent of military command to determine the legal correctness of all general court martial proceedings. "It is obvious," says the report, "that the existing system is archaic and was designed for an army not composed of citizen soldiers armed in defense of the State, and it is equally obvious that the administration of the existing system has been without sympathy for the unprofessional citizen soldier subject to its discipline. The private when arrested was immediately burdened with the presumption that a prisoner was a skulker, and no sympathy was shown him and no adequate opportunity given that his side of the case might receive the consideration the ordinary dictates of jus- CAPITOL, SACRamento, Tuesday, September 7, 1920, at 10 a.m. State script is not transferable. No scrip on the market today. Scrip can only be purchased by citizens of the United States who are residents of the state of California and can be located on any vacant non-mineral government land in California. State scrip is of transferable. No purchaser can buy more than 640 acres of scrip. Scrip is sold in forty-acre lots for cash, personal checks received, and the surrogate of the scrip is payment for an equal acreage of government land. At the last auction sale of scrip the price received averaged $6.66 per acre. Homestead and desert land entrymen can relinquish their entries through the surveyor general and acquire title to the land through the purchase of scrip. The applicant need not live on or improve the land. All money received from the sale of state scrip goes to the support of the public schools of the state. CONTROL OF THE ORANGE APHIS Very serious damage has been done to young orange trees during the last two or three years by the aphis which infests the tips of the young, growing schoots, causing the leaves to curl and complete checking of the new growth. In Orange county this was most pronounced luring the present season in the western portion of the citrus district but at the present time the aphis is gettinv very bad all over the county on the new growth which is just starting. This insect, like all kinds of aphis, is quite easily killed by nicotine, but it multiplies so rapidly and is so hard to reach when inside the curled leaves that the ordinary methods of spraying the State, and it is equally obvious that the administration of the existing system has been without sympathy for the unprofessional citizen soldier subject to its discipline. The private when arrested was immediately burdened with the presumption that a prisoner was a skulker, and no sympathy was shown him and no adequate opportunity given that his side of the case might receive the consideration the ordinary dictates of justice and humanity demand. "This lack of sympathy is rejected throughout the army, for instance in the general order in the American Expeditionary Forces that no private should associate with an army or Red Cross nurse. A system of discipline that breaks the spirit of the men, that destroys their self-respect and the respect they have for the organization to which they belong, cannot be conducive to good morals or enhance the fighting qualities of the unit, and any system of rules or orders promulgated to regulate the conduct of private soldiers in any army such as the United States had in the World war, which destroys the self-respect of the soldier or constantly reminds him of his inferiority or deprives him of privileges which he clearly should enjoy, must necessarily be conducive to the destruction of morale and must cause deep hatred in the heart of the victim for the system of militarism that alone can foster such unjust, unfair and inexcusable regulations and methods. "The whole court martial power being an incident of command, exercisable or not, as the commanding officer sees fit, the result has been to make it easy to court martial enlisted men and very difficult to court martial officers. Officers are loath to stigmatize their fellow officers by court martial, but there is no such zealous re- Avoid winter fumigation at cold temperatures. Where winter treatment practice daylight wears. Caution operator of pump coming close. Results at temperatures Fahrenheit than at higher temperature. Fruit injury increases age. A slight loss expensive than a scale infested trees. Do not fumigate been sprayed within a year; paint trunks and branches to injury from fumigation cyanic acid gas. Each grower to keep individual tree dosages. Commissioner Ryan to the abundance of ent time due to conditions and prescribed from reports on natural inspectors, she acres of citrus trees in Los Angeles County black scale, at an $850,000, and that is sprayed at an estimate 000. Of 548 fumigates on to date, in apparent good to excellent trained. Of 147 spills results were secured. J. R. LaFollette, control of Leffingweil count of his three yr ranch. The effect of arsenic flavor of oranges on Professor George Patterson of the Californian agriculture, which of investigations here by his office ANAHEIM GAZETTE GARD FOR THE ENLISTED MEN. Under the code a man may languish indefinitely in prison without a hearing or trial. The accused enlisted man is not given that assistance of counsel which a fair trial requires and which can reasonably be provided in the army under all conditions." FUMIGATION OF CITRUS TREES Is it possible to fill the bugs which infest citrus trees so full of prussic acid gas that they learn to like it and thrive upon it? In other words: "Are black and other scale pests of citrus trees becoming immune to the ordinary fumigation dosage?" Years ago: "Only black scale." "Easily controlled." Were common remarks. Today: "The black scale is our worst citrus pest" is heard wherever citrus growers meet. Last week they—300 of them—met at Covina because of call of Horticultural Commissioner Ryan and discussed fumigation. R. S. Woglum of the United States bureau of entomology was the chief speaker. He presented data compiled from experiments and field observations made during the past season and mentioned various factors influencing the kill of black scale, such as offhatch, temperature conditions, heavy cover crops, resistant scale, insufficient dosage, poor equipment and careless work. He stated that the presence of heavy cover crops at the time of fumigation militates against efficient work by preventing the skirt of the tent from setting close to the ground and because the liquid gas, which reaches an extremely low temperature when leaving the pump nozzle, freezes on the cover crop and vaporizes too slowly to the Fruit Growers' Supply company and the office of the county horticultural commissioner. He stated that the surprising fact has been established that the use of two well known proprietary sprays, sometimes applied to citrus trees in the effort to control black scale, results in a material reduction in the acid content of the oranges and affects the flavor to such an extent that the fruit is rendered flat and insipid. The spray materials in question are composed of lead arsenate, soap powder and sulphur. In reply to a query put by one of the growers, Professor Gray stated his opinion that the arsenic in the spray was the cause of the lors in flavor. FURTHER IMPORTANT POINTS ABOUT MURDER Two Mexicans Entirely Innocent, But May Have Been Roughly Handled Had Negro Not Been Caught Although there was a mass of stuff written about the horrifying murder of Roy Trapp of Fullerton there are several very important points connected with the case that have not been brought out. The victims of the brutal Negro arrived at their home the night of the murder at about 10 or 10:30 o'clock, having visited with a sister of Mrs. Trapp at a local sanitarium that evening. Upon arriving home Trapp called up his brother in Los Angeles upon the long distance phone, and conversed with him upon business matters. The time given for this conversation was about 11 o'clock. A neighbor, living on the same road upon which the Trapp residence is located, heard a horse running past his place and out of curiosity got up and the kill of black scale, such as ducks, temperature conditions, heavy cover crops, resistant scale, insufficient dosage, poor equipment and careless work. He stated that the presence of heavy cover crops at the time of fumigation militates against efficient work by preventing the skirt of the tent from setting close to the ground and because the liquid gas, which reaches an extremely low temperature when leaving the pump nozzle, freezes on the cover crop and vaporizes too slowly to keep up with the tent leakage, thus preventing a high enough concentration to kill the scale. "Liquid hydrocyanic acid is not a failure," said Mr. Woglum. "Some districts have had as good work done this past year with liquid gas as ever before in their history. In our own experience during the past three years we have in every case observed at warm temperatures exactly as good results with the liquid gas as with the pots. Series of trees side by side have been fumigated at normal temperatures under both systems, and in such cases if either way was to be favored, it was the liquid gas." The following specific recommendations for fumigation procedure in the Covina and Charter Oak districts were made by Mr. Woglum: Trees should be taped, not guessed; and dosed according to schedule. Black scale should be in the immature conditure when fumigated. Use heavy dosages. Certainly not less than 88 per cent schedule; a 100 per cent as soon as the trees will stand this strength. Fumigate as early in the season as the scale is in condition. Where "off-hatch" is present, double fumigation is advocated. The first treatment should be early in the season. The second probably two to three months later, or as soon as eggs are all hatched. Avoid having a heavy cover crop about trees while being fumigated. Avoid winter fumigation, particularly at cold temperatures, if possible. Where winter treatment is necessary, practice daylight work. Caution operator to prevent nozzle of pump coming close to tree trunk. Results at temperatures below 500 degrees Fahrenheit average poorer than at higher temperatures. Fruit injury increases with high dosage. A slight loss from pits is less expensive than a heavy loss from night of the murder at about 10 or 10:30 o'clock, having visited with a sister of Mrs. Trapp at a local sanitaryarium that evening. Upon arriving home Trapp called up his brother in Los Angeles upon the long distance phone, and conversed with him upon business matters. The time given for this conversation was about 11 o'clock. A neighbor, living on the same road upon which the Trapp residence is located, heard a horse running past his place, and out of curiosity got up and looked out of a window. The horse was going fast and was riderless. As near as can be learned this was about 11:30. The negro stole a horse out of the barn of a rancher half mile from the scene of his crime and rode the animal up to the place. After committing his flendish crimes the Negro rode the grey horse near the Santa Fe depot and turned it loose. The horse went home. The Negro boarded the night train leaving Fullerton for the south at 12:45 o'clock. Not more than an hour and a half or two hours at the most intervened between the time of the arrival home of the unfortunate victims and the speeding away on the train of the murderer. He evidently had lain in wait for his intended victims. Had he not been apprehended, or had not the flashlight belonging to him not been found near the window, connecting him with the crime, in all probability the two Mexicans arrested would have been accused of the murder. They had trouble with Trapp two weeks previously. A fight ensued, when Trapp knocked one of the Mexicans down. Then both of them attacked Trapp, knocking him down. Friends interceded and separated them. Even this happening, the Mexicans it is said held no further grievances against Trapp. Here is where the lynch law would have been terrible. Circumstances pointed strongly toward these two men, but they had nothing whatsoever to do with the murder. GAS CORPANY ASKS RATE READJUSTMENT Petitions Railroad Commissioners for Permission to Increase Charges Asking a readjustment of its charges for natural gas sold to industrial consumers only, in what is known as its Eastern division, comprising Orange county Whittier Pomona and Monroe transmission and distribution systems in the eastern district, which are essential if the company is to continue rendering service to its present consumer, same must be completed prior to the winter peak season of 1920-1921. The estimated cost of these necessary betterments, in addition to amounts expended to date, is $122,000. Under certain rules, according to the application the gas company is obliged to make extensions for new business under certain conditions. The company estimates the cost of such unavoidable extensions in the eastern district for the period from June to December, 1920, at approximately $111,000. The estimated total additions to capital for the remainder of 1920 are, therefore, $233,000. The petition sites that normally the company would have available as a means of financing such capital additions two sources of money, namely, funds realized from the sale of securities and surplus earnings above fixed charges. At present, however, owing to the unmarketable condition of utility bonds, the only source of money remaining is surplus earnings. Accordingly, the company is faced with the necessity of increasing its earnings, in order to finance even the essential betterments and without which it will be unable properly to serve its consumers during next winter. Since the industrial consumers comprise but a fraction of the total body of consumers in this division of the company's system, it becomes readily apparent that the proposed readjustment of industrial rates will have little or no effect on the consumers as a whole. In Orange county there are but 160 industrial consumers of a total of 9,673 consumers. The Whittier district has 3,227 consumers, 66 of whom are industrials. Pomona has but 105 Avoid winter fumigation, particularly at cold temperatures, if possible. Where winter treatment is necessary, practice daylight work. Caution operator to prevent nozzle of pump coming close to tree trunk. Results at temperatures below 500 degrees Fahrenheit average poorer than at higher temperatures. Fruit injury increases with high dosage. A slight loss from pits is less expensive than a heavy loss from scale infested trees. Do not fumigate trees that have been sprayed with Bordeaux mixture within a year; painting high upon the trunks and branches is also conducive to injury from fumigation with hydrocyanic acid gas. Each grower to keep records of individual tree dosage; also temperature. Commissioner Ryan called attention to the abundance of scale at the present time due to favorable climatic conditions and presented figures compiled from reports of district horticultural inspectors, showing that 27,000 acres of citrus trees were fumigated in Los Angeles County last season for black scale, at an estimated cost of $850,000, and that 2,000 acres were sprayed at an estimated cost of $50,-000. Of 548 fumigated groves reported on to date, in approximately 60 per cent good to excellent results were obtained. Of 147 sprayed groves, good results were secured in 20 per cent. J. R. LaFollette, foreman of pest control of Leffingwell Ranch, gave account of his three years' work on that ranch. The effect of arsenical sprays on the flavor of oranges was discussed by Professor George P. Gray, chief chemist of the California state department of agriculture, who gave the results of investigations recently carried on here by his office in cooperation with GAS CORPANY ASKS RATE READJUSTMENT Petitions Railroad Commissioners for Permission to Increase Charges Asking a readjustment of its charges for natural gas sold to industrial consumers only, in what is known as its Eastern division, comprising Orange county, Whittier, Pomona and Monrovia districts, the Southern Counties Gas company last week filed an application with the state railroad commission. The gas company states in its petition to the railroad commission that its present industrial rates were established several years ago, and were based solely upon the value of the service to the consumer, as measured by the cost of competitive fuels, and not upon the basis of the cost of service. The prevailing costs of competitive fuels at the time the present industrial rates were established were as follows: Fuel oil, $1.25 per barrel. Engine distillate, five to ten cents per gallon, dependent on grade. Stove distillate, five to seven cents per gallon. Since the above rates were established there has been a marked increase in the prices o ft these fuels. Today's prices are: Fuel oil, $2.24 to $2.32 per barrel (carload delivery) as compared with the former price of $1.25 per barrel. Fuel oil, $2.50 to $2.76 per barrel (wagonload delivery). Engine distillate, 17 cents per gallon. Stove distillate, no longer manufactured. According to the application the gas company is faced with the necessity of financing certain betterments to its Since the industrial consumers comprise but a fraction of the total body of consumers in this division of the company's system, it becomes readily apparent that the proposed readjustment of industrial rates will have little or no effect on the consumers as a whole. In Orange county there are but 160 industrial consumers of a total of 9,673 consumers. The Whittier district has 3,227 consumers, 66 of whom are industrials. Pomona has but 105 industrial consumers of a total of 9,161 in this territory. Monropia, with a total of 3,001 consumers shows but 26 industrial users of natural gas. THE NEW APPOINTMENTS Unless the membership of the house is increased from 435 to at least 500 to meet the increased population shown by the 1920 census, ten states will lose one or more representatives. Those states are: Indiana, Iowa and Missouri, which will lose two congressmen each, and Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Nebraska, Vermont and Virginia, which will lose one congressman each. It is explained that if the house membership is retained at its present figure it will be necessary to increase the population basis in each congressional district beyond the 211,000 or major portion thereof now fixed. If this is done, the ten states named will lose one or more of the present districts because their population have not increased in proportion to those of other states. On the basis of the estimated population of 106,000,000 for the whole country in 1920, an increase of approximately 14,000,000 in ten years. Sixty-five or sixty-six new seats in the house must be created if the ten states are to retain their present numerical representation. While precedent warrants th increase, there is strong op- auto Accessories and Repair Work your car to us if it is needing repairs. 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