anaheim-gazette 1920-12-16

M CHI MUL MAKING PROGRESS IN CEMETERY PETITION One Third Of Required Number Of Names Already Secured Satisfactory progress is being made in the campaign now being conducted in the county to obtain signatures to petitions looking to the formation of a county-wide cemetery district, it was stated by J. C. Wallace, chairman of the committee in charge of circulating the petitions. Approximately one-third, 4000, of the required number of names has been secured, Wallace said. "Our solicitors are meeting with success," Wallace stated. "For instance, two solicitors who reported to me this morning, stated that in practically every section of the city the cemetery project had met with hearty support. It was only at one or two points that difficulty was encountered, and this was eliminated as soon as the solicitors explained the objects that are being sought. "What it is proposed to accomplish when the cemetery district is formed is to keep abandoned cemeteries in sightly condition as far as weeds and rubbish!" Wallace continued. "We have nothing to do with a perpetual upkeep plan." "As far as the expense is concerned, that will be infinitesimal to the taxpayers. Under the law the board of supervisors of Orange county may not establish a cemetery district tax rate greater than a millor of Internal Revenue or branch offices by midnight of that date. "Inquiries reaching the Commissioner of Internal Revenue indicate a belief that taxpayers have ten days grace on this installment. Such a provision was contained in the 1917 Revenue Act, but was removed by the Revenue Act of 1918. "Payment of the fourth installment may be made in cash or by money order or check. The Bureau of Internal Revenue urges that whenever possible payment be made by check or money order. This method helps the taxpayer by saving him a trip to the Collector's Office and avoids congestion at the chasher's window. Check or money order should be made payable to "Collector of Internal Revenue." "Bills will be sent to taxpayers, but failure to receive a bill does not relieve the taxpayer of his obligation to pay on time." WAR COST AMERICA $24,010,000,000 The net cost of the war to the American Government was fixed by Secretary Houston at $24,010,000,000. This he said, represented the "adjusted" expenditure of the Treasury, excluding all other outlay which had no relation to the actual prosecution of the war during the period from April 6, 1917, to June 30 last, which he had said covered the extremes of the Government's wartime fiscal operations. Mr. Houston said a deduction of $9,-523,000,000, the amount loaned to foreign governments, should be made, since these loans will be repaid. The secretary made other deductions ag- "What it is proposed to accomplish when the cemetery district is formed is to keep abandoned cemeteries in sightly condition as far as weeds and rubbish." Wallace continued. "We have nothing to do with a perpetual upkeep plan. "As far as the expense is concerned, that will be infinitesimal to the taxpayers. Under the law the board of supervisors of Orange county may not establish a cemetery district tax rate greater than a mill and a half. It has been conservatively estimated that, the necessary annual fund for taking care of the proposed country-wide cemetery district can be obtained with a tax rate only about one fourth as great as the maximum rate allowed by law. "The petition we are circulating asks that the supervisors establish a county-wide cemetery district. The rate of tax will be established by the supervisors after the district is established. "Our plans call for a board of trustees to administer the district. The trustees will serve without pay. The funds made available through the leavying of what is certain to be a negligible tax in the county will be used by the trustees to hire men to remove weeds from abandoned cemeteries and to keep the streets in such cemeteries in good condition. "Taking care of abandoned cemeteries in a systematic way appeals to me as one of the worthiest objects possible, and I feel that every other citizen in the county will agree with this view." PAY YOUR INCOME TAX December 15th it the last day for the payment of the fourth installment of the income and excess profits taxes due this year. To avoid penalty, the tax must be in the offices of Collect- expenditure of the Treasury, excluding all other outlay which had no relation to the actual prosecution of the war during the period from April 6, 1917, to June 30 last, which he had said covered the extremes of the Government's wartime fiscal operations. Mr. Houston said a deduction of $9,-523,000,000, the amount loaned to foreign governments, should be made, since these loans will be repaid. The secretary made other deductions aggregating approximately $4,500,000,000 which he said represented the excess cost of actual governmental operations. WILSON'S EXPENSE BILL A special message giving the complete expenses of the American Peace Commission during its work abroad was transmitted to the senate by President Wilson. Total expenditures amounted to $1,-651,191.09. The amount actually paid out was $1,703,712.06, but repayments and gains in exchange reduced this by $52,520.97. Some of the larger sums were: Travel and subsistence, $28,442; subsistence, $193,629; salaries, $200,-871; wages and employees at Hotel Crillon, $131,507; rents, $176,853; food, hotel and kitchen supplies, $283,-560; hire and laundering if linen at hotel, $64,969; damage and loss of property at hotel, $125,870. Various mission to Russia, Germany, Pozen, Turkey, Holland and Armenia cost $239,726. Purchase of automobiles amounted to $14,602 and confidential expenses of Presidential party, $17,584. Col. E. M. House and Henry White, the statement showed, received monthly salaries of $1000 as commissioners, while Robert Lansing, former secretary of state, and Gen. Tasker Mrs. Votawtion in the society of the United bureau. Surge announced this resigned from of the Metropolis fall. Mrs. Votawtion in high school in Ned soon after entered O., Seventh-Day dicated her life ary endeavor tending a camp conference of in Dayton in 1918 H. Votawtion a yo paring for the Vernon insti married Augusta for Calcutta, Ip Upon their ig were asked Burma, and fo slept and live then moved in skirts of Rag haunted house quent visitors less" snakes, sards. The natives house because "haunted house" ANAHEIM GAZETTE MERRY CHRISTMA MULLINIX DRUG STORE MULLINIX DRUG STORE H. Bliss, other commissioners, had their actual expenses paid. The account showed refunds by President Wilson of 914.70 francs for expenses while at Rome; by Col. House of 10,042 francs for official entertainment from Dec. 1, 1918, to June 3, 1919; by Secretary Lansing of 1589 francs for tips, and of large amounts for expenses of the wives of the commissioners. Allowance for subsistence for employees and attaches, the statement showed, ranged from a few francs daily to $4 and $5 for most of the American employees. One item was of $25 a day to Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor. Rear-Admiral Grayson was credited with frequent drafts of $1000 and more for "confidential expenses of the president." Minor items ranged from newspapers and magazines to coal and cigars. The latter, it was said, were bought in America and sold at cost to the commission personnel. HEROIC MISSION WORK Ministering to men left helpless on the public roadway to die, going into hovels where other unfortunate human beings were left to their own fate while afflicted with the dreaded cholera, living in a house that was frequently visited by cobras, scorpions, vipers, and flying roaches, subjecting herself to peril from tigers, leapords, and other wild beasts, while going through jungles at night on errands of mercy, were some of the experiences of Mrs. Carolyn Harding Votaw, sister of President-elect Harding, while engaged in missionary service for the Seventh-Day Adventure. "We never saw a spook or a ghost the whole time we were there. It was a bit exciting when the snakes, large and small came around, but with good stout clubs we drove them off. One day we were confronted on the first floor of our house with a sacred bull that had fury shining in his glassy eyes. We got rid of him too, even if he was 'sacred.'" We have been out in the jungles at night visiting with persons interested in the gospel and we have heard the horrifying screech of tigers, panthers and leopards in the dead of the night. One night as Mr. Votaw, accompanied by another missionary, was driving through the jungle in an ox team "express" a leopard jumped out and made a lunge for a dog running under the cart. The native driver drove the beast off with his spear. While some travelers in India go heavily armed, because of the danger of wild animals, lurking about, the Votaws, though going for thousands of miles through jungles infested with the most ferocious beasts never carried a gun or any other fire-arm. SUIT AGAINST COUNTY TO COLLECT REWARD Man Who Spotted Mose Gibson Wants His Money While Mose Gibson, the negro who murdered Roy Trapp of Fullerton, was hanged at San Quentin several months ago, and the case has taken its place in Orange county's animals of crime, the county is facing a suit in which Fred Lewis, railroad ALAMITOS YACHT CLUB SITE FAVORED Declared To Be Best Along The Pacific Coast The plan launched last year to make Alamitos bay the yachting center of Southern California has not been abandoned and that the gigantic project still looms as a probability is indicated in a letter received by F.C. Roberts, editor of Long Beach Telegram, from editor E.R.Abbott, secretary-treasurer of the Los Angeles Motor Boat Club, which follows in part: "The question of an adequate anchorage and harbor for pleasure boats and yacht clubs is becoming serious one for Los Angeles, as there has been such an increase in this sport in the past few years, and the class of yachts has increased wonderfully. In talking this over at various times with the L.A. harbor commission, it was pointed out there was really no place that could be set aside for the purpose desired; that is, for a permanent yacht harbor, and being familiar with the harbor as I am, this is so. You may be surprised to know that there are 413 pleasure boats paying taxes to the county of Los Angeles, and the owners also pay a government tax as well and many of them are members of yacht clubs and pay government tax on their dues; yet no consideration has been given them toward a suitable anchorage for their yachts. "The LosAngeles Yacht Club (South Coast Yacht Club) has a membership of about 120, with about 50 boats." state human beings were left to their own fate while afflicted with the dreaded cholera, living in a house that was frequently visited by cobras, scorpions, vipers, and flying roaches, subjecting herself to peril from tigers, leapords, and other wild beasts, while going through jungles at night on errands of mercy, were some of the experiences of Mrs. Carolyn Harding Votaw, sister of President-elect Harding, while engaged in missionary service for the Seventh-Day Adventist denomination in Burma, India. Mrs. Votaw has accepted a position in the social service department of the United States public health bureau. Surgeon Hugh S. Cumming announced this week. Mrs. Votaw resigned from the woman's bureau of the Metropolitan police force last fall. Mrs. Votaw, when just entering the high school in Marlon, Ohio, determined to do something worth while and soon after entering the Mount Vernon, O., Seventh-Day Adventist College dedicated her life to foreign missionary endeavor. It was while attending a camp meeting at the Ohio conference of Seventh-Day Adventists in Dayton in 1900 that she met Heber H. Votaw, a young man who was preparing for the ministry in the Mount Vernon institution. They were married August, 5, 1903. They sailed for Calcutta, India, October, 15, 1904. Upon their arrival in Calcutta, they were asked to pioneer the way to Burma, and for two years they ate, slept and lived in one room. They then moved into a house on the outskirts of Ragoon, known as "the haunted house," which had as frequent visitors vipers, cobras," harmless" snakes, scorpions, bats and lizards. The natives were fearful of this house because of its fame as the "haunted house" but Mrs. Votaw says; While Mose Gibson, the negro who murdered Roy Trapp of Fullerton, was hanged at San Quentin several months ago, and the case has taken its place in Orange county's annuals of crime, the county is facing a suit in which Fred Lewis, railroad station agent at Topoc, Arizona, tries to compel the county supervisors to pay him the $500.00 reward offered by them immediately after the crime for the apprehension of the murderer. The action which has been filed with the county clerk in Santa Ana follows the rejection by the board of supervisors of claims submitted by both Lewis and by Constable West of Needles, California, who was reported to have also been instrumental in Gibson's capture. Both of the men sought to collect the reward from the county. Immediately after the murder a description of Gibson was sent out broadcast throughout the West and officers in every community were warned to be on the lookout for him. Lewis was said to have recognized Gibson from the description sent out as the negro appeared in the depot at the little town on the California-Arizona border. West was reported to have held the fugitive in custody until Sheriff Jackson arrived to bring him back to Orange county. The intelligence displayed by Samuel Gompers in trying to make it appear during the last presidential campaign that a vote for Harding was a vote to repudiate organized labor is now quite apparent. Man Who Spotted Mose Gibson Wants His Money While Mose Gibson, the negro who murdered Roy Trapp of Fullerton, was hanged at San Quentin several months ago, and the case has taken its place in Orange county's annuals of crime, the county is facing a suit in which Fred Lewis, railroad station agent at Topoc, Arizona, tries to compel the county supervisors to pay him the $500.00 reward offered by them immediately after the crime for the apprehension of the murderer. The action which has been filed with the county clerk in Santa Ana follows the rejection by the board of supervisors of claims submitted by both Lewis and by Constable West of Needles, California, who was reported to have also been instrumental in Gibson's capture. Both of the men sought to collect the reward from the county. Immediately after the murder a description of Gibson was sent out broadcast throughout the West and officers in every community were warned to be on the lookout for him. Lewis was said to have recognized Gibson from the description sent out as the negro appeared in the depot at the little town on the California-Arizona border. West was reported to have held the fugitive in custody until Sheriff Jackson arrived to bring him back to Orange county. The intelligence displayed by Samuel Gompers in trying to make it appear during the last presidential campaign that a vote for Harding was a vote to repudiate organized labor is now quite apparent. Man Who Spotted Mose Gibson Wants His Money While Mose Gibson, the negro who murdered Roy Trapp of Fullerton, was hanged at San Quentin several months ago, and the case has taken its place in Orange county's annuals of crime, the county is facing a suit in which Fred Lewis, railroad station agent at Topoc, Arizona, tries to compel the county supervisors to pay him the $500.00 reward offered by them immediately after the crime for the apprehension of the murderer. The action which has been filed with the county clerk in Santa Ana follows the rejection by the board of supervisors of claims submitted by both Lewis and by Constable West of Needles, California, who was reported to have also been instrumental in Gibson's capture. Both of the men sought to collect the reward from the county. Immediately after the murder a description of Gibson was sent out broadcast throughout the West and officers in every community were warned to be on the lookout for him. Lewis was said to have recognized Gibson from the description sent out as the negro appeared in the depot at the little town on the California-Arizona border. West was reported to have held the fugitive in custody until Sheriff Jackson arrived to bring him back to Orange county. The intelligence displayed by Samuel Gompers in trying to make it appear during the last presidential campaign that a vote for Harding was a vote to repudiate organized labor is now quite apparent. Man Who Spotted Mose Gibson Wants His Money While Mose Gibson, the negro who murdered Roy Trapp of Fullerton, was hanged at San Quentin several months ago, and the case has taken its place in Orange county's annuals of crime, the county is facing a suit in which Fred Lewis, railroad station agent at Topoc, Arizona, tries to compel the county supervisors to pay him the $500.00 reward offered by them immediately after the crime for the apprehension of the murderer. The action which has been filed with the county clerk in Santa Ana follows the rejection by the board of supervisors of claims submitted by both Lewis and by Constable West of Needles, California, who was reported to have also been instrumental in Gibbon's capture. Both of the men sought to collect the reward from the county. Immediately after the murder a description of Gibson was sent out broadcast throughout the West and officers in every community were warned to be on the lookout for him. Lewis was said to have recognized Gibbon from the description sent out as the negro appeared in the depot at the little town on the California-Arizona border. West was reported to have held the fugitive in custody until Sheriff Jackson arrived to bring him back to Orange county. The intelligence displayed by Samuel Gompers in trying to make it appear during the last presidential campaign that a vote for Harding was a vote to repudiate organized labor is now quite apparent. STANDING ALONE The fact that the United States is one great power of the world which has not entered into the league of nations up to present time is taken to be a serious reflection upon the country by some of the proleague propagandists. It is also one great power of the World, which is not out to grab all it can and keep what it gets as PAGE THREE proved by the record. The American republic stood alone among the great powers in opposing the partition of China at the close of the Boxer rebellion. It stood alone among them in returning to China that portion of the indemnity assessed not actually used in paying claims for damages actually sustained. The United tates is used to standing alone and is not afraid to stand alone, just so long as she is standing for the right. The best friends of monarchy in Russia are the radicals who are disgusting the people of that unhappy nation with the orgy of murder, robbery and tyranny they have staged in the name of democracy. Xmas Headquarters OUR SPECIALTY All Kinds of Wheeled Toys For the Kiddies Prices that make Christmas Shopping A Real Pleasure Exchange : Furniture : Co. Anaheim, California We Deliver Any Place, Any Time Phone, Anaheim 563 121 E. Center St. Anaheim Gift Shop We Deliver Any Place, Any Time Phone, Anaheim 563 121 E. Center St. Anaheim Gift Shop Navajo Blankets $20.00 to $50.00 Dinner Sets $12.50 to $100 Toys and Dolls Xmas Cards Blue Bird, Puritan, Emerson Talking Machines and Records We take your Liberty Bonds at par. 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