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PACKING HOUSES STOP PICKING A FEW DAYS WAITING TILL MARKET IS CLEAR UNTIL MAKING FURTHER SHIPMENTS Statement That Frosted Fruit Responsible for the Cessation of Shipping Indignantly Denied by the Managers—Only Carrying Out Agreed Policy to Spread Out Shipments—G. W. Sandilands Issues Statement Explaining Cause. Closing temporarily of several of the fruit packing houses the first of the week caused much speculation as to the cause, especially as a report was made public that frosted fruit was responsible for the move. This is indigently denied by managers of the packing houses, who declare that the Valencias so far shipped are of excellent quality and in good condition. There was no significance attached to the cessation of shipping, except that it was done for the purpose of FIGHT DEVELOPING OVER WATER RIGHTS Corona Company Asks Permission to Tap the Santa Ana River. Application of the Temescal Water company for permission to divert 20,000 acre feet of water from the Santa Ana river for the purpose of irrigating 8000 acres of land at Corona, will probably cause a fight, as the project will undoubtedly be opposed by the Anaheim Union Water Co. and the Santa Ana Irrigation Co. The Temescal project calls for an expenditure of $500,000. The proposal calls for diverting surplus waters only, between October 1 and April 1, and to store them in a reservoir for summer use. The Temescal company asserts that its action is for conservation of flood waters. "We have heard nothing of the application," said H. C. Head, of the firm of Head and Rutan, attorneys for the Santa Ana Irrigation company and the Anaheim Union Water company. "The matter will be gone into in minute detail, and whatever steps are necessary fully to protect the rights of the irrigators of this county who get their water from the Santa Ana river will be taken." For many years the two big water companies of this county have stood guard against infringement of their rights to waters of the Santa Ana ORANGE SHIELD BE OPEN WIRELLI WORDS DECLARING WILL BE GRABBED THE A Silver Cups to Be Prize Winners on Hartfield's Jewelry Neighboring Town exhibits—Packing Huge Plete for Feature Expected to Be a Made. Forty beautiful silving size, are on exhibitions of Barney Ha store. These are so that will be given to California Valencia These cups will be sent after having been awaken winners. Last year the show telephone over a long which connected Anah Closing temporarily of several of the fruit packing houses the first of the week caused much speculation as to the cause, especially as a report was made public that frosted fruit was responsible for the move. This is indignantly denied by managers of the packing houses, who declare that the Valencias so far shipped are of excellent quality and in good condition. There was no significance attached to the cessation of shipping, except that it was done for the purpose of giving the market a chance to clean up the fruit on hand and in transit. There were hundreds of carloads of navels on the way to eastern markets, it is said, and the packers deemed it prudent to let these get out of the way before sending forward any more. A better price could be obtained for the oranges by waiting until the supply on the market was cleaned up and the demand was better. Early in the season it was determined by the heads of the associations that shipments of Valencias should be spread out in order that the market would not be glutted at any time. Closing down for a few days in line with this policy. Within a day or two it is expected that all the houses will be in full operation again. Manager G. W. Sandilands, of the Anaheim Orange and Lemon association, has issued a statement relative to the situation, which is, in part, as follows: "What some of us are doing in the handling of our output today is no different from what we have done thousands of times in the last 25 years, regulating as well as we can our shipments with the supply and the demand throughout the country. Referring to the present situation some of our growers have been a little overanxious to move their fruit and with what we had to ship, (considerably less than last year) it did not seem wise to rush shipments at this time, and then along in September have to tell our good customers over east that we did not have any more fruit to give them. You cannot hold valuable business by giving them a feast and then a famine. We must give them a steady, dependable supply, and it is with this in view that we have reduced shipments. Whilst our pickers will be out of the field for a few days we have enough fruit in the house to keep operating under reduced schedule, and there is not and will not be any actual shut down of the plant. There is nothing in the market situation to create uneasiness if we use common firm of Head and Rutan, attorneys for the Santa Ana Irrigation company and the Anaheim Union Water company." The matter will be gone into in minute detail, and whatever steps are necessary fully to protect the rights of the irrigators of this county who get their water from the Santa Ana river will be taken." For many years the two big water companies of this county have stood guard against infringement of their rights to waters of the Santa Ana river. Located furthest down the river of all the companies using the surface or underground flow of the river by eternal vigilance only, the companies here have maintained their water property against development projects in Riverside and San Bernardino counties. The filing of the application for diversion by the Temescal Water company may be a signal for another fight such as have featured the history of the water companies in the past half century. Until all of the details of the plan are outlined, so that the bearing upon the interests of the two Orange county companies can be studied, no definite statement as to the attitude of two companies can be made, further than a statement to the effect that every phase of the situation will be entered into carefully. No amount of money will be spared in maintaining the rights of the companies. The Santa Ana Valley Irrigation company, irrigating about 17,000 acres south and east of the Santa Ana river, including ranches at Olive, Orange, Santa Ana and Tustin, and the Anaheim Union Water company, irrigating about 12,000 acres north and west of the Santa Ana river, including ranches at Anaheim, Fullerton and Placentia, take their gravity water out of the Santa Ana river by means of a diversion dam at which the water is divided equally between the two companies. According to information given out at the office of the Temescal Water company at Corona, the project outlined to the Division of Water Rights calls for taking water from the Santa Ana river at Barton Flats, in the San Bernardino mountains, conducting it by a pipe line fifty-five miles in length to a reservoir near Corona, where it will be held for summer use. LEGATEES OBJECT TO THE APPRAISEMENT Ask Lower Valuation in Estate Left By Rosalie Hart Luneberg Forty beautiful silving size, are on exhibit dows of Barney Hale store. These are so that will be given to California Valencia These cups will be sent after having been awtunate winners. Last year the show telephone over a long which connected An white house. It was prise ever undertaken upon the achievement The Bell Telephone fifteen thousand dollars connection perfect, and of $18 for the service. Manager Fraser looks that a stunt equally yet be employed in open this year, and now he opening speech by radio. Who will stand from what point not yet given to the body somewhere at from Anaheim will u words, and they will lie atmosphere at tha A number of new planned for the show by Fraser and Her man of the executive of the new features is "civic row." This p municipalities to exterest in regard to tha chambers_of commer reserved space in thi several more are ex These organizations that have no feature in the show. The decorations tha to be one of the feat have seen the work that the decorative e anything of tha nature in the southland. The entire ceilings will be covered with representative blooms from the field of flow tha tents will be a like streamer effects tha bottom of which representations o tha these large flowers lightning effects of tha will be concealed in will cast their glow scene below The feature exhibi to be of the finest cl You cannot hold valuable business by giving them a feast and then a famine. We must give them a steady, dependable supply, and it is with this in view that we have reduced shipments. Whilst our pickers will be out of the field for a few days we have enough fruit in the house to keep operating under reduced schedule, and there is not and will not be any actual shut down of the plant. There is nothing in the market situation to create uneasiness if we use common sense at this end. "Whilst we are glad to give our local newspapers items that we believe will be interesting to its readers, we protest against and condemn making public those things that are apt to create misunderstanding and a misconception of our real purposes. We have seen things published about our industry that are a distinct detriment to it, that could just as well have been left untold and no harm done to any one and when newspapers reach a stage in their frantic endeavor to obtain news, where they work a hardship on the section in which they are located and from which they must obtain their support it is time to call them to task and question their policy. Unfortunately, every newspaper and individual does not always know where to speak and when to keep still, and it is therefore up to those of us who are able to detect their weakness to hold a check in their volubility by telling them only those things that are good for them to know and speak about. Take heed, therefore, what you say and what effect it will have on your community and its people." The Anaheim ball team defeated the Arcadia Elks team Sunday, the score being 10 to 6. This was the third and last game with Arcadia. AHEIM GAZET Anaheim, California, Thursday, April 27, 1922 ORANGE SHOW TO BE OPENED BY WIRELESS WORDS DECLARING IT OPENED WILL BE GRABBED OUT OF THE AIR. Silver Cups to Be Presented to the Prize Winners on Exhibition at Hartfield's Jewelry Store—Several Neighboring Towns to Have Exhibits—Packing Houses Will Complete for Feature Prizes—Civic Row Expected to Be a Popular Promenade. Forty beautiful silver cups of varying size, are on exhibition in the windows of Barney Hartfield's jewerly store. These are some of the prizes that will be given to exhibitors at the California Valencia Orange Show. These cups will be suitably engraved after having been awarded to the fortunate winners. Last year the show was opened by telephone over a long distance wire, which connected Anaheim with the for San Francisco, whence he will go east and will depart from New York for a visit to Rome. He will be absent six months, and will travel extensively in Europe, visiting Holland, Belgium, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, England and other countries. He will spend some time in Ireland. At Rome he will visit His Holiness, the pope, and will remain some time in the Eternal City. This will be his second visit to Rome, he having been there during the pontificate of Pope Pius a number of years ago. Father Dubbel has been twenty-five years in the priesthood, and will celebrate his jubilee as an ordained priest of the holy church while at Rome. During his long term as pastor of his church here he earned the high regard of the entire community, and has the best wishes of his many friends for a pleasant journey and a safe return. The present church building was erected during his pastorate, and he took a leading part in the erection of St. Catherine's academy and St. Joseph's academy. His friends here have nothing but words of kindest commendation for him and will indulge the hope that he may enjoy a pleasant and profitable trip and come safely home again. On his return he will come through the Panama canal. ENSIGN QUARTON 18TH IN CLASS OF 545 HOW MEXIGANS DEFRAUD IN WEIGHING COUNTY SEALER OF WEIGHTS McPHEE UNEARTHS A NEW SCHEME Haulers of Fertilizer Victimize the Purchasers by Transferring Portions of Loads From One Wagon to Another, and Weighing the Same Twice—Two Men Caught in the Act Paid Fines Tuesday. County Sealer of Weights and Measures George McPhee is firmly convinced that for "ways that are dark and tricks that are vain" the heathen Chinese is not alone peculiar, as the common or garden plasano can probably show the very slickest Chink a few new tricks. McPhee's decision is based on his experience with the many Mexicans who haul fertilizer in this county who avail themselves of all sorts of expedients to facilitate the perpetration of fraud and in many instances have Forty beautiful silver cups of varying size, are on exhibition in the windows of Barney Hartfield's jewerly store. These are some of the prizes that will be given to exhibitors at the California Valencia Orange Show. These cups will be suitably engraved after having been awarded to the fortunate winners. Last year the show was opened by telephone over a long distance wire, which connected Anaheim with the white house. It was the first enterprise ever undertaken, and comment upon the achievement was widespread. The Bell Telephone company spent fifteen thousand dollars in making the connection perfect, and collected a toll of $18 for the service. Manager Fraser long ago promised that a stunt equally as unique would be employed in opening the big show this year, and now he announces that the opening speech will be delivered by radio. Who will make the speech and from what point it is released is not yet given to the public, but somebody somewhere at a long distance from Anaheim will utter the opening words, and they will be jerked out of the atmosphere at the main tent here. A number of new features are being planned for the show this year arranged by Fraser and Herman Stern, chairman of the executive committee. One of the new features is the addition of a "civic row." This provides space for municipalities to exhibit items of interest in regard to their region. Eight chambers of commerce have already reserved space in this department and several more are expected to do so. These organizations are from cities that have no feature exhibits placed in the show. The decorations this year promises to be one of the features. Those who have seen the work of the artists say that the decorative effects will exceed anything of the nature ever produced in the southland. The entire ceilings of the huge tents will be covered with great masses of representative blooms. Extending from the field of flowers at the top of the tents will be a number of scroll like streamer effects of blooms, at the bottom of which will be mammoth representations of rose buds. From these large flowers will come the lighting effects of the show. Globes will be concealed in the blooms and will cast their glow on the golden scene below. The feature exhibits are expected to be of the finest class this year. A ENSIGN QUARTON 18TH IN CLASS OF 545 First in Physics, Second in Naval Construction, Elighth in Mathematics., Lost Out in Languages Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Quarton and their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Amack, left on Saturday afternoon for Annapolis, which point they expect to make inside of thirty days, and where they will be present at the graduation of their son, Dale, at the naval academy in June. They are traveling in their car and will go by easy stages and will make probably 200 miles a day, although some days they may not go so far. They reached Barstow at 9 o'clock, made Needles on Sunday, and the following day plunged into the wilds of Arizona. They will cross the Mississippi at St. Louis, and contemplate being absent about three months. Dale Quarton has been four years at Annapolis, and is graduating with high honors. He stood first in physics in a class of 545 graduates, second in naval construction, eighth in mathematics, and his standing in his class was eighteenth. He failed to get a good neck-hold on foreign languages, but graduates near the top of the class. He will leave Annapolis as an ensign, will return with his parents to Wisconsin, and will then come west by rail, having only a month's leave of absence. He will be assigned to one of the ships in the Pacific fleet, and will report for duty early in July. It seems but a few days ago when this young man announced his purpose of taking the examination for Annapolis, and while the test was hard and there were a number of applicants for the place, and while some wiseacres shook their heads, Dale received the appointment, his standing in the tests being higher than any other candidate. Those who knew him had little doubt of his success in entering the academy and they now congratulate him on his splendid standing in the graduating class. That he will one day be part in the erection of St. Catherine's academy and St. Joseph's academy. His friends here have nothing but words of kindest commendation for him and will indulge the hope that he may enjoy a pleasant and profitable trip and come safely home again. On his return he will come through the Panama canal. County Sealer of Weights and Measures George McPhee is firmly convinced that for "ways that are dark and tricks that are vain" the heathen Chinee is not alone peculiar, as the common or garden plasano can probably show the very slickest Chink a few new tricks. McPhee's decision is based on his experience with the many Mexicans who haul fertilizer in this county who avail themselves of all sorts of expedients to facilitate the perpetration of fraud and who in many instances have succeeded in carrying out their plans and evading conviction. According to McPhee, one favorite stunt is to have a very heavy load of fertilized weighed and a receipt for same obtained from a public weighmaster and then transfer a part of it to another wagon and have this portion again weighed, while the first wagon load is delivered and collection made on the basis of net weight as indicated by the weighmaster's certificate. Another stunt is to have an ordinary load weighed and then raise the weight figures on the certificate, cases of this kind having been discovered by McPhee where three thousand pounds were added to the actual weight of a two-horse load, and while the forgery was clumsily executed, it was not noticed by the purchaser of the fertilizer who was thus mulled over fifty per cent more than he should have paid. As a means to the end sought, McPhee recently took up this matter with the state department and asked for authority to require public weighmasters in this county to refuse to issue weight ce rificates until the empty wagon or truck has been weighed in order to ascertain the exact tare allowance, the common practice in the past having been to weigh the wagons at intervals of several days, thus affording an opportunity that has been taken advantage of to substitute a light wagon for a heavier one when weighing for tare and making a possible difference of several hundred pounds on a load. This week McPhee received the authority sought from the state department and today he mailed out to the different public weighmasters in the county following notice, observance of which he believes will serve in some measure to remedy the trouble complained of: April 21, 1922. To all Public Weighmasters of Orange County: representative blooms. Extending from the field of flowers at the top of the tents will be a number of scroll like streamer effects of blooms, at the bottom of which will be mammoth representations of rose buds. From these large flowers will come the lighting effects of the show. Globes will be concealed in the blooms and will cast their glow on the golden scene below. The feature exhibits are expected to be of the finest class this year. A number of the citrus distributing organizations, including the American Fruit Growers, Inc., the Anaheim Orange and Lemon association, the Stebler-Parker Co., of Riverside, and the Benchley Fruit Co., of Fullerton, will have interesting feature displays. Several of the associations will also present rack exhibits besides their feature displays. The municipalities and various districts of the Valencia growing sections throughout the southland will all contribute exhibits to the golden show. Comfort will also be a keynote of the exposition this year. With this idea in view the plan of the show has been so arranged that the walls of the fruit tent will be covered with a garden wall effect around the bottom of which there will be comfortable seats. These seats will extend entirely around the huge tent. REV. FATHER DUBBEL LEAVES FOR ROME Twenty-Five Years in PRIESTHOOD—Celebrate His Jubilee in the Eternal City Rev. Father F. J. Dubbel, for twenty years pastor of St. Boniface church, and since 1918 pastor of the church at Santa Maria, left on Monday afternoon FARM LABOR AMPLE Because, it was declared, the citrus crop this year would be only one-half as large as last year, there will be no "peak time" in the labor situation, and consequently no crisis. This was the consensus at a meeting of representatives of the walnut, citrus, beet and bean growing industries, held in the farm bureau office Thursday evening. Because in past years there has been a "peak" in each season, when the demand for labor was greater than the supply, and when the laborers took advantage of the fact to demand what was described as exorbitant wages, it was deemed unable to hold the conference. When citrus men said that their crop would equal only fifty per cent of the usual output, and that as a result they would need only one-half the amount of labor required in past years, it was agreed that the crisis would not exist, and that there would be enough help to go around. This week McPhee received the authority sought from the state department and today he mailed out to the different public weighmasters in the county following notice, observance of which he believes will serve in some measure to remedy the trouble complained of: April 21, 1922. To all Public Weighmasters of Orange County: Gentlemen: I have been instructed by the chief of the state weights and measures department to require you in the future to obtain the exact tare of all wagons and trucks used in the hauling of fertilizer, before issuing a certificate of weight. This means that the empty wagon or truck must be weighed each time a load is delivered in order to ascertain the exact tare allowance. Yours truly, GEORGE McPHEE, Sealer of Weights and Measures for Orange County. Two men, under complaint by McPhee were convicted in justice court Tuesday and each paid a fine. LA HABRA CHAMBER WANTS CONCRETE PAVING Urging the use of asphalt-concrete exclusively in the construction of county highways, the La Habra Chamber of Commerce has forwarded a communication to the county board of supervisors, indicating that an effort is under way to interest the Associated Chambers of Commerce in backing that suggestion. The La Habra organization, it is understood, feels that more durable highways could be built with asphalt-concrete than with other types of mater- MEXIGANS UD IN HING OF WEIGHTS THIS A NEW ME Victimize the ferring Portions the Wagon to Anhling the Same Caught in the Act y. Weights and Meassures firmly conviccthat are dark and the heathen Chiiliar, as the comno can probably est Chink a few Is based on his many Mexicans this county who all sorts of expeperation of any instrument have al; that such a course as suggested would, therefore, be a step in the direction of econoomy. The supervisors, last week, let several road contracts, the bulk being of concrete construction. One contract, covering a distance of one mile, called for asphalt-concrete construction. Bids on one contract calling for asphalt construction were rejected. It was shown from bids received on the concrete and asphalt types that a concrete pavement 8 inches in thickness costs less than an asphalt pavement 5 inches thick. It was also shown that the 5-inch concrete pavement cost considerably less than 4-inch asphalt-concrete paving, the comparative figures being: 5-inch concrete 15.1 cents per square foot, 5 inch asphalt 27.5 per square foot, 4 inch asphalt-concrete 18.3 cents per square foot. The letter received by the board of supervisors from Secretary L. M. Hopper, of the La Habra Chamber of Commerce, says: "I am directed to inform you that at a regular meeting of the La Habra Chamber of Commerce, April 17, 1922, a resolution was unanimously adopted, declaring the La Habra Chamber of Commerce to be in favor of the use of asphalt-concrete exclusively in the construction of county highways and requesting the good roads committee of the Associated Chambers of Commerce to take the matter up with your UNLUCKY WEEK FOR KU KLUX KLANSMEN THREE NIGHT-RIDERS SHOT DOWN BY CITY MARSHAL OF INGLEWOOD Writer of Threatening Letter to J. H. Clark Discovered by Detectives—Got His Finger Prints and Located the Typewriter—Clark Still in Town Carrying a Small Arsenal With Him—May Prosecute the Writer. Activities of the Ku Klux Klan in southern California the past few days we not purified the unsavory reputation of that mystic order, but have impelled the peace officers, local, state and national, to make a determined effort to unearth the hooded nightriders. The outrage at Inglewood on Saturday night, when two hundred reckoned men terrorized a neighborhood, bound two men and tied them to a tree six miles from their home, threatening them with death in vari- OIL LEASES AT SAN JUAN A group of Los Angeles oil promoters have acquired a lease on 270 acres of land in the San Juan canyon at San Juan Capistrano, and have agreed to begin drilling for oil within six months. The lease includes land owned by J. J. Harrison, Richard Eagan, G. A. Clark and L. R. Cook. The lease has been placed on record. The ranchers have the oil easement to E. A. Bullock, of Los Angeles, and V. A. Porter, of Fullerton. When it was placed on record an assignment from Bullock and Porter to George A. Lamb, of Los Angeles, was also recorded. Under the lease a test well of not less than 3500 feet is to be put down. Failure to act in accordance with the terms of the lease means forfeit. No bonus was paid. The property is many miles from proven territory. The nearest wells that are drilling to it are the Laguna Beach and Nusanta wells in the El Toro-Laguna hills, seven miles from San Juan Capistrano. The Harrison ranch of ninety acres at San Juan Capistrano, included in the community lease now standing in Lamb's name, is a mile and aquarter southwest of the dry hole put down by the Union Oil company on the McNeill ranch at a point about two miles northeast of San Jaun Capistrano. The Union hole is the only deep test made for oil in the Mission valley section. SAFE DRIVERS Safe automobile drivers throughout southern California are going to be labelled. If you are a safe driver, Mr. Motorist, you will carry a green and white label in the lower right hand corner of the windshield of your car, according to the latest man of the safety department of the Automobile Club of Southern California. Activities of the Ku Klux Klan in southern California the past few days have not purified the unsavory reputation of that mystic order, but have impelled the peace officers, local state and national, to make a determined effort to unearth the hooded nightriders. The outrage at Inglewood on Saturday night, when two hundred rookied men terrorized a neighborhood, bound two men and tied them to a tree six miles from their home, threatening them with death in various forms, compelled girls to disrobe in their presence, and frightened women and children until they left their homes and fled into the fields to hide. Has awakened the people to the menace of permitting such an order to exist. Detectives employed to ferret out evidence against the writer of the threatening letter recently received by J. H. Clark demanding that he leave Orange county within ten days, have completed the job. It is claimed they know the writer, but for the present are withholding his name. They have treated the typewriter on which the latter was written, and also have the finger prints of the writer. It was reported that Clark had left the city because of the threatening letter, but this is a mistake. He has property interests and a home at Huntington Beach, and has for some months spent a portion of his time in that town. He is in Anabeim now, and declares he has no intention of leaving at the behest of the Ku Klux Klan. Whether he will make use of the evidence collected by the detectives and prosecute the writer of the letter is not yet known. He is carrying a couple of large-sized guns, but has little hope of being given an opportunity to use them on a band of hooded assailants. The raiders at Inglewood lost more than they gained. Besides terrorizing the women and children of the little town they gained nothing and retired from the field leaving three of their number on the ground—one dead and the other two seriously wounded. They were all shot by a deputy marshal who had been summoned to the place. The sheriff and district attorney of Los Angeles county are determined to run the entire gang to earth. Some of them already are known, and they will undoubtedly land in the penitentiary. AUTOMOTIVE TAXES SHOULD GO TO ROADS SAFE DRIVERS Safe automobile drivers throughout southern California are going to be labelled. If you are a safe driver, Mr. Motorist, you will carry a green and white label in the lower right hand corner of the windshield of your car, according to the latest plan of the safety department of the Automobile Club of Southern California. But you will do more than this to further the club's big campaign to cut down recklessness of motorists in the southern counties. You will also sign a pledge when you are given your emblem which commits you to safe driving. This plan is to be put into operation simultaneously in the thirteen southern counties of the state through the county offices of the auto club. More than 68,000 motorists are going to be supplied with the new "stickers." Here is what the pledge says: "In return for the southern California safe-driver's windshield emblem, furnished by the public safety department of the Automobile Club of Southern California, I agree to drive carefully at all times, familiarize myself with the city and state traffic regulations and then observe them. "I will do all I can to set a good example by being courteous on the road and I further agree that when I dispose of this car I will remove the safe driver's emblem." Signed. These windshield emblem stickers and the pledges will be available next week at the auto club headquarters and at any club branch office. Motorists may obtain them upon request, and they will also be distributed in an effort to further the general safety movement in this part of the state. The point was made recently in connection with the soldiers' bonus discussion that the motor vehicle is paying a huge share of the highway construction and maintenance burden in this country. The point is of such importance that it will bear repeating as a means of emphasizing the fact that one way to get modern highways throughout the country in the shortest time possible is to direct all motor vehicle receipts in registration fees, gasoline and other forms of tax, into highway construction and maintenance channels. If that were done, the total road income—capital which could go back into highway construction—would go considerably above three hundred million dollars a year. As it is, on three items alone—federal excise on passenger cars, motor trucks and accessories, parts and tires as a group the total paid to the government approximates $115,000,000, an amount more than forty million dollars in excess of the $75,000,000 turned back into federal aid. Three automobiles, owned by Anaheim motorists, are minus motometers, following a robbery at the H. W. Stanley garage some time Monday night. The cars belonging to Stanley owner of the garage, and William T. Gathas and R. B. Young.