anaheim-gazette 1923-09-27

Anaheim Gazette ESTABLISHED 1870 ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY Henry Kuchel, Editor and Proprietor SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR ...$1.50 SIX MONTHS ...$1.00 THREE MONTHS ...$ .50 Entcred at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter OIL WORKERS' HOME TO BE BUILT AT BREA Anaheim Capitalists Financing the Proposition Ground will be broken in Brea this week for the first oil workers' home to be erected in southern California, it is officially announced by a well known Anaheim financier who directed the financing of the building, which will cost approximately $48,000. Members of the Brea local, No. 27, of the Oil Field, Gas Well and Refinery Workers of America, formed a building company known as the Oil Workers' Union Building corporation with J. L. Rhone as president, and James Grewco as secretary. The company is being assisted in its efforts by committees from the Brea union. The building will be located on Pomona avenue, adjoining the Red Lantern theatre. It will be two-story, 60 by 150 feet and will be constructed of brick with an ornamental brick front. The ground floor will be made into two stores. The second floor is to be used for many different purposes and will be used as the community center of Brea. Entrance will be by stairway in the center of the building. At the top will grown as a commercial crop to a greater extent there than anywhere else in the world. Jamaica is the greatest island producer, while Nicaragua and Costa Rico are the chief mainland sources of supply. "A large fleet of steamers—refrigerated in summer and warmed in winter—plies constantly between Central American ports and the seaboard cities of the United States; and from these cities hundreds of cars roll daily in the effort to keep our appetite for bananas satisfied. "The development of the huge banana industry has had an epoch-making influence in the life of the Central American states. The turning of their jungle wastes into productive plantations has brought prosperity, railroad construction, harbor improvements and sanitary betterment. The 'yellow and cold' gold which the Spanish lards took away in early days impoverished Central America; but the great stream of golden bananas is bringing back the precious metal and is building up the country in proportion as it flows forth." WATER PROBLEM IN OIL Several wells in the northwestern section of the Huntington Beach oil field have developed water problems which bid fair to destroy the value of all sands found in that section of the field at the present time. Development in this section is practically at a standstill while the officials of the companies affected are striving to overcome the trouble. The trouble maker is a combination of what is commonly called "pierce six" waters or bottom waters, and the ground and edge waters, for which no remedy has to the present time been discovered. Many of the oil men in the field are free in expressing their opinion that if the waters are not stopped soon the DISASTER WAS PREVENED. Enough has been disastring testimony before board of inquiry at Sanranta a court martial, if The disaster—the worst in the history of the U.S. navy—admittedly was and blundering on the part officers in active commando troy squadron is admitting to press reports on Lives were lost, which cost, in the amount than $10,000,000. The Honda bay tragically investigated by the naval inquiry that can naval rules. The court and should have the fathom cause of the disease catastrophe unprecedent fall the navy. The public is withholding as to who blundered, settled conviction throw that somebody blunder want to know who, and blunderers court marshal the least that can be done exemplarily that the AWA want their navy committed with care and skilfulness. Orange county is nowanges, its lemons, its oil, but how many people it is also beginning another form of agriculture in the shape of its poultry. How many people number of Orange heens is increasing by thousands every year baity, wonderful cliffous to the successful ensis, is being increased loft headed rancher. The building will be located on Pomaona avenue, adjoining the Red Lantern theatre. It will be two-story, 60 by 150 feet and will be constructed of brick with an ornamental brick front. The ground floor will be made into two stores. The second floor is to be used for many different purposes and will be used as the community center of Brea. Entrance will be by stairway in the center of the building. At the top will be a large lobby and secretary's room. Immediately to the right is a library room and across the hall to the left is a room exclusively for women, where meetings will be held. Directly to the rear of this room is a large banquet hall fitted with kitchen for use of different organizations. Adjoining the banquet hall is the spacious lodge room, fitted to conform to the standard of Masonic lodges. This room is already under lease to the Brea Masonic lodge. The front of the second floor will be made into office suites. The floor is so arranged than meetings can be held in one or all of the rooms at the same time. Plans are under way for the laying of the corner stone with impressive ceremonies and a big celebration and program has been arranged with speakers of national prominence. The building will be owned by union men and will be a monument to organized labor of southern California, it is said. WHERE BANANAS COME FROM Refutation of a popular song is found in a National Geographic Society bulletin just issued which not only shows that we have "some bananas," but traces the origin of this fruit that, in name at least, is now on every tongue. "Known to only a handful of people on the Atlantic seaboard a generation and a half ago, and considered by them a tropical curiosity, the banana has become now the fruit of the American masses and hangs in great yellow bunches even in the remotest hamlets and in cross-roads stores," says the bulletin. "The figures for banana imports are staggering. Between 40 and 50 million bunches were brought in last year. Allowing only three cubic feet to the piled bunch, this is more than enough of the yellow fruit to fill heaping full a gigantif box as deep as the Washington monu- Development in this section is practically at a standstill while the officials of the companies affected are striving to overcome the trouble. The trouble maker is a combination of what is commonly called "pierce six" waters or bottom waters, and the ground and edge waters, for which no remedy has to the present time been discovered. Many of the oil men in the field are free in expressing their opinion that if the waters are not stopped soon the field is practically done for the smaller companies. With the failing off of production in the wells now down in the field and the lack of development throughout the field, it is pointed out that the production can do nothing else but decline. The field is going to water fast, say veterans of the oil game who have questioned in regard to the rumors to the effect that the field was "done." "In fact," said one operative, "we have discovered more water in the northwest extension of the field than we had thought could exist." Along with all of the talk about the field falling off many of the workers and promoters as well are taking their leave of that field for the booms now on at Torrance and the other places. With the lack of development many people are naturally out of work. During the past week three wells were brought on production. One of them, the Western Seaboard, Russell No. 1, brought in at 600 barrels of about 25 gravity oil. Both of the other wells are averaging around 100 barrels. Another phase, which might be taken into consideration, is the report that a jump in the price of crude oil is expected about the first of the year. The indicated raise is regarded as almost assured by operatives in the field and occupied with the fact that the gasoline war is now "on the fence" and the building of several large storage tanks in the field it is hard to predict, with even opinions of experienced men as a guide, just what may happen in the oil situation. MEMBERSHIP DRIVE A drive for additional members, to make of the Anaheim post of the American Legion one of the largest in Orange county, will be started within a short time and will continue until... the banana has become now the fruit of the American masses and hangs in great yellow bunches even in the remotest hamlets and in cross-roads stores," says the bulletin. "The figures for banana imports are staggering. Between 40 and 50 million bunches were brought in last year. Allowing only three cubic feet to the piled bunch, this is more than enough of the yellow fruit to fill heaping full a gigantif box as deep as the Washington monument and 460 feet square. Such a box would cover more than an ordinary city block. If this huge pile were evenly divided, every person in the United States, old and young, would have several dozen bananas for his share. Each day on an average nearly fifteen million bananas are consumed in the United States. "The banana is supposed to have originated in India near the base of the Himalaya mountains; but a legend among the eastern Christians asserts that it had a prominent place in the Garden of Eden, and that it was a banana, not an apple, that Eve ate in her search for knowledge. Botanists were perhaps unconsciously influenced by this legend, for they named two important species of the fruit Musca paridisaca and Musca sapientium—Fruit of Paradise and Fruit of Knowledge. "No one knows how this popular American fruit came to the new world, but it seems not to have been here when Columbus arrived. One explanation is that it was taken from Spain to Santa Domingo early in the sixteenth century and from there spread rapidly to the other East Indian islands and to the mainland. American capital and initiative placed its development on a plantation basis in Central America, and now it is A drive for additional members, to make of the Anaheim post of the American Legion one of the largest in Orange county, will be started within a short time and will continue until the first Tuesday in December. Plans for the drive were outlined at the meeting of the local post of the legion held last week at their headquarters in the city hall. In addition to planning the drive, the ex-service men agreed to aid the Salvation Army in its forthcoming campaign in Anaheim and to appoint teams to take charge of the work. Dr. H. C. Wilhelm, delegate to the national convention to be held next month in San Francisco, reported on the activities of the state convention in Eureka at which he was the Orange county representative and declared that the work toward additional legislation for the ex-service men of the state was progressing through the efforts of the state organization. The following announced their intention of attending the national convention to be held in San Francisco: J. C. Downey, Jr., Dr. A. H. Galvin, Frank Luce, Dr. H. C. Wilhelm, Earl Criss, H. D. Ackerman and Oscar Heying. The possibility of a baseball team to represent the local legion post in the forthcoming winter "Y" league, was also discussed and the plans referred to a committee for action. One who wears his welcome out never had any welcome to wear out. DISASTER WAS PREVENTABLE Enough has been disclosed in the starling testimony before the naval board of inquiry at San Diego, to warrant a court martial, it would seem. The disaster—the worst of the kind in the history of the United States navy—admittedly was preventable, and blundering on the part of certain officers in active command in the destroyer squadron is admitted, according to press reports of evidence given. Lives were lost, besides vessels which cost, in the aggregate more than $10,000,000. The Honda bay tragedy should be investigated by the most searching legal inquiry that can be given under naval rules. The country demands and should have the full truth as to the cause of the disaster and why a catastrophe unprecedented should fall the navy. The public is withholding judgment as to who blundered. But there is a settled conviction throughout the land that somebody blundered. The people want to know who, and they want the blounders court martialed. This is the least that can be done, to impress exemplarily that the American people want their navy commanded and managed with care and skill. POULTRY AT THE FAIR Orange county is noted for its oranges, its lemons, its walnuts, and its oil, but how many people know that it is also beginning to be noted for another form of agricultural activity, in the shape of its poultry industry? How many people know that the number of Orange county's laying heirs is increasing by the tens of thousands every year, and that our baimy, wonderful climate, so propitious to the successful raising of chickens, is being increasingly utilized by long headed ranchers and settlers of coming set before that event was made public. I have been interested to note the effect that is already noticeable. "The first stranger with whom I became acquainted on the train was a real estate agent—representive of a newly-organized Los Angeles company, organized for the purpose of carrying on colonizing projects on the west coast of Mexico. This gentleman was coming down to hunt up land for sub-division. "Then I met two construction engineers who were headed for Empalme, Sonora—this side of Guaymas—to install an ice plant with a daily capacity of seventy-five tons. Then they were coming to San Blas, Sinaloa (the junction where I leave the Southern Pacific of Mexico) to install an icing platform for the benefit of the winter tomatoes, and vegetables sent from this valley, to the United States. In the Yaqui valley I found the ranchers happy and prosperous. One of them told me that 50 per cent of the selling price of his wheat was net profit. The Richardson Construction company, owners of about 1,000,000 acres in the Yaqui valley, have started another diversion dam on the Yaqui river that is expected to furnish water for 100,000 to 120,000 acres of new land. This company is now largely in the hands of John Hays Hammond and the Whitney and Harriman interests in New York. "In the Mayo valley, a branch railroad has been run from Navajo to Port Ybarras and, recently, a dredge has arrived at that harbor to put in some improvements. I understand, however, that the dredge is the first thing that will have to be improved. "In our valley, the Fuente, sheer are many improvements under way and contemplated. Many Americans and others are here already looking for lands or mining properties. The United Sugar company is planning a $6.- anges, its lemons, its walnuts, and its oil, but how many people know that it is also beginning to be noted for another form of agricultural activity, in the shape of its poultry industry? How many people know that the number of Orange county's laying heens is increasing by the tens of thousands every year, and that our baimy, wonderful climate, so propitious to the successful raising of chickens, is being increasingly utilized by long headed ranchers and settlers hereabouts? Everywhere the country side can be seen dotted with prosperous looking poultry ranches, and the call of the hen, always quite audible in southern California, is becoming louder and louder in our own Orange county. Costa Mesa, alone, with its temperate sea coast atmosphere, is fast becoming a poultryman's paradise, second to none in our whole southland. This increasing interest in the feathered tribe will find itself reflected in the poultry show this year at our annual county fair. Bigger and better than ever will apply to this exhibit, as well as all others at the fair, and to judge by the way entries are pouring in at present, there will be mighty few empty coops when the curtain rings up September 25. For the man or woman who loves beautiful birds, from the purely esthetic side, who delights in beautiful feather markings, in perfect carriage, in shapely build, and in perfect appearance, for the true fancier, in short, there will be feasts galore in every variety of chicken, turkey and pigeon, with an assemblage, in the big tent, of some of the most aristocratic poultry blue blood in southern California. For the man or woman who looks on biddy solely as an egg-producing machine, and is interested in increasing her annual production of hen fruit, there will be specimens aplenty, in every breed, of heavy producing hens, of proud cocks and cockerels, with long lines of egg-laying blood behind them, birds with pedigres a mile long, of illustrious, hard-working ancestors. Both fancy and utility lists will be well filled, and when the visitor to the fair hears the bedlam of crowing, which will emanate from the poultry tent, if he's at all interested in one of the greatest little food producers in the world, let him hire himself hitherward. In the mayfly road has been run from Navajo to Port Ybarras and, recently, a dredge has arrived at that harbor to put in some improvements. I understand, however, that the dredge is the first thing that will have to be improved. "In our valley, the Fuerte, they are many improvements under way and contemplated. Many Americans and others are here already looking for lands or mining properties. The United Sugar company is planning a $600,000 storage and power dam on the Fuerte river above our smelter. Reports are that the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient railroad will soon start the extension of their line to connect with Chihuahua and Kansas City." 50 GOOD CIGARETTES 10¢ GENUINE "BULL" DURHAM TOBACCO BOSTON AKERY Saturday Specials Mondel Rings, 20c Saturday Specials Mondel Rings, 20c Oregon Cherry Pie, 30c Boston Bakery 201 East Center St. Phone 135-W 248 West CenterSt Phone861-J Santa Ana Monumental Works BEN P. LIPPI, Proprietor "FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC" MONUMENTS MARKERS AND HEADSTONES Dealing With Us Direct You Save the Middleman's Profit. "Our Car at Your Service." Phone 1800 504 E. 4th St., Santa Ana. New Pictures Many new pictures are now on display in our Art Department. Handsomely framed, many in hand decorated designs. Toned moldings are greatly in demand this season. You will find them in great profusion at this store. And Reasonably Priced. B. F. SPENCER ART GOODS Pictures Wall Paper 166 W. Center St. Anaheim Statement of the Condition of Anaheim Building and Loan Association Statement of the Condition of Anaheim Building and Loan Association Located at 114 N. Lemon St. At the Close of Business Sept 14, 1923 RESOURCES Cash on hand and in Banks ... $ 6,431.38 First Mortgage Loans ... 135,108.92 Revenue Stamps ... 16.80 Furniture and Fixtures ... 204.53 $140,860.13 LIABILITIES Guarantee Capital—Fully Paid ... $ 37,850.00 Membership Shares—Fully Paid ... 56,600.00 Membership Shares—Installment ... 1,244.02 Investment Certificates—Fully Paid ... 20,500.00 Bills Payable ... 4,000.00 Ledger Accounts' ... 265.63 Incomplete Loans ... 15,539.91 Surplus and Earnings ... 5,860.57 Surplus and Earnings ... 6,860.57 $140,860.13 DIRECTORS William Stark, President. William Falkenstein, Vice-Pres. Louis Denni, Treasurer P. A. Yungbluth, Vice-Pres. O. A. Ingram Dr. C. S. O'Toole Dr. A. H. Domann S. P. Selersen, Secretary We pay 6 per cent, the highest rate consistent with safety—Money used for constructing homes in Anaheim. Condensed Statement Condensed Statement Golden State National Bank Anaheim, California Sept. 14, 1923 RESOURCES Loans and Discounts ... $ 935,951.64 Stocks and Bonds ... 155,062.69 Banking House ... 54,436.75 Cash and Sight Exchange ... 161,468.23 Redemption Fund ... 450.00 $1,307,368.31 LIABILITIES Capital Stock and Surplus ... $ 100,000.00 Undivided Profits ... 22,840.00 Circulation ... 9,009.00 Deposits ... 1,140,527.73 Bills Payable ... 35,000.00 $1,307,368.31 OFFICERS Adolph Thomas, President E. E. Smith, Cashier Louis Denni, Vice-President E. M. Everett, Asst. Cashier Fred Koesel, Vice-President C. E. GRIFFITH, Asst. Cashier. DIRECTORS Adolph Thomaas W. A. Bonynge C. F. Grim Fred Koesel Louis Denni E. E. Smith Nm. Stark