anaheim-gazette 1924-10-16

ANSWER TO TOY W. E. Travis, president of the California Motor Carriers' Association, the statewide organization of the motor stage line operators, today made the following reply to the public statement by Harvey M. Toy, chairman of the State Highway Commission, in which Toy opposes the adoption of Amendment No. 1 on the November ballot regulating motor transportation taxes: "Mr. Toy's statement, in opposition to the motor transportation tax amendment, declares that its adoption would reduce the contribution of the stage lines for highway maintenance. With the exception of the state motor vehicle license and weight taxes, representing only a small total, this statement is incorrect. "He also says, 'The present state tax on these carriers is four per cent of their gross receipts.' This statement is also misleading since the state receives under the Duval bill passed by the last legislature only what is left of the four per cent tax after local city and county taxes and licenses have been deducted. "The passing of the amendment would not relieve the stage lines of the payment of the state gasoline tax of two cents a gallon, which tax is in direct proportion to their use of the highways, the greater the mileage covered by each stage, the greater its consumption of gasoline and the greater amount of its tax payment. "Under the specific provisions of the proposed amendment the state would receive all of the proceeds from the gross earnings tax and could, if the legislature saw fit, devote all of it to highway purposes. "As a matter of fact the Duval bill, which governs the state taxation of the motor stage lines, has just been concerned, it should be pointed out that there is a total of 1,150,000 or more licensed private cars in California making use of the highways. The total number of commercial stages is only 1660. Obviously their use of the highways is only a small fraction of their total usage. "The motor carriers feel that, far from being contrary to the public interest, as Mr. Toy seems to argue, the public interest, as much as the interest of the stage lines, demands the adoption of Amendment No. 1." CALIFORNIA GRAPES Probibition is directly responsible for the freight embargo upon California "juice grapes" coming to New York, fruit receivers said today. The increase in the demand for wine grapes in New York has grown so prodigously since the enactment of the Eighteenth amendment that an embargo has been resorted to for several years to relieve congestion. Since the first year of the amendment California grape shipments have multiplied steadily. The fruit is retailed principally to the foreign population of the city for home-made wine. In August this year provision for handling incoming California grapes was made in Jersey City, where three yards were set apart in the hope that shifting the yards and grape auctions from Manhattan would avoid an embargo. But last Friday, with 912 twenty-ton carloads in the yards across the river, with about 1250 cars more within range of the city, the railroad companies had shipments halted at Chicago. ENORMOUS GAIN IN FOODSTUFFS held in the State process of two bills so-called foreign as far as I can see investigation twenty-five miles these securities in the entire state of those are one of Los Angeles. Under the law adoption of thispected that the ties will list the tax levied aagain within reason and come or divide to be found true adopted similar. There is another law shop is, under our ree many men, who ness in the East are tied up in to decline on a revenue laws to place of residence ing the tax on as I said before amount of the in nothing upon whi Again, under banks and insu afford to own o and bonds because a different man gross receipts aveat their own r security, thus go advantage in ments not enjooe payer. Again, as I ha ethe large amount held in this amount revealed highways, the greater the mileage covered by each stage, the greater its consumption of gasoline and the greater amount of its tax payment. "Under the specific provisions of the proposed amendment the state would receive all of the proceeds from the gross earnings tax and could, if the legislature saw fit, devote all of it to highway purposes. "As a matter of fact the Duval bill, which governs the state taxation of the motor stage lines, has just been held unconstitutional by Superior Judge Woolley of Fresno. "If the state supreme court, as seems likely, upholds Judge Woolley's decision, the state would be left without any tax return from the earnings of the stage lines unless Amendment No. 1 is adopted." "The Duval act also provides for a division of the proceeds from the gross earnings tax between the state and the counties, but, with the Duval bill finally held unconstitutional, there will be no way for the counties to share in the stage line returns excepting through the adoption of Amendment No. 1. "At present no portion of the gasoline tax goes to the municipalities, although 75 per cent of it is collected in the cities. "Mr. Toy's statement says that under Amendment No. 1 the motor carriers would escape present personal property taxes, state motor vehicle license and weight taxes, city regulatory licenses and possibly the gasoline tax." "It is true that the stages would be relieved of the motor vehicle taxes and of general property taxes but that is the precise situation with reference to the other public utilities, and the amendment was drawn in conformance with the present state tax system, which sets aside the public utilities is the source of state revenues exclusively. "The existing tax amendment to the constitution, governing the other public utilities, was adopted before motor transportation existed as a general utility. The primary purpose of Amendment No. 1 is to put now the motor carriers on the same basis as the other public utilities. "It is not true, as Mr. Toy states, that the stages would be freed entirely of all regulation by the cities through which they pass. As a matter of fact the amendment specifically provides for the continuance of local license on franchise taxes now existing and it ENORMOUS GAIN IN FOODSTUFFS Figures released by various boards throughout the State of California through the California Real Estate Association, disclose a phenomenal gain in the production of perishable food products by the state. In the last five years the shipments of foodstuffs from this state have increased from 150,000 cars a year to an annual production in excess of 350,000 cars. Throughout the farming districts of the State there is a feeling of great optimism, and generally the prices received by the growers this year are higher than last year's prices. The only crop seriously affected by the water shortage this season is the olive crop and production is only 25 per cent as compared with last year's figures. D. Richard Ainsley, president of the San Joaquin Valley Realty Association is the authority for the statement that the Olive Grower's Association is considering the advisability of standardizing the pack. Advices from the East indicate that there is a ready market for the lima bean crop of California, and higher prices prevail than in former years. Herman Janss, who is conducting an intensive advertising campaign in the Midwest for California farmlands, reports that the "California desire" is strong in the hearts of many of the farmers in that section of the country and he prophesies the greatest influx of dirt farmers to California this year that the State ever has known. PROPOSITION NO. 9 Ed W. Hopkins, Los Angeles County Assessor and President of the California Taxation Improvement Association, a statewide organization with headquarters in Los Angeles and San Francisco, has issued the following statement relative to the proposed Constitutional Amendment covering foreign securities which appears on the November 4th ballot as Measure lic utilities, was adopted before motor transportation existed as a general utility. The primary purpose of Amendment No. 1 is to put now the motor carriers on the same basis as the other public utilities. "It is not true, as Mr. Toy states, that the stages would be freed entirely of all regulation by the cities through which they pass. As a matter of fact the amendment specifically provides for the continuance of local license or franchise taxes now existing, and it would not effect local regulatory power outside of taxes in any way what ever. "It is true that it would relieve the lines of local taxes on their operative properties, which is now the case with the other utilities, and certainly no city or county is now proposing that a tax should be placed on every train operated through it. Why should a discrimination be made in favor of steam transportation and against motor transportation, which has come to be one of the greatest conveniences as well as an essential in the development of the state? "Mr. Toy quotes at length Assemblyman Duval. It was Duval who served as spokesman of the stage line's competitors when the subject of motor transportation taxation was before the last legislature. If these competitors had had their way the motor carriers would have been subjected to a prohibitive tax that would have forced many of the lines out of business. Last year the motor stages carried over twenty-nine million passengers. It is certainly to the public interest that they should be kept running. "The motor carriers ask: 'Should the question of motor stage taxation be decided in conformance with the views of their competitors, or in accordance with the best interests of the people of the state as a whole." PROPOSITION NO. 9 Ed W. Hopkins, Los Angeles County Assessor and President of the California Taxation Improvement Association, a statewide organization with headquarters in Los Angeles and San Francisco, has issued the following statement relative to the proposed Constitutional Amendment covering foreign securities which appears on the November 4th ballot as Measure No. Nine. One of the most vital measures to be submitted for the approval of the people on the November ballot is Proposition Number Nine. Its adoption will be a long stey toward modernizing the revenue laws of this state. This Constitutional Amendment itself does not create a new law. It simply authorizes the Legislature to enact a law governing the assessment and taxation of solvent credits, notes and foreign stocks and bonds (stocks and bonds based on property outside of the State of California) not exempt under the Constitution. It in no way provides for exempting this class of property, nor does it change or interfere with the method of assessment and taxtion of any other class of property. It has no bearing whatsoever on California stocks and bonds which are exempt from taxtion. Under the present law, the classes of intangible property affected are, theoretically, assessed and taxed in the same manner and proportion of value as all other classes of property. While, as a matter of afct, they practically escape assessment as the holder or taxpayer conceals them from the Assessor for the reason that generally the taxes laid against them would take up the entire income or dividend received. It has been estimated that there are hold in the State of California in excess of two billion dollars worth of the so-called foreign stocks and bonds and as far as I can ascertain, after a careful investigation, there is less than twenty-five million dollars worth of these securities on the assessment roll in the entire state and practically all of those are on the assessment roll of Los Angeles County. Under the law proposed, after the adoption of this amendment; it is expected that the holders of these securities will list them for taxation as the tax levied against thereon will be within reason as compared to the income or dividend received. This is to be found true in states which have adopted similar laws. There is another reason why the present law should be amended, that is, under our revenue laws at present many men, who are retiring from business in the East and whose fortunes are tied up in the securities referred to, decline on account of our present revenue laws to make this state their place of residence, because, by so doing the tax on their property would, as I said before, take up the entire amount of the income and leave them nothing upon which to live. Again, under the present law, only banks and insurance companies can afford to own or buy foreign stocks and bonds because they are taxed in a different manner, that is, on their gross receipts and then they can invest their own money in this class of security, thus giving them a distinct advantage in making their investments not enjoined by the ordinary taxpayer. Again, as I have stated, by showing the large amount of this class of property held in this state and the small amount revealed to the Assessor, there is everything to gain and nothing to lose by the adoption of this measure and the subsequent enacting of proper laws. The cities and counties now get practically little tax from this property while under the new law should derive large revenues as demonstrated in other states who have passed similar laws. The proposed Amendment provides that the taxes thus raised will be distributed to the several counties and not paid in to the state funds and that valuation and taxation be uniform throughout the state. I quote the following from the proceeding of the National Tax Association, 1922, referring to the assessment roll of Baltimore City, Maryland. In round numbers the amount of intangible property on the books in 1896 was six million dollars. Under the new law which reduced the rate, this was increased the first year to sixty millions of dollars and it has grown progressively since that time until in the present year the figures are about two hundred and sixty seven millions of dollars. You can figure for yourself just how much of an increase there was in the yield." Referring to the assessment of intangibles in Minnesota, I find the following: "The change in the law worked very well in Minnesota. Our experience under this law is that instead of reaching a few extremely honest people and a few people who had their property so exposed that it is impossible for them to hide it, we now reach a very large number of taxpayers. About one out of every four on the list return money and credits in some amount so that at the resent time we have about four hundred and twenty five millions of money in credits on the tax roll, one hundred and eighteen thousand people assessed for it, whereas, under the old general property tax we had a little over six thousand taxpayers and a very small assessment of that kind of property, five or six millions of dollars." A good many cutting remarks are being made about bobbed hair. BLUE LIGHT SILVER MINES COMPANY, A CORPORATION, WITH ITS PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS AT 242 WEST CENTER STREET IN THE CITY OF ANAHEIM, COUNTY OF ORANGE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA. NOTICE OF SALE OF STOCK FOR DELINQUENT ASSESSMENT Notice is hereby given, that there is delinquent upon the following described stock, on account of assessment levied on the 18th day of August, 1924, the several amounts set opposite the names of the respective share holders, as follows: Abplanalp, Henry ... 230 Alleman ... 89 Amack, U. S. ... 219 Anderson, Fred W. ... 74 Archer, Mrs. M. W. ... 298 Penwell, John L. ... 119 Fock, Paul ... 410 Chapman, C. S. ... 294 Chapman, C. S. ... 295 Chapman, C. S. ... 834 Chapman, C. S. ... 341 Chapman, C. S. ... 342 Chapman, C. S. ... 844 Chapman, C. S. ... 848 Chapman, C. S. ... 347 Chapman, C. S. ... 348 Chapman, C. S. ... 381 Chapman, C. S. ... 382 Chapman, C. S. ... 383 Chapman, C. S. ... 384 Chapman, C. S. ... 385 Chapmar, C. S. ... 399 Chapman, C. S. ... 400 Chapman, C. S. ... 401 Chapman, C. S. ... 402 Chapnan, C. S. ... 403 Chapman, C. S. ... 405 Chapman, Front ... 404 Collins, Sam L. ... 343 Collins, Sam L. ... 388 Collins, Sam L. ... 389 Collins, Sam L. ... 390 Collins, Sam L. ... 391 Collins, Sam L. ... 392 Collins, Sam L. ... 393 Collins, Sam L. ... 394 Collins, Sam L. ... 395 Collins, Sam L. ... 396 Collins, Sam L. ... 397 Collins, Sam L. ... 398 Critchey, Sarah Lee ... 251 Crosby, A. A. ... 115 Fraser, Malcom ... 297 Fuller, Fred ... 407 Fuller, Fred ... 369 Goble, L. ... 212 Hanke, Wm... 224 Harrison, J.E... 266 Harrison, J.E... 270 Hela, Robert C... 187 The change in the law is that instead of reaching a few extremely honest people and a few people who had their property so exposed that it is impossible for them to hide it, we now reach a very large number of taxpayers. About one out of every four on the list return money and credits in some amount so that at the resent time we have about four hundred and twenty-five millions. 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Its proposhare, however, in the t vestment in wire, poles, boards, buildings and other required to make Bell service universal in scop And in accordance with Law and an Order of the Board of Directors made on the 18th day of August, 1924, so many shares of each parcel of such stock as may be necessary, will be sold, at the office of said Corporation, at 242 West Center Street, in the City of Anaheim, County of Orange, State of California, on the 15th day of October, 1924, at the hour of 10 o'clock A.M. of said day to pay the delinquent assessments thereon, together with the costs of advertising and expenses of sale. Dated this 24th day of September, 1924. (CORPORATE SEAL) SAM. L. COLLINS, Secretary Blue Light Silver Mines Company, 242 West Center Street, Anaheim, California. NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT Anahiem Union Water Company, location of principal place of business 203 East Center Street, Anahiem, California. Notice is hereby given that at a meeting of the Board of Directors, held on the 3rd day of September, 1924, assessment No. 63 of $5 per share was levied on the capital stock of the corporation payable at once to the Secretary of the company at Anahheim, Orange County, California. Any stock upon which this assessment shall remain unpaid on the 1st day of November, 1924, will be delinquent and advertised for sale at public auction and unless payment is made before, will be sold on the 15th day of December, 1924, at one o'clock P.M., to pay for delinquent assessments together with cost of advertising and expense of sale. ANAHEIM UNION WATER CO. L. J. SHERIDAN, Secretary. Matinee Daily 2:30; Night 7:00, 9:00 FRIDAY—SATURDAY Friday Night Gift Night Gilbert, Aileen Pringle IN "IS HOUR" A story of Flaming Love. DAY—MONDAY—TUESDAY WEDNESDAY FRANK LLOYD'S a Hawk A story of Flaming Love. 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