anaheim-gazette 1928-11-15

Another Gas Fire At Santa Fe Springs Great Well Shooting Flames 200 Feet High Burning with undiminished fury, the monster pillar of fire shooting up from the mouth of Bellevue No. 2 well in the rich Santa Fe Springs field, continues to nullify the efforts of 1000 men, who are battling to check the blaze. Having demolished nine wooden derricks and more than a score of steel rigs, the grat gaseous wall of flame, 200 feet high, threatened to wreak further havoc upon surrounding oil properties. Field engineers estimated that the extent of the damage, already done, amounts to $5,000,000. Production in fourteen surrounding wells has been stopped by the thunderous infrgnro. Twenty-million dollars worth of oil properties, most of belonging to the Texas company and the Union Oil company, are still menaced. One thousand men, including firefighters from all nearby cities, police, sheriff's deputies and the regular staff of oil workers, are engaged in the desperate battle. Three shifts of workers are digging a tunnel in an attempt to reach the casing of the giant "gasser" and stem the supply of oil. So intense is the heat emanating from the cast inferno that no one can approach within 300 feet of the burning well. Flowers and plants within a radius of several blocks have shriveled and died. Small trees have wilted and perished. The noise of the huge geyser of fire is so terrific that the fire-fighters have to signal with their arms in order to communicate with each other. When one of them attempts to speak, he must place his mouth close to the other man's ear and shoot. All wells, not within the immediate vicinity of the fire, have been closed down. A continuous stream of water is being played upon them to prevent combustion. Every piece of property on the field is highly inflammable. Executives of companies owning the wells in the field met Monday for the purpose of planning emergency measures. Too Much Water Causes Short Crop Orange county citrus producers could conserve water by using less of it for irrigation and at the same time increase their profits, according to statistics gathered by County Farm Advisor Harold E. Wahlberg after investigations covering seventy-five Orange county grovers. Growers using irrigation water moderately got as much as 250 per cent greater crops than some of those who made heavy use of water. Mr. Wahlberg's investigation showed His findings are borne out by statistics from a survey conducted by Prof. Roland S. Valle of the University of California. Of the seventy-five Orange county groves investigated, the ten receiving the highest returns were shown to have used an average of 16.4 acre inches per season, while the group of ten groves that produced the smallest yield, used 20.2 inches per season. The highest group irrigated but four times a season while the lowest group irrigated five times. The highest group averaged a yield of 360 packed boxes of fruit per acre, while the lowest ten groves had a yield of only 138 boxes per acre. The averages for all of the seventy-five groves were 16.2 acre inches of water per season, in 4.8 irrigations, with an average yield of 217 packed boxes per acre. Prof. Valle's survey of irrigation practices in the coastal area, which includes Orange county, shows that the heaviest crop yield was obtained with moderate use of irrigation water. Using the term "thousands of pounds of fruit per acre" as a measuring unit, the Valle survey reports that moderate irrigation—between 14 and 17.9 inches of water—produced a yield of 20.5 in oranges and 26 in lemons. The usual or customary application of water—18 inches to 21.9 inches—produced a yield of only 20.1 in oranges and 25.6 in lemons. "Heavy" use of water—22 inches to 25.9 inches—the crop yield still lower, to 19.9 in oranges and 25.5 in lemons. "Very heavy"—26 inches and over—still further reduced the yield to 19.5 in oranges and 24.7 in lemons. Organize Pursue Into Traffic Taking Measurement School Charge Plans for organizing patrols among the rural school in California by the Division of Mortality Started as an experiment more than a year ago proven so successful students among school children vicinity of school house authorities have decided permanent annual traffic campaign work. To this end, traffic counties have been ordered their efforts to organize among the school district's "We want 100 per mile in the schools," Chief explained. The method of orchid pick儿童 highest form into squash is to resort to child intersections during The children are insured by the numbers of motor vehicles they signals to the police. Since the inauguration the division has noted in accidents among And the officials regain that not a single car caused to any member creel since the plan was taken. Snook has reiterated the officers of a year tour driving past school children are entering speed greater than 15 be arrested. He also urges that children using the hatch on the left hand side of the traffic. AIR BEACONS The noise of the huge geyser of fire is so terrific that the fire-fighters have to signal with their arms in order to communicate with each other. Whom one of them attempts to speak, he must place his mouth close to the other man's ear and shout. All wells, not within the immediate vicinity of the fire, have been closed down. A continuous stream of water is being played upon them to prevent combustion. Every piece of property on the field is highly inflammable. Executives of companies, owning the wells in the field met Monday for the purpose of planning emergency measures in the campaign against the huge fire. The gaseous character of the blaze is evidenced by the fact that the usual tower of black smoke ascending from an oil well fire is absent from this conflagration. The flames shoot up like a great red tongue, clean and clear. There is no crackling sound, but a continuous ear-splitting roar. At night the fire paints the dark heavens a luminous crimson, visible for 40 miles. A New Grass Is Introduced By ERIC E. EASTMAN Assistant Farm Advisor Zawadke grass, a recently discovered grass, has been received in the Farm Advisor's office, where a bundle may be seen by interested persons. The grass is adapted to alkali soils and is reported to give excellent yields on land that will not support any other vegetation. John Zawadke, of Marion, Montana, is the discoverer of the grass which is named after him. In addition to being favorably reported by Mr. Zawadke, the grass has been tried out under the observation of C. A. Henderson, county agent of Klamath county, Oregon. He reports "This grass quite well adapted to heavy alkali lands, and (we) have several fields that were producing good pasture and a fair quality of hay, cutting one and a half to two and a half tons per acres." Mr. Henderson also states that a field trial with Zawadke grass, seeded with sweet clover and timothy, resulted in the Zawadke grass growing only in the lower spots which were heavily impregnated with alkali, while the sweet clover and timothy grew on the higher parts of the field which contained less alkali. The grass itself is of very fine quality, and apparently reaches a height of two and a half or three feet. From its botanical description it is probably a "lunch grass" belonging to the meadow fescue family. There are undoubtedly many alkali spots in Orange county where the grass should receive a trial, either as a forage, a hay, or a green manure crop. Further information and details may be secured at the Farm Advisor's office. Contract Let For Overhead Crossing Burglar Draws A Life Sentence Edward Baker, 453, alias Edward Davis, Santa Ana real estate salesman, who was discovered to be the perpetrator of an assounding series of burglaries throughout Orange county during the past year, with two prior felony convictions in other states, was sentenced at Santa Ana by Judge Allen to life imprisonment at Folsom as an habitual criminal. Under the sentence and the statute providing for it, Baker will not be eligible to parole for 12 years. Following his unmasking and the recovery of a large amount of loot, Baker made no defense. He pleaded guilty and sentence was immediately passed. His plea was entered to five counts charging burglary. Houses he robbed included that of C. T. Wells, 209 Princeton street, Fullerton, last October 14. The information further charged him with a burglary in Los Angeles in 1920 and another burglary in Orleans parish, Louisiana, in 1921. SHIP COMPETITION The North German Lloyd steamship line recently launched at Hamburg the two largest German merchant ships, Europa and Bremen. The launching of these was attended with great ceremonies at which not only the American ambassador but a number of German official dignitaries were present. The two ships will be put into service between Bremen and New York in the spring of 1929 and will surpass all other German ships in their appointment and speed. They will carry airplanes to cut the number of hours of journey for passengers who are in a hurry and all the accommodations will be of the very latest. Passengers will even be able to pick the color scheme of the rooms they want when booking passage. All of which would be only an interesting item of news were it not for the fact that these ships are affording more competition for the American merchant marine. The Lloyd fleet now contains 434 vessels with a gross tonnage of 861,000. This is 120,000 tons below the pre-war figure. The total tonnage now flying the Reich's flag is 70 per cent of that before the war, and the German merchant marine is now fourth in the Contract Let For Overhead Crossing The contract for an overhead crossing of the Santa Fe tracks on the state highway at Irvine has been awarded to John Simpson and company, and work on the project will start in the immediate future. It was announced by J. P. Baumgartner, member of the state highway commission. The award was made on a bid of $58,100, as compared with the engineer's estimated cost of $71,295. Construction of the overhead crossing will be made on the basis of a new alignment of the state highway at Irvine. The overhead structure will be built south of the Irvins warehouse at a point half a mile below the present crossing. A new highway will be constructed along the east side of the Irvine store and the warehouses. The program also involves building of a new highway to connect with the Laguna canyon highway. The ne wroad will be constructed from a point near where the overhead connects with the San Diego state highway and will run direct west to the Laguna canyon road. Election of a new bridge across Sycamore wash also will be necessary. The crossing at Irvine long has been one of the most dangerous in the county and its elimination should be effective in reducing the accident record of the county, in the opinion of Nat Neff, county superintendent of highways, and others. The new project has been made possible by co-operation of the Santa Fe Railway company, the state highway commission, James Irvine and the county. Organize Pupils Into Traffic Cops Taking Measures to Protect School Children Plans for organizing junior traffic patrols among the children of every rural school in California were revealed by the Division of Motor Vehicles. Started as an experiment only little more than a year ago, the plan has proven so successful in reducing accidents among schoolchildren in the vicinity of school houses that the state authorities have decided to make it a permanent annual feature of their safety campaign work. To this end, traffic officers in all the counties have been ordered to redouble their efforts to organize the patrols among the schoolchildren of their respective districts. "We want 100 per cent organization in the schools," Chief Frank G. Snook explained. The method of organization is to pick children highest in the grades and form them into squads whose duty it is to escort the children across the intersections during the rush hours. The children are instructed to take the numbers of motorists who refuse to obey their signals and report them to the police. Since the inauguration of the plan, the division has noted a sharp drop in accidents among schoolchildren. And the officials regard it as significant that not a single accident has occurred to any member of a junior parcel since the plan was put in operation. Snook has reiterated his order to the officers of a year ago that any motorist driving past schoolhouses, where children are entering or leaving, at a speed greater than 15 miles an hour, be arrested. He also urges that pedestrian schoolchildren using the highways to walk on the left, hand side of the road against the traffic. AIR BEACONS ON COAST Richfield's "Great White Way" of air GOOD RECORD Ten thousand consecutive freight trains on time in two years and eleven months, each train consisting of approximately 75 cars and each train, exclusive of the locomotive weighing 6,500,000 pounds, and each train filled to capacity with perishable fruits and vegetables from the Pacific Coast and the intermountain states of Utah and Idaho! Such is the remarkable record, a new world mark in transcontinental perishable transportation announced yesterday by W. M. Jeffers vice-president in charge of operation of the Union Pacific System. The ten thousandth fruit "block" or train rolled into the Omaha-Council Bluffs terminal of the system on time to the minute. For nearly three years since December, 1925, these trains have been rolling eastward from the coast at an average of nearly ten every day with a perfect score to date. "The schedule for fruit trains," said Mr. Jeffers yesterday, "representing the products that come chiefly from California, Oregon, Washington, Utah and Idaho, is very fast. From Ogden, Utah, where trains are assembled carrying the California product, to the terminal it is 68 hours. From Granger, Wyoming, where fruit from Idaho and the Pacific Northwest enters the Ogden-Omaha line, it is 55 hours and 6d 30 minutes. Within these schedules which cover the time from the arrival of the cars at the points named to their delivery to connections at Omaha and Council Bluffs, the cars must be leased three to four times in warm weather and charcoal burners must be set into them and the fires started and kept going in cold weather. Also at any time enroute the shipper has the privilege of diverting a car to a different destination to take advantage of favorable marks and the resulting large amount of switching also comes within the time schedule set." It is said that only one lone bottle of brandy was left when the Graf Zepelin landed in New Jersey. What we would like to know is, how many were there when she started? NOTICE OF SALE BY TRUSTEE WHEREAS, by deed of trust dated April 27th, 1927, recorded May 11th, 1927, in Book 47, page 141, of Official Records, in the office of the County Recorder of Orange County, California, to which record reference is hereby made, MAMIE A. COLE, a widow, did grant and convey the property therein and hereinafter described to the Western Trust and Savings Bank, a Corporation, of Long Beach, California, as Trustee, to secure, among other things, the payment of one certain promissory note in favor of The Mutual Building and Loan Association of Long Beach, a Corporation, and all moneys advanced. and declared deed of trust able, there be teen Hundreds ($1718.58) Dost from February to the tenth and unpaid; WHEREAS provisions of $1718.58 of Official Record OF ORANGE County, executed by the owner and holder of the said note on account of the default in the payment of principal and interest for more than three months prior to March 12th, 1928, and all payments due subsequently thereto, there being a total sum of $1,358.35 due on the date of said notice of default and demand for sale, and all payments due subsequently thereto—will sell at public auction, for cash, lawful money of the United States, and to the highest bidder, subject to liens and incumbrances prior to said deed of trust, following described property, to-wit; Situated in the City of Anaheim, County of Orange, State of California, and described as Lots Thirty (30) and Thirty-one (31) in Block "A" of the Lorel Leet Tract, as per map thereof recorded in Book 29, page 24, of Miscellaneous Records of Los Angeles County, California—or so much thereof as shall be necessary to pay the principal interest, advances, charges, costs and trustees' fees due and unpaid at the date of said sale. Dated: October 22nd, 1928. ABSTRACT & TITLE GUARANTY COMPANY, By C. D. Ball President. By R. A. Kloess, Asst. Secretary. (Corporate Seal) 10-25-4t NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE WHEREAS, by deed of trust dated April 27th, 1927, recorded May 11th, 1927, in Book 47, page 141, of Official Records, in the office of the County Recorder of Orange County, California, to which record reference is hereby made, MAMIE A. COLE, a widow, did grant and convey the property therein and hereinafter described to the Western Trust and Savings Bank, a Corporation, of Long Beach, California as Trustee, to secure among other things, the payment of one certain promissory note in favor of The Mutual Building and Loan Association of Long Beach, a Corporation, and all moneys advanced. and declared deed of trust able; there be teen Hundreds ($1718.58) Dost from February to the tenth and unpaid; WHEREAS provisions of $1718.58 of Official Record OF ORANGE County, executed by the owner and holder on August 4 recorded in Ornamentation of Loft the owner and on August 4 noticed of such the principle its election received in sales to satisfy the accordance with which notice received Augusta, 1928. WHEREAS videos that if he payment thereof upon said note notice and security as shall be indebted WHEREAS ing and Loft Beach, a Company Western for give notice property satisfies the indictment by now. THEREFORGIVEN that Snook has reiterated his order to the officers of a year ago that any motorist driving past schoolhouses, where children are entering or leaving, at a speed greater than 15 miles an hour, be arrested. He also urges that pedestrian schoolchildren using the highways to walk on the left; hand side of the road against the traffic. AIR BEACONS ON COAST Richfield's "Great White Way" of air beacons which eventually will blaze a sky and highway path of light along every route between Mexico and the Canadian border, already has been partially made a reality. Three of the beacon towers already have been completed in Southern California—at Palm City, Beaumont and Capistrano Beach—and arrangements are now being made for an official function, probably at Capistrano, marking the turning on of the electricity. Other towers, on sites which have been selected all the way to the Canadian line, will rise at the rate of one month, or even faster, till the great chain of glowing Neon Richfield signs will stain the sky with a ruddy message of cheer for night flyers or motorists all the way up the "Three-Flag Trail." The program of the Richfield company calls for the establishment of unique service stations, each in Spanish-American architecture, at the foot of the gigantic electrical beacons. These it is anticipated, will form the nucleus for ideal villages at the site of each light tower—villages consisting of hotel, cafe, garages, stores and dwellings in addition to the filling stations. The first of the towers to be completed was that at Capistrano Beach, adjacent to the picturesque town of San Juan Capistrano, home of the mission of the same name, on the highway between Los Angeles and San Diego. The second was the beacon tower at Palm City, within a very short distance of the international line at Tia Juana, Mexico. The third tower is at Beaumont, interesting town of the desert on the colorful highway which interlies Los Angeles and El Centro in Imperial Valley via Indio and the Salton Sea. Work is now being done on the tower and station at Santa Rosa and, with its completion sometime later this month, a formal opening of that station is also planned. If this custom of going bareheaded becomes universal it's going to be hard on the hat checkers in the hotels and restaurants, but we won't lose any sleep over that. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Monday, the 19th day of November, 1928, at the hour of ten o'clock, a m. of said day, at the South entrance to the Orange County Courthouse, in the City of Santa Ana, County of Orange State of California, the Abstract & Title Guaranty Company, a corporation, as trustee under a certain deed of trust executed by Robert G. Bishop and Annie L. Bishop, his wife, and recorded in Book 59, of Official Records of Orange County, California, at page 262, which was given to secure a promissory note for the sum of Thirteen hundred dollars ($1300.00), payable in monthly installments of $15.20 each, with interest thereon at the rate of eight per cent per annum, payable monthly, such payments to be applied to interest then WHEREAS, by deed of trust dated April 27th, 1927, recorded May 11th, 1927, in Book 47, page 141, of Official Records, in the office of the County Recorder of Orange County, California, to which record reference is hereby made, MAMIE A. COLE, a widow, did grant and convey the property therein and hereinafter described to the Western Trust and Savings Bank, a Corporation, of Long Beach, California, as Trustee, to secure among other things, the payment of one certain promissory note in favor of The Mutual Building and Loan Association of Long Beach, a Corporation, and all money advanced, and interest thereon; and WHEREAS, The Mutual Building and Loan Association, of Long Beach, a corporation, is now the owner and holder of said note and trust deed above described; and WHEREAS, there has been default in the payment of principal and interest due according to the terms of said note and trust deed. In that the payments of principal and interest due in March, April, May, June and July, all in 1928, and all payments of principal and interest due subsequent thereto were not paid when due, and have not since been paid, and by reason of said default said The Mutual Building and Loan Association of Long Beach, a Corporation, the owner and holder of said note and trust deed, on the 1st day of August, 1928, exercised its option. BROOKS SUIT COATES $25 ONLY JUST ONE PRICE! Latest Fall Styles in SUITS and OVERCOATS SEE these wonderful new Fall suits and overcoats at Brooks ONE PRICE...$25. Every one is a guaranteed $40 value and a masterpiece of styling, of tailoring, of value-giving. See these new models! See these rich, all wool fabrics from world-famous mills! Every Brooks suit and overcoat carries our iron clad, written guarantee of satisfaction; and we make good this guarantee. 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BROOKS Nearest Store 4th & Bush Santa Ana Pine & Broadway Long Beach and declared all sums secured by said deed of trust immediately due and payable, there being the sum of seventeen Hundred, Eleteen and 58-100ths ($1718.58) Dollars principal and interest from February 27th, 1928, according to the terms of said note, now due and unpaid; and WHEREAS, in accordance with the provisions of Section 2924 of the Civil Code of the State of California, the said The Mutual Building and Loan Association of Long Beach, a Corporation, the owner and holder of said trust deed, on August 4th, 1928, caused to be recorded in Orange County, California, a notice of such default in the payment of the principal and interest and of its election to cause the property described in said deed of trust to be sold to satisfy the obligations thereof, in accordance with the provisions thereof, which notice of default and election was duly recorded on said 4th day of Augusta, 1928, in Book 192, page 177, of Official Records of said County; and WHEREAS, said deed of trust provides that if any default be made in the payment of any of the sums secured thereby, upon application of the holder of said note, the Trustee shall give notice and sell so much of the property as shall be necessary to satisfy the indebtedness secured thereby; and WHEREAS, said The Mutual Building and Loan Association of Long Beach, a Corporation, has requested the Western Trust and Savings Bank to give notice and to sell so much of the property as shall be necessary to satisfy the indebtedness secured thereby; now, THEREFORE, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Western Trust and Savings Bank, a Corporation, By A. 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