anaheim-gazette 1928-12-20

FACTS ABOUT THE CITY OF ANAHEIM Population ...13,000 Assessed Valuation...$12,266,185 Building Permits...439,832 VOLUME LIX NUMEROUS CHRISTMAS ALL ANAHEIM TO CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS MANY ENTERTAINMENTS BEING ARRANGED FOR ITS OBSERVANCE First One Held Last Night By the Elks’ Lodge at the Clubhouse; White Temple Church to Give Pageant Sunday Evening; Big Preparations for Municipal Tree in City Park Saturday Night, December 22 Only five more days until Christmas, the most sacred as well as the most joyous day in all the year. It is a red letter day on the calendar of the people of all Christian nations, and hundreds of millions of people will observe it in accordance with the customs handed down by their ancestors. It is a day of feasting and of joy, of the exchange of gifts among friends, and the day that Santa Claus makes his annual Radio Frost Report Fails Say Growers Citrus growers of Orange county expected to join with others of the Southland in directing a barrage of complaints to Radio Station KHJ, Los Angeles, in connection with difficulties in obtaining the minimum temperature forecasts from that station, each evening at 7:55 o'clock, according to Farm Advisor H. E. Wahlberg here. "Complaints have been quite general throughout Orange county," Wahlberg said, "especially since the cold weather has arrived and almost every orchardist in the exposed districts is intent upon these nightly reports. "It is suggested that all growers who are having difficulty in this reception, with respect to clarity, volume and interference, should write KHJ, the Don Lee station, Los Angeles, and report their difficulty. Any change to correct the difficulty will be made easier if the station has on file a general complaint from growers all over Southern California, which may be submitted in the hearing before the radio commission. "Such vital reports to the agriculture industry should be given a wave length favorable to general clear reception." ANAHEIM OLD UNINJURY COLD S HUNDREDS OF POTS LIGHTED HILLS AND EN Only Two Place County Where Reached a Danger Smudge Pots W Monday Morning and West Orang and Chillis Have The cold snap the first caused the growers in of the citrus belt to be smudge pots and keep for several hours during of the night when the ways falls to the lowest dredges of pots were put the foothills and at one in Orange county, but district there was no need Only five more days until Christmas, the most sacred as well as the most joyous day in all the year. It is a red letter day on the calendar of the people of all Christian nations, and hundreds of millions of people will observe it in accordance with the customs handed down by their ancestors. It is a day of feasting and of joy, of the exchange of gifts among friends, and the day that Santa Claus makes his annual pilgrimage, and visits the home of rich and poor alike, and his coming is anxiously awaited by tens of millions of children. Only five more days, and if you haven't yet got your Christmas shopping off your mind, it behooves you to hurry as the end of this week will see the cream of the enormous stock carried by the merchants gathered in by the wise shoppers. All Anaheim is animated by the Christmas spirit, and great preparations are making for a fitting observance of the day. There will be several entertainments by churches, and civic societies are combining in promoting the municipal tree entertainment at Municipal park, where Santa Claus will distribute thousands of presents to the children. The first of the Christmas entertainments was given by the Elks at the clubhouse last night. Only members of the lodge, their families and invited friends were present. Distribution of gifts by Santa Claus was only incidental to the excellent musical entertainment presented. It included the harmonica band of St. Catherine's Military Academy under the direction of Capt. D. M. Healy; musical numbers from the Orange County School of Fine Arts, contributed by Mrs. C. A. McCullah; vocal selections by Reginald Taylor, well-known Anaheim baritone solist, who led the children in singing Christmas jingles, and a special feature secured through the co-operation of Manager Dick Darst of the California theatre, who arranged for a special Christmas film to be shown. "Star of Dawn," a Christmas Pagan by Ian Alexander, will be given Sunday evening by the Chorus Choir of White Temple church, assisted by various members of the congregation. The music is exceedingly beautiful and its interpretative power in visualizing the wondrous story of the Nativity is marked. An eminent minister some days ago delivered a sermon on Christmas in which he said in part: Christmas illumines the road to childhood. It is significant with eternal destinies that when God sought to reveal Himself to humanity He came in the form of a little child. He could rebuild the world and set up the kingdom only when He came to earth by way of a cradle. Ever since that time it has been so, for only through childhood will the world ever be reborn. It was this truth which Jesus came to emception, with respect to clarity, volume and interference, should write KHJ, the Don Lee station, Los Angeles, and report their difficulty. Any change to correct the difficulty will be made easier if the station has on file a general complaint from growers all over Southern California, which may be submitted in the hearing before the radio commission. "Such vital reports to the agriculture industry should be given a wave length favorable to general clear reception." Allen Is Elected Presiding Judge Judge James L. Allen will be presiding judge of the Orange County Superior court for the year 1929. His election to that post took place at a meeting of the three superior court judges. Allen, H. G. Ames and E. J. Marks, in the court house late Monday. As presiding judge, Judge Allen will succeed Judge Ames, who has served in that capacity during 1928. Judge Martis was presiding judge in 1927, the first year the post was created in Orange county. The presiding judge presides over the master calendar under the new judicial system, which requires the presiding judge to hear all matters before the court except the actual trial of cases, which the presiding judge may hear himself or assign to other departments. Case of Leprosy At County Hospital A case of leprosy has been discovered at Delhi, and is being treated at the county hospital it became known when Dr. Harry Zaiser, county hospital superintendent, announced that Mrs. Carlos Rivera, 50, was a patient in the institution. The woman, who has been afflicted with the disease for eight or ten years has lived at Delhi for about four years, it was learned. While leprosy is said to be mindly contagious, health authorities do not fear its spread by reason of Mrs. Rivera's residence in the community. Incubation of the disease extends from eight to 30 years and long contact is necessary before it can be communicated, Dr. Zaiser stated. Discovery of the Delhi leper was made when she came to the county hospital clinic last Friday night. Dr. Zaiser, following his own diagnosis, summoned Dr. K. H. Sutherland, county health officer, to view the patient. Various other physicians of the county also have seen her. They are said to be agreed that she presents a case of the anaesthetic type of leprosy, which is marked by numbness in various parts of the body. Some of these days we may wake up An eminent minister some days ago delivered a sermon on Christmas in which he said in part: Christmas illumines the road to childhood. It is significant with eternal destinies that when God sought to reveal Himself to humanity He came in the form of a little child. He could rebuild the world and set up the kingdom only when He came to earth by way of a cradle. Ever since that time it has been so, for only through childhood will the world ever be reborn. It was this truth which Jesus came to emphasize. He went up and down Palestine saying, "Suffer little children to come unto me, for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." You hear him say, "Unless ye come as little children, ye can have no part with me." A light shines upon the road to childhood. How true it is, "And a little child shall lead them." Christmas illumines the way to spiritual values. How strange was His coming into the world. As you read the story you cannot but be impressed with the fact that those who shared that scene must have been visibly disappointed. It was so altogether unexpected. They never dreamed it could come that way. A manger in a sheep stable was the last place men looked for the power to make life all over. We tinsel that stable and crowd it with beautiful imagery, but there was no tinsel when Jesus was born. He lay in His manger amid bleating sheep, while cattle tramped upon the hay and dung and clay of the floor of their shelter. "How can power issuing from a place like that, suffice to make the world over?" they must have said to one another. There are still people who ask why did He pass by Rome, the city of splendor, or Cairo, city of unbelievable wealth, or Memphis, city of great age, or Damascus, city of great commerce, or Jerusalem, city of beautiful ritual? "Why?" do you ask? Just to prove to the world once and forever the falsity and unsecurity of material values; to bear witness to all the ages that the greatness and power of life are not in wealth, inheritance or trade, but in the spiritual realities of life. What impressed me most in Bethlehem and again in the boyhood home of Nazareth when I was there last summer, was the utter disregard of Jesus for the physical stands and his bewildering indifference to the values of men. That cradle yonder in the manger of Bethlehem illumines the way to spiritual values which alone count. In a day when emperors and conquerors wrote their names in mortuary chapels of marble and basalt, Jesus was born in a dark, dank manger of an oriental caravanship to build life upon a new order. Life is sanctified because of its spiritual values. A book is more than ink and pulp; a painting of Corot is more than canvas and paint, and the iridescence of a jewel is more than chemistry. There is soul and sunshine and glory behind these which make them great. So it is in life. In His lowly birth Jesus has made clear once and forever the power of spiritual values. It is the only force that lasts, the only abiding reality. The toys and trinkets you give your children today have no market value, but there is in them a love which cannot be brought for all the diamond mines of Kimberly or all the gold in the treasures of empires. Thank God for Christmas! How it illumines the way to spiritual values. Temperature rangs free grees above zero in the government weather ported. In Los Angeles the peratures of the night, before dawn, was 42 degrees below normal according to weather buoys. Burning Gas Takes Life Little Atwood Girl Companion Serious Childish desire to would ignite resulted in Julia Gonzales, 7, and burns for Savilla Ruiz wood, Tuesday. The little girls were waged of neighborhood boys, deavoring to start a carads suggested that they line. The fluid was drained and a match touched. In the excitement that the boys kicked the can burning gasoline was Gongales and Ruiz girls. Luis Gongales, father o received minor burns in the flames. The girls were rushed hospital. The Gongales away late Wednesday night child has a good chance it was stated. The body of Julia Gonzalez to the McAulay and Su Fullerton. Coroner Charles Brown to hold an inquest later morrow. According to scientists weighs 592 quintillion t hope that she doesn't head that she wants to re AHEIM GAZETTE Anaheim, California, Thursday, December 20, 1928 CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENT ANAHEIM GROVES UNINJURED BY COLD SNAP HUNDREDS OF SMUDGE POTS LIGHTED IN FOOT-HILLS AND ENVIRONS Only Two Places in Orange County Where Temperature Reached a Dangerous Point; Smudge Pots Were Burned Monday Morning at Tustin and West Orange; Tomatoes and Chills Have Been Killed The cold snap the first of the week caused the growers in certain sections of the citrus belt to bring forth their smudge pots and keep them burning for several hours during the latter part of the night when the thermometer always falls to the lowest points. Hundreds of pots were put in action along the foothills and at one or two points in Orange county, but in the Anaheim district there was no necessity for using Once Affluent, Dies in Penury Distingished Lawyer Passes Away At a San Francisco Almshouse Rivaling a story from the pages of fiction is the romantic career of Lyman Mowry, news of whose death at a San Francisco almshouse is just at hand. Mowry was well known in Anaheim, his wife having been a resident of this city, and he was an occasional visitor here. At one time among the leading lawyers of the California bar, and a very wealthy man, he encountered adversity and died in want. He was attorney for the Chinese Six companies, and was later legal advisor to President Diaz at the City of Mexico. He organized a fleet of steamers to bring Chinese laborers to that country, and was one of the wealthiest men in the republic. When Diaz was overthrown he went into a financial decline, lost his fortune and returned to his former home in San Francisco penniless. Too proud to make his poverty known to his former friends, and disdaining to be an object of charity, he immured himself in an old people's home, where he lived for years until he was removed to the almshouse, where he died a few days ago. He was aged 80 years. Despite his frailties, he was good man and will耐得住. COUNCIL ADOPTS TREE PLANTING RESOLUTION PLANS OF COMMISSION TO BE COMPLETED WITHOUT ANY CHANGES Westinghouse Electric Company Gets Contract for Installing Switchboard at the Power House Cost, $13.040; Resolution of Sorrow Passed on the Death of Ex-Mayor Wm. Stark A resolution ordering the tree planting campaign to continue until its completion was ordered by the city council at Thursday night's meeting. This resolution carries out the plan recommended by the planning commission. Several protests by property owners have been submitted in the past, but there were none on file at the meeting Thursday night, consequently the Monday Morning at Tustin and West Orange; Tomatoes and Chillis Have Been Killed The cold snap the first of the week caused the growers in certain sections of the citrus belt to bring forth their smudge pots and keep them burning for several hours during the latter part of the night when the thermometer always falls to the lowest points. Hundreds of pots were put in action along the foothills and at one or two points in Orange county, but in the Anaheim district there was no necessity for using them. In fact the Anaheim growers, years ago, threw away their pots, considering them unnecessary here. Anaheim in the past has suffered very little from frost damage in comparison with the regions to the north and east of us, consequently the growers are not afraid of Jack Frost. The Exchange, which is sending out warnings to communities in the night when indications point to dangerous frost, does not consider it necessary to warn Anaheim. This city is not on its list. Orchardists in the West Orange and Tustin districts having smudge equipment fired their plants at 4:30 Monday morning, when the mercury went down to 27½ at Tustin and to 26 in the West Orange districts, according to reports made to Harold E. Wahlberg, county farm advisor. Approximately 50 per cent of the heaters in each district were fired. Smoke from the orchard warmers settled over the southern part of the county. Patrolmen representing the Orchard Protective association were alert after midnight, and as the temperature dropped to a threatening point started about 2 o'clock in the morning to notify members of the organization. Notice was phoned from the office of the Santiago Orange Growers' association, protective association headquarters, at Orange. Tomatoes growing in the colder sections, damaged slightly by earlier frosts, were finished, as were chilies, according to the farm advisor. Temperatures dropped below freezing at many points in the Southern California citrus belt and in numerous low districts smudge pots were lighted to prevent possible damage, according to reports from Los Angeles. Firing was not general in the fruit districts but warnings were sent out by all observers and crews were held in readiness for an emergency. Temperature ranges from 28 to 32 degrees above zero in the citrus belt, the government weather bureau reported. In Los Angeles the minimum temperatures of the night, registered just before dawn, was 42 degrees, which is 4 degrees below normal for this season, according to weather bureau records. Montgomery Trial Postponed By Court Man Charged With Double Murder Will Face Trial Jan. 14 The Christmas holiday season made itself felt in the affairs of J. W. Montgomery, facing trial on the charge of murdering two men, when it brought him a gift of delay—whether welcome or unwelcome. His trial, scheduled to President Daz at the city of Mexico. He organized a fleet of steamers to bring Chinese laborers to that country, and was one of the wealthiest men in the republic. When Diaz was overthrown he went into a financial decline, lost his fortune and returned to his former home in San Francisco pennitless. Too proud to make his poverty known to his former friends, and disdaining to be an object of charity, he immured himself in an old people's home, where he lived for years until he was removed to the almshouse, where he died a few days ago. He was aged 80 years. Despite his frailties, he was a good man, and many will regret to learn of his unhappy end. His wife was the strikingly beautiful Bessie Hardin Lawrence, a fine musician and rare singer, who lived here with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. W. N. Hardin, pioneer residents of this city. Dr. Hardin lived where the Elks' Lodge now stands. The large rubber and pine trees standing in front of the lodge were planted by him more than fifty years ago. Under the shade of this rubber tree he reclined in an easy chair when cancer of the throat had attacked him as he was nearing the end of his eventful career. It was difficult to understand his conversation at this time and the old gentleman seemed to be nettled to be asked to repeat his words. His wife frequently came to his assistance and made his meaning clear. He passed November 11, 1897. In 1872 his daughter eloped with DeWit C. Lawrence, was married to him and for several years lived with him in San Francisco. Her married life was unhappy and she returned home with her two little children. Lawrence was forbidden the house, but succeeded in communicating with her clandestinely, and she went North with him again. She sang in the theatre and scored a personal triumph. At this time Mowry was at the height of his fame and fortune. He met the beautiful singer, fell in love with her, obtained a divorce for her and married her. She lived with him a number of years but finally divorced him and shortly again remarried. She died about 25 years ago. Her daughter, Wilmot, was married to Mowry's nephew against her parent's wishes. The marriage was not happy and they shortly separated. She never saw her husband again. She lost her reason, and is now in an asylum. The Waste Water corporation began using the sewer system on October. Mr. Steward stated in his report on the northern units of the system. The average flow of sewage on these units during November was: Anahale, 76; Fullerton, 70; and Orange, 71 miner's inches. The costs were apportioned as follows: Anahale, $26.53; Fullerton, $24.79; Orange, $24.44; Garden Grove, $4.08; Placentia, $4.08; and La Habra, $6.81; totals, $90.73. Appointments by Police Chief J. S. Bouldin of Miss Helen Craemer and S. S. Davis as deputy patrolmen to serve without pay, were approved. Receipt of a refund of $15 from the Orange County Night Baseball league was acknowledged. Fire Chief R.-Nyboe reported four fires during November, but no damage. He also reported that no appointment had been made to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of W. J. McGillivary. The council received a petition from C. F. and H. M. Hobson, O. T. Callor and W. J. Elliott asking that the city attorney be instructed to make changes in the garage ordinance in compliance years ago regarding a garage on South Vine street, owned by the Hobsons. City Attorney George F. Holden stated that the zoning ordinance recently adopted had repealed the garage ordinance, and the council referred the petitioners to the city planning commissions. "Star of the dered By" A Christmas man (The next Sunday) 1928 at seven Methodist church choir, assisted by the congregation will appear in presentation is Pageant is just never before b The music and its intertwining with Nativity is marvelous W.Olds, is close attention to the event. The cast: Angel Gabrielle Mary—Mrs.Joseph—Paul Simeon—N.Evangeliast—Guardians—M.Rutcel Elvin Heralds—Dorothy West,Hansen,Gorge Priests—D.M Collins,H.W.A.L.Knipe,D Wells Angels—Mrs.L Knipe,Mrs.S.J.Ervyn Mrs.AltaC.Mrs.FredC.Mrs.MissMarie Men-C.Eygabroad,Percwise Wisemen's Cheatum.Winsum. Children of Margaret Yom Bessie Edward crine and Ellen area,Gawels N Valera Browne Six Shepherd Director of Organist-Miss Violinist-Lee Director of Conover.Director of C Strevel. Temperature ranges from 28 to 32 degrees above zero in the citrus belt, the government weather bureau reported. In Los Angeles the minimum temperatures of the night, registered just before dawn, was 42 degrees, which is 4 degrees below normal for this season, according to weather bureau records. Burning Gasoline Takes Life of Child Little Atwood Girli Dead, and Companion Seriously Burned Childish desire to see if gasoline would ignite resulted in fatal burns for Julia Gonzales, 7, and second degree burns for Savilla Ruiz, 7, both of Atwood, Tuesday. The little girls were watching a group of neighborhood boys, who were endearing to start a car. One of the lads suggested that they test the gasoline. The fluid was drained into a can and a match touched. In the excitement that ensued, one of the boys kicked the can over and the burning gasoline was spilled on the Gongales and Ruiz girls. Luis Gongales, father of the dead girl, received minor burns in extinguishing the flames. The girls were rushed to the County hospital. The Gongales girl passed away late Wednesday night. The Ruiz child has a good chance for recovery, it was stated. The body of Julia Gongales was taken to the McAulay and Suters parlors in Fullerton. Coroner Charles Brown is expected to hold an inquest late today or tomorrow. According to scientists, Mother Earth weighs 592 quintillion tons. And we hope that she doesn't get it into her head that she wants to reduce. Man Charged With Double Murder Will Face Trial Jan. 14 The Christmas holiday season made itself felt in the affairs of J. W. Montgomery, facing trial on the charge of murdering two men, when it brought him a gift of delay—whether welcome or unwelcome. His trial, scheduled to open tomorrow, was postponed January 14. Prospective interruption to the trial proceedings was announced as the reason for postponement of the case until after the holidays. It was pointed out that the trial would barely get started this week until the week-end recess would arrive. Then next week, it would not get fairly under way until the Christmas holiday adjournment would again interrupt. The court, prosecution and defense therefore agreed that postponement would be desirable. So Montgomery will have neither the relief of acquittal nor the horror of a possible death penalty to face on his Christmas. Montgomery, keeper of the California Gun club, near Westminster, is accused of murdering Orrie E. Mahon and John D. Calicot, Sunset Beach duck hunters. He claims he shot them in self defense. RICHES TAKE FLIGHT An old lady living in Orange county owned $50,000 in stock of a well-known utility company. She was, in receipt of a comfortable income for life. She met a high-powered salesman who induced her to dispose of her stock and invest in a corporation promising unheard-of dividends. She has lost her money and is in a pitilable plight. Similar cases of this nature are reported, and the high-powered salesmen seem to be operating in green pastures. He also reported that no appointment had been made to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of W. J. McGillivary. The council received a petition from C. F. and H. M. Hobson, O. T. Callor and W. J. Elliott asking that the city attorney be instructed to make changes in the garage ordinance in compliance years ago regarding a garage on South Vine street, owned by the Hobsons. City Attorney George F. Holden stated that the zoning ordinance recently adopted had repealed the garage ordinance, and the council referred the petitioners to the city planning commission. Police Chief J. S. Bouldin, as license collector, reported $384 received from the sale of business licenses, and $4 from the sale of dog tags during November. Deputy Comptroller W. J. Lake reported collections in his department during the current period as follow: Light, $9570.04; water, $4416.35; power, $2785.55; total, $16,771.94. The reports of City Treasurer Chas Boege and City Clerk E. B. Merritt showed a total of $232,763.54 in the treasury December 13. Of this amount $133,481.54 was in the general fund. Police Judge Eldon W. Stark reported 32 cases handled in his court during November. Total fines collected were g$754.89. Motor vehicle violators contributed $200.51, one Wright act violator $100 and local liquor ordinance violators $224.38. V. W. Hannum, electrical inspector, reported 15 electric light wire, four electric power, and eleven electric light fixture permits issued during November. Fees collected totalled $55.60. Building Inspector R. Nyble reported 18 permits issued during November with a valuation of $46.875. Total fees collected from the issuance of permits-were $181.40. City Librarian Elizabeth Calnon reported receipts of $118.90 and expenses of $2612.09 during November. There is $16,543.80 remaining in the library fund, the report stated. Work in e Junior Colle Bouquets were misoccuously at for the Santa Ana iron squadron lected as many mentor for the occasion the football seasporty to record and look Coach Cook praise for the during the pass ball the most p point of the didates for the breaking attendee This year's not so much championship spirit of the Da said. VALUE OF ORANGE COUNTY'S CROPS IN 1927 Orchard Crops.....$32,854,852.53 Truck Crops.....2,122,910.00 Field Crops.....3,815,750.63 NUMBER 9 INMENTS STAGED 24 Applicants Granted Final Citizen Rights Orange county has 24 new American citizens, pledged to support the constitution and in possession of the privileges of citizenship. The new Americans were given their final citizenship late Monday in Superior Judge E. J. Marks' court after they had been questioned by Examiner Terrell, for the government. Thirty-one prospective citizens appeared when the proceedings began and all but seven were successful in reaching the goal. Some of the remaining seven still are eligible to apply for citizenship at a later date. Those who passed the test Monday were James A. Francey, Robert Fernandez, James Riddell, Anses Joseph, Christ Knezevich, Otto Fellbaum, Charles A. Andres/Ephrian Felmstein, Guissoppe Belladino, George H. Strachan, Alfonso Sacz, Charles H. Kerr, Adeline Curtis, John Skinner, Mrs. Ellen Powell, Clara Yazell, Peter R. Kendrick, Hilting V. Ekberg, Horace Messenger, Mrs. Hulda Stark, Geert R. Riewald, Robert M. Dandy, Ivar Pohjanlehto and Mrs. Anna Heinze. LAMB FINISHES COLLECTION OF TAXES COMPLETES JOB AND TURNS MONEY OVER TO COUNTY AUDITOR WEDNESDAY Largest Tax Roll in County's History Handled By Collector's Office. But Last Few Days Were Strenuous Ones; Between $4,000,000 and $5,-000,000 Paid to Jerome Wednesday; Not Many Delinquents Orange county's tax roll this year was the largest in the county's history, and Tax Collector J. C. Lamb and his corps of assistants have been feverishly active in handling the vast amount of individual payments with which the office has been swamped. They wound up their huge task Wednesday, turning the last of the money collected over to County Auditor W. C. Jerome, and now they are able to Christmas Pageant At White Temple "Star of the Dawn" to Be Rendered By the Chorus Choir A Christmas Pageant by Ian Alexander (The Century Co.) will be given next Sunday evening, December 23, 1928, at seven-thirty, at White Temple Methodist church by the large chorus choir, assisted by various members of the congregation. About fifty persons will appear in oriental garb and the presentation is greatly anticipated. The Pageant is just off the press and has never before been given. The music is exceedingly beautiful and its interpretative power in visualizing the wondrous story of the Nativity is marked. Choir director, Percy W. Olds, is in charge and has given close attention to the preparation for the event. The following comprise the cast: Angel Gabriel—Fred C. Edwards. Mary—Mrs. Paul H. Domaree. Joseph—Paul H. Demaree. Simeon—N. R. Phillips. Evangellist—Robert M. Bolmer. Guardians—Marion Shafer, Lloyd Riutcel, Elvin Recknor, Sam J. Walker. Heralds—Donald Baum, Edwin Osher. Howard West, Donald West, William Hansen, George Bungay. Priests—D. Lyman Harpster, E. A. Collins, H. W. Lewis, Harold C. Bircher, A. L. Knipe, Dr. W. N. Palmer, Ira E. Wells. Angels—Mrs. C. Z. Yonge, Mrs. A. L. Knipe, Miss Mary Alice Grimshaw, Mrs. J. E. Rymer, Mrs. C. W. Steninger, Mrs. Alta C. Peck, Mrs. C. H. West, Mrs. Fred C. Edwards, Mrs. Percy W. Olds, Miss Margaret Wells. Wise Men—George H. Tedrick, C. H. Eygabroad, Perry W. Mathis. Wise Men's Retinue—Raymond Cheatum, Winston Shaver, Gilby Cheatum. Children of Various Nations—Mary Margaret Yonge, Marjorie Edwards, Bessie Edwards, Ruth Rymer, Kathine and Ellen Collins, Kathleen Demaree, Gawels Nichols, Margaret Nichols, Valera Brownell. Six Shepherds—Same as the Heralds. Director of Pageant—Percy W. Olds. Organist—Miss Ethel Phillips. Violinist—Lewis Romoff. Director of Staining—Miss Madeline Conover. Director of Costuming—Mrs. Harriet Strevel. Orange county's tax roll this year was the largest in the county's history, and Tax Collector J. C. Lamb and his corps of assistants have been feverishly active in handling the vast amount of individual payments with which the office has been swamped. They wound up their huge task Wednesday, turning the last of the money collected over to County Auditor W. C. Jerome, and now they are able to breathe easier. These collections have gradually but steadily increased from year to year, but this year far surpasses all former years. According to Lamb, 25,000 letters were received on the last three days and Wednesday the last one was checked. Lamb was charged with collecting $5.,910,803.34 and the collection for the first payments of the year amounted to 65 per cent of this figure, he said. This included personal property taxes brought in through the office of County Assessor James Sleeper. The final settlement with Jerome marks the end of the largest collection ever made in the county's history and the amount turned over will run between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000. Lamb saw evidence of considerable activity in real estate in this year's tax returns. Many transfers of property had been made since last year, he said, pointing out that many of the transactions were trades. The flood of letters on the last three days was larger this year than ever before. Lamb said, and made the final checking up of the collections one of the biggest jobs ever handled by his office. Delinquencies will not be greater this year than before; he stated although many people avoided delinquency just at the last minute. Settlements have been made at various times as the money came in; he said, and the one made yesterday represents only the last of the payments made through the mail. Funeral Services For William Stark Funeral services for Ex-Mayor William Stark were held at the parlor of Backs, Terry & Campbell Saturday afternoon, with Rev. H.G. Schmilzer, pastor of Zion Lutheran church, delivering the oration. Hundreds of friends crowded the chapel to pay a last tribute to the man who had been a prominent figure in the city's affairs for many years past. The body was laid to rest in the mausoleum in Anaheim cemetery. The services were attended by Kiwanis in a body; the deceased having been a member of that club. The pall-bearers were Homer Armes, F.A.Yungbluth, Fred Koesel, Frank N.Gibbs, Chas.H.Mann and Godfrey Stock. Coach Bill Cook Gets Bouquets Work in etaoin Santa Ana Junior College Eleven Lauded Bouquets were tossed rather promiscuously at the football banquet held for the Santa Ana Junior college gridiron squadron Thursday night in the school cafeteria, but none present collected as many as did Coach Bill Cook, mentor for the Don football team. The occasion was the final event of the football season, furnishing an opportunity to review the past season's record and look forward to next. Coach Cook received high words of praise for the work that he has done during the past year in making football the most popular of any year both in point of the large number of candidates for the squad and the record-breaking attendance at the games. This year's success was measured not so much by the laurels won in championship titles, as by the fighting spirit of the Don gridmen. Coach Cook said. Better Reception Of Frost Warnings Many growers have had difficulty in securing the minimum temperature forecasts from the radio broadcast of KHJ each evening at 7:55 p.m., since their recent change in wave length, according to Farm Advisor Harold E. Wahlberg. This complaint has been quite general throughout Orange county, especially since the cold weather has arrived and almost every orchardist in the exposed districts is intent upon these nightly reports. It is suggested that all growers who are having difficulty in this reception, with respect to clarity, volume and interference, should write to KHJ, the Don Lee Station, Los Angeles, and report their difficulty. Any change to correct the difficulty will be made easier if the Station has on file a general complaint from growers all over Southern California, which may be submitted in the hearing before the radio commission. Such vital reports to the agricultural industry should be given a wave length favorable to general clear reception: A California crusader advocates "axes for night clubs." But it is our opinion that, having gotten hardened to night club liquor, the patrons of the average club wouldn't mind a little thing like a battle axe.