anaheim-gazette 1929-10-31

ITS MANY ATTRACTIONS Make Anaheim a city eminently desirable for home and industry alike, California's climate, Orange county soil, and its own progressiveness make it "one in a million." VOLUME LX FULLERTON BEGINS FILE PETITION FOR JOINT JUNIOR COLLEGE FULLERTON H. S. TRUSTEES PLACES MATTER BEFORE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Not Satisfied With Overwhelming Protests from the People of This City They are Determined to Force a Vote; Expected to Come to Showdown Within Two Months: Brea-Ollinda May Not Protest. Anaheim's protest against being forced into the Fullerton junior high school district, can now be signed and turned over to supervisors or county superintendent R. P. Mitchell. Following a conference with the Brea-Ollinda high school trustee and a meeting of the Dr. Weering Speaks To Men's Forum Club Talks on Junior College and Recommends County School Declaring that one good junior college is better than two junior colleges for Orange county and that he believes Santa Ana to have the best junior college in the state, Dr. S. J. Weersing, of the University of Southern California, addressed 150 men at the meeting of the Men's Forum Club in the White Temple Methodist church here Monday. Dr. Weersing, who is considered an authority on the junior college question, spoke on "The Place and Function of the Junior College." The speaker was introduced by the president of the club, Paul Dramarece. The expense per pupil in the small college as compared to the expense per pupil in larger college was explained by the speaker who said that in a small college of the state the expense was $1300 per pupil when it should be but $150. The junior college has a large place in the educational program of the state, said Dr. Weersing. Vocational training can be stressed to a better advantage than in the junior college than in the academic colleges, he declared. The newly appointed pastor of the church the Rev. R. W. Lee made his Anaheim's protest against being forced into the Fullerton junior high school district, can now be signed and turned over to supervisors or county superintendent R. P. Mitchell. Following a conference with the Brea-Olinda high school trustee and a meeting of the Fullerton board the petition asking the supervisors to form a Northern Orange County district was signed by the board and delivered to Supt. Mitchell Saturday morning by Principal L. E. Plummer. This leaves Anaheim free to file its protest. Many Brea-Olinda people are as much opposed to Fullerton's plan as Anaheim it is said, but high school board took no action. Mitchell is required to verify the petition and then present it to the supervisors for their approval. The supervisors may then post notices that petitions of protest, signed by at least 20 percent of the voters in each of the two districts petitioned must be submitted within a specified time. If the petitions of protest are filed, an election will be called to settle the matter. In event such petitions are not filed, the supervisors will then be required to act on the matter of forming the district. It is anticipated that action on the matter may be obtained within the next two months. Mitchell is said to have taken the stand that he did not believe it advisable for either Santa Ana or Fullerton junior college to act on the matter of petitioning a union district at the present time. At any rate he is opposed to the foundation of this district, but the law compels him, as well as the supervisors to act. After the supervisors have received the petition and acting in accordance with the new state law, set formal date for a public hearing, the Anaheim and Brea-Olinda districts will be allowed 10 days' time in which to file protest petitions which must bear the names of at least 20 percent of the registered voters in each district. If the petitions are not filed, the supervisors will call the new Northern Orange County Junior College district into being and appoint a temporary board of trustees. It was pointed out at the joint meeting that, whereas Brea-Olinda now has only 16 students in the Fullerton junior college and is payig approximately $6000 per year for their instruction, the yearly cost to the Brea-Olinda district under a union junior college plan would approximate $42,000 per year. Whether or not opposition will organize in the Brea-Olinda district to bring the matter to a vote could not be predicted by Trustee Cullen, who said that he did not believe that the board itself would take any such steps. "If the opposition is strong enough it will express itself," he said. Opposition in the Anaheim district is reported to be in his process of being Persimmon Crop Breaks all Records Nine Car Loads a Day Being Shipped by Association Nine cars of persimmons are being sent out each week by the Central Orange County Persimmon association, it was announced by J. M. Alcorn, head of the local organization, who stated that the association is working two crews a day to keep up with the rapidly maturing crop, which is at the peak of the season. One hundred persons, including 70 packers, are working in two shifts. The present crop, which is estimated at about 600 tons, is expected to be moved in about three weeks. The quality of the fruit this year is considerably better than of last season although the crop is lighter, with market conditions very favorable. In addition to the nine cars shipped to the north and east each week, many truck loads are taken direct from the local house to Los Angeles and San Diego markets. Two brands of fruit are being packed, with the Solid Gold as the best grade and the smaller fruit in the Possum brand. About 4500 12-pound packages of persimmons graded and wrapped by hand are turned out from the house each day with an average freight car holding 1760 packages. The Fullerton house, which takes fruit from growers as distant as Riverside, Monrovia, Sierra Madre and other points, is said to be the largest now packing persimmons in Southern California. The Fullerton plant, which is located on West Walnut avenue, pays out more than $1600 each week. Due to the newness of the industry, no effective machinery for grading has been devised, and the nature of the product demands that all packing and grading be done by hand. Campaign Now on For Christmas Seals Society Wants to Sell 3,500,000 only 16 students in the Fullerton junior college and is payig approximately $6000 per year for their instruction, the yearly cost to the Brea-Olinda district under a union junior college plan would approximate $42,000 per year. Whether or not opposition will organize in the Brea-Olinda district to bring the matter to a vote could not be predicted by Trustee Cullen, who said that he did not believe that the board itself would take any such steps. "If the opposition is strong enough it will express itself," he said. Opposition in the Anaheim district is reported to be in his process of being organized and a vote is expected, at least, in this district. The board of supervisors Tuesday set 2 p.m., December 17, as the time for hearing protests on formation of the proposed union junior college district embracing the Fullerton, Brea-Olinda and Anaheim high school districts. The date was set after County Superintendent of Schools R. P. Mitchell had filed a petition with the board in which creation of the district is requested by the Fullerton high school trustees. That citizens in he Anaheim district may seek to be excluded from the district was indicated today when William Maurhan, of Katella, sought information as to the procedure necessary to bring the matter to a vote of the people. It was stated that a petition, signed by 20 percent of he qualified voters, must be filed with the board by December 17 in order to bring about an election. ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH Saint Michael's Episcopal Church E. Adele, and Emily St. Rev. Charles E. Malmann, Rector Services Sunday, November 3rd. Holy Communion 8 a.m. Church School 9:30 a.m. Holy Communion and Sermon 11 a.m. The eleven o'clock service will be a Memorial Service to the late Rt. Rev. John Gardner Murray, D. D., Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in America. Bishop Murray passed away suddenly while presiding at a meeting of the House of Bishops, in Saint James Church, Atlantic City, October third. Friday, Nov. First, All Saints Day. There will be a service at Saint Michael's 10 a.m. Holy Communion. Campaign Now on For Christmas Seals Society Wants to Sell 3,500,000 in the County The Orange County Tuberculosis association will be responsible for the sale of 3,500,000 Christmas seals in Orange county this year, according to announcement by Harry A. Lake, president of the association. From this number, on the basis of one pointing out that the cash returns cent per seal, will be $35,000. Lake said that strenuous effort would be made by the organization to place this number in the county. He commented on the fast, however, that persons receiving seals in the mails are not limited to the payment of $1 per hundred, for he recalled that in past years many persons have remitted to the organization more than the sum required for the purchase of 100 stamps. The president said that the campaign for disposition of the allotment of seals would state on Nov. 29 and he gave emphasis to the fact that the proceeds will be expended upon the maintenance of the Children's Health camp, near Irvine park. The three and a half million seals allotted to the county have been received at headquarters here and receipt of the consignment unofficially marks the opening of the annual Christmas campaign for development of funds with which to maintain the battle against the development of tuberculosis in the county. According to New York most of the divorces that of nervousness caused by great city. Noise which side the house probably them, too. AHEIM GAZETTE Anaheim, California, Thursday, October 31, 1929 BEGINS ACTION TO FORCE FLOOD CONTROL DISCUSSED BY A.C. OF C. NEITHER OF TWO REPORTS SUBMITTED BY COMMITTEE ACCEPTED Majority Report, Recommending the Bailey Report Favoring Lower Prado Dam, Returned to County Wide Committee Asking a Conservation and Flood Control Plan be Submitted with Instructions. Flood control was the principal subject discussed at the monthly meeting of the Associated Chamber of Commerce at Huntington Beach Tuesday night. V. D. Johnson, secretary, opposed resubmission of the Bailey plan for Planning Body Will Be Named Soon By Board The board of supervisors soon will name a county planning commission, according to a report made at the Associated Chambers of Commerce meeting, Tuesday night, in Huntington Beach, by Dr. Walter Bigham, of Anaheim, chairman of the chambers committee named to urge appointment of a commission by the supervisors. President London announced appointment of Ross Shafer, Tustin; Ted Craig, Brea; Norman Blaney, Santa Ana; H. E. W. Barnes, Anaheim, and George Macleod, Newport, as a new fair grounds and recreation committee and instructed the committee to report at the next meeting some plan for a half-day recreational program for delegates and their families. ALL READY FOR HALLOWE’EN GARNIVAL EXPECTED 50,000 PEOPLE WILL SEE THE GREAT PARADE TONIGHT Merchants Vie With Each Other In Creating Attractive Window Displays; Decorations are Beautiful, Unique and Suggestive of the Season; Sheman Indian Band Will Help to Make Music. Seven Injured As Machines Collide Seven persons were slightly hurt in an automobile collision at the intersection of Ball road and Western avenue. Another M A new clue to an unidentified found, partially coop near Huntsville, developed when announced they person who sent the mails. The body, for bushes in the is without a heart opinion that affen cut out due they claimed to The heart was some jug which than the heart formation obtai Zabel from Calhomicide detail lico department ating with Orn the murder case. Details conceangle have not officers, in that where the heart and Cato is attribution from Lt. R. Rexw Angles police Monday workin and he and Za Flood control was the principal subject discussed at the monthly meeting of the Associated Chamber of Commerce at Huntington Beach Tuesday night. V. D. Johnson, secretary, opposed re submission of the Bailey plan for construction of a dam at the lower Prado site. This is the proposition that was defeated by the voters some months ago. A majority report by a committee appointed to investigate, favored this, while a minority report filed with the Chambers opposed it. The minority report was rejected and it was voted to refer to his majority report back to the county wide committee with a recommendation that the committee submit at the next meeting a resolution instructing the chambers what course to pursue in order to again present to the people a plan for water control and conservation. In effect the motion referring the report back to the committee intimated that the resolution should carry a recommendation that the board of supervisors employ engineers to reinvestigate sites in the Santa Ana river. The report was referred to the committee on motion of W. J. Carmichael of Fullerton. Final disposition of the vexing situation developed by presentation of two reports by the countywide committee—reports that brought forth fire remarks by a number of men when they were presented at the Yorba Linda meeting, last month—was made only after a long debate and considerable discussion as to parliamentary procedure in handling the reports placed on the table at the meeting a month ago. Discussions were featured by declaration of speakers that every possible effort should be made to produce a plan that would harmonize the county and care was taken by the speakers not to make assertions that might create a note of discord at the meeting or further widen the breach between the program of advancement, there must be site and those supporting the upper. Pointing out that co-operation has been the backbone of successful irrigation companies in Orange county, E. E. Campbell, chairman of the chambers county-wide special committee, said that if the county is to get anywhere in a flood control program, or any other program of advancement, these must be full co-operation by all sections. William O'Connor, of Los Alamitos, referred to the action in Los Angeles county, in which construction of the San Gabriel dam was referred back to a committee and engineers for further investigation, and instanced this action as a warning of the necessity of moving cautiously in Orange county in promoting a flood control program. Low Wallace, of Newport Beach, as Seven Injured As Machines Collide Seven persons were slightly hurt in an automobile collision at the intersection of Ball road and Western avenue Friday when cars driven by Charles W. Peters, Anaheim route one, and F. W. Hesse, 808 West Common wealth avenue, Fullerton crashed. The car driven by Peters was headed for the football game at Palo Alto, and was carrying A. L. Wolfert, John W. Campbell, L. Adams and A. B. Bittinger. Bittinger was from San Bernardino, the others all living on route one, Anaheim. In the collision, Peters' car was turned over. Warren Jeffery, of 407½ Amerige street, Fullerton, was the companion of Hesse. Injuries were confined to shock and bruises and minor cuts, with the exception of Bittinger, who received an injury to his car requiring several stitches, and Campbell, who received a wrenched back. GREATER FRUIT FLEET PLANNED (Exclusive)—Los Angeles and Southern California soon are to have a fleet of fruit ships of the most modern refrigerated type and with the last word engines for the direct shipment of California and west coast fruits direct to European ports. Six or eight vessels will be used in this service. The Shipping Board has compiled detailed reports on the shipment of California fruit through the Panama Canal and the aggregate figures show a phenomenal increase in these shipments from year to year. It is expected that private capital from the west coast will operate the proposed line. Both Commissioners Sandberg and Myers who represent the west coast on the Shipping Board have made an intensive study of the growth of the exports of California and west coast fruits and are convinced that the Shipping Board's Merchant Fleet Corporation will agree to the pla which will add greatly to the tonnage and activity of Los Angeles as a harbor and the prestige of Californian as a fruit-growing State. State Grain Men Going After Relief Without waiting for aid from state or nation, grain men of California are going after farm relief themselves, by studying problems of production, distribution, The sober colors of autumn are predominant in Anaheim tonight. The principal streets are proufusely decorated with banners, flags and streamers displaying the carnival colors, and most of the business men have exercised their ingenuity and created artistic and atractive windows. More than twenty of them entered the competition for prizes, and he judges have had a difficult job deciding between them. The parade starts at Five Points at 7:30 and swings east on Center. It will be two miles in length. Every entry in the long precession will be worth seeing, and it is expected that 50,000 people will line the streets to see it pass. The beautiful, the artistic, the comic and the ridiculous will march in review before the multitude. There will be plenty of music to enliven the occasion, as the Sherman Institute Indian band as well as all the bands in Anaheim have been engaged. The judges for the various contests have been named as follows: Store Windows—U. A. Martil of Long Beach, L. R. Chapman of Fullerton and J. A. Clayes principal of the Anaheim Union High School. Floats—E. E. Smith, H. A. Arthur and Mrs. Robert Marvin. Costumes—Mrs. Leonard Evans, Mrs. Henry Adams and H. A. Hawley. Mounts—Clyde Cromer, George F. Holden and William Wallop. Cash prizes totaling $90, and 30 valuable prizes in merchandise will compose the array of awards promised for winners in the masquerade parade. Donors of the cash prizes for floats and cars in the Anaheim and out-of-town division of parade entries include the Fox theater, Anaheim Chamber of Commerce, First National Bank, Anaheim National Bank, Southern Counties Bank, and he Anaheim Merchants association. Cash prizes were announced as follows: Anaheim Entry: Most beautiful float $15; most comical float, $15; best decorated car, $5; most conical car, $5. Out-of Town Entry: Most beautiful float, $15; most comical float, $15; best decorated car, $5; most conical car, $5; open entry, best conical unit, $10. Prizes for men and boys have been promised as follows: Best Looking Costume Worn by a man in the Parade: Conklin fountain pen, Kendrick's jewelry store; tie and suspenders, Jack Corn Men's Store; muffler, Lake Foreman and Clark Store. Most Comical Costume Worn by a Man in the Parade: Lounging robe, Stevens Van Engelen company; box of Men's hose, Little Clothing Store; billfold, Wiseman's Jewelry Store. Best Looking Costume Worn by Boy in Parade: Sweater, J. C. Penny company; pocket knife, Hardware Hardware E. Campbell, chairman of the chambers county-wide special committee, said that if the county is to get anywhere in a flood control program, or any other program of advancement, these must be full co-operation by all sections. William O'Connor, of Los Alamitos, referred to the action in Los Angeles county, in which construction of the San Gabriel dam was referred back to a committee and engineers for further investigation, and instanced this action as a warning of the necessity of moving cautiously in Orange county in promoting a flood control program. Lew Wallace, of Newport rt Beach, asserted his belief that expenditure of $1,500,000 in Santiago canyon in adding flood control to the water conservation program of the John H. Carpenter and Serrano Water companies and the Irvine company virtually would eliminate the danger from excessive flood damage by the river. He declared that never has there been a sign of danger from the Santa Ana river until the flood waters of Santiago creek entered the river. H. A. Lake, of Garden Grove, advised members to refrain from criticizing public officials in the county, declaring that it would have a tendency to keep capital out of Orange county. Harry H. Hale, of Placentia, who precipitated some of the "fireworks" at the Yorba Linda meeting speaking as a member of the advisory board of the chambers, urged harmony in the county, same discussion of the reports of the and offered his support to the resolution and offered his support to the resolution proposed to be submitted by Johnson. At the conclusion of discussion on the reports, Chairman Campbell gave notice that there would be a meeting of the county-wide committee in the office of the Orange County Farm bureau in Sanata Ana, at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 21. According to New York statisticians most of the divorces there are the result of nervousness caused by the din of the great city. Noise which originates inside the house probably causes a few of them, too. State Grain Men Going After Relief Without waiting for aid from state or nation, grain men of California are going after farm relief themselves, studying problems of production, distribution and marketing. The Agricultural Extension Service, in issuing this statement, says that growers of Butte, Sutter, Kings, San Luis Obispo, Riverside, and Orange, and other counties have joined in the move. "The grain men are studying ways and methods of handling their grain in bulk because they know that by so doing their net income will be increased by an average of 20 cents per sack," says J. E. Coke, Extensior Spesialist in Agronomy, who was in conference here last week with the Farm Advisor's office and Grain Growers Department of the Farm Bureau. "They are introducing varieties of grain which will produce the highest yields per acre and the best quality their ranches can grow. The improvement of soil conditions by better summer fallowing, use of fertilizers, reduction of disease by seed treatment, better knowledge of marketing by use of federal grades, raising of higher quality grain by use of pure seed and better methods of seed recleaning, are problems which these grain growers are earnestly endeavoring to solve in order to increase yield per acre and to cut cost of production. "The men realize that grain in the United States is on an exporting basis and that the prices of wheat and barley are therefore determined by a world market. They also know that production of grain is increasing in the world and that unless they are able to reduce costs and to market a product of better quality in a less expensive way, they cannot hope to compete with other countries in the grain production business." Prizes for men and boys have been promised as follows: Best Looking Costume Worn by a man in the Parade; Conklin fountain pen; Kendrick's jewelry store; tie and suspenders; Jack Corn Men's Store; muffler; Lake Foreman and Clark Store. Most Comical Costume Worn by a man in the Parade; Lounging robe; Stevens Van Engelen company; box of Men's hose; Little Clothing Store; billfold; Wiseman's Jewelry Store. Best Looking Costume Worn by Boy in Parade; Sweeper, J. C. Penny company; pocket knife; Marten Hardware Store; trumpet bugle; Knippe Music Store. Most Comical Costume Worn by a boy; bat and indoor ball; Wisser Sporting Goods Store; flash light and battery; Anhelm-Electric Co. Best Mounted Anaheim Man Entered in Parade; Coat sweater, S. Q. R. Store; robe and slippers to match. F. A. Yungbluth. Best Out-of-Town Man Entered in Parade: Brief case, Weber Book Store; Hickok belt and buckle, and tie. J. & N. Shop. Prizes for women and girls will include following: Most Beautiful Costume Worn by Lady: Lingerie, Haber's Specialty Shop; box of Gordon hosiery; Mary Millerick; electric curling iron; Holland Electric company. Most Comical Costume Worn by lady: Luncheon set; Falkenstein's Department Store; wool blanket; Hefellingser's; box of chiffon hose; Karl's Shoe Store. Most beautiful costume worn by a girl: $10 banjo ukulele, Waller's Music Shop; box of chiffon hose, Morris Shop. Most Comile Costume Worn by a girl: Box of chiffon hose, Brown Blit Shoe Store; pair of shoes from choice of $10 stock, Boyle's Boots. Best Mounted Anaheim Lady in Parade: Boudoir lamp, Diana Gift Shop; bedroom slippers and spans, Hunt & Tellam Shoe Store. Best Mounted Out-of-Town Lady in Parade: Colored etching in gold leaf frame, Spencer's Store; handpainted geogette scarf. The Morris Shop; box of chiffon hosiery. Economy Shoe Store. Candidate For Southern Calif ground force Several potter error are taken in Southern Calif for the forthcoming Governor State Controller trust Attorney Y governor Y active part in course. But And these include ot public welfh of the california organizing "Y all over the state Controller Y retain candidates could make him MEN AND WOMEN Both find THE NEWS REVIEW a great assistance for learning what's doing in Southern California. They know its accuracy in detail, terseness in presentation. Number 5 ORGE ELECTION Another Clue to Muder Mystery A new clue to the mysterious murder of an unidentified man, whose body was found, partially mutilated, in a chicken coop near Huntington Beach on October 6, developed when the Sacramento police announced they were on the trail of a person who sent a human heart through the mails. The body, fouled lying in a clump of bushes in the isolated chicken yard, was without a heart, and officers were of the opinion that after death, the heart had been cut out during an operation which they claimed took place after death. The heart was contained in a brown stone jug which was not much larger than the heart itself, according to information obtained today by Herman Zabel from Captain Ray Cato, of the homicide detail of the Los Angeles police department, who has been co-operating with Orange county officers on the murder case. Details concerning the Sacramento angle have not been made clear to officers, in that they do not know yet where the heart was sent or from where, and Cato is attempting to get more information from Sacramento. Lt. R. Rexwelch, chemist of the Los Angeles police department, was here Monday working on the murder case and he and Zabel together with Sheriff CITY FIGHTING IN COURT TO SAVE GENERATOR CASE OPENED TUESDAY BEFORE SAN DIEGO JUDGE SITTING FOR AMES Mr. and Mrs. Carl Timme and Mr. and Mrs. George Fendley Declare the Vibration from the Plant is Wrecking Their Homes and Injuring Their Health; Asking Total of $44,-500 in Damages. The complaint registered some months ago by residents in the vicinity of the municipal power plant, has finally reached the superior court, and a battle for damages is being waged by two families. The new generator installed recently is the cause of all the trouble. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Timme and State Leads World in Cars Orange County Makes Notable Showing and Great Increase Fifteen years ago California road horseback. The new-fangled gas-wagons were just coming into general use. In the whole state there were only 123,000 of them. Today, however, California leads the whole world in proportion of automobiles to pupulation, and every state in the union in number of vehicles. There is one motor vehicle for every two persons of population. An interesting comparison may be made of statistics released this week by Marshall A. Page, chief clerk of the Division of Motor Vehicles, and Dixwell L. Pierce, secretary of the State Board of Equalization. Back in 1914, these figures showed, California citizens still relied on Old Dobbin for locomotion. Then there were 123,516 automobiles and 317,400 horses in the state. Today—witness the change: Total automobiles, 1,859,523; horses, 192,683. And Orange county hasn't been behind in the procession, either! The same figures show this county in 1914 with 3,761 automobiles and 7,612 horses. In 1929 the county's automobile registration was 46,145 as compared to 3,500 horses. "California's passenger cars alone take the entire population of the state 'joy riding,' " declared Page. "There wold be room to take along the populations of Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Wyoming and possibly Idaho as guests." It was May 5, 1905, barely 20 years after Gottlieb Daimler's invention of the internal combustion motor, that motor vehicle history began officially in California. On that date the first car, a White steamer, was registered by Secretary of State Charles F. Curry, now a congressman. The registrant was John D. Spreckels, well-known California capitalist and sugar magnate, who paid $2 as his fee and was assigned a number. Then there were only about 80,000 automobiles in the world. "In less than two years more than information obtained today by Herman Zabel from Captain Ray Cato, of the homicide detail of the Los Angeles police department, who has been co-operating with Orange county officers on the murder case. Details concerning the Sacramento angle have not been made clear to officers, in that they do not know yet where the heart was sent or from where, and Cato is attempting to get more information from Sacramento. Lt. R. Rexwelch, chemist of the Los Angeles police department, was here Monday working on the murder case and he and Zabel together with Sheriff Sam Jernigan again went to the place where the man's body was found. Rexwelch took back to Los Angeles with him, some of the dirt from the spot where the body was found, for analysis. The complaint registered some months ago by residents in the vicinity of the municipal power plant, has finally reached the superior court, and a battle for damages is being waged by two families. The new generator installed recently is the cause of all the trouble. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Timme and Mr. and Mrs. George Fendley have brought suit for damages to the amount of $44,500. They allegue that the vibration of the plant is causing less of sleep, undermining their health and wrecking their homes. The city denies that the plant is a nuisance, and points out that it is saving the taxpayers from $2000 to $5000 per year. The case opened Tuesday in Judge Ames court with Judge Marsh of San Diego on the bench. Ames being a resident of Anaheim traded jobs with the southern jurist, and is holding court at San Diego this week. The trial opened Tuesday with Mrs. Timme as the first witness. That the vibration of he generator cracked the plaster in her home and prevents her from sleeping at night, was the statement of Mrs. Timme. She testified that she has lost weight from worry over the situation. Her testimony was brought out under examination by plaintiffs attorneys. Under cross-examination by F. C. Drumm, associated with defense counsel with City Attorney George F. Holden. Mrs. Timme admitted that on one occasion when Mayor L. E. Miller and another city representative had interviewed her, they had visited the generating plant, and that it was necessary to open the doors of the plant before she could hear the generator in operation. The plaintiffs, in their complaint, claimed the plant made "loud and unusual noises." Mrs. Timme told Drumm that the situation is worse now than when the plant first started, October 1, 1928. The defense questioned Mrs. Timme extensively regarding the extent of disturbance or annoyance caused by heavy trucks lumbering along the state highway in front of her home, or the railway trains switching in the yards a few feet away. These did not annoy her, she said. Mrs. Timme and her husband, Carl Timme, demand $15,000 for alleged depreciation of their property by reason of the plant's proximity; $1000 for actual damages to their house, and $2000 each for discomfort and loss of health, making a total of $20,000. George Fendley and his wife, Eva, demanded $20,000 for property depreciation; $500 for actual damage to their house and $2000 each for discomfort and loss of health, making a total claim of $24,500. he realizes, as do his friends, that to make a real contest Southern California must present a united front with one Candidates Out For Governorship Southern California Counties Battleground for Next Years Election Several potential candidates for governor are taking each other's measure in Southern California, the battleground for the forthcoming primary election. They are Governor C. C. Young, former governor Friend W. Richardson, State Controller Ray L. Riley, and District Attorney Buron R. Pitts. Governor Young is not taking any active part in politics right now, of course. But his close associates are. And these include Bert B. Meek, director of public works, most active in behalf of the executive, and Secretary Frank C. Jordan, who's running around compiling the new state Blue Book and organizing "Young for Governor" clubs all over the state. Controller Riley is a virtually certain candidate, and only a miracle could make him change his mind. But Timme, demand $15,000 for alleged depreciation of their property by reason of the plant's proximity; $1000 for actual damages to their house, and $2000 each for discomfort and loss of health, making a total of $20,000. George Fendley and his wife, Eva, demanded $20,000 for property depreciation, $500 for actual damage to their house and $2000 each for discomfort and loss of health, making a total claim of $24,500. he realizes, as do his friends, that to make a real contest Southern California must present a united front with one candidate. Riley hopes that candidate will be Riley, and Fitts would like it to be Fitts. Always in the background bulks the formidable form of Friend W. Richardson. A strategist of no mean ability, he may even withdraw and throw his support to Fitts, whom he has long wanted to be a candidate for governor. Or he may go along, regardless of how many candidates are out. Rumors that Congressman Phil D. Swing, of El Centro, would be in the race appear to be unfounded. It is extremely unlikely that he would oppose such a friend of Senator Hiram W. Johnson as Governor Young. Then, too, there is the possibility that in 1932, Swing may want to be a candidate for United States senator himself. Who's who for lieutenant governor is a question that is giving Sacramento deputers some concern. Lieutenant Governor H. L. Carnahan is a sure bet as running mate of Governor Young. Senator H. C. "Skip" Nelson, of Eureka, is linked with Controller Riley, and Speaker Edgar C. Levey with Fitts. But before the slate-makers start selecting lieutenant governor material they first must agree upon their candidates for governor. And that, apparently, is something they haven't done, at least up to the present. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Neff of San Marino, were in Anaheim during the week on a business and pleasure trip. Mrs. J. B. Rae, Mrs. J. R. Minor, of Brea, and Miss E. Kate Rae spent several days the past week at Idyllwild.