anaheim-gazette 1931-07-23

Citizen Groups, Engineers Speed Metropolitan Aqueduct Build Above: Frank E. W. Metropolitan Water chief engineer, who the 266-mile Colorado Aqueduct. Upper core drilling crew ing rock formations line of the 13-mile cinto tunnel, longer the state-spanning Lower left: Map Aqueduct route from rado River to 15 member-cities. The duit will carry a b lons of water da relieving the tr drain on this region dropping wells. With Citizens Colorado River Water Committees actively at work today in member cities of the Metropolitan Water District urging immediate Colorado River Aqueduct construction, District engineering crews are engaged along the far flung conduit route to determine precisely the location of the line. As an important move in the organization of active support of immediate construction, the various citizens committees are now mailing out, to residents of the District, thousands of cards asking for prompt action. These endorsement cards are being signed and sent back in vast numbers by Southern California citizens, the committee announces. The Metropolitan Aqueduct, with its intake in the Colorado River at Parker, will sweep through and over mountain ranges and across vast deserts on the way to its goal in Southern California, where fifteen towns have joined together in the gigantic undertaking of salvaging a portion of the gallonage that annually runs, wasted, into the sea. The picture above shows men sinking a test hole beneath the line of San Jacinto tunnel. This and similar drilling under the direction of gineer Frank E. Wee Metropolitan Water Diving the underground trackless wastes which traversed by the huge conduit that is to carry River water into South where water levels are an alarming rate. Affairs of Week at Nation’s Capital (Correspondence to The Gazette) WASHINGTON, D. C.—One fallacy that dates back to the founding of the Republic has been exploded—the idea that American diplomats are no match for European statesmen. The world has been treated to the spectacle of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, a Pittsburgh banker and iron magnate, handling, on more than even terms, the delicate negotiations involved in the debt holiday. Practically every other country but France was won over to the plan before Mellon left this country. France alone proved obdurate and entrenched itself behind its Chamber of Deputies, which Premier Laval asserted, had authorized him to agree only within certain limitations. Mellon's success in threading his way past these defences has strengthened the Administration's hold politically, as it is known that he was guided throughout by President Hoover's personal advice. The negotiations have been conducted more skillfully, perhaps, than any deal made with a foreign government since the days when Benjamin Franklin was Minister to the Court of France and enlisted its aid for the American colonies. Led by Vice-president Curtis and Senator Capper, the two leading politicians from the wheat belt, an attack is being made on the Federal Farm Board's announced policy of unloading its wheat at the rate of five million bushels a month, if found practicable actually represented the best thought of his party is being considered here as more than likely. It is to be noted that Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, now the most likely candidate against Mr. Hoover, studiously refrained from attending the rally. His action leaves him free to accept or reject Bower's dictum, which is that the coming campaign will be fought out strictly on the tariff issue. Ever since this country became a great manufacturing nation, some 75 years ago, the tariff question has dominated the platform in a majority of presidential campaigns. The free silver issue and Wilson's war stand alone put it into the background. The last really sharp tariff battle was in Cleveland's victory in 1892, which was followed by some lean years. Bower chose as his text the claims put out by the Hoover managers in 1928 that a high tariff meant prosperity. He said that voters had enjoyed plenty of time—between customers—since then to meditate upon the success of the tariff, charging that the high tariff has put a Chinese Wall around the country right at a time when it desperately needed foreign markets. Not a word was said about the prohibition issue or superpower. Bower's speech is accepted by the Democratic party as a competent expression of its aims it means that the farmers of the country are to be asked to vote for the Democratic ticket on the appeal that the high tariff has raised the price of everything they buy while it has not added a cent to his purchasing power. Russian wheat and cotton are selling below the price American farmers can raise them and the Democrats are expected to make this point their main bid for votes when the campaign starts. Bowers' speech before the Texas conference approved by D. Beyer before it was given, it been made. Anaheim Guide Leave for Entrance Company K, 185th National Guard, w name of the Anaheim up kit and baggage at urday night for the at San Luis Obispo. Before the soldier attended a dinner at which was also attend alds and many other The company left bushes for Santa A joined the rest of the Headed by the Anahe and Bugle Corps, tha to the Pacific Electric they boarded the big Angeles, there to join company of San Ben Angeles units. The Anaheim comp men, under command with R. E. Ellott as lieutenants. It w battallions which left a special Southern Pa arrived at the sta morning. The encampment on August 1. Huge Mileage By Po Seven round trips equal the distance trie seven years of operation highway patrol service Led by Vice-president Curtis and Senator Capper, the two leading politicians from the wheat belt, an attack is being made on the Federal Farm Board's announced policy of unloading its wheat at the rate of five million bushels a month, if found practicable without breaking the price. Many observers here see in their activity only a political gesture, designed to bring the two men more into the limelight. These critics point out that the Farm Board is committed against any action that would result in materially lowering the price of wheat. It has the problem of selling its holdings at an average price of 92 cents and the present price is less than half that on the Chicago Board of Trade. The effect of an appeal to Mr. Hoover to stop the Board from unloading its holdings cannot amount to much, it is said here, as wheat will have to approximate $1 a bushel before the government can start selling. The Farm Board's selling campaign is definitely hooked up with a plan to purchase fresh wheat to the amount of its sales. All transactions will be handled so as not to depress the market price unless the world price should rise, and none will be made without consulting representatives of the farmers. It is generally conceded here that the Board's statement is an ultimatum to all wheat farmers, warning them the government cannot aid them unless they reduce their wheat acreage. It is also taken as a warning to private grain traders that the Board will not allow itself to be "smoked out" into a definite announcement regarding prices, which would permit traders to jockey the market for their own selfish purposes. Tammany may be condemned for a thousands sins but it never has been accused of pussy-footing. Republican politicians here are trying to puzzle out whether Claude G. Bowers, the keynote orator at the Democratic National Convention in 1928, has not again sounded the call to battle in his Fourth of July speech at the Tammany Wigwam in New York City. That his speech Fastest Thing on Rails German inventors have devised the above "Zeppelin" powered by an air propeller as an answer to the air passengers. It cuts time schedules in half and can do 130 s Speed uct Building Above: Frank E. Weymouth, Metropolitan Water District chief engineer, who will build the 266-mile Colorado River Aqueduct. Upper left: A core drilling crew determining rock formations along the line of the 13-mile San Jacinto tunnel, longest one on the state-spanning route. Lower left: Map showing Aqueduct route from Colorado River to 15 District member-cities. The giant conduit will carry a billion gallons of water daily, thus relieving the tremendous drain on this region's rapidly dropping wells. ory year represents an average of nearly 475,000 miles of travel annually. The total mileage traveled by the fleet of cars during the seven years approximate 3,300,000 miles, during which time more than 70,000 motorists in trouble on main roads were aided by the "Good Samaritans of the Highway." Farms and Houses For War Veterans Investments in farms and homes for World War veterans by the California Veterans' Welfare Board during the month of June exceeded any previous month by $200,000 according to James K. Fisk, state adjutant of the American Legion. During the month 220 farms and homes were purchased by the board costing $1,500,225, bringing the total investments in property throughout the state up to $41,000,000. "Every county in the state has benefited by the Veteran Farm and Home Act," says Fisk. "In total investments Los Angeles county leads with $12,770,000; Alameda county is second with $5,945,000 and San Francisco third with $5,234,000. Investments by the board in Sacramento county amount to $3,-285,000; San Joaquin, $1,182,000; Fresno county, $1,107,000 and San Diego county, $1,042,000. "These loans to veterans have encouraged them to a more responsible citizenship by making them property owners and have developed in them a greater interest in the welfare of the state and community. This huge investment of $41,000,000 is not costing California one cent and is bringing untold benefit to the State. The average cost of each home is $4,736 and of each farm $5,506." Sunblotch Disorder In Avacodo Trees "Sunblotch," a peculiar disorder affecting avocado trees, causing the tree and its fruit to become deformed, has been the subject of a thorough and painstaking investigation on the parts of William T. Horne and E. R. Parker The picture above shows a crew of men sinking a test hole in the mountain above the line of the 13-mile San Jacinto tunnel. By means of this and similar drilling operations under the direction of Chief Engineer Frank E. Weymouth, the Metropolitan Water District is solving the underground secrets of trackless wastes which must be traversed by the huge man-made conduit that is to carry the Colorado River water into Southern California where water levels are dropping at an alarming rate. Anaheim Guardsmen Leave for Encampment Company K, 185th Infantry, California National Guard, which is the official name of the Anaheim company, packed up kit and baggage and departed Saturday night for the state encampment at San Luis Obispo. Before the soldiers departed, they attended a dinner at the City Park, which was also attended by city officials and many other friends. The company left in Motor Transit buses for Santa Ana, where they joined the rest of the Third battalion. Headed by the Anaheim Legion Drum and Bugle Corps, the battalion marched to the Pacific Electric station, where they boarded the big red cars for Los Angeles, there to join the machine gun company of San Bernardino and Los Angeles units. The Anaheim company numbers 62 men, under command of Capt. Love, with K. E. Ellott and Kenneth Peck as lieutenants. It was a unit in two battalions which left Los Angeles on a special Southern Pacific train, which arrived at the state camp Sunday morning. The encampment will end on August 1. Huge Mileage Made By Patrol Cars Seven round trips to the moon would equal the distance traveled during the seven years of operation of the fleet of highway patrol service cars of the Automobile Club of Southern California. Sunblotch Disorder In Avacodo Trees "Sunblotch," a peculiar disorder affecting avocado trees, causing the tree and its fruit to become deformed, has been the subject of a thorough and painstaking investigation on the parts of William T. Horne and E. R. Parker of the Citrus Experiment Station at Riverside. The subject will be presented in the near future in an issue of the Monthly News, published by the State Department, in an attempt to show how to detect this stock in the nursery and to show the great danger in propagation from "sunblotched" stock. The subject will be well illustrated. G. K. Chesterton says American villages have no picturesque public inn. Praps not, but we've got to admit they have filling stations that look as pretty as the Bank of England. The first time Billy Beavers of Oklahoma City ever threw a hook in the ocean she hooked an eleven-pound barracuda and a few minutes later pulled in another big fellow weighing 14 pounds. Here she is pictured with the two mammoth barracuda on the Olympic fishing barge at Hermosa Beach, where the lucky strikes were made. But for Him Lightning strikes in this goes out! But your service DISPATCHER...Reports action. Instantly, new cu aware of the crisis that n So dependable is today trical service that we s Huge Mileage Made By Patrol Cars Seven round trips to the moon would equal the distance traveled during the seven years of operation of the fleet of highway patrol service cars of the Automobile Club of Southern California. This is one of the outstanding features in a summary of the road service on the seventh anniversary of its establishment, the club announces. 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