anaheim-gazette 1934-01-11

THE GAZETTE Is Now In Its 64th Year OLDEST PAPER IN THE COUNTY 108 NORTH EMILY STREET VOL. LXIV ALL QUIET NOW AS MILK STRIKE IN COURT STAGE Picketers Lose First Round of Legal Battle as Attorney Warned for Contempt All is quiet on the Orange county milk front late this week, as threatened strikes settle down to the court stage, with a growing demand for deportation of communist fomenters. Causualties of the "red" war against the milk industry consist of one injured agitator, Lawrence Palmer, who was slightly wounded when shot in the leg by Ted Wakeham of the Raitt dairy, near Garden Grove, Monday. Palmer 31, and Andy Swiersta, 23, Los Angeles milkers, appeared shortly after 2 a.m. Monday at the Raitt dairy where by threats and argument had kept a group of milkers from going to work. The agitators refused to leave the premises of the dairy when warned by guards to do so, with the consequence that Wakeman, son of the manager of the dairy, shot Palmer in the leg. No serious difficulty arose in Orange county. Several strikers walked out of a Los Alamitos dairy, but their places were quickly filled by other workers. In Los Angeles county, however, the milk war did not pass as peacefully. Eight milkers were beaten with lemmets at Hynes by strikers and several diff- Anaheim Citrus Fruit Nine Directors at Annual Meeting On Wednesday First of three member associations of the Central Orange County Citrus Exchange to hold annual meetings on consecutive days, the Anaheim Citrus Fruit association Wednesday met at its packing house and elected the following nine directors: O. E. Steward, S. C. Harttranft, Fred H. Zaiser, J. J. Dwyer, C. R. Hoskins, D. D. Waynick, L. W. Eaton, B. L. Chandler, and D. Lyman Harpster. The board will hold its organization meeting Friday at 9 a.m. L. W. Eaton was president during the last year. Manager Carl Monahan made his annual report, discussed problems which the association faced, and took up questions of pool arrangements, which by vote of the members was referred to the board of directors for solution. Considerable discussion centered on a proposal to eliminate the four pools and substitute a season pool. Members of the Orange and Lemon association gathered Thursday morning at the association packing house for their annual meeting. No information concerning the gathering, however, was available before press time. The Community Growers will meet Friday, while the exchange will hold its annual meeting at its headquarters in the Kraemer building on February 12. The fourth member of the exchange, Scott and Borden, is privately owned and holds no annual meeting. Tax Collections Prove Very Good Although there was a delinquency of 11.71 per cent on the first installment of taxes due on December 5, 1933, County Tax Collector John C. Lamb turned 52.6 per cent of the total of $4,269,757.96 over to County Auditor William Lambert. This paradox is explained by the fact that a large number of taxpayers chose to pay both installments at one time, thus bringing the total first half payments to more than 50 per cent of the total tax bill, overcoming the delinquency of nearly 12 per cent. Lamb anticipates a very light delinquency in the second half installment, saying that most delinquency shows up in the first collection. The actual amount collected for the first installment was $2,581,783.08. Award Contracts on Sewer Extension Ganahl-Grim Lumber company was Kaufman, on the ground of malfeasance in office for failure to file a criminal charge against Wakeham, and against Sheriff Jackson for refusing to place Cosgrove and Jamison together in the same cell in jail. The grand jury will hear the arguments at 10 a.m. Wednesday. Award Contracts on Sewer Extension Ganahl-Grim Lumber company was awarded the contract for furnishing 10,000 brick for the sewer extension project in Anaheim by the city council Tuesday evening. Its low bid was $209. The Long Beach Iron Works was chosen out of 11 bidders for furnishing 20 man holes, at a cost of $10 each. CLAYES KIWANIS PRESIDENT Principal J. A. Clayes of the Anaheim union high school Tuesday noon wielded the president's gavel at the Kiwanis club, over which he will preside for the next year, succeeding Dr. Homer A. Nelson. The DOLLAR BRIDE surrendered to hate, for the sake of love. the whole town talked. was trying to do right. marriage went on rocks, even before the ceremony. Wait for the new serial story which starts in THE GAZETTE next Week. HARBOR PROJECT WINS APPROVAL FOR ENTIRE SUM Engineers Rush Submission of Detailed Plans; Work Expected To Start In Few Months Newport Harbor and county officials rushed preparations to submit detailed plans for the harbor project to CWA and U. S. army officials in order to speed up actual start of construction, which is expected to get underway within a few months, now that the entire $1,835,441, covering both financing of the county's $640,000 in bonds and the federal government's share of costs, tentatively has been approved. Confirmation of approval was received by the county board of supervisors Tuesday in a letter from State Engineer F. E. Trask of the CWA Administration, which said: "Please be advised that your application for loan and grant for harbor improvement ($2,625,000) has been approved and given a docket number. The $2,625,000 is subject to change because no amount was given in the telegram from Washington. "Please prepare plans and specifications and forward to this office for approval at earliest possible date." Queried about the $2,625,000, Trask explained that it was for the harbor improvement only, but that definite "Please be advised that your application for loan and grant for harbor improvement ($2,625,000) has been approved and given a docket number. The $2,625,000 is subject to change because no amount was given in the telegram from Washington. "Please prepare plans and specifications and forward to this office for approval at earliest possible date." Quoried about the $2,625,000, Trask explained that it was for the harbor improvement only, but that definite amounts could not be set until contracts were awarded. However, the amount was to cover financing of the county's bonds, as well as the rivers and harbors allotment of a half of the total cost, and presumably 30 per cent of the remaining half under the public works program followed late in 1933. This is in accordance with information given to the voters previous to the December 19 special election, when Orange county was one of the few commonwealths in the state to approve a bond issue. Harbor project sponsors immediately accepted the word of Trask that the project had been approved. Several days ago the public works administration in Washington announced that $918,000 had been approved, covering financing of the county's $640,000 bond issue, plus the 30 per cent gift from the federal government. Under provisions approved by the U.S. army engineers and by the sponsors of the Newport Harbor project, the U.S. army engineers will supervise the entire expenditure of both the county and federal government, and will have direct charge of all the work, the greater share of which will be done by Orange county laborers. The development fund will be used to extend two jetties in the harbor; dredge the main channel to a depth of 20 feet; dredge a turning basin; dredge an anchorage basin comprising an area of 35 acres; and dredging the remainder of the harbor to a depth of 10 feet, at low tide. Coincident with the dispatch announcing the first approval of $918,000, announcement was made that Laguna Beach's application for $190,000 for construction of a main line sewer, treatment plant and outfall sewer for the Arch Beach district, was approved. A hundred men will be employed on this project for a period of five months. Absorption High Along River Bed Pictures Relief To Anaheim Rotarians County Welfare Director Byron C. Curry Tells Measures to Fight Poverty Relief measures in Orange county will cost approximately $586,000 during the year 1934. This is the statement of County Welfare Director Byron C. Curry, addressing a Rotary club meeting at the Elks clubhouse Monday noon, at which Music Composer Louis Danz was program chairman. According to Curry, 3,000 persons in this county now are receiving federal, state or county aid. The county has appropriated $286,000 for its share of the 1934 relief work, which will be approximately matched from federal and state sources. In addition to this, the federal government has provided large amounts of food supplies, with the one item of pork amounting to 540,000 pounds. Showing the growth of relief work in the county, Curry said that in 1929-30 total county welfare work cost $79,000. In 1930-31 the cost quadrupled to $371,000, and in 1932-33 it jumped again to $442,000. Of the latter amount, the county provided $240,000, the balance coming from other governmental sources, mostly federal. Under the R.F.C. relief projects last May, the county had 5,600 men employed. The county now has 1200 families on its roster for direct relief. These families are not receiving aid from the nation or the state, making only $20 family income close but $24,000 is available. "Outs" Get Busy On Municipal Election A score of Anaheim citizens who have taken more or less active parts in previous civic political campaigns, met Monday at the old Eagles' hall on South Lemon street to discuss the situations relative to election of three councilmen, a city clerk, and a city treasurer at the April municipal elections. E.E. (Doe) Long, E.B. Tobin, and H.Axup were among those present. Women Will Study Duties Under NRA Woman's duties under NRA will be outlined and discussed at a luncheon-meeting to be held at James Cafe, Santa Ana, Saturday at 12:30 p.m. Mrs. E.E. Smith, chairman of the woman's division of N.R.A in Anaheim, states that all women interested are invited to attend, with reservations to be made with Mrs. William P. Webb Jr., of this city. Among delegates scheduled to attend from Anaheim are: Mrs. R.W. Marvin, American Legion Auxiliary; Mrs. C.W. Austin, Las Amigas club; Mrs Kate E.McCullah, Business and Professional Women; Mrs. William P. Webb, Jr., Anaheim Ebell; Miss Beryl Kennedy, Y.L.I.; Mrs. Stephen Gallagher, Daughters of the American Revolution; Mrs. Eva Boyd of Eastern Star; Mrs.J.H.Daughtrey, W.C.T.U.; Mrs.Ida Hughes, Woman's Relief Corps, and Mrs. Emily Idso, Toastees' club. Mrs. Anna Chapline of Orange county chairman of the NRA Woman's Division is in charge of arrangements Beach's application for $190,000 for construction of a main line sewer, treatment pant and outfall sewer for the Arch Beach district, was approved. A hundred men will be employed on this project for a period of five months. Absorption High Along River Bed Eight hundred second feet of water was absorbed by river bed sands between Yorba bridge and the Fifth street bridge in Santa Ana, according to records of Orange County Flood Control Engineer Murray Thompson. His figures show 3300 second feet at Yorba bridge during the height of the storm run-off, and 2500 second feet at the Fifth street bridge. Most of the 2000 acre feet of water which wasted into the ocean in the January 1 storm originated south of the Riverside Narrows, most of it coming from Chino creek. Some of the water was from the flat area below San Bernardino and Riverside. When water was flowing past Chapman avenue bridge the Water Conservation association was spreading water on the upper cones of the Santa Ana. Directors Chosen By Nutwood Mutual Stockholders of the Nutwood Mutual Water company met in annual session at the Gazette office on Saturday afternoon, when a new board of five directors was chosen for the ensuing year. The new board is composed of H. C. Grant, Edward Stoffel, J. E. Baker, N. J. Stehly and Ted Kuchel. The board organized by electing Ted Kuchel president and H. C. Grant vice president, and J. E. Baker secretary, manager and zanjoero. The new board transacted considerable routine business and is looking forward to a year of considerable activity. $131,572 In City’s Treasury on Jan. 1 City Treasurer Charles Boege and City Clerk J. W. Price reported to the city council Tuesday evening that the city’s treasury shows a general fund balance of $131,572.05. Secret Session of Boards Explained General discussion of Orange county’s flood control and water conservation problems is understood to have dominated the “star chamber” session of the board of supervisors and the directors of the Orange County Water District. Tuesday night at Santa Ana. After the secret meeting members announced that they wanted to discuss problems frankly without outside intrusion. Several outsiders with “axes to grind” are understood to have sought to gain the attention of the joint session, thus forcing a secret meeting to thresh matters out among themselves. TAX COLLECTIONS GOOD Deputy Tax Collector Etta Williams reported to the city council Tuesday evening that December collections totaled $27,075.37, bringing the total from November 1 to the end of the year to $52,413.09. 315 CWA Men Will Check All Traffic From the present quota of CWA men working on projects in Orange county, 315 will be taken on January 13, 14, and for a check of traffic in co-operation with the state-wide check to be made on those days, according to word from State CWA Edward Macauley. When the check is finished, the men will return to their present jobs. The men will be stationed at all important crossings within the county in order to get a full check of inter-county as well as intra-county traffic. Recorder’s Court Fines Total $436 Fines from the recorder's court in December totaled $436, Judge Frank Tausch reported to the city council this week. Twenty-three of the 39 law violators paid fines and were released; two had the operators' licenses revoked, one was sent to the juvenile court, six were sent to the county jail, and two received suspended sentences. Five felony cases were handled by the district attorney. ORANGE COUNTY GETS $375,000 TO PUSH CWA WORK Largest Weekly Payroll In Local Program Expected Monday as Made-up Work Boosts Total CWA workers who started in on new projects this week and made up time lost during the rain at the turn of the year, next Monday probably will receive the largest CWA payroll ever distributed in Orange county. This was the gist of the announcement by CWA Administrator Robert W. Ramsey this week as his office prepared to handle the vast program outlined in the county. Total expenditures in the county for January, according to announcement Monday from San Francisco headquarters, will be $375,000, of which $250,000 will go for salaries, and $125,000 for materials. Ramsey said the entire amount would be spent, as far as possible, locally "on new projects of a constructive nature." Thirteen new projects were started in Orange county cities and county Monday morning, with others constantly coming before the CWA committee. When offices opened Monday morning, 2,641 persons lined up to receive $43,738.02 for work done the week previously. This was a "short" week, due to approximately 15 hours of labor being lost on account of rains. The average weekly payroll has been in the Busy On Rapal Election Will Study Under NRA Under NRA will be assessed at a luncheon held at James Cafe, May at 12:30 p.m., chairman of the NRA in Anaheim, women interested are with reservations to William P. Webb. scheduled to attend Mrs. R. W. Marvin, Auxiliary; Mrs. C. Mingas club; Mrs. Kate Mess and Professional William P. Webb, Jr., Miss Beryl Kennedy, Stephen Gallagher, American Revolution; Eastern Star; Mrs. W. C. T. U.; Mrs. Ida Relief Corps, and Toastees' club. line of Orange county the NRA Woman's large of arrangements will feature Approve Charter For Loan Group Expect Payment On $158,800 of Applications In Escrow; More Await Approval Blanks Orange County National Farm Loan association, organized recently, to add impetus to action on local applications for federal land bank loans. Monday received formal notice from the federal land bank at Berkeley that its charter was definitely approved. Notice arrived in the form of a telegraph to Secretary C. A. Palmer. Although its application had been formally approved, the association has hastened loans by placing them in escrow, following authorization for a charter application on December 9. Loans thus speeded will allow payment soon on loans totaling $158,800, according to Secretary Palmer. Another total of $166,000 is held up temporarily pending receipt of approval blanks from Berkeley. Secretary Palmer declares that through lifting of restrictions on pumping, it now is possible for growers who have a satisfactory water supply and a good grove to borrow a total of about $750 per acre. This is divided up with $500 from the federal land bank, and $250 commissioner loans. Offices of the association are at 618½ North Main street, Santa Ana. Allots $475,000 To When offices opened Monday morning, 2,641 persons lined up to receive $43,738.02 for work done the week previously. This was a "short" week, due to approximately 15 hours of labor being lost on account of rains. The average weekly payroll has been in the neighborhood of $50,000. Ramsey announces that a new ruling from San Francisco makes it imperative for all men now working for the CWA to register with the national re-employment service office. Foremen were instructed as to when the men are to register. In explaining how men are chosen for CWA work, Ramsey said: "Orange county men working for the CWA are not selected individually or by name. As a matter of fact, they are not selected by CWA at all. No man can be put to work under the CWA program unless he is registered with the national re-employment service, which has its registrars throughout the country. The headquarters for this service is in the basement of the courthouse at Santa Ana, and applications from all parts of the county are kept on file there. "When the CWA needs men, a call is given the re-employment service and the men are selected by classification. If the CWA wants 14 carpenters, for instance, Charles Fallert, head of the re-employment service, is contracted and he immediately digs the names of 14 men so listed from his files, going over each carefully to select the men who have the most dependents. Then these men report to the CWA. This accounts for the fact that a man may be registered at the service headquarters a long time before his neighbor is, yet the neighbor be assigned to work sooner. The number of dependents makes all the difference." Ramsey admitted that there are some men now employed by CWA that are not married. He explains that these did not come through the national re-employment service, but were put to work prior to the opening of the service in Orange county, getting their jobs under the old RFC, where at that time they were established as having one or more dependents. Police Department Makes 20 Arrests Chief of Police James S. Bouldin re- Allots $475,000 To Manchester Road Contingent upon donation of rights-of-way by Los Angeles and Orange counties, the state highway commission has allotted $475,000 for extension of Manchester avenue from Firestone avenue in Los Angeles, paralleling the Southern Pacific railway through Anaheim to a junction with highway No. 101 at Katella road, Commissioner P. A. Stanton announced this week. Both Stanton and Chairman Al Riutcel of the Anaheim chamber of commerce committee, which has been fighting for construction of the highway for several years, believe that actual work on the proposed extension might well begin this year, providing the Orange county board of supervisors finds a way to guarantee rights-of-way through this county. Two weeks ago the board began a move to sign up property owners along the proposed route, explaining to them that, contrary to the usual procedure in assessing benefitting landowners, there would be no cost to this highway other than donation of the Land over which it will run. The extension will become a part of the state highway system, with the state paying all construction and maintenance costs. Los Angeles county has guaranteed rights-of-way to the Orange county line. As a consequence, construction on the part of the highway is expected to begin within a few months. Police Department Makes 20 Arrests Chief of Police James S. Bouldin reported monthly activities to the city council Tuesday evening. His department made 20 arrests, 8 for intoxication, 3 for driving while intoxicated, 2 for petty theft, 1 for mayhem, 1 for attack with a deadly weapon, 1 for disturbing the peace, 1 for vagrancy, 1 for violation of the motor vehicle act, and 1 for other departments. Eleven citations for violation of the city traffic ordinance and 18 for violations of the motor vehicle act were recorded.