anaheim-gazette 1934-07-12

Frazier-Lemke Bill Hailed as Means to Halt Foreclosures by Selfish Creditors "Farm Moratorium Bill" Looked Upon by Governor Myers of Farm Credit Administration as Confirmation of Policy Followed in Past Year; Believes Farmers Will Pay "The Frazier-Lemke amendment to the bankruptcy act is in accord with the program of the farm credit administration since it attempts to prevent occasional selfish creditors from foreclosing on distressed farm debtors," Governor William L. Myers, of the administration at Washington telegraphed to Charles Parker, president of the Berkeley federal land bank. He referred to the popularly called "farm moratorium bill" passed by the late congress and signed by President Roosevelt. "The program of the farm credit administration," Governor Myers continued, "has been to prevent farm foreclosures and to refinance excessive farm debt burden on a basis which would permit good farmers to work out. As a result of the general recovery during the past year and the loans of the federal land banks and land bank commissioners amounting to almost a billion dollars, the great majority of distressed farm mortgage cases have been relieved, leaving a very slight minority of farmers who will have to go into bankruptcy to save their homes." As a class farmers are very slow to embrace the bankruptcy solution of their financial problems, Governor Myers went on to say. He expressed his belief that, despite the Frazier-Lemke bill, farmers will still retain their ever-present urge to pay their debts. He cited the fact that more than 86 per cent of installments on commissioner's loans, which generally have been made to most heavily indebted farmers, and which matured prior to June 1 were paid on or before due; and of those delinquent two-thirds are for less than 30 days. This shows that even the most heavily indebted farmers are acting in Arbitrary Forcing of Water Plans to Threaten Harmony (Continued from page 1) complete the Elliott survey, which was halted by the board's refusal to appropriate the last few thousands of dollars needed. Chairman Willis Warner of Huntington Beach and Director Frank Champion were named a committee of two to make the request of the supervisors. The greatest threat to unity within the county, according to those who have viewed the progress of unity attempts, is the zeal with which proponents of the Elliott plan tried to ride rough-shod over the vested rights of long-established mutual companies, and the tendency of a certain portion of the Orange councy press to unfairly and by inference lay the county's troubles at the feet of these same companies, who refuse to sacrifice their rights, worth millions of dollars. The trouble centers on rights involved should Orange county attempt his belief that, despite the Frazier-Lemke bill, farmers will still retain their ever-present urge to pay their debts. He cited the fact that more than 86 per cent of installments on commissioner's loans, which generally have been made to most heavily indebted farmers, and which matured prior to June 1 were paid on or before due; and of those delinquent two-thirds are for less than 30 days. "This shows that even the most heavily indebted farmers are acting in the highest good faith," Governor Myers wired to the Berkeley bank president. "In lending the sum it has and making commitments to lend $700,000,000 more, the farm credit administration has become the creditor of a vast number of farmers who otherwise might have needed to avail themselves of bankruptcy as provided by the Frazier-Lemke bill to avoid foreclosure. Ninety cents out of every dollar loaned has gone to refinance existing debts and to put farmers in a position where they do not have to consider bankruptcy." "The total farm mortgage loans and commitments made under the refinancing program will raise the total outstanding loans of the land banks and land bank commissioners to more than $2,500,000,000 in a few months so that they, jointly, will become holders of over 30 per cent of the total farm mortgage indebtedness in the United States, now placed at $8,000,000,000. In addition, the interest burden on the refinanced debt has been reduced on an average of about 25 per cent. Payments of interest and principal have been extended on mortgage loans of worthy farmers who through no fault of their own temporarily have been unable to meet those payments. Compensating payments from the U. S. treasury placed the federal land banks in a position to grant this relief." Governor Myers cited the fact the emergency appropriation act of the fiscal year 1935 which the president has just signed carried $2,890,000 to be used for the purpose of compensating the banks for extending principal and interest payments on farm mortgages, if necessary, up to June 30, 1935. "Loans by the land bank commissioner have been and will continue to be made up to 75 per cent of the normal value of farms, although less than one-tenth of the nation's farms were indebted for more than 70 per cent of their value at the time the FCA refinancing program started. At that time more than a half the country's farms were free from mortgage. The ten per cent of the farms mortgaged for 70 per viewled the progress of unity attempts, is the zeal with which proponents of the Elliott plan tried to ride rough-shod over the vested rights of long-established mutual companies, and the tendency of a certain portion of the Orange couney press to unfairly and by inference lay the county's troubles at the feet of these same companies, who refuse to sacrifice their rights, worth millions of dollars. The trouble centers on rights involved should Orange county attempt to follow the Elliott plan, calling for a dam at the Upper Prado which would inundate several thousand acres of land in Riverside county. The two major water companies of Orange county have spent more than a million dollars in defense and perfection of legal rights obtained over a period of three-quarters of a century. They own 2200 acres of land at the site of and just above the proposed dam, obtained to assure water rights to their members should surface flow become increasingly insufficient or pumping costs from this basin become impracticable. These rights, representatives of the water companies stated at the closed meeting of major water users in the county at the Anaheim Elks clubhouse last Friday evening, must be protected. They referred to a letter written to the board of supervisors several years ago outlining the companies' stand, which demanded guarantees to protect water rights and investments. Another difficulty, pointed out by Cuttle and confirmed by the state engineer, is that inundation of several thousand acres of Riverside county brings into the question approval from another county, which is obtaining thousands of dollars yearly in taxes from grounds which Elliott plan proponents expect to inundate. Proponents of the Elliott plan submitted it to the meeting in Anaheim Friday night, attempting to secure final and definite approval of the plan as a means to unify the county. This effort was thwarted, however, when members of various organizations immediately announced that they were not empowered to act. The plan then was offered, with instructions to those attending to submit it to their official bodies with a view to ultimate approval. J. E. Lewis of Yorba Linda, chairman of the Associated Chambers of Orange county, submitted a resolution asking the county board of supervisors to investigate the feasibility of securing 40,000 acre feet of water from the Mojave valley. This resolution was approved by those present. No action was taken on a suggestion that the group intervene in James Irvine's suit Drought A Wild B Expe Serious Situation Of Wild D Concern "Loans by the land bank commissioner have been and will continue to be made up to 75 per cent of the normal value of farms, although less than one-tenth of the nation's farms were indebted for more than 70 per cent of their value at the time the FCA refinancing program started. At that time more than a half the country's farms were free from mortgage. The ten percent of the farms mortgaged for 70 per cent or more of their value has been cut to an even smaller percentage since the refinancing program started, thus diminishing to exceptional cases the number of possible applicants for bankruptcy under the Frazier-Lemke bill." The FCA executive called attention to the fact that in the last year over 40,000 farmers appealed directly to the Washington headquarters of the administration for emergency aid to forestall foreclosure. Such appeals, he said, had dropped from a November peak of 2,000 weekly to around 500. Foremost among the creditor class who have greatly reduced the number of their foreclosure actions during the past year are the land banks themselves. The number of farms acquired by them has been the smallest in years. "The Administration has pursued the policy of not foreclosing upon any borrower who is doing his honest best to meet his obligations, who is making proper application of his income after meting living expenses and caring for the mortgaged property. Many other creditors agree with the land banks that avoidance of foreclosure wherever possible will prevent losses of capital to debtor and creditors alike." CROSLEY SHELVADOR ELECTRIC REFRIGERATORS Priced from $104.50 Sales and Service SUPERIOR RADIO SERVICE Paul C. Davidson, Proprietor 308 West Center Street, Anaheim Phone 4304 Broom Better Than New-fangled Dusts For Black Windows Use of the old fashioned broom to destroy black widow spiders was advocated today as a practical method to fight this Arachnid by entomologist of the state department of agriculture. While supporting statements recently made by the state department of public health concerning the habitat of the arachnids, particularly the black widow spider, Latrodectus mactans, they also called attention to the fact that pest exterminators are going about offering to sell their services to clean out black widow spiders by means of an insecticidal dust. Declaring that such dusts are probably worthless, unless a direct hit be made and even then the result is in doubt, the entomologists pointed out that when a spider finds anything in its web it doesn't like, it often cuts the strands or moves out and spins a new one. "Thus it can be seen that the instinct of a spider finding its web covered with dust would be to spin a new web," the entomologists said. "Furthermore, spiders feed on living insects and are not subject to any stomach poison." Distiller Tells Why Bootlegger Thrives Via Tax (Continued from page 1) or without label. I sent a man to Los Angeles to find out. He reported back that bottle makers would furnish any kind of bottle and any kind of label, which he did not buy. POLITICAL STEW Served With a Dash of Local Flavor. Specially Prepared To the Recipe of the Orange County Weekly Newspaper Association. By PAUL E. TICKS COUNCIL Banging his head against a stone wall of solid opposition from four out of five city councilmen and using the acquiescent services of Councilman Le Gaye as the spearhead of his attack, J. Frank Burke has lashed out against the Santa Ana council's appropriating $200 for ice cream and a few minor luxuries to the members of the national guard from that city, as evidence of gross extravagance. He opposes the asked appropriation of 4200 odd dollars for chamber of commerce activities for an expansion program for his own fair city and then he had some of his or Le Gaye's pussyfoot sleuths examine the car of the chief of police. At least the Burke Cabal thought it was the chief's car. Bellowing with high civic virtue, the Claque accused the chief of increasing his mileage by 300 per cent and urged he be given a leave of absence without pay, to save the tax payer money on his gas for campaigning. Of course the gesture fell sort of flat when Le Gaye found that he had checked the mileage on the wrong car. But that will not deter the grand old man of Santa Ana. He will prime Le Gaye for new discoveries of treachery in the city council—which does not take orders from him. ELECTION Mr. Burke's legal protege, Clyde Downing, passed down his legal opinion that the council, four of whom are appointed, should stand for election at the time of the state primaries in August. Attorneys Otto Jacobs and Charlie Swanner appeared before an unofficial SHERIFF And this, in turn, brings us to a brief consideration of the race for sheriff, which will be the most hotly contested battle of the August primaries. So far the various contestants seem to be waiting until they see the whites of the enemy's eyes, before unleashing their salvos of heavy artillery fire. The campaign seems to be languishing slightly, with the presumption that a concentrated battle will be waged in August. INCUMBENT HAS EDGE Right now the race for sheriff looks to favor the incumbent, Logan Jackson. The assumption is that Floyd Howard and Sam Jernigan are battling for second place. But it is too early to have any more than a vague hunch on the final result, which may be vastly different. Don Wilkie, high powered radio performer, whose grandfather was a distinguished ornament to the secret service of the United States, and Harry Riley, former Orange county automobile tycoon and public spirited citizen, who has made a splendid battle for a comeback from the inroads of depression, are liable to be the black horses who may surprise the favored contestants. LAYIN' LOW The boys in the know express the opinion that Sheriff Jackson is still the white haired boy of the Register, but say that Mr. Burke, apparently at last realizing that his support is more of a liability than an asset, is sort of laying low so that Jackson may corrall some anti-Burke support, which would be conspicuous by its absence if Mr. Burke was bally-hooping his cause in his Why Bootlegger Thrives Via Tax (Continued from page 1) or without label. I sent a man to Los Angeles to find out. He reported back that bottle makers would furnish any kind of bottle and any kind of label, even going so far as to put the label on the bottle as a service. Consequently, the illigitimate manufacturer can thus 'make' any brand of liquor he desires. The worst feature of this is that even the wholesaler and retailer do not know they are handling bootleg. As a matter of fact, the government's own figures show clearly that 52 per cent of all liquor sold is bootleg. This percentage is likely to increase until some method is found to defeat the bootlegger—and the only hope I can see is in reduction of taxes to enable the legitimate dealer to compete successfully with the bootlegger. "Take a concrete example of the ordinary case of gin, which wholesales for $10. Ours wholesale a third more, but the $10 figure is easier to follow. The federal taxes on the $10 amount to $5.24, or 51 cents for one quart of 100 proof. All the rectifier gets out of that is a gross of $4.76, out of which must come his cost of manufacture and his overhead, which includes a portion of the $494 in licenses required every year. The bootlegger gets by with $10 instead of $4.76 for relatively the same cost — a margin of difference which makes it profitable to evade the law. At that, we are fortunate in California. Some states place a tax as high as the federal government, making the total taxes about 1.02 per quart. Then Uncle Sam, who is anxious to keep the price of liquor down, lifts his import restrictions in order to force the price of the bottle down to $1... when taxes alone exceed the amount he wants it to sell for." Drought Affects Wild Bird Life, Experts Confer Serious Situation In Number of Wild Ducks Causes Concern in State But that will not deter the grand old man of Santa Ana. He will prime Le Gaye for new discoveries of treachery in the city council—which does not take orders from him. ELECTION Mr. Burke's legal protege, Clyde Downing, passed down his legal opinion that the council, four of whom are appointed, should stand for election at the time of the state primaries in August. Attorneys Otto Jacobs and Charlie Swanner appeared before an unofficial meeting of the council and gave their opinion that such an election would be illegal and that the council, as now constituted should serve until the regular city election next April. UNIQUE Which brings us to the interesting announcement that Santa Ana is the only 5th class city in the state of California and enjoys the further distinction in that respect of being the only city to elect its chief of police. All other cities appoint the chief. PAGE RIPLEY Then this brings up another interesting idea. Chief of Police Floyd Howard, candidate for sheriff, filed his papers for his present job—he is in his first term—on March 13, 1931. He was elected on Friday the 13th of April, 1931. He has been in Orange county 13 years and filled for Sheriff June 13, 1934, the first signer of his petition had 13 letters in his name and papers were filed the 13th hour. This item appears in this paper, delivered Friday, July 13th. Here Are Water Company Demands (Continued from page 1) rights, they must have the right to take water from above the dam in order to be protected from damage. "2. An intake for the pipe line herein proposed should be provided above the dam and provision made by which each opening through the dam on the level of the river could be closed in order that summer flow could be diverted into said new intake. "3. A pipe line of two hundred second feet capacity should be constructed from the new intake to the headgates of each of the two irrigation companies. "4. Because of the uncertainty of the effect of the dam structure on the underground water supply below the dam, the water companies should have" St. Joseph’s Under New Catholic Order (Continued from page 1) ate a bus to Santa Ana, Orange, Fullerton, Whittler and other towns, and Protestant as well as Catholic pupils will be welcomed." The course of instruction will be fully accredited for high school, with a faculty of twelve sisters from the mother college, St. Mary of the Woods, in Indiana, and two lay instructors. Twenty members of faculties in the order’s schools in Hawthorne, Van Nuys and Alhambra, now are attending a summer school at St. Joseph’s. Auditor Preparing New County Budget County Auditor W. T. Lambert and Drought Affects Wild Bird Life, Experts Confer Serious Situation In Number of Wild Ducks Causes Concern in State The widespread drought, which has greatly reduced the number and extent of breeding grounds, and the increasing numbers of hunters, have combined to bring about a serious situation as regards the number of wild ducks, according to W. C. Henderson, associate chief of the U. S. biological survey who was in Sacramento to confer with Director of Agriculture A. A. Brock and W. C. Jacobsen, supervisor of the rodent control service, which service cooperates with the U. S. biological survey in various phases of state-federal work. While the program of game conservation contemplated under the duck stamp bill will get under way soon, it will not suffice to bring back ducks in the number they have been present in the past, Mr. Henderson declared. Under the duck stamp bill, game refuges are to be established by the direct purchase of land by the government. Wild bird breeding grounds in the Dakotas and in Canada have not escaped the ravages of the drought, he said, and a big decrease in the number of young birds is expected to result. Increased hunting has also greatly reduced the number of older birds so that even if conditions as to breeding were normal there would not be the same number of young ducks hatched. MRS. GANAHL HONORED Mrs. E. E. Ganahl, prominent in Anaheim Catholic women's activities, Friday was elected first vice president of the Orange County Council of Catholic Women, meeting in St. Mary's hall, Fullerton. "6. As hereinbefore indicated, arrangements should be made to replenish loss of water during the irrigation season caused by use of the river channel water in construction of the dam." "A pipe line of two hundred second feet capacity should be constructed from the new intake to the headgates of each of the two irrigation companies. "4. Because of the uncertainty of the effect of the dam structure on the underground water supply below the dam, the water companies should have the exclusive right to pump water from lands owned by the flood control district above the dam so as to augment the surface stream available up to 200 second feet at the intake. "5. The foregoing provisions should be made by the flood control district since its operations and structures will make them necessary to protect the vested and long established rights of our companies and their stockholders. However, since the substitution of a pipe line river channel flow will be of some benefit to the water companies by preventing evaporation, we suggest the following as a fair arrangement between the water companies and the flood control district: let actual cost of the pipe line be offset against the reasonable value of the lands owned by the water companies which must be taken by the flood control district and the difference adjusted by payment on to the other, the pipe line and right of way for it to be conveyed to the water companies, and the companies' land needed by the flood control district conveyed to it, with the reservation, however, of the right to pump water from it, as above indicated; the water companies to furnish right of way for the pipe line free of charge across its own lands and rights of way owned by it, and the district to procure the remainder of the right of way." Auditor Preparing New County Budget County Auditor W. T. Lamberti and his staff this week was busily engaged in preparing the budget for the county, which must be submitted to the board of supervisors by July 30. Deadline for submission of department budgets to the county auditor was Tuesday, July 10. REPORTS SEWER COST O. E. Steward reports Anaheim's share of maintenance of the outfall sewer is $110.51. Total expenses for the sewer for June were $705.71. PWA WORK NEARS END PWA work in Anaheim is $7.5 per cent complete, city councilmen learned Tuesday evening. Expenses to date on material have been $30,166.28, and on labor $13,578.40. Vic Fleming Heads Anaheim 20-30 Club Vic Fleming was installed president of the 20-30 club of Anaheim Monday night at the regular meeting held in Marigold cafe. He succeeds Ray Reafanyder, who was presented with an emblem ring. Other officers installed for the six-month term are: Charles Bush, vice president; Morris Hovey, secretary; Louis Wright, treasurer; Art Clodt, sergeant-at-arms; and directors, Robert Koontz, Everett Grenler, Wilbert Helden and Lawrence Poirler. Among Your Friends Three Anaheim families departed Wednesday afternoon for a six-week motor tour to the Midwest, visiting friends in Wisconsin, and seeing the World Fair at Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. William LeVecke and Mr. and Mrs. Al Erickson left in one machine, and Mr. and Mrs. Pete Fluor and Henry Fischer left in another, planning to drive over the desert at night and continue Thursday evening to Salt Lake City, where they anticipated cooler weather through Wyoming and Nebraska. They will drop down to St. Louis before going on to Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Vincent were expected back late this week from a motor tour to Zion's and Bryce canyons in southern Utah. They were scheduled to leave immediately, however, for Gilman's Hot Springs for a short study before returning to Anaheim Monday. Mr. Vincent is associated with the Vincent Furniture store. Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Woodbury of 601 South Helena street left Saturday for a two-week vacation, motoring to Bishop, Mono Lake and thence back over Tioga Pass to Yosmite. Mr. Woodbury is employed by the Citrus Mutual Products, the president of which, Herbert Leo, and family are vacationing for four months in Washington. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Eden are hosts this week at their Strawberry Flats cabin to members of the Anaheim bethel, Job's Daughters. Stechert's Flowers. Phone 3230. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Schindler enjoyed the week-end at their Anaheim Landing cabin. Members of the Herman Sisters enjoyed cards and refreshments at their regular party, Tuesday evening in the Concordia clubhouse. Bettina Whitney of this city was the guest of Los Angeles friends over the week-end. Gordon's for Flowers. Ph. 3838. Dr. and Mrs. Ralph M. Waltz and their children this week recall with pleasure their recent 10-day trip through northern California. Misses Rose and Betty Donnelly, the former a teacher at Fullerton and the latter a teacher in Los Angeles, left by automobile Monday for Santa Cruz to spend the summer. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Ter Beest and family of West Ball road were Sunday guests of Mrs. Ter Beest's parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Koser of Santa Ana. Fay Wright and Elvin Meadow, both of this city, obtained a marriage license Monday at Las Vegas, Nevada. DUMPS SEIZED LIQUORS Nine Quarts of hard liquor, three gallons of alcohol and one of "Dago red" were dumped in the gutter Monday by Police Chief James S. Bouldin, acting upin instructions of Recorder Frank Tausch. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Eden are hosts this week at their Strawberry Flats cabin to members of the Anaheim bethel, Job's Daughters. Stechert's Flowers. Phone 3230. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Schindler enjoyed the week-end at their Anaheim Landing cabin. Members of the Eulogia class of the Calvary Baptist church enjoyed two social functions this week, first as guests of Mrs. Iphegenia Grow at her home at 229 Mills Drive Tuesday evening, and next at a pot-luck luncheon and all-day meeting Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Cora Dugdale. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Strain recently had as dinner guests Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Allen and daughters, and Mrs. Margaret Strain of Buena Park. Guests at a party given by Mrs. W. M. Jenkins and Mrs. Ralph Jenkins of Fullerton in honor of Miss Kathleen Cook who will become the bride of Anaheim's Reid Williams in the near future, were Mrs. W. Shaver of East Vermont and her daughter, Mrs. Glen Tramel. For modern interlor decoration Call Harry Kindig. Phone 3568. Mr. and Mrs. John Knutzen Jr. celebrated their first wedding anniversary on July 9. Who's Afraid of the Lonely Road? 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