anaheim-gazette 1940-07-11

ANAHEIM GAZETTE Established 1870 ORANGE COUNTY'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Publisher 1887-1935 The Anaheim Gazette has been owned and edited by the same family since 1875. Published every Thursday at 259 East Center Street, Anaheim, Calif. Subscription Per Year ...$2.00 Six Months ...$1.00 MRS. HENRY KUCHEL THEODORE B. KUCHEL Editors and Publishers Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Anaheim, California, under the Act of March 8, 1879. OLSON ON FIRE PREVENTION Last Sunday evening, Governor Olson took to the radio, and, as is his custom, lambasted the state legislature for "hamstringing" his administration, even to the point where he contended, the state's program of fire prevention and fire control was made impossible by grossly inadequate appropriations. He averred that the legislative branch of the state government was so intent on ruining his administration that it was willing even to deny adequate funds for the fire fighting needs of California. Of course, if this were true, it would be a tragic condition, and the most reprehensible kind of politics. The record, however, tells a rather different story. In 1937, when Frank Merriam was governor, and when no one talked about attempts to scuttle state administrations, the state legislature, by three separate appropriations, made money available for this specific kind of work. By item 130, of the 1937 budget bill, $878,100 was appropriated for support of the Department of Natural Resources, including fire trails, breaks, and co-operative work with counties and other public agencies. By item 131, $28,000 was made available for additional support of the division of forestry. By item 189, $1,000,000 was set aside for an emergency fund, from which the state's chief executive could draw when extraordinary events took place demanding immediate assistance by the state. Any, or all, of this item could be expended, of course, in fire-fighting. In the budget bill of 1930, when Governor Olson had come By item 130, of the 1937 budget bill, $878,100 was appropriated for support of the Department of Natural Resources, including fire trails, breaks, and co-operative work with counties and other public agencies. By item 131, $28,000 was made available for additional support of the division of forestry. By item 189, $1,000,000 was set aside for an emergency fund, from which the state's chief executive could draw when extraordinary events took place demanding immediate assistance by the state. Any, or all, of this item could be expended, of course, in fire-fighting. In the budget bill of 1930, when Governor Olson had come into power, the amounts of money appropriated by the legislature for fire fighting and control were a little different. Instead of the 878 thousand of two years before, the 1939 legislature, by item 141, appropriated $1,335,195 for support of the Department of Natural Resources, including fire trails, breaks, and the like. Instead of the $28,000 appropriation of two years before, the 1939 legislature, by item 143 of the budget bill, appropriated $80,000 for additional support of the division of forestry. And the 1939 emergency fund was $1,750,000, instead of one million dollars which was given to Governor Merriam, two years before. Regardless of any transfers of public monies from one state fund to another, or of any deficiency appropriations, the 1939 legislature was far more liberal in the granting of monies to the work of fire prevention and control, than was the 1937 legislature in Merriam's time. So, perhaps, Governor Olson was slightly mistaken in his tirade. Possibly, he made an error in his calculations, and maybe, on checking the record, he will find that what he said was true, was not, in fact. STRAWS IN THE WIND One of the straws bending in the current radical wind was clearly visible in New York, when on Monday, it was announced by the W. P. A. administrator that three of the four murals recently hung in the administration building at Floyd Bennet Air Field were to be burned, for the reason that they were, obviously, Communist murals. The murals, which incidentally required more than three years to complete, were a W. P. A. Federal art project. What, was it alleged, did the three murals depict? One of them depicted a Red statue of Joseph Stalin with a fallen aviator at his feet. The second showed a red star instead of a white star insignia on a painting of the United States Naval Reserve hangar at the field, and a painting of the Soviet plane which flew from Moscow to California several years ago. The third pictured the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk in Russian peasant costumes. Further, one of the artists who assisted in painting the murals had been discharged from W. P. A. according to the administration, for refusing to sign an affidavit that he was not a member of the Communist party or the Nazi bund. If anyone thinks that radicalism is on the wane in free America, such incidents, otherwise trivial, as the above, give reason for plenty of doubt. More than ever, the laws of our state and nation need strengthening so that we may cope with those who cloak themselves in constitutional privileges, and who then carry on their insidious labors against our country. Beyond that, our public officials, high and low alike, need increasing vigor in stamping out all traces of money available for this specific kind of work. Rank and file members of organized labor undoubtedly have just as high regard for law and order as any other class of citizens. Certainly, they don't feel that carrying a union card makes them "above the law", any more than a farmer, who has joined the Farm Bureau, feels that he has just won the right to commit grand larceny. Among many of the professional labor leaders, who have risen to power by extra-legal methods—with goon squads and body guards to enforce their mandates—there is quite a different attitude, however. To many of these high-handed labor czars, accustomed to getting away with all manner of excesses and offenses—on the ground that they are "fighting for labor"—extortion ceases to be extortion, when it is committed in that name of labor, and murder isn't murder, if the murderer wears a union button. That may seem, at first glance, to be a harsh and unwarranted indictment. But there is corroborative evidence on every hand to bear it out. And it is a state of mind which needs to be remedied, not only in the interest of law or order, but even more in the interest of labor itself. Consider current cases. The head of a New York union, with a previous felony conviction against him, is arrested on a charge of extortion, with the facts plainly indicating that he had preyed upon workers and employers alike. Immediately, he charges "labor persecution"—and other union leaders rush to his defense. A Hollywood union head is brought to book on a conviction of pandering, and fellow union leaders appear before Governor Olson to plead for him and oppose his extradition. Further, one of the artists who assisted in painting the murals had been discharged from W. P. A. according to the administration, for refusing to sign an affidavit that he was not a member of the Communist party or the Nazi bund. If anyone thinks that radicalism is on the wane in free America, such incidents, otherwise trivial, as the above, give reason for plenty of doubt. More than ever, the laws of our state and nation need strengthening so that we may cope with those who cloak themselves in constitutional privileges, and who then carry on their insidious labors against our country. Beyond that, our public officials, high and low alike, need increasing vigor in stamping out all traces of foreign influence. Hi-Y Convention Delegates Home Anaheim's delegates to the Hi-Y congress at Oberlin, Ohio, and those who accompanied them returned to their homes last Saturday. Making the trip were Tom Hilleary, Jim Hein and Mort Smith, delegates; YMCA Secretary and Mrs. J. B. Wilbur, and Mrs. Hannah Gardner, mother of Mrs. Willur. The party was gone a month and among the point of interest seen were Washington, D. C., New York, Niagara Falls and Canada. While in the east Mrs. Gardner visited a son at Philadelphia during the week of the Republican convention. SOUTH DAKOTA PICNIC Bixby park, Long Beach, will be the scene of the annual mid-summer South Dakota state reunion on Sunday, July 14. An interesting program has been arranged for the afternoon. Badges will be supplied and county registers will be maintained. In Liechtenstein, the entire military equipment is kept in a small one-room museum as an exhibit. Restrictions Eased As to Pets in Park Necessary restrictions on keeping animal pets in Yosemite National Park have been loosened to the extent that kennels are now operated in the valley for the care of dogs and cats, reports the touring bureau of the Automobile Club of Southern California. If not kenneled, dogs and cats must be on leash, crated or otherwise under physical control at all times while within the park. They may be transported in a car over any road open to public travel within the park, but there are certain buildings, museums, campgrounds and gardens where they are not permitted. BALBOA EVENTS Visual treat to many thousands of southern California motor visitors will be the Balboa Bay regatta from Balboa in Orange county July 13 and 14, reports the touring bureau of the Automobile Club of Southern California. The event will be followed by the Newport Tournament of Lights spectacle in the same bay on July 20. Five hundred trucks will operate over the Finland-Norway highway. BUT CHIEFI YOU MIGHT AS WELL HOP OFF AN' GO HOME— I CAN HANDLE IT FROM HERE! Talburt, in the Washington Daily News. THE FARMERS CORNER by RALPH-H-TAYLOR ORANGE COUNTY WEEKLY WATCHTOWER A Compilation of Observation and Comment by and for the Weekly Newspapers of the County APPEARING IN THE FOLLOWING: Huntington Beach News Newport Beach News Garden Grove News Costa Mesa Globe Westminster Gazette Coastline Dispatch South Coast News Buena Park News Yorba Linda Star Placentia Courier Anaheim Gazette Seal Beach News La Habra Star Tustin News Brea Progress WATCHTOWER GAMBLING DEAL NOT GOING SO STRONG The burning of a hotel and cafe at Seal Beach brings to the front again a county-wide question of which not so much has been heard lately—gambling. The place that burned at the beach was known as gambling headquarters there whenever there was any gaming going on. However, there is no indication that the fire had any connection with the gambling. The authorities have pretty well taken care of that. Anyway, Seal Beach is an incorporated town, and in such towns the matter of local gambling is left up to the local authorities. The county sheriff never steps in unless asked by the city police. In unincorporated areas — as well as in the towns—an outsider is occasionally beating the law with a new racket. He makes a deal with a local group which owns or controls a suitable hall, and promises to cut them in on the profits of the game if they will assure him of protection. The game is run in the name of the local group, but no local people are allowed in the hall. It is a place to toss their cash away. The promoter sees that the work gets around in the right places. Meantime the bookie business is considerably on the quiet. It is stated by the boys in the know that a well known taker of bets who has been connected with various arrangements in the county the past couple of years still active in the north part of the county. He makes the contact personally and his only place of business in the county is below his hat. You still can get into a gamble or place a bet if you want to but it isn't nearly so easy as it used to be. PROFITS ARE BIG IN BOOKIE GAME A county deputy who has been in on some of the bookie stuff tells some of what he has learned. In one of the last raids pulled off the records which were grabbed showed that on the afternoon the raid was made about $2,600 had been handled. Since the bookie do not have to take out the cuh which goes to the track and to the state from the parimutuel machines, and since they pay trac odds only up to 15 to 1 or there The FARMERS CORNER by RALPH H.TAYLOR Executive Secretary Agricultural Council of California and file members of orbor undoubtedly have high regard for law and other class of citizens, they don't feel that union card makes them the law", any more than who has joined the seau, feels that he has the right to commiteny. many of the professional ers, who have risen to extra-legal methods—squads and body guards their mandates—there different attitude, how- y of these high-handed accustomed to getting all manner of excesses—on the ground that "fighting for labor"—creases to be extortion, committed in that name and murder isn't murder, orderer wears a union by seem, at first glance, marsh and unwarranted. But there is corroboence on every hand to And it is a state of needs to be remedied, in the interest of law or even more in the in-abor itself. current cases. The New York union, with its felony conviction m, is arrested on a extortion, with the facts indicating that he had in workers and employ-immediately, he charges execution"—and other rushes to his defense. wood union head is book on a conviction of and fellow union lead-before Governor Olson or him and oppose his not of "fighting for labor," but of murder in cold blood. They had every opportunity to defend themselves, and the prosecutor in the case, Attorney General Earl Warren, then district attorney of Alameda county, has an enviable reputation for fairness and square-dealing. Labor leaders, apparently anxious for "a cause," announce their determination to make another Mooney case of the Point Lobos killing. Already delegations have called on Governor Olson, pressure has been put on the state parole board—and the propaganda has been started to convince labor that King, Ramsay and O'Connor were railroaded" to prison and that they are martyrs to labor's cause. It is to be hoped that California workers will refuse to become special pleaders for convicted murders, simply because the slayers were labor officials. Murder is still murder, regardless of who commits it, and it is this type of case which does damage to the whole labor cause. If the retail merchants' association went to bat for every merchant who went wrong, nad the Farm Bureau rushed to the defense of every farmer who ran afoul of the law, and the doctors fought to save erring physicians from paying for their crimes, there could be no law an dorder, but just complete confusion. The professional labor leader, who has used labor union men to pull his chestnuts out of the fire—and who considers himself "abvoe the law"—needs to learn that the days of free-handed racketeering, in the name of labor, are ended. A murder case isn't a picketing case, nor a strike case; it's a murder case! The "Five Lives" of England's Mystery Girl. H. George Franks, In unincorporated areas — as well as in the towns—an outsider, is occasionally beating the law with a new racket. He makes a deal with a local group which owns or controls a suitable hall, and promises to cut them in on the profits of the game if they will assure him of protection. The game is run in the name of the local group, but no local people are allowed in the hall. It is meant to furnish a rendezvous for outsiders who are looking for Dillon This increased taxation, to gain revenue for defense expenditures—did you notice it in your bills, last Monday?—will serve several very important purposes, if only we choose to observe. Our "average" family in this country is made up of four persons: Mother and Dad and two children, and the yearly income is $1,524. This average family will be called for an additional ten dollars a year. But it will be in "hidden" taxes so it won't ever be noticed. I'm not going into this very far; it's too intricate. Only $10 anyway. What I wish to do is mention ways to avoid paying many of these "hidden" taxes. The government says the $1.524 family will be stuck for $7.45 more for cigarettes; $1.86 more for movies, sports and other admissions; 15 cents more for gasoline; 4 cents more for toilet preparations, and about 39 per cent more by the gallon for alcohol beverages for which it now spends $5.44. The tax on a barrel fo beer will be raised from $5 to $6. The future looks pretty dark, I think. What the family will do without its cigarets, its alcohol and its regular barrel of beer passes comprehension. A county deputy who has been in on some of the bookie stuff tells some of what he has learned. In one of the last raids pulled off the records which were grabbed showed that on the afternoon tha raid was made about $2,600 had been handled. Since the bookie do not have to take out the cu which goes to the track and to tha state from the parimutuel ma chines, and since they pay trac odds only up to 15 to 1 or there abouts, their net percentage oi the handle runs to about 20 percent. The day in question covered only about half the afternoon race program, so it doesn't tak much figuring to see why a fin of a few hundred dollars doesn't bother a boss bookie very much. Gist Pardon Plea To Be Heard Soon The state board of pardons and paroles will decide the fate of Lawson Gist, 23, of Orange, wh seeks a pardon on the ground that he was mistakenly convicted of robbing James G. Givens o Santa Ana in 1938. The matte is expected to come before the board on July 30, it was learned this week. Gist, now in San Quentin serving a sentence imposed for the Givens hold-up, will be represented at his hearing by Attorney N. D. Meyer of Santa Ana. Meyer obtained special permission t appear before the board and filed his written brief on the case this week. Referring to the denial of guilt by Arnold Johnson, Santa Ana man who is said to closely resemble Gist, and who is now a prisoner at McNeil's Island, federal prison, Meyer said that it was no essential to Gist's case to definitely fix the Givens robbery upon Johnson or anyone else. It is only necessary to establish, he said that Gist was not connected with the hold-up. Only about 10 per cent of the butter consumed in England i home-produced. is arrested on a extortion, with the facts indicating that he had workers and employ immediately, he chargessecution—and other rushes to his defense. Union head is book on a conviction of and fellow union leader before Governor Olson or him and oppose his Illinois, a union leader sent to prison, is to direct the affairs of from his cell in the state by more direct interest to there is now a deterrent under way here to labor men into petitione pardon or parole of E. G. Ramsay, and O'Connor, three former Marine Firemen who are serving 20-years the murder of George chief engineer of the Point Lobos. were convicted in 1937 The professional labor leader, who has used labor union men to pull his chestnuts out of the fire—and who considers himself "abvoe the law"—needs to learn that the days of free-handed racketeering, in the name of labor, are ended. A murder case isn't a picketing case, nor a strike case; it's a murder case! "The Five Lives" of England's Mystery Girl. H. George Franks, roving British author and journalist, writes about those strange songs of "Rosemary" which reveal at last how the ancient Egyptians talked, and have "Revived her Memories" of dreadful experiences with Nero's wife, France's revolutionists, and other periods of her lives. Don't miss this unusual illustrated feature in The American Weekly, the magazine distributed with next week's LOS ANGELES EXAMINER. Adv. Real Knowledge, in its progress, is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration. Lord Brougham. TIME TO PLANT SANTHEMUMS — TRANSVAAL DAISIES ERANIUMS — ARCTOTIS — RED SAGE many other perennials. We haye them all in and cans ready for planting— from LEE TRADING CO. 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If I have done anything to help him it has been to stay out of his career and allow him to follow his own inclinations." Someone asked her what First Lady pattern she would follow if she goes into the White House next January. That touched her sense of humor and she laughed heartily. "I haven't the slightest idea. That problem never has entered my mind." Mrs. Willkie was born in Nashville, Tenn., but spent her girlhood in Indiana, attended the state university and worked in the public library of Elwood. Wendell Willkie and Paul McNutt were her schoolmates in the university but she knew only the latter. Her name was Edith Wilk and when later she met Mr. Willkie at a Westover Denies Injunction Action Request to Stop California - Prorate is Turned Down By Superior Court Superior Judge Harry C. Westover Monday denied an injunction sought by the Orange County Hillside Growers' association and Yoshiki Yoshida to lift the California prorate. Judge Westover heard the case several weeks ago and has had it under advisement until his announcement of a decision. The opinion refused to support charges by the growers that the state prorate commission, headed by A. J. McFadden of Santa Ana, has been biased and prejudiced in refusing to grant a petition to terminate the prorate. The commission previously had ruled the petition to terminate lacked the required signatures of 40 per cent of the growers affected. In his opinion Judge Westover said many signatures on the petition to terminate had been written by the same hand. Judge Westover upheld the contention of the prorate commission that the court's power of review in the matter extended only to determining whether the commission had followed proper procedure in refusing to terminate the prorate. Ferrells are Home From Unique Flight Les Ferrell, Anaheim pharamacist and Mrs. Ferrell have re- Pardon Plea Be Heard Soon State board of pardons and will decide the fate of Gist, 23, of Orange, who pardon on the ground was mistakenly convicted James G. Givens of Anna in 1938. The matter acted to come before the July 30, it was learned that now in San Quentin servitude imposed for the hold-up, will be represented by Attorney Meyer of Santa Ana. Meyer has special permission to before the board and filed ten brief on the case this spring to the denial of guilty old Johnson, Santa Ana who is said to closely resemble and who is now a prisoner McNeil's Island, federal Meyer said that it was not to Gist's case to definite the Givens robbery upon or anyone else. It is only easy to establish, he said, that was not connected with up. About 10 per cent of the consumed in England is produced. Mrs. Willkie was born in Nashville, Tenn., but spent her girlhood in Indiana, attended the state university and worked in the public library of Elwood. Wendell Willkie and Paul McNutt were her schoolmates in the university but she knew only the latter. Her name was Edith Wilk and when later she met Mr. Willkie at a mutual friend's wedding he suggested to her in fun that she ought to marry him because it would be so simple to change her name from Wilk to Willkie. The young librarian took his suggestion seriously and on Monday, January 14, 1917, they were married. It was fortunate that she had inherited no Tennessee superstitions regarding a postponed wedding because their ceremony was scheduled to be performed on the previous Saturday, January 12 at 8:30 in the evening before a large group of friends in Rushville, Indiana, the bride's home town. 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