anaheim-gazette 1944-06-01

USSR EXPOSES NAZI TRICKERY Findings of the commission for investigating the circumstances surrounding the shooting of Polish officer prisoners, by the German-Fascist invaders in the Katyn Forest of the Smolensk area have just been made public by the Russia Government. The report is printed in full in the information Bulletin of the Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, in its issue of March 23, 1944. The report tells of the mass shootings, in the summer of 1941, in Katyn Forest by the Germans. Not only that, but the report states that "(a) the German-Fascist invaders using persuasion attempts at bribery, threats and barbarous torture, tried to find witnesses among Soviet citizens, from whom they tried to extort false evidence alleging that the Polish prisoners of war had been shot by the organs of Soviet power in the spring of 1940; (b) the German occupation authorities in the spring of 1943 brought in from other districts bodies of Polish war prisoners whom they had shot and put them into the open graves in the Katyn Forest, calculating on covering up the traces of their own crimes, and on increasing the number of 'victims of Bolshevik atrocities' The report tens of the mass shootings in the summer of 1941, in Katyn Forest by the Germans. Not only that, but the report states that “(a) the German-Fascist invaders using persuasion attempts at bribery, threats and barbarous torture, tried to find witnesses among Soviet citizens, from whom they tried to extort false evidence alleging that the Polish prisoners of war had been shot by the organs of Soviet power in the spring of 1940; (b) the German occupation authorities in the spring of 1943 brought in from other districts bodies of Polish war prisoners whom they had shot and put them into the open graves in the Katyn Forest, calculating on covering up the traces of their own crimes, and on increasing the number of ‘victims of Bolshevik atrocities’ in the Katyn Forest.” The report further states that the German occupation authorities “started opening the graves in the Katyn Forest in order to take out documents and material evidence which exposed them, using for this work about 500 Russian prisoners of war who were shot by the Germans after the work was completed.” The evidence of the USSR medico-legal experts showed that the time of the shooting was in the autumn of 1941, and that, in shooting the Polish prisoners of war, Germans used the same method of shooting, namely in the back of the head, that they applied in the mass killings of Soviet citizens in towns like Orel, Voronezh, Krasnodar and Smolensk.—Scottish Rite News Bulletin. CONVOY LOSSES Less than one ship in one thousand was lost in Allied convoys in the second half of 1943. This compares with one ship lost out of every 181 in 1941 and one out of every 233 in 1942. Last month, the number of ships lost was the lowest since America entered the war. However, Britain’s First Lord of the Admiralty warned that “there is not the slightest evidence that the enemy has in any way abandoned his intention to cripple our sea communications if he possibly can.” He also said that the British fleet is now stronger in relation to enemy naval strength than at any time since June 1940.—Robt. Patterson. Father of Local Resident Passes At Home In Orange J. Albert Hick, 65 years of age, passed away at his home in Orange early Monday morning. He had been a resident of Orange for the past twenty-years. Mr. Hicks leaves his widow, Mrs. Melisse Hicks; two sons, James and Clifford, both of Orange; three daughters, Mrs. Opal Huff of Buena Park, Mrs. Walsie James of Alhambra, and Mrs. Mabel Bloomfield of Anaheim; three grandchildren; his step-mother, Mrs. Lenora Hicks of Everton, Ark.; two brothers and one sister. Read The Gazette, Anaheim’s newspaper “bible” since 1870. A Chance To Prosper By GEORGE S. BENSON President of Harding College Searcy, Arkansas WITHOUT THEFT, fraud, or plunder of weaker nations, the United States of America has built up its children an opportunity to prosper such as no other people ever had. Story of a Fruit Car Watching an engine pull some cars of fruit away from a packing house, your reporter got to wondering: How does a fruit car get where it’s going? Thought some growers might like to know more about this too, so got the facts from R. C. Neill, who heads up the Sunkist Traffic Department. Here they are: When a car leaves your packing house it’s first hooked onto a way-train, which hauls it to a place called a concentration point. If you’re in Northern California, all your fruit that’s shipped North and East goes to the big yards at Roseville, up above Sacramento. If you’re in the South, your car goes either to the Santa Fe yards at San Bernardino or the Southern Pacific yards at Colton, depending on where it’s headed. At the concentration point your car joins a “fruit block”—a string of refrigerator cars traveling together. It then starts East, following the routing indicated by the shipper. If your fruit is marketed through the Exchange, it may change destination several times en route. The entire Exchange system of selling is based on placing the fruit where it will bring the highest return. If demand slows in one city, that fact is instantly reported to the Sunkist Sales Department in Los Angeles and the car is rerouted, with the shipper’s approval, to a market where demand is more active. So your car, Neill said, may set out for Denver and eventually sell in Buffalo because market advice received while the car was en route revealed the eastern market more active and the fruit in greater demand. Throughout this complex transportation process, Exchange fruit is under the care of the Sunkist Traffic Department. Its job is to cooperate with the Sales Department in the routing of every car, and to handle all rerouting with utmost speed and efficiency...to watch the progress of each car every day and prevent delays...see that it is checked by Sunkist inspectors, and properly ventilated and ice throughout its journey...and so make sure that it arrives at the right place, at the right time and in best possible condition. The department’s other big job is to follow through on every claim for WITHOUT THEFT, fraud, or plunder of weaker nations, the United States of America has built up its resources at home until its wealth is equivalent to all the rest of the property in the world. Today, with only 6.25 per cent of the world's population, it possesses half the world's riches. In other words the average American has 15 times as much as the average person. Talking to a small audience some time ago, I made the foregoing statement, and I learned something. A woman, too timid to heckle me on the spot, wrote a letter to say, "If Americans have so much money, I think it's time they gave part of it back to the poor of other lands." The lady's misunderstanding is that America got rich filching from other nations. That is not true. America has enriched many other nations, created more abundant life in far-away lands as well as at home—sent cars to Britain and lamps to Burma. America's riches shower the world with prosperity. We Made Our Wealth IN A SENSE, the wealth of the world is like the wealth of a man. It changes. It increases with work, peace and good judgment. It decreases with idleness, war and disasters. When a farmer raises a good marketable crop, he builds his own wealth and that of the world. When he suffers fire, flood or drought, the world's wealth shrinks by the exact amount of his personal losses. Americans have made themselves rich because they had a chance. The Constitution of the United States gives them that chance. The founders of this nation were only human and they made mistakes, but they were far-sighted and gave their children an opportunity to prosper such as no other people ever had. The Land of AMERICA has no corner on the world's natural resources. Ethiopia and China (both poor) claim more and better soil, bigger and richer mineral deposits. America has no monopoly on the world's brains. We bring men of many skills, from other lands. Then what is it that America has? We have the only known economic system that permits of general prosperity. The name of America's economic system is "Private Enterprise," or "Free Competition." The founders of this nation provided for it. They gave every free American the legal right to work (labor) where he can earn the most, also to invest his savings (capital) where he figures it will do him the most good. The result is that we have millions, of people working and using their heads, enriching themselves and enriching America. In other lands, ordinary people do not prosper. The economic system prohibits it. However hard a man works, however clearly he thinks it helps him not much. Only in America does the worker have a real chance. Just the same, radicals rail against capital as if it stood for oppression and exploitation. Actually capitalism is the one system that protects saving and investing. It's a fact that some Capitalists are crooks, and so are some Socialists and some Anarchists, but crooks are people, and economic systems don't change them. Some systems are better than others however, and nothing better than ours has ever been found. The department's other big job is to follow through on every claim for damages. If your fruit is damaged in transit and nobody collects for you, your return is reduced the same as if it were damaged in the grove. So the Traffic Department is geared to high efficiency in claim handling. No one can learn such things overnight. The Traffic Department men average 15 years experience. There is no other such group of experts in the industry. In fact, this department, like the nation-wide Sunkist Sales Department, the Field Service, the Products Department and the rest, is possible at no extra charge only because it serves 14,500 cooperating growers instead of just a few. The claims collected each year, and returned to the grower, amount to many times the cost of the entire department. This expert service is just one of the many special services that become yours automatically when you join the Exchange. Why not start benefiting from them now? Next report in this paper two weeks from today. California Fruit Growers Exchange Bunkist Building, Los Angeles, 55, California ANAHEIM GAZETTE IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO Extracts from files of The Gazette Issued a Half Century and a Quarter Century ago. These files contain the only Authentic History in Print of the Daily Doings of the Citizens of Anaheim and Orange County in the Days of the Pioneers. 25 Years Ago June 5, 1919 As the people of this section become better acquainted with the proposition sentiment in favor of the Newport harbor bonds is increasing, and are realizing that the opening of a harbor for sea going ships only fourteen and a half miles from our city limits will be of vast benefit to Anaheim and surrounding country. In fact every section of the county will be greatly benefitted. Orange county's assessed valuation this year will be about $100,000,000. The $500,000 harbor bonds will draw 5 per cent interest. There are more than 60,000 people in Orange county. Figuring on only 58,000 the per capita cost will be only 35 cents a year. Think of the possibilities the expeditures of that 35 per cent year per person will open up! The $500,000 bonds will take the Santa Ana river directly through the sandpit west of Newport into the ocean to keep its silt from filling up the harbor, extend the Newport city jetty, now 1900 feet long, 200 feet further into deep water, build a county owned wharf, warehouse, The new pump for use at the city water works has arrived and will be placed in position as soon as the work can be done. It is one of the finest water lifters in the county, being capable of lifting a much larger volume of water than the present capacity of the works. The trustees struck a bargain in getting $100 for the old pump in trade, and Engineer Schneider is correspondingly happy. some there weeks ago to join his "Izzy" is a great boy—a great baseball umpire—and had so much of the finest "samples" we ever smoked. Call again "Izzy." Mr. Kieffer has made a very fine map of the city of Anaheim showing the different lot divisions, streets, blocks, etc. I probably the first complete map the city ever made and Mr. Kieffer intends to place copies of it sale. Frank Steadman's new cottage on Broadway is nearing completion and will soon be ready to occupancy. Fred Crist's cottage on the corner of Broadway and Olive is also completed, and both ornaments to that part of the cottage. L. H. Padgham has sold stock of jewelry to G. B. Standing of Los Angeles, who will auction off the same. Mr. and Mrs. Padgham have moved to the Swamp cottage. The will of the late B. R. Grogan has been admitted to probate, and J. E. Grogan has been appointed as administrator, with bonds of $17,500. John Hartung has purchased $225 violin whose history rests back for a period of 160 years. John is an enthusiastic violinist and can do everything with a fiddle but make it talk. Carl Bennerscheidt is at Chicago having been telegraphed for Friday to come over and assist setting up machinery at the factory. He will be absent until sugar making season is over. Richard Krebs moved his family over to Santa Anita ranch Saturday, being employed by superintendent of Luck Baldwyn winery at that point, and will future reside there. Richard of a Fruit Car An engine pull some cars away from a packing house, ever got to wondering: fruit car get where it's here growers might like to about this too, so got the R. C. Neill, who heads District Traffic Department. Her leaves your packing first hooked onto a way hauls it to a place called station point. If you're in California, all your fruit goes North and East goes yards at Roseville, upamento. If you're in the car goes either to the yards at San Bernardino or Pacific yards at Coling on where it's headed. Contration point your car is block—a string of rears traveling together. Its East, following the located by the shipper. It is marketed through it may change destination times en route. The range system of selling placing the fruit where the highest return. If we're in one city, that fact reported to the Sunkist Department in Los Angeles is rerouted, with the approval, to a market and is more active. Neill said, may set out and eventually sell in use market advice realtors East, following the located by the shipper. This complex transportation, Exchange fruit is one of the Sunkist Traffic Its job is to cooperate Sales Department in the every car, and to handle with utmost speed and to watch the progress every day and prevent that it is checked by inspectors, and properly and iceed throughout its and so make sure that it is right place, at the end in best possible con-entment's other big job is though on every claim for 000 people in Orange county. Figuring on only 58,000 the per capita cost will be only 35 cents a year. Think of the possibilities the expeditures of that 35 per cent year per person will open up! The $500,000 bonds will take the Santa Ana river directly through the sandpit west of Newport into the ocean to keep its silt from filling up the harbor, extend the Newport city jetty, now 1900 feet long, 200 feet further into deep water, build a county owned wharf, warehouse, railroad connection. Dredge a channel from the entrance diagonally across the bay to county owned frontage where the dock and warehouse will be located. Moreover the harbor will add millions of dollars to the property valuation of the county, and many thousands to its population. Building the harbor is merely making a small investment that promises a big return. A number of Mrs. Garrison's pupils gave her a surprise party at the school in honor to their promotion to the Grammar school. Refreshments of cake and punch were provided by the mothers of whom Mrs. H. M. Adams, Mrs. H. A. Johnston, Mrs. F. A. Backs Jr., and Mrs. Henry Kuchel were present to serve the goodies. Those invited were the teachers of the primary and kindergarten schools and Mrs. Garrison's class. The old Boston Bakery building at the corner of Center and North Claudina streets is to come down to make way for a modern structure. Stephen Kistler, owner of the place, has arranged to build a two-story business block on the corner which will cover the ground occupied by the bakery and the frame building adjoining in which the Tobin realty office is situated. Work begins this week. John Selinger has invested in a fine new automobile, and is now looking up the latest dope on speed limits. H. F. H. Schneider, who recently disposed of his property at Sycamore and East streets, has purchased the W. W. LeDuc ranch of 14½ acres of valencias. Mr. LeDuc has purchased a ten-acre valencia grove two miles east of town of S. G. Lehner. It is understood that both these properties sold at a high figure. Mr. Schneider paying $50,000 and Mr. LeDuc about $40,000 for his ten acres. The new pump for use at the city water works has arrived and will be placed in position as soon as the work can be done. It is one of the finest water lifters in the county, being capable of lifting a much larger volume of water than the present capacity of the works. The trustees struck a bargain in getting $100 for the old pump in trade, and Engineer Schneider is correspondingly happy. Isador Davis has been in town during the week selling cigars. "Izzy" is an old Anaheim boy, but has lived in San Francisco so long that we hardly knew him. He informs us that his brother Alex is in business in Central America, whither his brother Lou journed (More 25 Years Ago) burg, Pt. He goes by way of the southern states and will return by way of Chicago, Denver and San Francisco. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Brus and Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Martenet were visiting in Laguna Friday. Messrs. Brouseau and Pope, of the leading attorneys of Angeles were in town Tuesday attendance upon the meeting of the irrigation district, the form for the district and the latter of the disorganizers. Isaac Lyons gives notice H. F. H. Schneider, who recently disposed of his property at Sycamore and East streets, has purchased the W. W. LeDuc ranch of 14½ acres of valencias. Mr. LeDuc has purchased a ten-acre valencia grove two miles east of town of S. G. Lehner. It is understood that both these properties sold at a high figure. Mr. Schneider paying $50,000 and Mr. LeDuc about $40,000 for his ten acres. L. W. Bushard has been quite seriously ill at his home for several days past, but was yesterday reported to be improving. Attorney Walter Eden has just received word that his son, John R. Eden has been given a commission as major and is now on his way home from France. Bert Kuebler has just finished installing a modern pump for Walter Mickle on his ranch in the Katella district. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Hedges and Mr. and Mrs. C. P. J. Johnston attended a picnic of rural mail carriers at Serra Friday. Sergt. Alex Huch returned home Thursday from Camp Jones at Douglas, Arizona, having been discharged from the service. Robert Bandini, a nephew of John Bandini, formerly of Anaheim, was killed while riding with Louis Le Cocq in the Indianapolis races. The car in which they were riding over turned and both men were cremated. There are 23,066 people in Orange county who are registered voters and qualified to vote on the $500,000 county harbor bonds June 10. Dad Kennedy left Tuesday on a visit to his old home near Pitts- Thursday, June 1, 1944 Gazette Columnist Has Article In Saturday Post Dr. George Stuart Benson, president of Harding college, and his crusade for a return to bedrock Americanism, are this week brought before the millions of readers of the Saturday Evening Post. Dr. Benson's column, Looking Ahead, appears in 2,500 small-town newspapers in 46 states, including The Anaheim Gazette. According to author Philip S. Rose in his current Post article titled "Arkansas Crusader," Dr. Benson was dismayed when he observed the paralyzing change that had come over the American people as he viewed them on his return from China in 1936. "It seemed to him that the American people had lost their old self-confidence and their faith in their own destiny. Millions were on relief. The one-proud America, he felt, was rapidly becoming a nation of unblushing mendicants. Our forefathers had set up the only social and economic system in human history that had been able to lift the common man out of hopeless misery and dispair. Now the system seemed to be disintegrating," relates Mr. Rose in his Post article. Benson immediately recognized that his new job as president of Harding college, Searcy, Arkansas, took on new dimensions. "If democracy and human liberty pass away," he asked himself, "What possible future can there be for Harding college?" He vowed to himself that he would do what he could to help arouse America. In the spring of 1941 Dr. Benson appeared before the House Ways and Means committee and his testimony against the neces- Bennerscheidt is at Chino, been telegraphed for Fricome over and assist in up machinery at the facHe will be absent until the making season is over. Krebs moved his family to Santa Anita ranch last day, being employed as intendent of Luck Baldwin's at that point, and will in reside there. Richard has Santa Anita for a couple of past and likes it very Cheeseman, the West End man, announces that he rose out his entire stock of furnishing goods, shoes, auction beginning today at on West Broadway. Brouseau and Pope, two leading attorneys of Los were in town Tuesday in ance upon the meeting of regitation district, the former district and the latter for organizers. Lyons gives notice in were riding. The car was driven by Storey. Storey is in the Long Beach Community hospital where he is suffering from a skull fracture and possible other injuries. The accident occured when the car collided with the truck and trailer which was loaded with oil well piping and was driven by Carl A. Danforth, of Long Beach. He was uninjured. After investigation the patrol did not hold the truck driver. Funeral Services For Mrs. Tuthill Held Wednesday Funeral services for Mrs. Ella D. Tuthill, wife of Robert G. Tuthill of the Smith and Tuthill Mortuary in Santa Ana, were held Wednesday afternoon at St. Joseph's Catholic church. Mrs. Tuthill's death occurred on Saturday following a long illness at the family residence, 2035 Victoria Drive. She had long been active in church and community affairs in her city and was a president of the Santa Ana Ebell club. Anaheim Gazette, since 1870. Benson immediately recognized that his new job as president of Harding college, Searcy, Arkansas, took on new dimensions. "If democracy and human liberty pass away," he asked himself, "What possible future can there be for Harding college?" He vowed to himself that he would do what he could to help arouse America. In the spring of 1941 Dr. Benson appeared before the House Ways and Means committee and his testimony against the necessity of continuing certain governmental relief agencies made headlines from coast to coast. Since that day he has continued a vigorous prosecution of his campaign through personal appearances; through his column, Looking Ahead, and through his radio program heard over 12 stations in seven states. Everybody reads the Gazette. ATTEND PICNIC Mr. and Mrs. Frank Walsh, 117 South Philadelphia, attended the Oklahoma picnic at Sycamore Grove in Los Angeles Tuesday, Memorial day. They are former residents of Pryor, Oklahoma. 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